Movie Reviews

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  'Lamhaa' is about the turmoil in Kashmir Valley (Preview)

  The timing couldn't be more coincidental. National Award-winning director Rahul Dholakia's film on Kashmir "Lamhaa" comes just at a time when the state is facing a crisis following violent protests over the killing of youths in police firing.

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  Mayank Shekhar's Review: Red Alert

  Naseeruddin Shah has clearly chosen cameos for his belated forte. In the final minutes of this film (like the opening sequence of Prakash Jha’s Raajneeti), he randomly saunters on to the screen, this time, to express
  his audience’s most urgent sentiment: a long-drawn yawn. Read More..

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  Mayank Shekhar's Review: Milenge Milenge

  Mayank Shekhar Review: Milenge Milenge

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  Good chemistry between Shahid, Kareena in 'Milenge Milenge' (Movie Review)

  There is a kind of subverted joy in watching Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor play a Valentinian romance with a full-throttle gusto.

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  'Red Alert' - a believable Maoist story (Movie Review)

  Arundhati Roy called their fight the single greatest resistance against oppression in the world, while our prime minister, the deceptively genial Manmohan Singh, called them the greatest internal security threat. Between these extreme reports of their bringing rural-equality and their massacres, what's the truth about the Maoists or Naxalites?

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  'Red Alert..' to lend an insight into Maoism (Movie Preview)

  Having traversed the festival circuit, Suniel Shetty starrer Maoist drama "Red Alert - The War Within" is releasing Friday.

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  'Milenge Milenge' about loving and forgiving (Preview)

  Six years since it was launched, ex-couple Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor starrer "Milenge Milenge" is finally set to see the light of the day Friday despite the differences between the duo.

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  'I Hate Luv Storys' predictable, but lovable (Movie Review)

  You will not hate this love story, a spoof on ace director Karan Johar from his own production house. Hats off to Karan for daring to produce a film that makes fun of his kind of cinema. Samir Soni steps into his shoes with great ease in the film.

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  'I Hate Luv Storys'- fun romantic saga of two opposites (Preview)

  With a fresh pairing of Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor, debutant director Punit Malhotra is set to enter the world of cinema with young, popcorn fun film "I Hate Luv Storys", releasing this Friday.

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  Movie Review: Krantiveer: The Revolution

  In an earlier century, it was the East India Company, a foreign corporation that sucked India dry. Now Indian companies bleed their own, this film submits, attributing farmers’ suicides to the state of corporate affairs: “Agar companies farming karengi, toh farmer kya karega! (If corporations work the farm, what’ll the farmer do).

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  'Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta' about infidelity, bold scenes (Movie Preview)

  First-time director Pravesh Bhardwaj is entering the world of Hindi films with "Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta", a new story on marital infidelity. Releasing Friday, the movie will show how circumstances force married people into relationships outside wedlock.

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  Mayank Shekhar's Review: Raavan

  Mayank Shekhar's Review: Raavan

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  Abhishek returns in baddie avatar in 'Raavan' (Movie Preview)

  After playing the edgy villain Lallan Singh in Mani Ratnam's "Yuva" in 2004, Abhishek Bachchan is all set to return in a rougher than ever avatar as the outlaw Beera in "Raavan", which is releasing Friday.

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  Manisha, Jackie together again in 'Ek Second Jo Zindagi Badal De.' (Preview)

  After starring together in movies like "1942: A Love Story", "Agni Sakshi", "Grahan" and "Lajja", Bollywood actors Manisha Koirala and Jackie Shroff will be sharing screen space again in "Ek Second Jo Zindagi Badal De", which releases Friday.

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  Mayank Shekhar's Review: Raajneeti

  Movie Review: Raajneeti

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  'Raajneeti' about family, politics and power (Movie Preview)

  Power equations, strained relations, the murky tactics of politics and bitterly-fought elections ... Prakash Jha claims to offer all these in his much-awaited political thriller "Raajneeti", which releases Friday.

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  'Kites' swings and sways but never soars (Movie Review 2)

  Too many strings attached to this "Kites" that never soars to the heights it should and becomes a predictable tale of star-crossed lovers set in the glittering lights of Las Vegas and the brooding deserts of Mexico. It's "Matchpoint", "Bonny and Clyde" and much else rolled into one, failing to take off on its own.

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  Mayank Shekhar's Review: Kites

  Two people (Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori), respectively romance another from the same family (Kangana Ranaut, Nicholas Brown), purely for the love of the money. The girl’s an illegal immigrant into the US from Mexico. The boy is the American half of various green card marriages on sale: “$1,000; honeymoon charges extra.”

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  Bumm Bumm Bole' - a warm journey from innocence to awareness (Movie Review)

  Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi's "Children Of Heaven" comes down to earth in an endearing spiral of the spell-binding and the sensitive.

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  Preview: Bumm Bumm Bole

  Synopsis: Khogiram, his wife and their kids Pinu and Rimzim belong to a terrorist dominated region. Khogiram and Ritu have a hand-to-mouth income working for a tea plantation and can barely manage things.

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  Darsheel Safary returns with 'Bumm Bumm Bole' (Preview)

  After getting kudos from critics and audiences for his portrayal of a dyslexic child in Aamir Khan's "Taare Zameen Par", child actor Darsheel Safary returns to the big screen with "Bumm Bumm Bole", which releases Friday.

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  Mayank Shekhar's Review: Badmaash Company

  The father (Anupam Kher), an old, stable, middle-class family man, and a salaried employee of 25 years in the same company, can barely recognise the son he’s raised. This may have little to do with the upbringing, more to do with the times of opportunities and restless ambitions they’re in.

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  Mayank Shekhar's Review: Bend it like Bleh!

  Few Indian actors can match Shabana Azmi’s resumé . Across four decades, she’s done about 130 films, and outshone most of her contemporaries at her range itself. I suspect this must still be one of those rare films when she may have walked on to the set wondering what to do with herself.

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  'Badmaash Company', smartly made but flawed in parts (Review)

  There's a longish sequence in an American eatery in the second-half of this deeply flawed and yet refreshingly cool urbane casual and yet highly cinematic work where Shahid Kapoor's Karan, by now on the road to seemingly irredeemable moral degeneration is told by his partner, played by newcomer Vir Das, that he wants out.

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  'It's A Wonderful...' comedy about ghosts and marriage (Preview)

  After dealing with marriage issues in "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Bride and Prejudice", Britain-based Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha returns with another outing on the same titled "It's A Wonderful Afterlife", which releases Friday.