Bad Cop vs Bad Cop: It is baffling. Why would a young director choose to make his debut with a film, as derivative and inane as Kuttey? Nearly thirty years…
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Animal Crackers: This film with its animal-loving protagonist, is so earnest, that with a few tweaks, it could make for a sweet children’s film, with a message about treating animals…
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Double Whammy: It is very difficult to go wrong with a film based on Shakespeare’s A Comedy Of Errors, which inspired a wonderful Kishore Kumar-Asit Sen comedy Do Dooni Chaar (1968), which, one…
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Good Intentions: Revathy had acted in a recent film, Aye Zindagi, about a terminally ill patient’s need for an organ donation to save his life. Now as a director, she takes…
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The Worm Turns: The title Vadh suggests a grand warrior-like act of slaying the enemy, but this debut feature by Jaspal Singh Sandhu and Rajeev Barnwal takes the story of a small…
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Art & Action: Writer, director, and lead actor Rishab Shetty’s Kantara demonstrates once again, what mainstream Hindi cinema is missing out on—stories that connect to the heart of India. After a…
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Baby Daddy: In 1994, Ivan Reitman directed Junior, a film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in which a scientist working on a fertility drug tests it on himself and finds himself pregnant. The…
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Desi Ghost Busters: This one’s for film lovers, written and directed by aficionados of B-horror flicks—right from Hollywood Halloween zombie and stoner movies to trashy Indian horror films, so awful…
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Bridge To Nowhere: Anyone who is acquainted with the Ramayan, or has even read the Amar Chitra Katha version, would know of the episode in which Lord Ram’s followers, the Vanar Sena…
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Girl Interrupted: Much too soon after Dhaakad, another espionage film, Code Name: Tiranga, sets a female RAW agent against the shadowy underworld of terrorists, gangsters and spies. Unfortunately, Parineeti Chopra is less of a…