Sandcastle

Review :- Sandcastle is a film that, beneath the stylized production, attempts to address an important subject pertaining to women. It is a film that is split into many parts,…

Total Siyapaa

Review :- This ‘Aman Ki Asha’ is set on neither side of the Indo-Pak border. In fact, it crosses over to Brit-land, where butter chicken and bhangra rule the angrezis.…

Gulaab Gang

Review :- Straight on, Gulaab Gang’s deepest colour comes from its villain, Madam ji, a politician of supreme ambition and total crassness, played with aplomb by Juhi Chawla. The film’s…

Queen

Review :- The action begins in a middle-class Delhi household. The father is a mithaiwala; his daughter Rani Mehra or Queen (Kangana Ranaut) is naive, even appears stupid in today’s…

Shaadi Ke Side Effects

Review :- He says it. She disagrees. He reacts. She overacts. He makes mistakes, he says sorry. She makes mistakes, ‘he’ says sorry. So there! Even geniuses like Socrates and…

Anuradha

Review :- If you liked ‘women-oriented’ films made in the 90’s, where the fairer sex was primarily portrayed as the sacrificing-virtuous lot and when women were expected to be nothing…

Dee Saturday Night

Review :- Filmmaker Jay Prakash intends to make an expose on the nightlife of Mumbai, a la Madhur Bhandarkar. But shoddy execution, poor performances and immature storytelling make it look…

Darr @ The Mall

Review :- Pawan Kripalani, whose previous film ‘Ragini MMS’, scared the living daylights out of us, ‘Darr @ The Mall’ comes as a huge disappointment. While one doesn’t expect much…

Highway

Review :- Straight up, Highway is not a sunny, funny road-trip. It is Imtiaz Ali’s starkest, darkest work yet. Rich Veera (Bhatt) steps away from her Monsoon Wedding-style shaadi preparations…

Gunday

Review :  Straight up, Gunday pays loving homage to Bollywood classics ‘Sholay’, ‘Kaala Patthar’ and other ‘brothers-in-arms’ films while offering more. Gunday is Oliver Twist, given a Bollywood twist. Orphaned Bala (Kapoor)…