* * * * Anurag Basu Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Illena Desouza, Saurabh Shukla There you go, this is it. He has been called the next superstar, the actor to look out for, for too long now. With Rockstar last year, and now Barfi, Ranbir Kapoor has arrived, and how! As the dumb and muteContinue reading “Barfi: Beautiful, Brave and Brilliant”
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Raaz 3: Scary for all the wrong reasons
* 1/2 Vishesh Films Vikram Bhatt Bipasha Basu, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta Haunted, Dangerous Ishq and now Raaz 3- Vikram Bhatt can now indisputably be anointed the new star of the B-grade wave of Bollywood, which is dangerously making its presence feel more than ever before. Seriously, is it the same man who gave usContinue reading “Raaz 3: Scary for all the wrong reasons”
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. YouContinue reading “Rowdy Rathore – * * 1/2- Fun While it Lasts”
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 leadContinue reading “Ishaqzaade”
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 movieContinue reading “Jannat 2 ( * * * )”
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 HindiContinue reading “Tezz”
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 onContinue reading “Vicky Donor”
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 andContinue reading “Agent Vinod”
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 , borneContinue reading “An Enigma called Harry Potter”
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,Continue reading “Harry Potter – II”
Conflicts and Conventions 