Movie Review

Rainbow Love: Rating: Two and a half stars Films in recent years have dug into small towns, where they portray the ‘real India’ which is quite different from a westernized…

Barely Afloat: Rating: Two stars: Some years ago, Mumbai had witnessed the strange sight of a ship running aground at Juhu Beach. Bhanu Pratap Singh saw the potential for horror…

Pointless Retread: Rating: Two stars: When Imtiaz Ali made Love Aaj Kal in 2009, there was freshness in the characterizations and structure. He captured the Me generation of self-obsessed people, for…

Goa To Go: Rating: Two stars: These days, it seems quite possible for a film to be made only to cast actors with perfect bodies, because presumably that’s what the…

Casanova Curbed: Rating: 2-1/2 stars So, for a change Bollywood is trawling through world cinema for inspiration, and alights in Argentina to pick the 2010 Diego Kaplan comedy, Igualita A Mi to…

Breathless In Bhopal: Rating: Three stars Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga may be about women following their dreams (the phrase is a cliché now), but it is actually an ode to…

Plotless, Pointless: Rating: 1-1/2 stars Groups of dancers in Remo D’Souza’s Street Dancer 3D keep demanding something new, but the director serves up a film that is same old… without…

Come Back Mister Rogers: Rating: Three and a half stars: Fred Rogers, host of the beloved, long-running children’s TV show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, is an American phenomenon, but as a man representing…

Saffron Trending: Rating: Three stars: It is time for producers with deep pockets to bring out unsung heroes from Indian history. It is also obvious that these characters and events…

Splash Of Courage: Rating: Three stars There have been films made before Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak, on the unimaginably horrific crime of acid attacks on women, notably the Oscar-winning documentary, Saving Face (2012) by Sharmeen…