Let The Music Flow: The opening scene draws the viewer right in— it’s an open field, with crowds as far as the eye can see; there is air of anticipation …

A Few Good People: Had such a tragedy occurred anywhere else in the world, there would have been dozens of films made on it, but the world’s largest industrial disaster, …

Holiday Caper: The idea must have looked workable on paper—a dysfunctional family rediscovering family ties when on holiday. But, the journey of Harish Vyas’s Yaatris just never takes off. Having set the …

Crazy Clan: At a time when everybody is getting to be thin-skinned, Gujaratis still laugh at themselves. The TV comedy show, Khichdi, about the Parekh family, full of dim bulbs, was such …

Beware Of Girlpower: This woman-on-rampage film seems to have been made to fulfill a year-end quota or something like that, because Apurva written and directed by Nikhil Nagesh Bhat (streaming on Disney+Hotstar), looks …

That Floating Tank: This is, says the narrator of the film, “my love story with Pippa.”  It’s not a woman but a battle tank, the PT-76 that is the object …

Many Shades Of Love: When there are still so many prejudices and misconceptions about the LGBTQIA+ community in India, not to mention all the legal dithering, it was brave of …

Braving The Ocean: “Fear not, fear not… a Koli fears nothing,” sings a deep male voice in the background; the ditty refers to rising tides and howling winds that a …

Where’s The Wit? There a time when political correctness was not an issue, and comic actors like Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor and others in the post-Himmatwala era of rapidfire Padmalaya productions, …

Tug Of War: Successful filmmakers from West Bengal, with a series of hits and some award magnets behind them, Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, have made a Hindi version of …