Cast: Shabana Azmi, Ayesha Dharker, Jameel Khan, Darshan Jariwala, Manish Acharya, Seema Rahmani; Director: Manish Acharya; Rating: *** “Are you ashamed to be seen with me?”, the only white -American contestant in the all-desi US-based music contest asks his strictly-brown girlfriend Ayesha Dharker. And you wonder, not for the first time during the nimble narration, [...]

 Cast: Abhay Deol, Sarika, Raima Sen, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Vinay Pathak, Gul Kirat Panag, Brijendra Kale, Jogiji; Director: Navdeep Singh; Rating: *** Manorama – Six Feet Under starts on a promising note. Abhay Deol is Satyaveer Singh (SV), a PWD engineer. He likes to write in his spare time and dreams of becoming a famous writer [...]

Cast: Bobby Deol, Katrina Kaif, child artiste Dwij; Director: Samir Karnik; Rating: ** Nanhe (Yadav) is a precocious ten-year-old who is lives in Rajasthan and is the sole bread-winner for his family. He is also die-hard fan of super star (!) Bobby Deol and has his sister write to the actor everyday. One day he [...]

Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Koena Mitra, Shreyas Talpade, Vikas Kalantri; Director: Anant Mahadevan; Rating: ** Janvi (Udita Goswami) is a woman whose life seems perfect on the surface. She runs a business, is married to a psychiatrist Dr Adi Merchant (Shreyas Talpade). Enter Aryan (Tusshar Kapoor) who joins Janvi’s company. She gets drawn towards Aryan. Soon [...]

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Shobana, Anupam Kher, Rajat Kapoor, Dhruv Piyush Panjnani, Utkarsha Naik, Nassar Abdulla, Barkha Singh; Director: Kaushik Roy; Rating: *** Watching Apna Asmaan came as a refreshing break from the usual big budget extravaganzas churned out every week The film opens with an urban, middle class couple struggling to come to terms with [...]

 Cast: Fardeen Khan, Esha Deol, Isha Koppikar, Zakir Hussain; Director: Ram Gopal Varma; Rating: * 1/2 A philandering husband Aditya Soman (Fardeen Khan) finds himself in a soup when he accidentally kills his ‘other woman’ Gita Menon (Esha Deol) after a night of passion. Despite all efforts to put the mishap behind him, he finds [...]

 Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ritesh Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Sharman Joshi, Tiku Talsania, Asrani, Javed Jaffrey, Aashish Chaudhary, Murli Sharma, Sohail Khan, Aftab Shivdasani; Director: Indra Kumar; Rating: *** His Masti and Pyare Mohan were about male bonding, and director Indra Kumar repeats himself again in his latest, Dhamaal. Starring Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh and Ashish Chowdhry, [...]

Cast: Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergill, Preeti Jhangiani, Sonia Mehra, Kamal Sadanah, Javed Jaffrey; Director: Anant Mahadevan; Rating: * Victoria No.203 directed by Anand Mahadevan is a fun-filled, light comic. The movie is a remake of 1992′s movie under the same title which was a huge success then. With the same story will the [...]

Cast: Muzammil Ibrahim,Tulip Joshi,Anupam Kher,Gulshan Grover,Ashutosh Rana,Anupam Shyam,Vineet Kumar; Director:  Pooja Bhatt; Rating: *** Not every potential terrorist belongs to one particular community. Yes, it sounds like a brutally vulgar adage in this day and age of murderous rage. The man who violates your privacy and right to expression, or the woman who uses the [...]

 Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Mohanlal, Ajay Devgan, Prashant Raj Sachdev, Nisha Kothari, Sushmita Sen, Sushant Singh, Rajpal Yadav, Gaurav Kapoor, Urmila Matondkar, Abhishek Bachchan; Director: RGV; Rating: * Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag tells the story of a certain Inspector Narsimha (Mohanlal) who takes on one of the dreaded underworld dons – Babban (Amitabh). Needless to [...]