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... 

How likely is it that a family moves from Pune, India to Southern United States, probably has very little to do with the entertainment world, and yet their offspring chooses a career in acting and starts off by being in an Oscar winning short film, the West Bank Story? Very likely, if you are Noureen Dewulf and like to challenge yourself every so often. Noureen has since gone on to play varied characters... 

A couple of months back, Siddharth Kumar’s Semshook, played to critical acclaim at the San Jose Film Festival, Cinequest. Siddharth had earlier made the very likeable and different, Let’s Enjoy. Here we catch up with Siddharth, his wife, actress Roshni Chopra and the writer of the film, Sudip Sharma. What was the motivation for making this film, an Indian living in Bollywood, making a film which... 

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... 

In any human endeavor, it is rarely about the individual, but more the contribution of a team, that is the defining factor between what is achieved and what could have been. Continuing with our count towards the conceptualization, execution and the march towards the release of SOCH LO, we profile the first team member who came on board, the Director of Photography (DOP), Sandeep Patil. The people... 

FADE IN: EXT & INT: The Man Who Dreamt And The Man Who Dared! Bollywood has some of the most difficult barriers, mostly built by it’s self enacted gatekeepers, in any industry in any part of the globe. Filmi families, old school thinking, star fascination despite incurring a loss of Rs 3500 crore in 2009, casting couch, irrational thought processes, etc, etc. The higher the barriers, the greater... 

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...