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 [...]

Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Singers: Shankar Mahadevan, Neeraj Shridhar, Alisha Chinai, Zubeen, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Vishal Dadlani, Vasundhara Das, KK and Sukhvinder Singh Rating: *** “Jhoom Barabar Jhoom” marks a new high in the career of music director trio Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. Here they experiment with a new [...]

Music Director: Ilayaraja Singers: Shreya Ghoshal, Vijay Prakash Ratings: *** Ilayaraja comes to Bollywood to experiment and ends up creating an amazing album. With seven tracks to boast about, including two instrumental numbers, the soundtrack of “Cheeni Kum” is music to the ears. Recommended to all, especially, those who’re great classical music fans and those [...]

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 [...]

Director: Apoorva Lakhia; Music : Anand Raj Anand, Mika Singh, Biddu; Lyrics : Dev Kohli, Dr. Palash Sen, Mika Singh, Sanjay Gupta; Rating: ** Sanjay Gupta honed the spark and glint of internationally branded musical formats into his style of action potboilers with grand success. The upbeat trend continued in his last releases and now [...]

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 [...]

Director : Prashant Chadha; Music : Himesh Reshammiya; Lyrics : Sameer; Rating: ***  20 soundtracks! 1 male vocalist cum composer! This turns out to be pinnacle of all endeavors for Sufi megalomaniac Himesh Reshammiya as he dazzles bright with blistering rocking tracks and smolders out sentimentalism in couple of expressively passionate tracks. This finely blended [...]

Director: Ahmed Khan Music: Himesh Reshammiya; Lyrics: Sameer; Rating: ** Choreographer Ahmed Khan’s tryst with lustrous action packed thrillers continues with slick and stylish FOOL N FINAL after the catastrophic disaster of LAKEER. Earlier it was maestro A R Rehman’s stylized packed musical work in LAKEER that proved credible in its offerings and now the [...]