“I remember when I was narrating to him, he offered himself in the father’s part as well because he felt it was challenging! I couldn’t have said no to this opportunity,” Karan Malhotra tells Ronjita Kulkarni. The intention was never to have to come up with two Ranbirs, the ideaRead More →
The first installment of the Khuda Haafiz franchise never truly delivered on its action movie premise with Vidyut Jammwal playing a minor character in the end. The sequel left me feeling similarly snubbed, as it simply didn’t really amount to much when it came to delivering the goods in theRead More →
The Pilibhit Saga is a boring, overlong, tale of an eccentric with delusions of leadership, sighs Deepa Gahlot.: Srijit Mukherji’s film Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga is based off of real life incidents in impoverished villages in Uttarakhand. When elderly people from these villages live by the wildlife reserve, they areRead More →
Reconciliation is the lifeline of all movies when it comes to escaping real life. Whether it’s about adultery, bigamy or breakups, no problem is too difficult for filmmakers to ignore in order to deliver a charming film that reassures its audience and makes them feel good. And the only wayRead More →
ImtiazAli’s feature film, Highway, is a stretch in more ways than one. Far from being a thriller as advertised and contained by its namesake, Highway instead turned out to be a lackluster drama about the emotional ups and downs of married couples.The movie begins with the backstory of Raghuram(Pankaj Kapoor)Read More →
Before watching this movie, I conducted an experiment where I asked a bunch of people to name all Seven Sister States and their capitals. The fact that none of the participants were able to name even half of the states correctly wasn’t really a surprise. But one particular answer reallyRead More →