Disclaimer: I don’t usually write music reviews, but I make an exception this time, as I have been severely hit by a musical bazooka co-crafted by Dibakar Banerjee (lyrics) & Sneha Khanwalkar (Music). Love, Sex Aur Dhokha , since the day of its announcement has created ripples and has been creating khalbali among film-lovers across the board. What is strange is that the movie is up for release next week & the album has just come... 

Director :  Cristian mungiu   4 months, 3 days and 2 weeks is a Romanian film that depicts the lives of two roommates one of whom decides to undergo abortion through a black-market doctor. The traumatic feelings experienced by them in the process forms the plot. The film opens with two roommates Gabita  (Laura Vasiliu) and Otilia (Anamaria marinca) getting ready to meet a blackmarket doctor named Bebe. Gabita , the one who wants to get aborted... 

Post contains some spoilers As the world around us is becoming smaller with each passing day, it is also becoming more dangerous and vulnerable to various kinds of threats and this thought itself is scary .Different kinds of  dangerous people and elements,groups ,organisations are surrounding  us from various corners and this is making us all the more vulnerable and scared. The idea of a perfect world is diminishing and getting bleaker with... 

…than the handful who were present at the Multiplex where I saw the movie this evening. It’s an outstanding story in a superlative narrative about a very socially relevant subject. Madhur Bhandarkar, here’s how it’s done! The title is almost a contradiction in a story which talks about infants abandoned by their parents. The director, Irfan Kamal has dedicated the movie to his mother and I think the dedication has found... 

Road, Movie poster When Vishnu (Abhay Deol) escapes the fate of selling scented hair-oil and takes on a road trip leaving behind his middle class surroundings to deliver a scrappy old truck to a town across the desert and makes his way through the unknown, you expect the journey to be significant. From Homer to the present day such journeys have presented excellent opportunities for the protagonist to go through ‘a rite of passage’ that... 

At the onset, I must say that while I watched Funny Games , I found myself victim of two lousy habits I’ve developed while watching films over the years. One, never reading on a movie before watching it. And this means a clean zilch that makes me vulnerable to what is to come, often lending to the clubbed-on-the-head effects that leave me reeling for some time. Secondly, failing to distinguish between cinematic realism and…  Read More →

> Irfan Kamal’s “Thanks Maa” releases tomorrow, 5th March. Simply put, It’s a Must watch for it’s effort and more for it’s storytelling. It’s back to the streets of Mumbai but this film was made way before Slumdog Millionaire . I am sure it was, it’s an original story. So, why would it take so long for a release? or is it that it had to actually take a Slumdog Millionaire to succeed internationally for this film... 

First things first, it is not a copy of 21 , Leena Yadav (writer and Director) tried but was        not successful. Even though movie tries to take inspiration from 21 through inheriting          Genius mathematician, bunch of intelligent kids, Monty Hall problem; but the inheritance  ended there. My objective behind watching this movie even after reading the plot (which was         confessing assertively to be a clone of 21)... 

Tring tring. Isn’t it common place to find land lines that sound like this? They have sharp sounds that almost pierce our ears. Karthik Calling Karthik as the name suggests echoes with this sound and instead of closing your ears in irritation you are watching the screen closely in anticipation. Is someone going to pick up? And as the theme song goes even you wonder …. Who’s on the line? Tell me whose calling? Karthik Calling Karthik is... 

How does it feel when you see a girl and instantly lose your heart to her? How does it feel when all you do is think about the girl and not care for anything else? How does it feel when all you want is to be with that girl and nothing else? How does it feel when you stop thinking with your mind completely? How does it feel when you automatically become a poet, a romantic one at that? If the answer to all these questions …  Read More →

Let’s begin with the dedications: This one is to all my ‘White Collar’ (WC) friends and my brother from another mother, Veejay, the lucky dawg, who recently found love, somewhere in the corporate corridors. And to my imaginary girl friend who used to call me ‘Cheeku’ (Ewww) back then, but now calls me a narcissistic nincompoop, rightly so. So here’s the deal: Those who liked ‘No Smoking’ will like... 

A fully-loaded .38 can go off 6 times. All fatal, depending of course, on the hand that wields it. The seventh time it inevitably gives a harmless little click. Now it’s just a cigarette lighter run out of fuel. Just a kid’s toy that looks like a .38. Lokhand ka Paperweight. ‘Click’ goes the hollow cylinder. The gun did not hush up; it did not so …  Read More →

Crime and Punishment has never been an easy subject to watch or read. There is always the shadow of duality – Right Vs Wrong, Hero Vs Villain, Hero Vs The System. Mainstream cinema (atleast in India – my exposure)has delighted itself with playing with this easy duality for so long for easy heroic payoff that worked in the name of ‘accessibility’. However, just like any other facet of society and legal constructs, peoples... 

It’s no secret that politics along with cricket and movies always occupies pride of place among Indians in terms of topics to discuss and identify with. Though the political scenario in India hasn’t really changed much of late, we see a lot many more youth getting into the political fray these days across parties and some of them are already making a mark in the political scenario, be it in a regional or National level. I’m sure all these... 

There are 3 major conclusions that I made  after watching Kedar Shinde’s Toh Baat Pakki . Firstly the brand of Rajshri kind of movies is passé & should never be attempted by newcomers .Secondly , not all actors who are brilliant in dramatic roles can also replicate the same brilliance in comic roles . Lastly , you cannot make a khichdi movie various hits& expect your film  to replicate the success of those  movies especially... 

”There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.” ~Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Some movies can be felt and written about. Then, there are some movies which can be felt but difficult to write about…  Read More →

”There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.” ~Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Some movies can be felt and written about. Then, there are some movies which can be felt but difficult to write about. They seep into us, slowly get inside the veins and touches the heart.... 

Zombie films excitement have reduced over the period of time. It has been done as many times as the Ameri-Garabi love story been done in bollywood films. Some have been good 28 days later, 28 weeks later, I am Legend . More of it has been bad 30 days of night, Resident Evil : Apocalypse, Resident Evil : Extinction, Dooomsday, Quarantine . So when I first heard the title Zombieland , it was like, no way, not another zombie movie. Not another... 

Spoilers in the post. Every year in February, several companies feature in my university’s career fair. Various students throng the diverse colored corporate booths with a resume in hand, and lots on their mind. If you happened to be standing close to one of my friend, you would hear his perfect pitched voice talking to a recruiter. “Hello Sir! My name is xyz and I am working towards my Electrical Engineering degree. My specialty... 

A murder mystery, a tale of friendship, and a love story all rolled into one, “The Secret in their Eyes” is a thoroughly gripping, enchanting, and entertaining film. Unfolded using an engaging parallel narrative, writer/director/editor Juan José Campanella (“Son of the Bride”) seamlessly takes us between the investigation of a brutal crime that takes place in the 1980s and a revisiting of it two decades later by its...