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 [...]

Film: “Darling”; Music: Himesh Reshammiya, Pritam Chakraborty, Prasana Shekhar; Singers: Himesh Reshammiya, Tulsi Kumar, Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Adnan Sami, Priyadarshini; Rating: *** Ram Gopal Verma, for whom the music of his film was once a subject of concern, returns back from his musical sojourn in his latest offering ‘Darling’. In this project he unites with [...]

Film: “Chak de India”; Music Director: Salim Suleiman; Rating: **1/2 “Chak De India”, a much-awaited Yash Raj Film starring Shah Rukh Khan, is set to hit the screens but the music isn’t really making waves. Composer duo Salim-Suleiman have not done anything extraordinary or exciting. A pretty good track to start the album with is [...]

Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy; Ratings: *** Sajid Khan’s debut film’s promos are out and going by the looks, the movie seems to be fun, youthful and full of energy like that of his sister Farha Khan’s directorial debut “Main Hoon Na”. And the music is not far behind as Khan has roped in Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy for the [...]

Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty, Imran; Lyrics: Ali Khan; Rating: ** Teenybopper’s fantasies galore as another refreshing youth oriented flick KAISE KAHE hits marquee this year after the soft “n” squashy MP3. If debutant Ashu-Dhruv “cool” music proved tantalizing and alluring in MP3 then this time Pritam’s heart-throbbing classical westernized rock mode music is all set [...]

Music Director: Sukhwinder Singh; Lyrics: Babu Singh Mann; Rating: ** Dealing with the global issue of illegal immigration and based on the Malta boat tragedy, not much in the way of expectations were present for the ‘Kaafila’ audio. Yes, one does expect some pining-for-homeland compositions, but that is about all! So, let us see what [...]

Music Director: Himesh Reshammiya; Lyrics: Sameer; Rating: ** Himesh Reshammiya, the multifarious musical prodigy who recently stole headlines for his maiden acting project is back with FEAR, a low profile crime thriller. Year 2007 has been mixed bag for him as his two albums NAMASTEY LONDON and AAP KAA SUROOR proved pure gold while rest [...]

Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy; Lyrics: Javed Akhtar (Hindi) and Willard Carroll (English); Rating: ** ‘Yes! It’s an S-E-L production so the music must be a very innovative and enjoyable listen!’ was my enthusiastic reaction to Marigold soundtrack, well in advance of even acquiring it. How many of you music fans reacted in a similar way? We [...]

Music Director: Vishal and Shekhar; Lyrics: Vishal, Panchhi Jalonvi and Kumaar; Rating: *** For the connoisseurs of commercial Bollywood filmy music, any musical offering from Anubhav Sinha has always been associated with high quality, full of feeling and in sync-with-time melodious music. Right from his debut movie, ‘Tum Bin’, which had some classy, chart conquering [...]