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, [...]

Album: “Manorama”; Music: Jayesh Gandhi and Raiomond Mirza; Rating: ** It’s rare to come across an album which has a collection of only soothing tracks. Also, it’s not always important to have a variety which caters to all genres of music. Manorama Six Feet Under, which boasts of a bunch of unconventional actors, seems to [...]

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 [...]

Album: “Mummy ji”; Music: Aadesh Srivastava; Rating: * Aadesh Srivastava has for long been at the helm of delivering some great music, be it Baabul, Dev or even Chalte Chalte. But then he has also been responsible for duds like Saawan- The love Season and Husn amongst a host of others. After composing the score [...]

 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 [...]

Album: “Nanhe Jaisalmer”; Music: Himesh Reshammiya; Rating: ** Decades back Dharmendra starred in Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed Guddi, as himself. The film’s theme revolved around a girl, played by Jaya Bhaduri who was fascinated by the superstar. More than 35 years later, Bobby Deol too enacts a similar role, though this time, the girl is replaced [...]

 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 [...]