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Budhia Singh – Born to Run Movie Review

Budhia Singh – Born to Run Movie Review

A Bollywood sports film is usually an awkward creature. It tends to be a loud, lumbering beast prone to melodramatic flab and excessive deification. Mercifully, first-time writer-director Soumendra Padhi’s Budhia Singh – Born to Run isn’t one. It is neither average Bollywood fare nor is it just another sports-themed potboiler designed to magnify the heroics of an […]

The Legend of Michael Mishra Movie Review

The Legend of Michael Mishra Movie Review

STORY: Michael Misra (Arshad Warsi) aka Bhaiyyaji is a Bihari tailor-turned-kidnapper who falls in love with Varsa Sukla (Aditi Rao Hydari), a wannabe actress from Patna. He sheds his criminal image for her and becomes a good man but can his transformation bring the two together? REVIEW: While there have been reports of the film facing protests […]

Dishoom Movie Review

Dishoom Movie Review

A star Indian batsman is kidnapped 36 hours ahead of a make-or-break match. The external affairs ministry in Delhi rushes a badass cop to a place “somewhere in the Middle East” to lead the manhunt to find both the missing cricketer and the mysterious captor. Sounds super exciting? On paper, it does. It definitely is […]

Kabali Catches Houston by Storm

Kabali Catches Houston by Storm

By Vanshika Vipin HOUSTON: Houston saw some action from a frenzied crowd, last week. The occasion was the release of Kabali, the latest film starring the SuperStar Rajnikant. Die-hard Thalaiva fans had queued outside theatres to watch their beloved larger-than-life star. To many, Rajnikant is not just an actor or a SuperStar; he is a […]

Rajini leaves the Khans behind: Kabali is the biggest opener of all times

Rajini leaves the Khans behind: Kabali is the biggest opener of all times

Toppling the three Khans of Bollywood, Rajinikanth emerged as the winner on Saturday when the makers of Kabali announced that the film had made an opening collection of Rs 250 crore in the domestic market alone. With figures like that, Kabali is now the all-time biggest opener in India. Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Happy New Year […]

Madaari review: It’s a guide on how to spoil a film despite perfect ingredients

Madaari review: It’s a guide on how to spoil a film despite perfect ingredients

If you have a good story and a bunch of talented actors, you can make a good movie, right? Wrong. Despite a well-intentioned and intriguing story on vigilante justice and actors like Irrfan Khan and Jimmy Shergill, Madaari comes across as a rather vague, stretched and cliched film. is Madaari begins with Irrfan Khan’s voiceover […]

America Welcomes ‘Rustom’ Akshay Kumar!

America Welcomes ‘Rustom’ Akshay Kumar!

NEW YORK: Akshay Kumar and ZEE Studios unveiled the trailer and the first song of his movie ‘Rustom’. During this event Akshay Kumar, who plays the role of a Parsi naval officer Rustom Pavri in his upcoming film, met and had lunch with the Parsi community of America and Canada. During the event, the community […]

Great Grand Masti movie review: This offensively unfunny, grating thing’s not a film

Great Grand Masti movie review: This offensively unfunny, grating thing’s not a film

Those who have been following the escapades of the ‘Masti’ boys will know that they have been stuck in a limbo: between ‘biwis’ who will not put out and other women who are dying to, between pills that stiffen male private parts and receptacles to insert said parts into, between… I could go on, but […]

Shorgul Movie Review

Shorgul Movie Review

STORY : In Maliabad (a small town in Uttar Pradesh), a local politician’s son Raghu falls in love with a Muslim girl named Zainab. She is engaged to a boy from her community but Raghu can’t help but harbour feelings for her. This unrequited love story ends in bloodshed. The local politicos use the isolated incident […]

The Star Promoter Brushes with Fame @ IIFA-2016

The Star Promoter Brushes with Fame @ IIFA-2016

By Vanshika Vipin HOUSTON: Rajender Singh, a notable bigwig amongst the Bollywood fraternity is also a household name in Houston. What started with a humble beginning in Rajasthan, India, catapulted him to the position of a reputable magnate in the entertainment industry. As the President of Star Promotions Inc., Rajender considers himself fortunate to have […]

Dhanak Movie Review

Dhanak Movie Review

A film that believes – and artfully coaxes the audience to believe – in miracles, Nagesh Kukunoor’s bewitching Dhanak is itself a full-blown marvel. It’s like a dazzling flash in the sky that lights up everything around it and soaks you instantly in its warmth. This sparkling little gem deftly darts back and forth between disarming simplicity […]

Udta Punjab Movie Review

Udta Punjab Movie Review

Abhishek Chaubey’s Udta Punjab is littered with standout scenes, but none matches the sledgehammer impact of the climax. Sudden, quick on the draw and stunningly to the point, it brings the curtains down on a profane, dystopic vision of a state that was once India’s bread basket but is today burdened with a whole slew of problems, […]

Housefull 3 Movie Review

Housefull 3 Movie Review

Like its central premise – three desperate drifters out to marry a trio of wealthy sisters weave their way in and out of trouble – Housefull 3 is painfully hackneyed and sickeningly silly. But for a slapstick comedy that makes no bones about its lowbrow intentions, being trite and stupid is part of the game. […]

Sarbjit Movie Review

Sarbjit Movie Review

STORY: Indian Sarbjit is wrongfully imprisoned in a Pakistani jail – can his sister Dalbir have him freed? REVIEW: Straight away, Sarbjit is Randeep Hooda’s triumph. In 1990, a simple Punjabi farmer Sarbjit (Randeep) drunkenly wanders across the India-Pakistan border – a milestone in a field – merrily singing ‘Jai Jai Shiv Shankar’, suddenly captured and tossed into Pakistani […]

Azhar Movie Review

Azhar Movie Review

STORY: A disclaimer at the start says that it is not a biopic on the life of one of the most celebrated and controversial Indian cricket captains Mohammad Azharuddin(Emraan). So the makers hoodwink you submission that it is not a biopic. But one has also to be blind, not to be able to see the similarities […]

1920 London Movie Review

1920 London Movie Review

MOVIE: Shivangi (Meera Chopra) comes from a royal family in Rajasthan and is married to a prince named Veer (Vishal Karwal). They receive a necklace from their hometown which casts a vicious spell on him. He is possessed by a daayan and the only man who can help is Shivangi’s ex-lover Jai (Sharman Joshi). Can he […]

Traffic Movie Review

Traffic Movie Review

STORY: A Mumbai television journalist meets with a fatal accident leaving him on a ventilator. In Pune, a young girl can only be saved if she gets a transplant. The mission of transporting the organ is entrusted to a traffic constable, looking to earn his stripes back! A remake of the 2011 Malayalam film of the same name, […]

Shortcut Safaari Movie Review

Shortcut Safaari Movie Review

STORY: On their way back from an excursion, seven kids take off on an adventure trip which ends up in an accident and get stranded in the middle of a thick forest. Their driver goes to the neighboring village t0 seek help and doesn’t come back for days. With the menace of hyenas, leopards and monkeys […]

Baaghi Movie Review

Baaghi Movie Review

STORY: Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) and Siya (Shraddha Kapoor) are born rebels who fall in love amidst the refreshing green forests and serene lakes. Their love story is picture-perfect until Raghav (Sudheer Babu) is smitten by Siya. He feels his fieriness has found a fitting match. The men unleash the brutal side and battle it out to […]

The Man Who Knew Infinity Movie Review

The Man Who Knew Infinity Movie Review

STORY: Srinivasa Ramanujan had the extraordinary ability to conjure up very complex and groundbreaking mathematical concepts seemingly out of thin air. And all of that, despite not having any formal training in the subject. He hailed from a humble background, and was nurtured and mentored to greatness by another brilliant mathematician, G H Hardy. This is […]