Poster Boys Movie Review
POSTER BOYS STORY: Set in a North Indian village, three distinct men – local goon Arjun (Shreyas), retired army officer Jagawar Chaudhry (Sunny) and school teacher Vinay (Bobby) are shocked to find themselves becoming the ‘poster boys’ of male sterilisation after their pictures randomly appear on a public service ad promoting vasectomy. They are soon subjected […]
A Gentleman movie review: Sidharth Malhotra isn’t convincing in his ‘risky’ avatar
A Gentleman star cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez, Darshan Kumar, Hussain Dalal, Rajit Kapur, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Suniel Shetty A Gentleman director: Krishna DK, Raj Nidimoru A Gentleman rating: 2 stars This latest outing by Raj and DK is a spy spoof cum thriller cum love story, and while the going is good, it’s not bad. But you have to […]
Baadshaho movie review: This Ajay Devgn and Esha Gupta film is old wine, in a not very new bottle
Baadshaho star cast: Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Ileana D’Cruz, Esha Gupta, Sanjay Mishra, Vidyut Jammwal Baadshaho director: Milan Luthria Baadshaho rating: 2 stars Don’t get fooled by the ‘set during the backdrop of the Emergency’ thread in Baadshaho. That and few other elements are just window dressing in Milan Luthria’s cops-and-robbers tale, which plays out in one his favourite […]
Shubh Mangal Saavdhan movie review: The Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar film suffers from a sagging climax
Shubh Mangal Saavdhan star cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Seema Pahwa, Brijendra Kala Shubh Mangal Saavdhan director: RS Prasanna Shubh Mangal Saavdhan rating: 2.5 stars When you want to get it on, and you can’t get it up, what do you do? A Bollywood mainstream movie asking this kind of tricky question deserves serious props, even if it isn’t […]
VIP 2: Lalkar Movie Review
STORY: Raghuvaran tries to lead a change in the corporate world but his righteousness irks an egotistical businesswoman who becomes hell-bent on taking him down. REVIEW: Some films sell stories, some sell stars. VIP 2: Lalkar is the latter and it makes no bones about it. It bends over backwards to accommodate its lead actor’s skill-set and […]
Viceroy’s House movie review: This Huma Qureshi starrer is like a stilted play
The summer of 1947 was especially hot, “hottest in 75 years”. One man who had never set foot in India before was brought in his double-breasted suit to work with a team and, in five weeks, draw a line dividing the country into two. He sweated and protested his way through it, as the likely […]
Bareilly Ki Barfi movie review: This Rajkummar Rao, Ayushmann Khurrana and Kriti Sanon film works in fits and starts
‘Bareilly ke bazaar mein barfi giri re’. Clearly, the film was made keeping the iconic song in mind, except with an alliterative ‘barfi’ not a ‘jhumka’ in mind. This Small-Town Rom Com ticks all the boxes going in: perky girl armed with requisite quirky parents, a couple of suitable boys, and great one liners. And […]
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha Movie Review
STORY: Go-getter Keshav (Akshay) serenades liberal-thinker Jaya (Bhumi), a woman from his neighbouring village in Uttar Pradesh. They marry but it doesn’t strike Keshav to tell her that his house doesn’t have a toilet. This then becomes the grounds for Jaya to file for a divorce. REVIEW: For most of us who take the toilets in our […]
Indu Sarkar Movie Review
INDU SARKAR STORY: Indu’s husband, a government employee, believes in using the state of Emergency to advance his career, but a moral and ideological discrepancy sets her on a own path. INDU SARKAR REVIEW: Madhur Bhandarkar seems to be taking calculated baby steps back to the time when he insisted on telling real stories as opposed to making superficial […]
Mubarakan Movie Review
MUBARAKAN STORY: Singleton Kartar Singh (Anil) is left with the responsibility of raising his two orphaned nephews. He asks his brother (Pavan) in Punjab to raise Charan (Arjun) and his sister (Ratna) in London to raise Karan (Arjun in a double role). When the twins cross continents, they leave behind a trail of confusion. MUBARAKAN REVIEW: You are […]
Munna Michael Movie Review
MUNNA MICHAEL STORY : Munna (Tiger) is an orphan brought up by an ageing chorus dancer Michael (Ronit) in a Mumbai chawl. The boy grows up idolising Michael Jackson. To realise his dream of grooving like the King of Pop, he even agrees to tutor a hoodlum, Mahindar Fauji(Nawazuddin). Their bromance turns ugly when both end up […]
Jagga Jasoos Movie Review
JAGGA JASOOS STORY: A spy-adventure from a comic book, where the main character is looking for his lost father and inadvertently stumbles upon an illegal arms trade. JAGGA JASOOS REVIEW: I spy with my little eye an experiment that works for the most part. For a film industry that adheres to certain rules of using music, Jagga Jasoos is an […]
Guest Iin London Movie Review
GUEST IIN LONDON STORY: Aryan and his wife are saddled with the responsibility of uninvited guests, who have a dozen desi quirks and no sense of boundaries. GUEST IIN LONDON REVIEW: Guest Iin London goes against everything the movie industry has been trying to accomplish in the recent past. Click here to read more… Credit: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Mom Movie Review
MOM STORY: The bliss of a biology teacher’s family life in Delhi is shattered when her daughter, Arya (Sajal Ali) is physically assaulted by Jagan (Abhimanyu Singh) and gang. Does Devki Sabarwal (Sridevi) wait for the law to take its course? Or does Devki become Maa Durga and hunt down the perpetrators of the crime? MOM REVIEW: Mom reminds […]
Bank Chor Movie Preview, Story, Synopsis, Trailer, Songs, Cast & Crew
Bank Chor is a Hindi comedy thriller directed by Bumpy and produced by Asish patil. The movie is distributed under Yash Raj Film banner. The film stars Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Rhea Chakraborty. Vivek Oberoi has returned to Yash Raj Films after 12 years, his last film under their banner was Saathiya. Click here […]
Tubelight Movie Review
TUBELIGHT STORY : Laxman Singh Bisht (Salman) is nicknamed tube light by his neighbours because he is feeble-minded. Despite being special, Laxman lives by one life-lesson; keep the faith alive and you can do almost anything, even stop a war. TUBELIGHT REVIEW : At the outset, one must warn people that Tubelight is a departure […]
G Kutta Se movie review: A powerful film, a subject that needs constant revision
Between the capital of India that is Delhi, and neighbouring Haryana, there’s barely any physical distance. But within a few kilometers, on the other side of the border, it is the dark ages. That women are to be owned, to be used and thrown at will, is something all patriarchal societies all over the world […]
Sweetiee Weds NRI Movie Review
STORY: A rich businessman wants his daughter to get married to a NRI. The problem is she loves another guy who she is sure her father won’t approve of. REVIEW: Everything is fair in love and war, or at least that’s how the saying goes. Our hero Akash (Kohli), an orphan, puts the saying into […]
Dear Maya review: Manisha Koirala’s film works in fits and starts
Dear Maya is the coming-of-age of three people whose fates are unexpectedly connected by an action: two giggly teenage girls and a woman who has attained middle age without having grown up. The plot has promise, but the film works in fits and starts, realising its potential only partially. Maya Devi (Manisha Koirala) is a […]
Raabta movie review: Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon film is a rom con
Some questions arise after Raabta has been seen, chief amongst which is one that comes up every time Bollywood tries, and fails, to do a cracking romance. Why is Bollywood incapable of pulling off a full-length film with a pair of lovers connecting, pulling apart, coming together? Sometimes, in the pursuit of true love, a […]
