'Peepli Live' - satire par excellence on rural India
( Aug 20 2010 )
Film: Peepli Live; Director: Anusha Rizvi; Cast: Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffar, Malaika Shenoy, Vishal Sharma, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sitaram Panchal, Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Bashir; Producer: Aamir Khan;
It is a miracle that a script like Peepli Live has been tu...
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Chase"; Starring: Anuuj Saxena, Udita Goswami, Tareena Patel, Samir Kochhar, Gulshan Grover; Directed by Jagmohan Mundhra; Rating: * ½
Let the chase begin. The opening chase, which lasts approximately 10 minutes, is among the best slickness-on-skids situat...
'It's A Wonderful...' comedy about ghosts and marriage
( May 06 2010 )
After dealing with marriage issues in "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Bride and Prejudice", Britain-based Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha returns with another outing on the same titled "It's A Wonderful Afterlife", which releases Friday.
Produced by Sharan Kapoor, it ...
Shahid returns as conman in 'Badmaash Company'
( May 03 2010 )
Remember Shahid Kapoor doing con jobs in Vishal Bhardwaj's hit "Kaminey"? The actor does the same, but in a more sophisticated avatar, in "Badmaash Company" releasing Friday.
Produced and distributed by Yash Raj Films, the movie is actor Parmeet Sethi's directorial debut...
'Madholal Keep Walking' celebrates Mumbai's undying spirit: Swara Bhaskar
( Aug 21 2010 )
Shot in the real Mumbai of suburban trains and chawls and based on true life instances, "Madholal Keep Walking" is a tribute to the undying spirit of the Maximum City and its people, says Swara Bhaskar, who makes her acting debut with the film.
"Madholal...' is about a microcosm ...
'Hiding Divya' was a real challenge for Pooja Kumar
( Aug 21 2010 )
Upcoming Indian-American actress Pooja Kumar says she met the challenge of portraying a single mother raising a teenager in her new film "Hiding Divya", about the taboo of mental illness, by tapping into the fear of unknown.
"There were plenty of challenges and emotions to deal with...
James Cameron's 'Avatar' leaves audiences speechless
( Dec 18 2009 )
James Cameron may have placed this story on a moon called Pandora with alien characters (known as Na'vi) that could have belonged to human race if not being double the size, a longer face, sharper features, blue body, white fluorescent marks on the face and tail at the back.
Still, emotion...
'2012' roller-coaster ride into modern day Noah's Ark
( Nov 15 2009 )
By Subhash K. Jha
Will the world really end on December 21, 2012? Nobody has a clue. But thank god, the Mayan prophecy gave the makers of this solar-plexus-aimed colossal spectacle a chance to pull out all stops and design the greatest grandmother of all disaster epics.
Everything that we'...
Idiot is not the same thing as stupid: Aamir Khan
( Nov 05 2009 )
Ahead of the release of his new film "3 Idiots", Bollywood actor Aamir Khan Thursday drew a distinction between the term "idiots" and "stupid", saying that "idiots are very normal persons" who at some point prove themselves in an "unconventional way&quo...
Now Hugh Jackman to star in a musical
( Aug 04 2009 )
After being seen in sci-fi thriller "X-Men", actor Hugh Jackman is all set to do a musical.
He will be seen as American showman, businessman and entertainer P.T. Barnum in "The Greatest Showman on Earth", a contemporary song-and-dance movie.
The fil...
Paparazzi have become more aggressive, says Cameron Diaz
( Jan 03 2010 )
Cameron Diaz thinks she is pursued more "aggressively" by the paparazzi now than she was when she first shot to fame in 1994.
The actress insists she accepts people will always be interested in her life while she is in the public eye, but thinks photographers have become more aggres...
Veteran actor-filmmaker Clint Eastwood has refused to mark his 80th birthday next year and has banned his wife from getting him any gifts.
The Oscar-winner, who will turn 80 in May, is hoping no one tries to throw him a party, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
"Once you get in the 70s, s...
