Hindi Reviews
A surprise offering from Sanjay Khanduri
Ek Chalis Ki Last Local - A surprise offering from Sanjay KhanduriAn unusual title always makes one curious about what a film has to offer but then there are also apprehensions galore. What is the film turns out to be a damp squib? What…
Don't buy on loans and credit cards
Banks and credit card companies may not be too happy with writer-director Siddharth Anand, Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee. Together they propagate the trend of 'buy-not-pay-later' as bad. Installments are bad, going down heavy on credit cards is bad, saving is cool, spending lavishly…
A little good, not so bad
Whoever said that GOOD BOY BAD BOY was a classic in the making? It was never meant to be. All the film aspired for was to bring on some humor in those two hours that a viewer spends in an auditorium.Well, it almost succeeds,…
Don't expect a message
AGNISAKSHI - That's the movie one remembers when the gory saga of Naveen Andrews beating, harassing and abusing his all-silence-and-hardly-revolting wife Aishwarya Rai is on the screen. While in AGNISAKSHI, Manisha Koirala escapes from the clutches of Nana Patekar only to make a filmy encounter…
Would find limited patrons
Ok, so what was this really about?If you are looking for an entertaining 120 minutes while watching THE NAMESAKE then let's make it clear at the very onset - the film is hardly entertaining. At maximum, it is akin to reading a novel where…
A fresh entertainer
"I know he is gifted. I know he is brilliant. I know he is better than me. And that's the reason why I cannot forgive him!"How many times has one seen an honest confession like this being made? Especially when the person saying so…
Can the detractors go Nishabd?
Aah..how could Ram Gopal Varma bring something like this out in open? How could Amitabh Bachchan consent to play such a role? And after all would there ever be a 60 year old man who would take such a step of ??falling in love?? with…
Errr...what was that?
There are some movies that make you exclaim - "Now what was that!?" in a not-so-positive sense. 'Eklavya -The Royal Guard' is one such movie.There are expectations galore when one ventures into theatres to watch 'Eklavya'. And why not? The film has a superb…
Rocky gone miserably wrong
The problem with even a somewhat attractive film is that when it is in news for too long and doesn??t get released long after its publicity has staled, the desperate measures to ignite curiosity at a late hour don??t really work. That??s exactly what happens…
Chugging Along Nicely
It is a sin to expectThe voiceless screams?¦A kid can??t play like others. He doesn??t have a leg. But that smile on the face clearly enunciates that he doesn??t expect anything from life except some normalcy. Maybe a Hindi film song is his…
