Cast: Rajveer, Neha Jhulka, Kunal Kumar and Shital Shah; Director: Mohit Hussain; Rating: * Sometimes interesting stories run out of steam if stretched beyond a point. That’s the problem with KAISAY KAHEIN, directed by Mohit Hussein. KAISAY KAHEIN looks at the problems faced by two young professionals in a metro. Sure, you identify with the [...]

 Cast: Vidya Balan, Fardeen Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Boman Irani, Akshay Kumar; Director: Sajid Khan; Rating: *** Heyy Babyy is a comic jape that has been produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and directed by director turned comedian Sajid Khan (Ekke Pe Ekka fame). The film stars Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Indian beauty Vidya Balan. [...]

Cast: Anupam Kher, Murli Sharma, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Rakhi Sawant, Ranvir Shorey; Director: Rahul Rawail; Rating: ** Though Rahul Rawail’s Buddha Mar Gaya has been passed uncut by the Censor Board, some members were apparently dumb struck by the film’s double entendres and crude undercurrents. But Anupam Kher, who plays a corpse throughout the [...]

 Cast: Salman Khan, Ali Larter, Nandana Sen,  Helen, Suchitra Pillai, Ian Bohen, Shari Watson, Vikas Bhalla, Vijayendra Ghatge, Kiran Juneja, Gulshan Grover, Rakesh Bedi, Roopak Saluja, Marc Allen Lewis, Lea Moreno Young; Director: Willard Carroll  Rating: * Marigold – An Adventure in India is riddled with all the clichés that could be seen in bad [...]

Cast: Pankaj Kapoor, Shreya Sharma; Director: Vishal Bharadwaj; Rating: **** Nothing can make you smile like a fable. The setting is as idyllic as can be. A small village up in Himachal Pradesh, one of those Malgudi-type worlds where everyone knows everyone else, where there is tremendous peace and harmony set against a breathtakingly beautiful [...]

 Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Malvade and 16 Girls; Director: Shimit Amin; Rating: ***1/2 Chak De! India is the basic, every-single-sports-movie story of a disgraced player, here called Kabir Khan, pulling together a team of misfits to do the impossible — here winning the World Championship. This is also a return to glory for Shah [...]

Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shah; Director: Feroz Abbas Khan; Rating: *** This week’s big new Bollywood release is director Feroz Abbas Khan’s Gandhi My Father, a film that sheds light on the fractured relationship between the Mahatma and his son Harilal Gandhi. For a story that’s as dramatic as the one this film [...]

Cast: Sunil Shetty, Dia Mirza, Ajay Devgan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, Shamita Shetty; Director: Anubhav Sinha; Rating: * Okay, I’ve got a question for you – what happens when a bad film does well? The answer to that is, more bad films get made. This week’s new release Cash is a perfect example [...]

Cast: Govinda, Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Lara Dutta, Dilip Tahil, Amey Pandya.; Director: David Dhawan; Rating: *** Here’s some serious shrink think. Why is Salman Khan named Sameer or Prem in every other film? And don’t look too deep. But David Dhawan’s films are predominantly about male bonding. If it was Govinda and Sanjay Dutt [...]

Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Bobby Deol, Urvashi Sharma, Raj Zutshi; Director: Abbas-Mustan; Rating: *** The thriller masters are back. And like every other time, apart from the usual gloss and glamour, it’s their trump card that gives them an edge – the script. Karan Khanna is a multi-million dollar business tycoon who falls in love with [...]