Rowdy Rathore – * * 1/2- Fun While it Lasts

Bollywood has suddenly woken up to the power of mass hysteria, and of the movies across the vindhyas.  And like all the bandwagon marathons in the world, it is good as long as it lasts, the trendsetter being the director’s own earlier venture Wanted. Though Rowdy is bigger in scale, and well, more rowdy. You

Musings…

The train just crossed Ghaziabad station. It did not stop there, just slowed down, as if giving some kind of second chance to those who had taken off on the wrong tracks. Life rarely offers such second chances, yet it is so much like this train. I love writing in transit, be it a flight,

Ishaqzaade

Yashraj films Habib Faisal Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, Gauahar Khan *  * * Interesting, yet not quite there It is heartening to see the small town India making its presence felt in cinema like never before, in a real manner, without making a caricature of itself. Its not very often that you have the lead

Pensieve

I am reading The Time Traveler’s Wife. It is the kind of read which has a slow but moving impact on the conscious. There is a certain weird sense of excitement mixed with fear, and even a hint of sadness. The constantly changing dials of time leaves you with a certain sense of melancholy, stillness,

Jannat 2 ( * * * )

Jannat 2 Director: Kunal Deshmukh Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Randeep Hooda, Imran Zahid * * * Hmm. We must accept this fact now that Bollywood doesn’t really know the meaning of word ‘sequel’. Or maybe it believes that as the largest movie making franchise in world, we can change the meaning. So that any movie

Tezz

* 1/5 Ajay Devgn, Anil Kapoor, Mohanlal, Kangana Ranaut, Sameera Reddy, Zayed Khan, Boman Irani, Avika Gaur Priyadarshan There is no other, less offensive way to say this, than it’s just plain bad movie-making. Infact, it is so bad that it is sad. Sad, considering that it’s the same maverick maker who has given Hindi

Vicky Donor

  **** Director:  Shoojit Sircar Producer : John Abraham Ayushman Khurana, Yami Gautam, Annu Kapoor, Dolly Ahluwalia, Kamlesh Gill Wow, a pleasant surprise, this one, and in more than one way! Bollywood is hardly known for presenting sex and associated topics in a dignified manner, leave alone justified. So when a movie is based on

Agent Vinod

Director: Sriram Raghavan Actors: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Ravi Kissen, Ram Kapoor, Prem Chopra, Gulshan Grover Genre: Spy thriller/Action Rating: ** More often that not, bollywood’s aspiration of doing a Hollywood have resulted in the final product being neither here nor there. Agent Vinod, which has been under production for about 2 years and

An Enigma called Harry Potter

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” 1 Says Albus Dumbledore to Harry , in ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ , the second book of  arguably the modern  world’s most popular series. Perhaps this was the mantra which the author , J.K. Rowling , borne

Harry Potter – II

Though her descriptions are sometimes exaggerating viz. descriptions of  Mrs. Durseley as having a rather horsy figure, Uncle Vernon not having a neck or the excessively fat torso of Dudley , but probably these are aimed at catering the minds of a younger audience and hence the childish humor employed. The best part though is,