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Movie Reviews
Dev movie review: Karthi-Rakul starrer is dry, predictable and unengaging
Debutant director Rajath struggles to translate his vision on to the screen. The only saving grace is Karthi.
16 Feb 2019 12:54 PM
Gully Boy movie review: Totally dope!!
Every generation gets a cool film that speaks of and to their angst. And our desi millennials have been gifted theirs by Zoya Akhtar.
16 Feb 2019 1:53 AM
Gully Boy movie review: Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt elevate Zoya Akhtar's nuanced drama
While this kind of story feels a bit familiar, its excellent music & sense of realism along with the fine performances make up for it.
14 Feb 2019 11:13 AM
Fakir Of Venice movie review: An art con flick that is 10 years too late
From a monkey to a pink elephant, his forte seems to be the man who can deliver just anything.
09 Feb 2019 2:21 AM
Natasaarvabhowma movie review: High on ‘spirit’
It once again heavily rests on the presence and performance of the lead star actor without which the ordinary tale would have fallen flat.
07 Feb 2019 6:42 PM
Bird of Dusk takes an intimate look at a filmmaker and an icon
Bird of Dusk opens and closes with a Baul song, Bonomali timi poro jonome hoiyo Radha (Krishna, in your next birth come as Radha).
02 Feb 2019 2:13 AM
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga movie review: Tentative attempt to promote a bold idea!
This film takes a rom com take on a serious subject, and cautiously tries to tell us about a reality that many would tend to ignore.
02 Feb 2019 2:06 AM
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi movie review – Rani Laxmi Bai deserved better
If all the characters around Laxmi Bai in the movie had been replaced by cardboard cutouts, the viewing experience would be no different.
26 Jan 2019 12:32 AM
Manikarnika movie review: Kangana Ranaut shines in the underwhelming war drama
The film is a real pandering 'biopic', completely Bollywood-ised, overblown and simplified.
25 Jan 2019 1:00 PM
Bombairiya movie review: Bombairiya is confusion at its worst!
Bombairiya makes you feel that Mumbai is nothing but a disorderly chaotic mess with precious little variation.
19 Jan 2019 12:14 AM
Why Cheat India movie review: One is left wondering, why?
Hashmi may not be in his erstwhile mode of gangster-romantic-eternal lover that he has always played.
19 Jan 2019 12:14 AM
Uri - The Surgical Strike movie review: A fine film, even though it toadies up to powers that be
Kaushal carries the film almost single-handedly, raising the tempo and temperature, making us cry and, sometimes, smile.
12 Jan 2019 12:56 AM
The Accidental Prime Minister movie review: In His Majesty’s Ingratiating Service
Akshaye plays Baru with sumptuous deviousness, the sweaty-palm glee of a power-broker.
12 Jan 2019 12:55 AM
URI - The Surgical Strike movie review: A gripping and pulsating thriller
Lauding heroism in war movies is an easy sell to mass audiences but URI stays clear of jingoistic grandstanding or flag-waving patriotism.
11 Jan 2019 10:45 AM
Simmba movie review: Have some shame, Rohit Shetty!
Simmba’s story is pivoted on the rape of a moonh-boli-behen, but not as a crime to be dealt with, by the cops and the courts.
29 Dec 2018 12:14 AM
KGF Chapter 1 movie review: Solid Yash can’t salvage flimsy thriller!
There are scenes that are repetitive and overstretched.
22 Dec 2018 12:48 AM
Zero movie review: The daring & audacity of Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan has what the other Khans, Kumars, Devgns et cetera don’t have — he has daring.
22 Dec 2018 12:47 AM
Orange movie review: Ganesh turns orange to gold!
A simple plot keeps the audience laughing their hearts out at the cost of a misplaced identity.
08 Dec 2018 11:36 AM
Kedarnath movie review: A love story set at the altar of Hinduism
Kedarnath also tells a love story about a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy and sets it in one of the sanctum sanctorum of Hinduism.
08 Dec 2018 1:26 AM
Kedarnath movie review: Falls short to stir adequate emotions
The focus is largely on the romance between the lead pair and one must say that the chemistry between the couple is palpably cozy.
06 Dec 2018 9:00 PM
Columns
The Opposition parties have no choice but to break the temporary political truce that was forged at the all-party meeting.
All three have condemned terrorism in general terms but shown no evidence of berating Pakistani sponsorship of terror.
US withdrawal will leave the Taliban as the main organised force in the country.
The Pakistani deep state believes that over a period of four decades this strategy has paid them rich dividends.