Are we banned in this country from debating merits or demerits of reservation on caste lines altogether? Only cheap, opportunist netas would think so. They rule. The public be damned.

Office Office, I hear, was a much-loved series on television. I haven't watched a single, complete episode, but it's not that hard to tell why. It starred one of the nation's most under-rated acting talents, Pankaj Kapur. As does this film. The story bears resonance, empathy. The difference is in the medium alone. Mayank Shekhar writes.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is a hard-core male-bonding 'bromance' all right. Their dares probably have more to do with overcoming their own personal, pet fears, or phobias, if you like. Mayank Shekhar writes.

Devgn walks to beats similar to Salman’s Dabanng. He beats the crap out of ruffians outside a village theatre. He restores his woman's honour. Besotted, she chases him. Audiences think even more highly of the hero. He beats the crap some more. Mayank Shekhar writes.

A cult favourite at the time of its release back in 1968, the first Planet of the Apes spawned four sequels and a remake. But there was one avenue that remained unexplored: a prequel to the original film.

Combining live-action and animation, the big screen exploits of the tiny blue-hued characters created by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo back in 1958 are a cut above the commonplace.

So the journey is over. The good news for Potterphiles is that the eighth and last film adapted from JK Rowling's epic saga delivers its expected quota of spellbinding special effects and magical mayhem.

"Bheege hoth tere. Pyaasa dil mera…" That's a popular Kunal Ganjawala song, most would know, from the commercial success Murder (2004). This is its supposed sequel. So the villain has the same track for his cellphone ring-tone, he sings it too, ending the stanza with, "Kitna mazaa aaya. Tere tukde karoon chaar."

In this multiplex era of comic-book superheroes, computer-driven fantasies and pre-teen oriented drivel, it's refreshing to stumble across a beguilingly old-fashioned romantic comedy. Rashid Irani writes.

Chillar, for loose change, is a pretty sweet title for a film. It's set around little children. They live together at a housing "society" or "colony" (the term is used interchangeably). They call their group 'chillar party', have a proper headquarter with an old TV set in a garage, fight rival cricket teams in the neighbourhood.