Street Dancers and Rule Breakers often have dance face-offs which Inayat’s group wins, but then she returns with her head covered to her conservative Muslim family.

Street Dancer 3D Movie Review: Simple film made grand by its rousing finale

Till now, dance and talent reality shows relied on a heavy dose of filmy drama to catch our attention and keep us engaged.

25 Jan 2020 3:37 AM

In Panga, that dream, that yearning, is pivoted on real talent and achievements and is nurtured by more than just self-belief. It is cradled by a supporting family.

Panga Movie Review: Team Panga, take a thigh-five

One half of Panga is devoted to reminiscing and yearning for the life left behind.

25 Jan 2020 3:32 AM

It is to the film’s credit that it manages to turn even this act of saving a widow from burning herself over her husband’s pyre into some sort of evil design.

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior - Thrilling action flick marred by twisted agenda

The broad outlines of the story are true and based on the Battle of Sinhagad that took place on the night of February 4, 1670.

11 Jan 2020 1:18 AM

The writers have not so much cast Deepika as Laxmi, but have cast Laxmi, the girl who wanted to compete in Indian Idol, as a Bollywood heroine.

Chhapaak movie review: Brave and significant, but also very filmy

One reason for that, of course, is that in the patriarchal priority list, women’s sexual violation is a blot on the khandan, acid attack not quite.

11 Jan 2020 1:14 AM

On certain family occasions in the film, this outer ring tightens to stifle the inner one, which consists of the husband and wife.

Good Newwz movie review: Baap kaun? Doesn’t really matter

In Good Newwz, this audacious message sits inside two circles, or in the womb of the small circle crouching inside a larger one.

28 Dec 2019 2:15 AM

Salman Khan is physically very stiff or he has a terrible case of piles.

Dabangg 3 movie review: Chulbul Pandey is dead! Long live Chulbul Pandey!

Irritating other people’s crotches gives this dim Chulbul many jollies.

22 Dec 2019 7:05 AM

Mardaani 2’s last scene, powered by Rani Mukherji’s superb acting as she channels her character’s raw rage, is iconic.

Mardaani 2 movie review: Powerful performances that dip into our rage

Mardaani 2 is short, and its very clever editing adds tension, pace and heightens suspense.

14 Dec 2019 1:42 AM

Pati Patni Aur Woh, written by Kamleshwar and directed by B.R. Chopra, starred Sanjeev Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Ranjeeta and oodles of raunchy, forbidden fun.

Pati Patni aur Woh movie review: A rather dull remake of a lewd affair

This Pati Patni Aur Woh, set in Kanpur, 2019, has a mild twist in terms of the characters.

07 Dec 2019 1:29 AM

Panipat’s story is narrated by the voiceover of a lady. She’s not Bharat Mata, yet she could very well be.

Panipat - The Great Betrayal movie review: Rewriting historical defeats with patriotic fervour

In a month’s time we’ll have Om Raut’s Tanhaji, where Ajay Devgn will slip into long dresses to portray Shivaji’s military commander.

07 Dec 2019 1:22 AM

It’s a love story with a kink — one that gives “take a piece of me” stunning new meaning.

Aamis (The Ravening) movie review: A plateful of succulent taboos

Aamis, Hazarika’s second feature film, is a much more audacious and difficult film to pull off.

23 Nov 2019 2:02 AM

The film’s climax is dull because in Indian films people don’t like to just kill their main enemy.

Marjaavaan movie review: A stinky dustbin of ’80s Bollywood

The film, directed and hardly written by Milap Milap Zaveri, has everything borrowed from the worst of Bollywood of that trashy era.

16 Nov 2019 12:38 AM

The story of Motichoor Chaknachoor is simple but its plot is full of gentle little twists and turns that surprise, delight and take the film in unexpected directions.

Motichoor Chaknachoor movie review: Shaadi ki story — It’s about the quibbling family

The film’s main story — of a boy and a girl — is rather dull for a long time, and comes alive right at the end.

16 Nov 2019 12:36 AM

Bala is a 131-minute long relentless joke, a string of lacerating, funny one-liners about the lack of hair, and the need to do all that’s humanly possible for their return.

Bala movie review: It’ll have you by the short and curlies

The voiceover of Baal jumps a decade-and-a-half to show us how its disappearance has impacted the same Bala (Ayushmann Khurrana).

09 Nov 2019 7:48 AM

Then there are scenes so clichéd and trite — especially the scenes in stadiums — that they make the film decidedly dumb.

Saand ki Aankh movie review: The feminist swag of sharp-shooting dadijis

The list of things wrong with director Tushar Hiranandani’s Saand Ki Aankh (Bull’s Eye) is long and annoying.

26 Oct 2019 1:26 AM

Meeting Maradona, finding Diego

Senna broke box-office records in the UK, but Amy beat Senna to become Britain’s highest grossing documentary of all time.

23 Oct 2019 2:37 AM

Wearing a red woollen jacket of the East India Company in North India’s kadakti garmi, Gosain (Saif Ali Khan), the Naga Sadhu, thankfully has his nether regions covered with a very tightly wrapped dhoti.

Laal Kaptaan movie review: Another star scratches his Jack Sparrow itch

The only two departments in this entire enterprise that were full of beans and oh-so-excited were costume and make-up.

19 Oct 2019 2:14 AM

The film, written by Bose, along with Juhi Chaturvedi and Nilesh Maniyar, tells a powerful, highly emotional real-life story quite badly.

The Sky Is Pink movie review: The cloying trappings of tragedy and guilt

Now imagine being told that the film, about a very young person's tragic death, is based on a true story.

12 Oct 2019 12:57 AM

Pairing Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff is the sort of casting coup that would have instantly sent YRF producers into uncontrollable, rapturous excitement.

War movie review: Surrender to the seduction of gorgeous

It’s supposed to be an in-joke, about Hrithik, Bollywood’s dancing-leaping hunk, making way for the similarly disposed and frenzied Tiger Shroff.

05 Oct 2019 1:49 AM

TIFF 2019 Diary: And the Oscar goes to…

The People’s Choice Award at the TIFF, given out on the last day and calculated on the basis of audience vote, went to Jojo Rabbit.

17 Sep 2019 2:26 AM

TIFF 2019: The stylish and cool madness of Takashi Miike

Blood flows easy and often in Miike films, as does dark humour.

14 Sep 2019 6:51 PM

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