Movie Review

Small Town Cinephiles: Today, anyone with a cell phone can make a film. But passion for cinema was tougher a few years ago. When Faiza Ahmad Khan made her wonderful…

Never Grow Up: In the Eighties, when melodrama was a popular movie genre, there was a spate of films, usually remakes of Telugu films, with Jeetendra starring in most of…

Screwball Night: The formula of the chase film has been set—seen in the recent Netflix movie Back In Action, and now in Dhoom Dhaam, also on Netflix.  Two (or more) people go on…

Eighties Caper: What’s with these Bollywood tributes? In 2014, Himesh Reshammiya played the maverick cop Ravi Kumar in The Xpose which was set in the 1960s as a homage to films of…

Flyer Zone: A year ago, Fighter was the Republic Day release, the Top Gun-inspired movie that used real incidents to let loose air force planes and star glamour on the screen. This year,…

A Starry Horse: The problem with making a film to launch industry kids is that more often than not, the plot is designed to give them as much of an…

Star Shine: Cleaning up systemic corruption has been Shankar’s pet theme, whether in Indian, Mudhalvan or Anniyan. He also has a larger-than-life style and the ability to make the absurd palatable. But Game Changer has no…

Time Travel: A net search reveals that Naam was completed in 2004. It was titled Benaam then and remained unreleased, possibly because of the demise of the producer Dinesh Patel, or maybe some other disclosed…

Copland Capers: In keeping with the current mood of the people, Rohit Shetty’s modern-day retelling of the Ramayan makes it critic-proof.  In any case, in his extravagant actioners, no rules of logic…

So It Goes: With advances in technology, the invasion of privacy that takes place in Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video, would be more likely today. But Raaj Shaandilyaa seemed determined…