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: "Housefull"; Starring: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Riteish Deshmukh; Directed by: Sajid Khan; Rating: ***
This is a sly tongue firmly and stubbornly in cheek, slick and chic comedy about a loser, or a panauti - a word that ...
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...
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Hum Tum Aur Ghost"; Cast: Arshad Warsi, Dia Mirza, Sandhya Mridul, Boman Irani; Director: Kabir Kaushik; Rating: ** 1/2
The sheer delight of watching Arshad Warsi play the lead rather the supremely self-assured sidekick gives this otherwise pale romantic comedy ...
By Joginder Tuteja
Film: "Love Sex Aur Dhokha"; Cast: Anshuman Jha, Shruti, Raj Kumar Yadav, Neha Chauhan, Arya Devdutta, Herry Tangri, Amit Sial; Director: Dibakar Banerjee; Rating: ***
The million dollar question making the rounds is - Does "Love Sex Aur Dhokha" have a story?...
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Teen Patti"; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley, R. Madhavan, Raima Sen, Sarah Mohan, Mita Vashist; Director: Leena Yadav; Rating: ***1/2
If you can get over the ludicrousness of a distinguished mathematician, whose god is Albert Einstein and who at the end of ...
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Toh Baat Pakki"; Cast: Tabu, Ayub Khan, Vatsal Seth, Sharman Joshi; Director: Kedar Shindre; Rating: *
It's "Click" that's meant to be this week's horror flick. But "Toh Baat Pakki" is a bigger horror than anything in any recent we...
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Striker"; Cast: Siddharth, Padma Priya, Nicolette Bird, Ankur Vikal, Aditya Pancholi, Seema Biswas, Rajendra Gupta and Vidya Malvade; Director: Chandan Arora; Rating: ***
"Striker", as we can well see, was not an easy film to make. It's not an easy ...
By Subhash K. Jha
Movie: "Veer"; Directed by: Anil Sharma; Starring: Mithun Chakraborty, Salman Khan, Neena Gupta, Sohail Khan, Zarine Khan.
"Veer" is one of those intended epics that goes wrong. Horribly wrong.
Director Anil Sharma had combined history and kitsch with compe...
By Arpana
A new breed of filmmakers is now busy turning the tables on the fourth estate with movies like "Paa" and "Rann". Incidentally, both star Amitabh Bachchan who often takes potshots at the media in real life.
Promos of director Ram Gopal Varma's "Rann" clea...
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Pyaar Impossible"; Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Uday Chopra, Dino Morea; Director: Jugal Hansraj; Rating: **
Pair impossible? You bet! Uday Chopra as the geek in love and Priyanka Chopra as the unattainable self-declared 10-on-10 beauty is a bit of a long shot.
But i...
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Dulha Mil Gaya"; Cast: Sushmita Sen, Shah Rukh Khan, Fardeen Khan, Ishita Sharma; Director: Mudassar Aziz; Rating: * 1/2
There is only one reason why this hideous satire gone awry can be tolerated for a bit. Sushmita Sen playing the broadly satirical and hugely s...
Cast: Rishi Bhutani, Padmini Kolhapure, Om Puri, Disha Pandey, Rajpal Yadav, Govind Namdeo and Naseeruddin Shah
Director: Rakesh Chaturvedi
"Bolo Raam" can be compared to thriller "Aamir", which starred Rajeev Khandelwal. With newcomer Rish...
Cast: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
By now, Aamir Khan has hit so many sixers in his career that we can only wonder what this maestro of marketing intends to do next. For sure, "3 Idiots" is yet another vehicle to showca...
By Joginder Tuteja
Film: "Radio"; Cast: Himesh Reshammiya, Shenaz Treasuryvala, Sonal Sehgal; Director: Ishaan Trivedi; Rating: **
"Radio" starts off in a way similar to "Love Aaj Kal", just like the Saif Ali Khan-Deepika Padukone film began with a br...
By Arpana
Film: "Paa"; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal; Director: R. Balakrishnan; Rationg ** 1/2
When a director takes a road less travelled, it means risk and challenges. Director R. Balakrishnan's "Paa" journey was difficult but he ...
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Kurbaan"; Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Kirron Kher; Director: Rensil d'Silva; Rating: ****
"When a bomb explodes, mainly the innocent die," says Vivek Oberoi towards the finale when, to put it at the most basic level, ...
By Subhash K Jha
The Mahesh Bhatt formula of live-in relationships, splintered alliances, disastrous adventures in the big bad city and corruption in hyped places, has completely run out of steam with "Tum Mile".
A pointless saga of two soggy souls caught in Mumbai's rains who kno...
"Aao Wish Karein" is a sweet and simple film with its heart in place. For a fantasy film set in contemporary times, producer Aftab Shivdasani and director Glen Baretto concentrate on keeping the narrative simple rather than relying upon visual effects (VFX).
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By Subhash K. Jha
Film: "Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani"; Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif; Director: Rajkumar Santoshi; Rating: ***
If you've ever wondered what on earth is on-screen chemistry, here's your one-stop all-purpose encyclopaedia on celluloid magic.
Fasten your seat be...
