Love you to Death – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Chiman Salva DIRECTOR – Rafeeq Ellias WRITER – Rafeeq Ellias, Abhro Banerjee, Yuki Ellias, Pallu Newatia CAST – Chandan Roy Sanyal, Yuki Ellias, Suhasini Muley, Kallol Banerjee MUSIC – Ronit Chatterji In a world of materialism relationships find little place. It is somewhat this kind of eroded world that the Sinhas live in. Mother Sundari (Suhasini Mulay) and son Atul (Chandan...
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Gali Gali Chor Hain – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Nitin Manmohan, Sangeeta Ahir, Prakash Chandani, Sanjay Punamiya, Jitendra Jain, Vijay Jain DIRECTOR – Rumi Jaffrey WRITER – Rumi Jaffrey, Mumukshu Mudgal CAST – Akshaye Khanna, Shriya Saran, Mugdha Godse, Annu Kapoor, Satish Kaushik MUSIC – Anu Malik It could have been called Office Office –II. Remember the satire on the state of Indian middle class with Pankaj Kapoor as the...
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Contraband – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Baltasar Kormákur, Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg DIRECTOR – Baltasar Kormákur WRITER – Aaron Guzikowski (screenplay), Arnaldur Indriðason and Óskar Jónasson for ‘Reykjavik-Rotterdam’ CAST – Mark WahlBerg, Kate Beckinsale, Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Foster MUSIC – Clinton Shorter Heist films are generally quickies, focused and to-the-point. Contraband...
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Haywire – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Gregory Jacobs DIRECTOR – Steven Soderbergh WRITER – Lem Dobbs CAST – Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas MUSIC – David Holmes After last year’s contemplative and analytic Contagion Steven Soderbergh comes back with a vigorous spy thriller. In a neat and tight little plot he makes his lady protagonist Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) combat,...
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Agneepath – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Karan Johar DIRECTOR – Karan Malhotra WRITER – Karan Malhotra (Screenplay), Piyush Mishra (Dialogues) CAST – Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor MUSIC –Ajay Gogavale, Atul Gogavale In a small village off the Western coast of India a young teacher and his family live an upright and simple life. Until it is mercilessly uprooted by an evil drug-lord Kancha...
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Coriolanus: Movie Review
PRODUCER – Ralph Fiennes, Gabrielle Tana, Julia Taylor-Stanley, Colin Vaines DIRECTOR – Ralph Fiennes WRITER – John Logan based on William Shakespeare’s play ‘Coriolanus’. CAST – Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain MUSIC – Ilan Eshkeri When the film opens we see a tattooed hand sharpening a somewhat historic-looking knife. Soon, this visual gives way to...
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Goodnight Goodmorning: Movie Review
PRODUCER – Sudhish Kamat DIRECTOR – Sudhish Kamat WRITER – Sudhish Kamat, Shilpa Rathnam CAST – Manu Narayan, Seema Rehmani, Vasanth Santosham, Raja Sen, Abhishek D Shah As sages, legends and wisdom have always said love is random to find and easy to lose. Yet the more number of times we lose it the less capable we remain to nourish it. Goodnight Good Morning, in its own gentle manner, soul-bares...
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J. Edgar – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Robert Lorenz DIRECTOR – Clint Eastwood WRITER – Dustin Lance Black CAST – Clint Eastwood, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer MUSIC – Clint Eastwood American history remembers J. Edgar Hoover as a man with a checkered life. Almost single-handedly responsible for building the Federal Bureau of Investigation, America’s premier intelligence institution...
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CHAALIS CHAURASI – Movie Review
PRODUCER – ANUYA MHAISKAR, SACHIN AWASTHEE AND UDAY SHETTY DIRECTOR – HRIDAY SHETTY WRITER – YASH-VINAY CAST – NASEERUDDIN SHAH, ATUL KULKARNI, KAY KAY MENON, RAVI KISSEN, SHWETA BHARDWAJ, RAJESH SHARMA, ZAKIR HUSSAIN MUSIC – LALIT PANDIT AND VISHAL RAJAN Many a times a film becomes its characters. Or rather actors in the case of Chaalis Chaurasi. Then it stoops to the presence and prowess...
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GHOST – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Bharat Shah DIRECTOR – Puja Jatinder Bedi WRITER – Puja Jatinder Bedi CAST – Shiney Ahuja, Sayali Bhagat, Tej Sapru, Deepraj Rana, Julia Bliss, Gulshan Rana MUSIC – Sharib Sabri, Toshi Sabri Friday, the 13th is probably a suitable date for releasing a film called Ghost. This forced connection of spook however, does little for the audience. Ghost revolves around the story of a...
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