Bigg Boss 8

SCANDAL Nahi FARCE hai! No stars Mini Review: What starts out as a horror mystery story of a dad who talks to his dead child turns into a hilarious sexual escapade for not one or two characters, but all of them. Hilarious because they are not feeling it, but looking into the camera and acting out orgasms with lots of help from attempted orgasmic sounds. Main Review: Manav Kaul, whatever inspired…

SHOLA JO SULGE… 2 stars Mini Review: A mix of Hindi and Marathi (with English subtitles) Ek Albela chronicles the life of Bhagwan Dada who gave Bollywood’s megastars like Amitabh Bachchan their dancing style, and many, many hit songs like ‘Shyam dhale kidki tale’ and ‘Shola jo bhadke’… It’s made with not too much finesse, but the likeness of actors of yesteryears is uncanny, and gives cinephiles…

Review: INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE

Dead Upon Resurrection 1 STAR Mini Review: ‘Today we celebrate our Independence Day!’ Bill Pullman had announced, many many years ago, and cinema audiences loved him and loved Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith. This time too the same aliens are back, and the same old tactic is employed with the same old special effects. You wonder, why re-make the story and call it ‘Resurgence’? Main Review: So man…

Review: RAMAN RAGHAV 2.0

What A Ride To Your Seamier Side! 3 STARS Mini Review: Anurag Kashyap delivers a gritty, grimy, gut-wrenching story of opposites in order to tell you that they’re not really so. Takes a while to come to the point, but you understand why it is so difficult to edit out stuff that is so deliciously dark. The opposites played by Vicky Kaushal and Nawazuddin Siddiqui are so equally ugly, you know the…

‘Ganvesh zhala ka mahal?’ (Buying Uniform Or A Bungalow?) 3 stars Mini Review: The sooty eyelashes of the little boy are unable to hide a hopelessness brought on by poverty and realisation that opportunity to make a speech before the entire village and the minister will slip out of his hands… Unless he gets a new school uniform. Main Review: ‘He has never asked us for anything, and this speech at…

Review: KERRY ON KUTTON

This Balia Ain’t Malgudi! 2 stars Mini Review: Remember the British Comedy Films in the ‘Carry On’ series? This film attempts just that with Balia bumpkins and serves a comedy that happily takes you into darker realms. The dialog and situations are very funny in parts, the characters are beautifully cast, but a better director would not allowed the film to meander all over the village. If you are…

BRAINS GUL ½ star Mini Review: Do you have nothing better to do than watch a story about a small town burning and killing and raping people over religion? Can you be so bored that you could watch cliches in character and dialog? Then this movie might satisfy you and give you the despair you are craving for. Main Review: Ashutosh Rana plays the Good Chowdhary with moochs that rival the best you…

Review: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

This Legend Should Have Remained Just That2 stars Mini Review: This retelling of the Tarzan story is so tedious, you can throw darts at the bad guys, because you know which one is going to die next. Jane is as important as what’s-her-name in Transformers. The CGI gorillas should have stayed in the mist… Main Review: We grew up having read Edgar Rice Burroughs who created the legend of Tarzan in…

Bhai version of Brothers 2 stars Mini Review: Sultan was the most anticipated film of the year: Salman Khan’s Eid release, Yash Raj films and Aditya Chopra’s blessings to the Director Ali Abbas Jafar. But what starts out to be a promising romance between sportspersons (both Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma are wrestlers) soon dives headlong into a horribly predictable tale badly told. How the…

Review: THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

Pets Just Wanna Have Fun!3.5 starsMini Review:This movie is everything the trailer promises and more! Funny, witty, and delightful, it won’t make you feel guilty about leaving your pets home alone while you go out to work every day. Trust me, these pets are wickedly funny. Main Review:Let me admit to this right now. We’ve always had a pet or two or three in my family. And I’m happily immune to…

Review: GREAT GRAND MASTI

Na Sex Hai, Na Comedy. This Bhoot Tale Is Not Titillating! 1 star Mini Review: Amar, Meet and Prem are back on the screen with the third instalment of their almost sexcapade. This time the story is set in a haunted house. But no matter what the setting is, the comedy remains shallow: the jokes do not go beyond buxom women and male genitalia. It could have been very funny had they aimed at ‘Carry…

Review: ICE AGE COLLISION COURSE

Strictly for Kiddies. Tiresome For Grown Ups 2 stars Mini Review: Scrat the sabre toothed squirrel has managed set off the continental drift, fall in love with a female squirrel and usher in the age of the dinosaurs,  started the meltdown as well all in order to save that precious acorn… Frankly, someone got fed up and sent him off to space so we won’t have to see him again. But he sets off a…

Kahaani Ki Bali! 2 stars Mini Review: Rajinikant is such a phenomenon today that he now has to live up to that larger than life persona in the movies as well. He cannot be shown eating pakodas at a roadside stall, calling the baddies and saying, ‘parashakti hero da!’ or be shown beating up politicians who insult his sister while his auto rickshaw driver friends watch in awe or even drunk dance…

Review: STAR TREK BEYOND

Not an ordinary trek, but an action-packed roller-coaster ride! 3.5 stars Mini Review: The Enterprise and its fabulous crew are back in a crackling, action-packed adventure in a nebula far far away. And this time the villains are so scary and so bad, they destroy everything we love about Star Trek movies. But can they keep the good guys down? Main Review: Pick up your popcorn and other treats…

Stupidathon ½ star Mini Review: A pretentious little film that’s so cliche ridden, you wish the four friends who have set out for the hills in search of a ‘legendary’ drug to smoke up, fall off some cliff. Main Review: ‘This film is about drugs and alcohol, but it will be in ‘art’ space.’ The moment that is decided, then you also know the fate of the four protagonists of the film whose stories…

Too Loud, Too Long And Too Melodramatic To Be Anything More Than Mildly Interesting. 2.5 stars Mini Review: An eye for an eye to get the corrupt politicians to own up to their mistakes, is a great idea. And we don’t doubt that Irrfan Khan is able to carry the movie on his shoulders alone. But once you know the ‘eye for an eye’ motive, the thrill wears off and you labor through the how is he going…

Not ‘Bad Moms’ But ‘Bad Script’ 1.5 stars Mini Review: If you are not the perfect mom, then you must be bad. And not just bad, you have to be vodka swilling, lecherous woman whose home should be in a perpetual mess. It’s a great idea gone so wrong, the combined talents of Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn and Christina Applegate cannot save the film. Main Review: Mila Kunis the…