Cook & Ride: The eponymous Heer (played by newbie Divita Juneja) is one of those annoying smug young women, who can cook as well as they can ride, have platitudes…

Partition Pain: There are conflicting schools of thought – one says that there is no need to portray past historical wrongs in cinema, so that peace can be maintained; others say that…

Action Stations: Amazing, that an actor’s abs and the line “what is torture for you is warm up for me” — can inspire four action films in the Baaghi franchise– this fourth…

Silent Noise: If a gimmick, like a silent movie, is to be used in a film today, the plot, situations and characters should justify it. The noisy and chaotic Ufff Yeh Siyapaa, written…

Romancing Kerala: The message finally reached Bollywood that Kerala is making great films; so it was decided that if they can’t make films like Kerala does, they will make a…

The Cop & The Fugitive: In an era, when cops could be trusted to go after criminals, without the help of computers and mobile phones, Inspector Zende made it to…

Noughts  & Crosses Becoming a Chartered Accountant (CA) is tough, and sometimes takes several attempts to crack it; so full sympathy for young students, who keep their lives on hold…

Lost Songstress: The life of Kashmiri singer Raj Begum is the subject of Songs of Paradise—a partly fictionalized biopic– directed and co-written by Danish Renzu. The singer, named Noor Begum…

The Bomb Story: Around Independence Day, there has to be at least one, if not more, film or show about patriotism. The streaming platforms have found a new way of…

Lights Off: The sci-fi-paranormal horror series, Andhera, starts by introducing the idea that darkness is devouring the city, which is entirely believable. Then goes into a dizzying maze of subplots from which…