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The trailer launch of Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra was held at the PVR Juhu multiplex with the lead pair, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran, in attendance along with producers Vineet Jain of…
The crash of the massively hyped Toxic has once and for all, junked the myth that pan-Indian South films are the messiahs for Hindi cinema box-office. After a smash opening of Rs.…
My two very loquacious and articulate movie buff friends, coincidentally named Yash Sutaria and Huma Advani, came out of the movie hall along with me after we had watched Toxic: A…
South Indian (especially Telugu) films, like those from any busy industry, can range from awesome to awful. Happily, this one (which I watched in Hindi) is nears the ‘very good’ tag…
From the 1970s to the 1990s, we had innumerable films named after deities or holy entities like Krishnavtar (Mithun Chakraborty’s non-starter), Gautam Govinda, Amar Shakti, Ram Avtar, Vishnu Devaa, Shiv Raam, Shanker Shambhuand…
When such movies connect, they often do so on a massive scale: Hindi cinema lovers of the 1970s will remember the resonance created by Jai Santoshi Maa (1975) and Shirdi Ke Sai Baba (1977).…
When it happened in 1999, it was the height of treachery from the neighboring country. This stunning series opens the curtains on the pathological hatred of individuals in that rogue…
A look at the 2025-2026 scenario shows clearly that, besides the Dhurandhar franchise, the films that have truly done great business are almost always multi-star films, nationalistic movies, comedies and horror comedies.…
This year, we have seen Ikkis and Main Wapas Aaunga on the traumas of Partition. They were very personal for the protagonists and endeared us to their issues. But the films were probably rejected…
Lokesh Kanagaraj is a writer-director of a decade’s standing. He has also made cameo appearances in a few films. But now he chooses to make a lead debut, and what…
A convoluted murder mystery, Amar Vishwas (named after the hero, who like all crime-connected forces, has a traumatic backstory!) is about a lawyer who decides to investigate on his own when he…
It’s a canine carnival. The versatile writer-filmmaker, Amit Rai, who gave us Road to Sangam in 2010, I-Pad in 2015 and above all, the super successful OMG 2 in 2022, treks into another terrain—love between humans…
Haven’t we all experienced that lovely balloon that blows to a delightful size and shape and then something happens. Poof! In a second, it bursts and there is nothing left.…
The idea is hype-unlimited. Over the last many months, mediocre stuff from Amazon Prime Video has been continually hyped as “successful” by the platform and their aficionados. The latest in…
He’s the old-school cop who is unfamiliar with the digital world: Pedro (Arshad Warsi) would rather use his digits (parts of his hands) to beat up and the conventional part of…
Charming and relatable, this small film is a wonderful departure from most “festival” films that, for a paying audience, are not at all value-for-money. Such films as Max Min & Meowzaki may…
