Writer-director Amar Butala’s first movie Kudiyon Ka Hai Zamaana is like a poor man’s version of ‘Sex And The City’. The movie is supposed to be a lighthearted comedy sprinkled with some tear-jerking moments. But it neither makes you laugh, nor moves you emotionally. Yes, it does titillate a bit, thanks to Mahima Chaudhary and [...]

Film: “I See You”; Cast: Arjun Rampal, Vipasha, Chunky Pandey, Kirron Kher; Director: Vivek Aggarwal; Rating: * Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan flit across the screen during the credit titles of “I See You”. They were being kind. Dress designer Manish Malhotra has the easiest job in this quaint but dead film about a [...]

Vinod Chopra’s Ek Lavya – The Royal Guard, has received a U certificate from the Censor Board without a single cut. A contemporary dramatic action thriller, the film is about Eklavya, loyal guardian of a royal dynasty whose duty is to protect the erstwhile royal family in Devigarh, Rajasthan. This grand multi-star cast film with [...]

  “I am tired of shouting over the rooftops that my film Om Shanti Om is not a remake of Karz”, said Farah Khan.   Following the success of her directorial debut Main Hoon Na, she is all set to begin her next film Om Shanti Om. The film stars Farah’s good friend Shah Rukh [...]

  Film: “Bhagam Bhag”; Cast: Govinda, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Jackie Shroff; Director: Priyadarshan In a Priyadarshan comedy, one is always comforted in the chaos of colliding characters by the thought that somewhere in the on-going blizzard of bacchanalia there’s a rhythm and a rationale. It’s that thought which keeps you [...]

  Film: “Kabul Express”; Cast: Arshad Warsi, John Abraham, Salman Shahid, Hanif Hum Ghum and Linda Arsenio; Director: Kabir Khan; Ratings: *** First thing first – director Kabir Khan’s directorial debut will not appeal to those looking for candyfloss kind of entertainment. But one should see it for its absorbing intricacies and intelligent narration. It [...]

  Film: “Aryan: The Unbreakable”; Cast: Sohail Khan, Sneha Ullal and Inder Kumar; Director: Abhishek Kapoor; Rating: * 1/2 Sometimes the heart is in the right place. But the spirit meanders. And you end up watching a film that makes all the right moves and yet fails to move the audience. Though it calls itself [...]

  “Baabul”; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan, John Abraham, Om Puri, Sarika; Director: Ravi Chopra; Rating: * 1/2 When you have everything going for you, including a top star-cast and a powerful socially relevant theme, it isn’t easy to mess things up. But “Baabul” does exactly that. Just why or how [...]

“With Love… Tumhara”; Cast: Nakul Vaid, Preeti Jhangiani, Parveen Dabas, Anupama Verma and Sharat Saxena; Director: Kamal D. Nathani; Rating: *1/2 Love is…an unread diary. War-widow Preeti Jhangiani (didn’t she play one in her debut film “Mohabbatein”) gets down to read her dead soldier-lover’s diary. Half a sentence later, there’s an electricity failure. The diary [...]

  Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Uday Chopra; Rating: *** Clever … very clever. That’s the impression you come away with from this sumptuous package of gloss, glamour, glitter and oomph quotient. If you’ve seen the first instalment of “Dhoom”, you would know Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra carry forward their [...]