Movie Reviews

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  Bollywood Movie Preview: Mohan Das - A Man Lost In His Own Nation

  Intrigued by what looks like an unusual small-town scam, Meghna makes a trip to Anuppur. There, she unearths a more harrowing and surreal story. Mohandas is a topper in studies from the poor community of basket-weavers and is overjoyed at long last when he is selected for a good white-collar post in Oriental Coal Mines. But he is kept waiting and waiting to actually get the job.

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  Bollywood Movie Preview: Dekh Bhai Dekh

  DEKH BHAI DEKH...laughter behind darkness, a complete entertainer, not comedy but humor and that too black... This is a story of a small town in western UP; four different people with their respective ambitions and their personal problems, but only one solution.... A CRIME.....the only way out.

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  Video: New York: First Day First Show!

  New York: First Day First Show!

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  Movie Review: Runway

  Been there, seen that, moved on. RUNWAY doesn't have anything new to offer, it's a run of the mill action love story recited in the most routine manner. It reminds you of the Emraan Hashmi starrer AWARAPAN, but it is too ordinary and hardly has anything going in its favour.

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  Movie Review: New York

  NEW YORK, helmed by Kabir Khan, attempts to be as real as possible. A tale of friendship, with terrorism as the wallpaper, NEW YORK hits you like a ton of bricks at several points in the narrative.

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  Bollywood Movie Review: Hum Phirr Mileinge

  There are times when you genuinely feel that there's bankruptcy of ideas in Bollywood. And you feel strongly this when you watch a film like HUM PHIRR MILEINGE.

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  Bollywood Movie Review: Let's Dance

  Just last week, Vashu Bhagnani showcased his son Jackky Bhagnani's acting skills in KAL KISSNE DEKHA. This week, another father - Arvind Patel - attempts to showcase his daughter Gayatri Patel's dancing skills in LET'S DANCE, directed by Aarif Sheikh.

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  Bollywood Movie Review: Paying Guests

  Never judge a book by its cover. But we do! We tend to get carried away by eye-catching promos that a film-maker unleashes prior to a film's release. We act in haste, rush to a nearby cineplex and soon realise that the best parts were actually highlighted in the promos itself.

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  Video: Kal Kissne Dekha - First Day First Show

  Kal Kissne Dekha: First Day First Show!

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  Bollywood Movie Preview: Sankat City

  Guru (KK Menon) is a smalltime car thief. Ganpat, who owns a dilapidated garage, is his partner-in-crime. Guru wacks cars and Ganpat (Dilip Prabhawalkar) gives them a make-over in order to sell them for tidy profits.

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  Bollywood Movie Preview: Runway

  Allan is a twenty two year old dashing young man who becomes a contract killer to save his love Melvyna. Melvyna worked in a Next Gallery and had unfortunately fallen prey to drug addiction and was now battling for life getting treated for drug addiction and other complications which had raised their ugly head due to prolonged drug abuse.

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  Bollywood Movie Preview: Perfect Mismatch

  Aman (Anubhav Anand) is a talented young architect. Raised by his uncle, he has all the love and care a family could offer but Aman takes it for granted. While working towards his dream, his life takes a beautiful turn when he bumps into the perfect girl Neha (Nandana Sen).

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  Bollywood Movie Preview: Paying Guests

  What happens when four young, fun loving boys [Shreyas Talpade, Jaaved Jaffrey, Ashish Chowdhary and Vatsal Sheth] begin a crazy house hunt which takes them through a series of ultra comical hurdles in a bid to find that one roof that can tolerate and shelter their combined problems?

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  Bollywood Movie Preview: Let's Dance

  Let's Dance is the film about a girl who gives direction in life to a group of street kids. Young and peppy, she is a dancer who runs her own dance school and plays the catalyst in the story.

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  Bollywood Movie Review: Kal Kissne Dekha

  If you could see the future, wouldn't you first use it to your advantage? It seems like many are thinking futuristic nowadays, which is a good thing. But the irony is, be it AA DEKHEN ZARA or 8 x 10 TASVEER, the genre wasn't well exploited on screen. KAL KISSNE DEKHA too falls short of expectations.

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  Bollywood Movie Review: Zor Lagaa Ke... Haiya!

  A good idea gone wrong. That summarizes ZOR LAGAA KE... HAIYA in a sentence. The Indian audiences are gradually tilting towards sensitive and meaningful subjects. If the idea makes sense, but the writing and execution of the material doesn't, then all efforts go in vain. That's a prime reason why this film suffers.

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  Movie Review: Karma - Crime Passion Reincarnation

  Recall Chetan Anand's Raaj Kumar - Rajesh Khanna - Vinod Khana - Hema Malini starrer KUDRAT. The film has tremendous recall value for various reasons, especially the lilting musical score ['Hume Tumse Pyaar Kitna, Yeh Hum Nahin Jaante' and other lilting tracks], besides a gripping storyline.

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  Bollywood Movie Preview: Love Aaj Kal

  Jai and Meera are a modern-day couple in London. They are very happy together but do not believe in tying each other down. So when life pulls them in different directions, they decide to go with the flow. "These Heer-Ranjha, Romeo-Juliet type janam janam ka saath type couples exist only in story books," Jai says. In the real life, we have to be practical.

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  'Kal Kissne Dekha' - of love and supernatural powers (Preview)

  "Kal Kissne Dekha", producer Vashu Bhagnani's launch pad for his son Jackky, is the first film to roll out from the Bollywood stables after the resolution of the revenue-sharing row between producers and multiplex owners, ending the dry spell at the box office.

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  Movie Review: Team - The Force

  Been there, seen that, moved on… That's one phrase we keep using to express various things in life. We use it for cinema too. As viewers, we've moved on to far more interesting subjects. Films that we can relate to and indentify with. Films that marry realism and make-believe beautifully.

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  Movie Review: Maruti Mera Dosst

  Animation film HANUMAN triggered off a trend. It made you realize that 'kiddie films' can stand on their feet if they tell a story that they [kids] haven't watched on the numerous kiddie channels.

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  Movie Preview: Zor Lagaa Ke... Haiya!

  Zor Lagaa Ke... Haiyaa is about how a group of children, with the help of a homeless man, overcome all the obstacles to save a tree from being razed by a money-minded construction giant and his contractor. Their quest mirrors the apathy of contemporary society to such types of environmental issues. Through nonstop action, comedy and adventure, the children finally realize what it takes to stand their ground in the battle against concrete.

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  Movie Review: Detective Naani

  You need to turn into a kiddie while watching a kiddie film. So follow this mantra when you set out to watch a naani solve a mystery, a la Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie, in DETECTIVE NAANI, directed by first-timer Romilla Mukherjee.

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  Movie Preview: Maruti Mera Dosst

  Rameshwari, an innocent eight year old, loses her mother at birth. Brought up by a doting albeit naive father, she wants for nothing but a mother's love. It is this desire that prompts her father Kunwar Raghvendra Singh to marry Mohini.

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  Movie Preview: Detective Naani

  A normal day... A little face ...A string of clues ... A mysterious case ...It's a regular day at Gulmohar Complex. Spunky, independent, 75 year old Naani is on her way back home from her daily morning walk.