Badhaai Ho movie review: Watch it for Neena Gupta and Gajraj Rao
Badhaai Ho movie cast: Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao, Ayushmann Khurrana, Sanya Malhotra, Surekha Sikri, Sheeba Chaddha Badhaai Ho movie director: Amit Ravindernath Sharma Badhaai Ho movie casting: Two and a half stars Marriage and procreation. Very good. The sex that is a required pit-stop? Very bad. The ridiculous extent of Indian hypocrisy around sex, especially middle-aged or, worse, […]
Ranveer Singh-Deepika Padukone marriage: Wishes pour in for the most loved couple of Bollywood
Bollywood’s most adored couple Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone have finally made it official. Taking to their social media handles Ranveer and Deepika shared an official wedding invitation and announced their wedding dates. The two-day wedding ceremony will take place on 14th and 15th November. There are actually two copies of the invite, one completely in Hindi and […]
NAMASTE ENGLAND MOVIE REVIEW
By Rachit Gupta Critic’s Rating: 2.0/5 Namaste England Story: Param (Arjun Kapoor) and Jasmeet (Parineeti Chopra) fall in love and they get married. Their perfect romance gets disturbed by Jasmeet’s suppressed ambition however. She has dreams of going to London so that she can pursue her career and build a better life for herself. But Param isn’t […]
Aravindha Sametha movie review: Jr NTR shines in Trivikram Srinivas’ film
Aravindha Sametha movie cast: Jr NTR, Pooja Hegde, Naga Babu, Jagapati Babu Aravindha Sametha movie director: Trivikram Srinivas Aravindha Sametha movie rating: 3 stars During a promotional event for Aravindha Sametha, actor Jr NTR said that he waited for 12 years to work with director Trivikram Srinivas. And finally the actor-director duo started working together on the film, […]
Helicopter Eela movie review: Kajol starrer is saddled with banal story-telling
By Shubhra Gupta Helicopter Eela movie cast: Kajol, Riddhi Sen, Tota Roy Chowdhary, Neha Dhupia, Kamini Khanna Helicopter Eela movie director: Pradeep Sarkar Helicopter Eela movie rating: One and a half stars A doting mum and her resigned-to-it son are the focus of Helicopter Eela, in which said Eela helicopters around Vivaan to the extent of smothering him. Will […]
Will Smith learns the ‘ropes of Bollywood’ from Karan Johar and Ranveer Singh
By Kriti Sonali Hollywood star Will Smith is having a blast in India. The actor recently spent some time with Bollywood celebrities Ranveer Singh and Karan Johar. Will took to Instagram to share a few photos and wrote, “Learning the ropes of Bollywood from two of the best in the game! @karanjohar & @ranveersingh. 📷: @alansilfen.” Karan shared a […]
Loveyatri movie review: The Aayush Sharma film is smothered in silliness
Loveyatri movie cast: Aayush Sharma, Warina Hussain, Ronit Roy, Ram Kapoor Loveyatri movie director: Abhiraj Minawala Loveyatri movie casting: One star ‘Susu? That’s a cool name.’ A character addresses the leading man thus in Loveyatri. No, it’s not. It’s a word which makes people, even those who’ve got past kindergarten level humour, snigger. Click here to read more… Credit: indianexpress.com
Pataakha review: Vishal Bhardwaj pulls off a rousing parable
By Shubhra Gupta Cast: Vijay Raaz, Sanya Malhotra, Radhika Madan, Namit Das, Saanand Varma, Abhishek Duhan Director: Vishal Bhardwaj Movie Ratings: 3 stars Somewhere in rural Rajasthan, two sisters are born fighting, and they keep fighting. With everything they’ve got: imaginative ‘gaalis’, fists, kicks, wrestler-style moves. Their fights are the stuff of village ‘tamasha’, with people gathering and cheering, as […]
Neha Dhupia’s baby shower: Karan Johar, Preity Zinta, Ileana D’Cruz and others spotted at the event
By Kriti Sonali Neha Dhupia and husband Angad Bedi hosted a baby shower at Mumbai’s Olive Bar & Kitchen on Sunday afternoon. While Neha was glowing in a white dress, Angad also looked dapper. Karan Johar, Preity Zinta, Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Kemmu, Ileana D’Cruz, Andrew Kneebone, Arbaaz Khan, Giorgia Andriani and many others were snapped at the […]
Sui Dhaaga movie review: The Anushka and Varun starrer is nice, safe and staid
By Shubhra Gupta Cast: Varun Dhawan, Anushka Sharma, Raghubir Yadav, Namit Das Director: Sharat Katariya Movie Ratings: 2.5 stars Sui Dhaaga delivers exactly what it promises: a tale stitched together with ‘sui-dhaaga’, dipped in desi ‘silaai’ and ‘kadhaai’. Small-town town couple wins big, pushing aside wily, wicked, unscrupulous townies and greedy rivals: the film’s single-point agenda is drenched […]
Batti Gul Meter Chalu movie review: The Shahid Kapoor starrer is a film with good intentions
By Shubhra Gupta Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Yami Gautam, Divyendu Sharma, Sushmita Murkherjee Director: Shree Narayan Singh Movie rating: Two and a half stars To make a message go down easy, you have to pad up the movie nice and proper. This is something that Hindi cinema used to understand and implement, as the default mainstream story-telling style. Batti […]
Aamir Khan, Karan Johar, John Legend make merry at Isha Ambani’s engagement bash
Bollywood celebrities Aamir Khan, Karan Johar, Priyanka Chopra and others attended Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani’s daughter Isha Ambani’s engagement extravaganza in Lake Como, Italy. The engagement was a grand affair. We saw Karan Johar, Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao involved in a hearty conversation. Juhi Chawla was all smiles for the shutterbugs. Later in the day, the guests […]
LOVE SONIA MOVIE REVIEW
By Renuka Vyavahare Critic’s Rating: 3.0/5 Story: Belonging to a drought prone village in India, a debt-ridden farmer (Adil Hussain) grapples with poverty and desperation. Despite the dire circumstances, his daughters — teen sisters Sonia (Mrunal Thakur) and Preeti choose to be happy. But their undying spirit takes a beating when the hapless father decides to sell […]
Manmarziyaan movie review: The Vicky-Taapsee starrer is an exhausting romantic drama
By Shubhra Gupta Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Vicky Kaushal, Taapsee Pannu Director: Anurag Kashyap Movie rating: 2 stars Anurag Kashyap has created a new word. For decades, Bollywood has been using ‘pyaar-vyaar’ in stories and songs, most often used along with ‘dil-vil’. If it is a love story, then it is a compendium of ‘dil-vil-pyaar-vyaar’, most often used with ‘main […]
Gali Guleiyan movie review: Watch it for Manoj Bajpayee and Om Singh
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Om Singh, Neeraj Kabi, Shahana Goswami, Ranvir Shorey, Arbaaz Khan Director: Dipesh Jain Movie rating: 3.5 stars Many films have been made about Old Delhi by those looking in. In this film, Old Delhi looks out, through the eyes of a man who lives in its many labyrinthine lanes, cheek by jowl with others, in […]
Paltan movie review: All sound and fury signifying nothing
By Shalini Langer Cast: Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood, Jackie Shroff, Gurmeet Choudhary, Harshvardhan Rane, Luv Sinha Director: J P Dutta Movie Rating: 1.5 stars No, Paltan is not a film about the bloody Nathu La ambush of Indian soldiers by the Chinese in 1965. And it’s not about the war in 1962, much as it might underline the link to […]
Iconic RK Studio to be sold, confirms Rishi Kapoor
Actor Rishi Kapoor has confirmed that the Kapoor family, unanimously, has decided to sell off the iconic RK Studio, established by the legendary late actor Raj Kapoor some four decades ago at Chembur, Mumbai. In an interview to Mumbai Mirror, Rishi said that while there is an emotional attachment to the place, the studio “had become a huge white […]
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi movie review: The writing in this Sonakshi Sinha film is determinedly juvenile
By Shubhra Gupta Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Jimmy Sheirgill, Jassi Gill, Piyush Mishra, Diany Penty, Denzil Smith, Jason Tham, Aparshakti Khurana Director: Mudassar Aziz Rating: One and a half stars A winsome Punjabi ‘kudi’ on the run, with a rag-tag bunch chasing her: this was the premise of Happy Bhag Jayegi, which was some amount of fun. Part two […]
Satyameva Jayate movie review: The John Abraham film revives forgotten horrors of 80s B-grade cinema
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, John Abraham, Aisha Sharma, Amruta Khanvilkar Director: Milap Milan Zaveri Movie rating: One and a half stars A hooded vigilante is roaming about in Mumbai, setting fire to corrupt cops, easily evading capture, and notching up the gruesome numbers: you close your eyes, and another one goes up in flames. The film takes its objective very seriously […]
Gold review: This Akshay Kumar film is an emotion-laden drama
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amit Sadh, Vineet Kumar Singh, Sunny Kaushal, Kunal Kapoor, Mouni Roy Director: Reema Kagti Gold movie ratings: Two and a half stars Given Bollywood’s feeble record at making films based on real events, it is no surprise that Gold is more fiction than fact. Fact: India, the newly freed nation from ‘do sau saal ki ghulami’, […]
