Hindi Reviews

Going nowhere

The problem with €˜Anwar€™ is over-ambitiousness on the part of the director Manish Jha who floats in too many directions at the same time. He sets out to tell a story and for some strange reason he introduces a way too many sub plots (was…

This ‘Risk’y business hits hard

Randeep Hooda may not be having a superstar father to shower €˜excessive€™ praise on his performance. But if his deliriously heartwarming portrayal of an encounter specialist in Vishram Sawant€™s €˜Risk€™ is anything to go by, then this hunky dude is the most hard-hitting news of…

A Tribute To Love - Can Love be so Boring?

Sinc Sound, smart editing chops, an ensemble of top stars, a semblance of artistic aspirations reveling in one big wedding party doesn€™t necessarily make a good film. The mammoth hype (unceremoniously bordering on gorgeous arrogance) that preceded €˜Salaam-e-ishq€™ is up against a big boulder of…

Worth a yellow light

It€™s supposed to be the completion of a trilogy. It also happens to be the weakest link in the cog of wheels comprising realistic cinema (Page 3, Corporate) that dares to entertain by letting you delve into the harsh stream of ever moving consciousness. Madhur…

Startlingly Gripping Cinema

€œAn eye for an eye will make the whole world blind€- Mahatma GandhiIt€™s human to be judgmental. To have opinions. Slam verdicts without blinking an eyelid. And then you have director Anurag Kashyap. A man possessed with the truth serum. For when you come…

Doesn't fake itself to be an

Audience has been thirsting for new subjects with every passing month and there is no room for complacency, especially for the fist time directors. With backup of producers like Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar, there is not much error margin available for debutant director Reema…

Unbelievable yet enjoyable

It is silly. It is inane. It is unbelievable.It is so easy to lash a movie when the chips are down. Years in the making and struggling to hit the marquee, NEHLLE PE DEHLLA, was never meant to be a classic. Heck, it never…

An unexciting fare

There was a time till around 3-4 years back when cross border tension was the hottest topic amongst many film makers. This was the time period when SARHAD PAAR, a movie starring Sanjay Dutt, Tabu and Mahima Chaudhary was conceptualized.Times changed with the relations…

Over hyped

Even though Deepa Mehta's WATER has been in news for over an year and has even made it to the Top-5 of the OSCARS shortlist for the best foreign film, one is a trifle hesitant about what to expect from the film. After all, the…

Small film with big effort

You don't expect anything at all while venturing in to watch 1971. And how could you? After all LOC - KARGIL wasn't quite impressive while another film about POWs - DEEWAR - LET'S BRING OUR HEROES home just turned out to be overtly heroic. If…