First things first. Teasers and trailers can indeed be misleading. What I saw last month seemed to be a wannabe-global-audience-tempting extravaganza of action, VFX and more. It seemed that we…
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Ideally, a stew of multiple ingredients should be tasty and nutritious, but Nayyi Navelli is neither. It’s just a stew, with a stre-e-etched climax that could have been shortened to less than…
The poster as we see it, and the film’s title (meaning “chaos” or “pandemonium”) may indicate a comedy, but Afratafri is actually not one at all. It is a serious, social drama…
There is a familiar ring to the tale in real life. Aniket (Vikram Singh Chauhan) and Pooja (Mrunal Thakur) are friends who act together in theater. Aniket has fallen for…
The title, in Marathi, literally means “Here comes the smart-aleck.” In the context of this film, it refers to Gargi (Maitreyee Datye), a girl who is 11, who wants to…
Do not look for big names here. But we have a fair share of gags, fun elements and amusing situations that make our viewing pleasant. And some good music, which is so…
A deviant young man tries to act smart with a young lady, Anju (Ishita Dutta). Her mother, Nandini (Shriya Saran) and she have a confrontation with him. The spoilt brat…
It’s entertaining, emotionally riveting but it is feminism in overdrive. Bandkhor (which means a rebel) tells the story about a vivacious but volatile city girl, Meera (Priyadarshini Indalkar), who hails from a…
All the content is aimed at the smaller centers. When there is a basic bent only towards devotion, mythology and folklore blended with elements of horror, we are reminded of…
He’s boorish, self-centered and supremely irascible. Grumbling all the time after (and before) retiring from his job, Hari Prasad Sharma (Raghubir Yadav) is a quintessential old-fashioned and uber-traditional middle-class patriarch,…
This week saw two big releases—Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra, a crime thriller inspired by dark reality and Kunal Kemmu’s Vibe, an action comedy of two normal youths coerced into going on a patriotic…
Gotta hand it to the folks from the South. For every execrable biggie actioner, they hand us a modest and riveting action-comedy. Logic takes a walk through the southern states…
This devotional is a winner all the way. The story of how Lord Jagannath (of Puri) demolished the ego of Aham, an erstwhile ideal student of a sage, with the…
