Bittoo and Shruti start a successful wedding planners' "binness" right after finishing college. This is good move, no doubt, given a culture that perennially envies its neighbour, thrives on throwing money at weddings and other personal processions to show wealth off. The leading couple makes for an intelligent tag team.
Actors alone supposedly carry audiences into theatres. A good number of them have been suitably recruited. The proposal is well drawn. Promise of crores have already been made. Why bother making a movie as well, telling a funny story? Anything will do.
Kidnapping and ransom is evidently an organised industry in parts of one of India's Bimaru states, where the film is set. The top office of this trade has an assigned accounts section; a receipt issued by one of the clerks here protects you against another kidnapping attempt for a year. The guarantee is compete.
Gowariker, over-generous as usual as editor, merciless toward his dulled audience, is still not sure we get the picture. It’s been over two and half hours. Extreme patience, not patriotism, can sail you through this wikipedia page.
It’s never too late for death-defying heroics. Hot on the heels of Sylvester Stallone’s all-geriatrics romp
The Expendables, comes yet another action adventure that sets out to assert, by virtue of its casting, that age doesn’t matter.
The lower deck of Mumbai, the leading men of this film belong to, is called
Bhul-Bhulaiya. Gruesome crimes, kids with country-made and automatic weapons here remain entirely below the press’s radar.
So much about recent Hindi movies is a nod to movies from the past. This one’s no different. You take on the exhaustion only if the film is subversive enough and remains endearingly exciting for most parts. This one certainly does.
It's an extended last hurrah. Nine years (and six blockbusters) after they enrolled at the medieval school of magic and witchcraft, the adventures of everyone's favourite young wizards draw toward a cliffhanger climax.
Mom beds her brother-in-law. Grand mom sleeps with sleazy old men. Granddad is terminally ill. Daddy is homosexual. Survival’s tough. Being gay, tougher still. Surviving this scatter-brainless movie, toughest of ‘em all.
Action Replay isn’t intended for those who grew up in the ‘70s. It’s for those who can imagine the decade from its films and fashion alone - the kind of nostalgia that demands no realism; is perfect for charming, escapist, candyfloss entertainment.
Mayank Shekhar writes.
Her latest work,
Iti Mrinalini (
The Unfinished Letter), which she has helmed as well, is reportedly autobiographical that tells the story of aging actress Mrinalini Mitra (Sen), hounded by the media and shabbily treated by the man in her life, Siddhartha Sarkar (Rajat Kapoor).
The film picks up all its humour from Bollywood alone. Practically every dialogue, almost every scene, refers to another film, or a celeb -- some of them who’re in the movie, and some who are not.
Produced by Roger Corman back in 1978, the toothy original spawned a low-grade sequel, which marked the directorial debut of — believe it or gasp — James Cameron.
Here's a breathtaking animated adaptation of the popular series of children's fantasy novels. The unexpected choice of Zack Snyder to helm the project is more than auspicious.
The last time director Ridley Scott and raw material Russell Crowe teamed up, we got a gritty update on Spartacus. This time, the two combine forcesto get down and dirty with Robin Hood.