If you’ve seen Godfather and Kalyug and read the Mahabharat or seen the original one as a serial, you have pretty much covered Rajneeti in sum total. Interesting in parts, predictable in most, pacy in parts, tedious in most, with hackneyed dialogues and characterization.  The positive is clearly fine acting. Arjun Ramphal enact his parts well. The direction is crisp, the story per se is weak. It... 

The hype of Kites, gets to it. What we are promised, by the Bollywood machinery, we don’t get. This one plays out like a Mahesh Bhatt film, set on the scale of a Rakesh Roshan production.  There seems to be some confusion as Bollywood tries hard, a bit too much, to reach out to Hollywood, and gets somewhat jarred in between. Firstly the strengths and there are many. The direction is of top notch... 

Prince represents a cut and paste of most of the action packed films of Tom Cruise and Mat Damon. The makers seem to run it like a video game. Plenty of action, some fine sequences which are lifted straight from Hollywood and no story or at the very least, a lame one of the hero trying to find who he really is and the audience trying to find, what the film is really all about. It is best seen and... 

Watching Teen Patti is like going to the restaurant with the best reputation and being served food with the finest ingredients, that has been very badly cooked, because the cook does not know what to do with the raw materials and the resources at her disposal. Take Ben Kingsley, Amitabh, along with fine individual performances by Madhavan, Shraddha Kapoor, Dhruv Ganesh and Siddharth Kher and you have... 

Rann goes into a different and interesting subject matter territory…that of the Media, both it’s explosive influence on the Indian way of life, it’s pressures and also the it’s evolution from the medium of information and preservation of a democracy, to becoming a full fledged business operation. By it’s very subject matter, by the wonderful performances by Rajat Kapoor, Suchitra Krishnamurty... 

This is indeed the age of the Indian American /Anglo Indian, musician. While across the pond called the Atlantic, Jay Sean is making waves, on this side, we have Jason Joseph, whose singles, One Man and Just Move, are quickly moving this one man, into the upper echelons of the American music scene. If it hadn’t been the case of getting bored doing his desk time, as a Computer Engineer, Jason might... 

When the audience walked out of Madhur’s FASHION, last year, two performances were remembered most, those of Ashwin and Kitu. No mean task when you take a film that was full of topnotch acting and actors. And if that was not enough, Ashwin recently played the NRI Sikh to perfection in N. Chandra’s Yeh Mera India, a character that has never been portrayed accurately in the past, in Hindi films,... 

What else can you call someone who is an actor, a singer, a Stand Up performer and if that is not enough, also an entrepreneur. Ash Chandler, defied logic by showing up as a NRI in Mumbai, India, some years ago, the showing up was not where logic got topsy turvy, but how he embraced the city, which instantly made him one of it’s own, is a path no NRI artist before, and few after, have traversed....