Morning Walk Movie Review

This is a movie (directed by Arup Dutta) which should have been half an hour shorter. It isn’t just the song and dance in this film which is  irrelevant, quite a few of the dialogues seem fake…and the acting is mostly bad.
The film is about two lovers who meet when they are much older and [...]

Kambakht Ishq Movie Review

I watched this movie despite dire warnings from reviewers. This is not a movie that I have reviewed for one my clients, I watched it for myself. No one forced me to see this movie, in fact I had to persuade someone to go with me. I saw it because of the bad reviews. I [...]

Star Trek (2009) movie review

It felt good to be on the USS Enterprise again, even if it was just for a few hours. The names of Captain Jim Kirk, Spock, Scottie, Sulu and Bones were music to the ears. Every moment of the movie was a thrill for a Star Trek fan like me. Grew up in the seventies [...]

Mi Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy Movie Review

Mee Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy (It’s me, Shivajiraje Bhosale speaking) is a blockbuster! Released early this month, this Marathi film, written by Mahesh Manjrekar of Astitva fame, and directed by Santosh Manjrekar is running to packed houses.
I liked it. It’s entertaining. It has a message. Rather, many messages. And it’s not a hate movie, far from it. [...]

Videsh Movie Review

Videsh is a film about domestic violence. However there is a deeper meaning to the movie. The director (Deepa Mehta) attempts to show that even the most vulnerable people can summon up an inner strength to fight injustice, and that violence need not always beget violence. To explore this idea Mehta uses a metaphor from [...]

Firaaq Movie Review

Firaaq (separation) is a docu-drama of the immediate aftermath of 2002 Gujarat riots. We are taken into the lives of a multitude of characters, both rich and poor, and shown how the riots impact their lives. The movie, despite it being a docu-drama, moves at an even clip and makes you feel in a way [...]

Delhi 6 movie review

Delhi 6 makes old Delhi come alive. The narrow bylanes, the havelis (old style houses) and the way people talk and act feels very authentic, although apparently the director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra shot most of the movie in Sambar, (near Jaipur, Rajasthan) which is similar to Old Delhi.
What I liked about the movie is [...]

Slumdog Millionaire Review and the Amitabh Bachchan controversy

Slumdog Millionaire is a love story rather than a story about India’s poverty. Yes, the poverty is there constantly, hanging like a noose around Jamal’s neck. Poverty is the backdrop of the movie, and the director, Danny Boyle, uses every possible aspect of Indian poverty that he knows to make this story come alive.
The movie [...]

Chandni Chowk to China – Movie review

Even if we expect a no-brainer, this movie is a disappointment. A mindless movie can carry itself along if it is tumultuous enough and funny enough but CC2C isn’t. This is a slapstick comedy, but the jokes are stale. Worse, many scenes seem to stretch on endlessly and one wishes the director would get on [...]

Top Ten movies of 2008

This list is a personal one and as I have not been able to see many of the films I wished to, particularly the English ones, this list will remain very subjective.  Where English movies are concerned, all the best ones are not released in India and even when they are, most of the time [...]

Best movies of all time (tag)

I was tagged by Lallopallo for a movie tag to list my favourite films alphabetically (quite a while ago) and write why I liked them. I delayed doing this tag and was promptly tagged by Sahaja. I have been mulling over this tag for a while as there are a lot of films which I’ve [...]

Dostana Movie Review

This is a one of those mindless comedies which could have been more entertaining if it hadn’t been for the insensitive and stereotypical portrayal of gays. The producers have gone on record saying that it is just a comedy and that the subject has been handled sensitively but this is debatable.
The movie is about two [...]