“Chamak uthi san sattawan main, woh talwar purani thi… Bundele harbolon ke munh hamne suni kahaani thi… Khub ladi mardaani woh toh…Jhansi wali rani thi…” These refrain couplet from the […]
With his first film since his Academy Award-winning Best Picture, director Steve McQueen goes as mainstream as he ever has before with this excellent caper film featuring an ensemble to […]
Remaking a classic is a tricky affair. Adapting a masterpiece and then giving it a contemporary makeover is something that gives shudders even to the greatest of auteurs. The puritans […]
It’s tough to be a woman. In a world that reeks of the toxic masculinity, a woman barely manages to speak up. Those who do, are labelled audacious but at […]
The following excerpt is from the India Today website – “Four terrorists attacked 12th Brigade of the army in Uri sector on 18th Sept 2016, Sunday. At around 5.15 am, […]
In previous years many of the Transformers films made my ten worst list, deservedly so as they were noise movies, with little plot, no characters and lots of crashing metal transforming […]
Inadequacies. Failures. Shortcomings. These are the few defining characteristics of a human being, that differentiates it from being God. The fallacy in one’s self, is what makes man mortal. They […]
There are times an actor can elevate a film with their performance, which could be so magnificent you forgive the aspects of the film that are clearly weak. Jack Nicholson […]
If you tossed ‘All About Eve’ (1950), ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ (1988), ‘The Madness Of King George’ (1994) and ‘Mean Girls’ (2003) in a blender, took their best aspects and highlighted them […]
That Vir Das is a great writer, goes without saying. He has an impeccable sense about comedy and balances it with his lenient dosages of what can be called the […]
The problem with the Rocky franchise began with a ‘Rocky IV’ (1985), in which Apollo Creed is killed in the ring by a massive steroid fuelled Russian, Ivan Drago, fighter […]
Welcome to Andy Serkis’s Jungle Book. It’s scary as hell, as the all seeing python Kaa begins the tale of the man-cub who was raised by a pack of wolves. […]
We take our lives very seriously. And why not, there’s one life only! Our life’s often bound within customs, rituals, different laws that we strictly abide by and seldom question […]
Let me begin with a statement that perhaps will become the backbone of this article – Kanika Dhillon is a wordsmith par excellence, an author who’s in love with her […]
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