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Highway
With all its pros and cons, here’s one of those films: ponderous enough to encourage a snooze but also with its rewarding side-effects. Needless to emphasise, Veera lingers on in the memory. And Alia Bhatt’s performance is nothing short of extraordinary, especially her solo stanzas of dialogue, executed in long takes.
Feb 2014
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Feb 2014
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Jai Ho
All said and endured, here’s the sort of average product which is immune to criticism. Say anything you honestly feel, down the decades it has been huffed – so what? That doesn’t make a jot of a difference.
Jan 2014
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Miss Lovely
The titillation sought to be vended in Ashim Aluhwalia’s 'Miss Lovely' is strictly of the smirk-smirk variety, suffused with abstractions, cynicism and distractions, great for the international film festival circuit but so off-the-mark and shallow for anyone who has had a smidgen of interest in the C-graders of yore...
Jan 2014
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Dedh Ishqiya
...is different and it’s audacious – not without its sack of snafus though. It’s a could-see.
Jan 2014
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Mr Joe B. Carvalho
...isn’t likely to catch any sane viewer’s fancy. It’s best deleted as two hours misspent.
Jan 2014
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Bullett Raja
Tigmanshu Dhulia is best when he opts for content drawn for reality instead of flying off into an absurd land where everyone detests one another with a vengeance.
Nov 2013
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Singh Saab The Great
Snag is that both in the writing and the direction, the topic doesn’t move beyond mouthing the age-old cliches.
Nov 2013
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Nov 2013
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Besharam
Doubtlessly, this actor loves the camera. And the camera loves him back. Because of that rare interaction, you come out of 'Besharam', feeling elated.
Oct 2013
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The Lunchbox
What stays in the mind at the end of 'The Lunchbox' is pretty much what stays in mind at the end of a memorable set by jazzmen – not their lapses but the heights they scale.
Sep 2013
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John Day
...can’t be described as an admirable work. It is certainly not meant for the squeamish or the 'Chennai Express' constituency. Yet, neither is it dismissable as an average, formula thriller. It has it engaging moments.
Sep 2013
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Shuddh Desi Romance
An absolutely engrossing shaadi caper for starters which fizzles out into a shallow sermon on the institution of marriage, or the lack of it.
Sep 2013
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Aug 2013
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Nasha
...with a far more sensitive and cliché-free screenplay, this 'Nasha' could have been a superior product.
Jul 2013
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Ship Of Theseus
Here are three stories well told, signifying independent cinema’s coming of age.
Jul 2013
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Put on your patience caps for three hours, and try it. There’s enough bang for the bucks here.
Jul 2013
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Jul 2013
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Lootera
...with just some more fluency in the dramaturgy and less self-indulgent pacing, 'Lootera' would have been unforgettable, deserving of an unconditional two, instead of a one thumbs up.
Jul 2013
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Ghanchakkar
...a half-baked, self-indulgent comedy, which strives to sprinkle some dark film noir elements towards the finale.
Jun 2013
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Fukrey
Lucklessly, none of the four overgrown boys of 'Fukrey' out here arouse your empathy or curiosity. In fact, they’re as irritating as monsoon mosquitoes.
Jun 2013
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
...may not be in the league of Johar’s 'Kuchh Kucch Hota Hai' or Aditya Chopra’s 'DDLJ' - far from it - but it is a notch above the B-town fare showing at any of the ‘plexes today.
May 2013
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Ishkq In Paris
Preity Zinta, high on energy but low on subtlety, could have surely looked for a script that does her (and her loyalists) a shred of justice.
May 2013
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May 2013
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Shootout At Wadala
Gratifyingly, Sanjay Gupta doesn’t glorify Manya Surve. He is presented as someone whose life spiralled out of control, more of a doomed figure than a wonder hero. And that’s what makes 'Shootout at Wadala', quite a few cuts above the commonplace.
May 2013