Tiger Mom: In the opening sequence of the film, an Indian infant is being taken away by two white women; the mother runs after them, tries to hang on to…
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Rocky Road: A film sprung into the theatres without any pre-release buzz, turns out to be a pleasant surprise. Oddly titled Shiv Shastri Balboa — very few would immediately get the Rocky (1976) connection–…
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Accidental Hero: A key character in Hansal Mehta’s Faraaz accuses another of being a “Twitter debater”. The film, with all its earnestness and attempt to walk a tightrope between ideological differences, unfortunately…
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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…