Cast: Amitabh Bachchan,  Sanjay Dutt, Viveik Anand Oberoi, Tusshar Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Rohit Roy, Sammir Dattani, Shabbir Aluwalia; Music: Strings, Euphoria; Director: Apoorva Lakhia; Rating: **  This was easily the most awaited movie for me of this year till now. There was a scarcity of good action films since Kaante, Khaki, Qayamat and Musafir came. [...]

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Zohra Sehgal; Music: Illyaraja; Director:  R. Balakrishnan; Rating: ***   A thirtysomething unmarried Delhi woman visiting London falls for an Indian restaurant owner who’s older than her father. Romantic comedy-drama with Bollywood megastars Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu. Cheeni Kum translates from Hindi into English as ‘less sugar’. For those [...]

Director: Sanjay Khanduri; Cast: Abhay Deol, Neha Dhupia, Snehal Dhabi, Deepak Shirke; Rating: ** The tagline puts it across, “Dhaai ghante mein dhaai crore”—2.5 crores in 2.5 hours. Ek Challis Ki Last Local is uncertain, riotous with alarming twists thrown in to the plot. The film is directed by debuntante Sanjay Khanduri and stars Abhay [...]

Director: Anurag Singh; Cast: Rahul Khanna, Sharman Joshe, Jimmy Shargill, Tannushree Datta, Vivake shauq, Rekha Rao, Kishoree Shahne, Visvjeet Pradhan; Rating: ***   Raqeeb is a musical thriller – a roller coaster ride that hurtles from one twist to the next at breakneck speed. The story has many themes that are so different and yet so [...]

Banner: Mukta Arts Ltd; Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Isha Sharwani, Tanushree Datta; Director: Ashwini Chaudhary; Production: Subhash Ghai; Music: Himesh Reshammiya; Rating: ** Whoever said that GOOD BOY BAD BOY was a classic in the making? It was never meant to be. All the film aspired for was to bring on some humor in [...]

Cast: Shiny Ahuja, Shilpa Shetty, Konkona Sen Sharma, Irfan Khan; Director: Anurag Basu; Producer: Ronnie Screwvala; Music: Pritam; Rating: ***  This week’s big release is Life in a Metro. Frankly, I was a little wary of Metro. It seemed like yet another multiplex movie with multiple stories, too many tears and faux urban grit. But [...]

Cast: Nana Patekar, Rekha, Deepti Naval, Nakul Vaid; Director: Goutam Ghosh; Producer: Bipin Kumar Vohra; Music: Khayyam; Rating: ** Yatra, by art-house auteur Gautam Ghose is the literal and metaphorical journey of a hindi novelist who journeys to Delhi to pick up an award. On the train, he encounters a struggling film director who is [...]

Banner: Yash Raj Films; Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Shruti Seth; Director: Siddharth Anand; Producer: Aditya Chopra; Music: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani; Rating: *** Banks and credit card companies may not be too happy with writer-director Siddharth Anand, Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee. Together they propagate the trend of ‘buy-not-pay-later’ as bad. Installments [...]

Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Ayesha Takia,Kareena Kapoor; Director: Lovely Singh; Producer: N.R. Pachisia; Music: Pritam; Rating: * Post Raj Kapoor’s SANGAM, the concept of love triangles have been cycled and recycled over the decades. Debutante director Lovely Singh borrows everything from the shelf and comes up with a fare that has nothing new to say. Most [...]

Cast: Sunny Deol, Priyanka Chopra, Shahbaaz Khan, Sayaji Shinde; Director: Guddu Dhanoa; Producer: Guddu Dhanoa; Rating: * Sunny Deol’s latest but outdated film Big Brother is a painful throwback to the days when the heroes of Hindi films championed noble social causes by bashing and bumping the baddies. One must commend the optimism of the [...]