Ishaqzaade – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Aditya Chopra DIRECTOR – Habib Faisal WRITER – Habib Faisal CAST – Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra MUSIC – Amit Trivedi Last year, Habib Faisal sprung on the Bollywood scene with the refreshing joie-di-vivre of ‘Do Dooni Chaar’ and ‘Band, Bajaa, Baaraat’. It explored the lesser-explored middle-class with an intuitive honesty, charm and a lot of heart. He brings the same...
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The Forest – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Ashvin Kumar, Judith James DIRECTOR – Ashvin Kumar WRITER – Ashvin Kumar CAST – Javed Jaffrey, Nandana Sen, Ankur Vikal MUSIC – Matt Robertson As suspense thrillers go, The Forest is as simple as it can get. There’s a man-eating leopard on the prowl and caught in the situation are Pritam, Radha, Abhishek, Arjun and Bhola Ram. But for them, it really isn’t as simple as it seems....
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Dangerous Ishq – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Reliance Entertainment DIRECTOR – Vikram Bhatt WRITER – Amin Hajee CAST – Karishma Kapoor, Jimmy Shergill, Rajneesh Duggal, MUSIC – Himesh Reshammiya The intrigue of past life phenomena has enough power to catch popular attention and Brian Weiss’ widely-read ‘Many Lives Many Masters’ proved it beyond doubt some years ago. Past life phenomena became a household concept in...
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FILM – Hugo
PRODUCER – Johnny Depp, Tim Headington, Graham King, Martin Scorsese DIRECTOR – Martin Scorsese WRITER – John Logan (screenplay), Brian Selznick (book) CAST – Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz MUSIC – Howard Shore The magic of movies is perhaps best understood by lovers, those who immerse in their dreams coming alive and the ones who passionately create those dreams. In an epic...
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Safe – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Lawrence Bender, Dana Brunetti, Joseph Zolfo (Co-producer) DIRECTOR – Boaz Yakin WRITER – Boaz Yakin CAST – Jason Statham, Catherine Chan and Chris Sarandon MUSIC – Mark Mothersbaugh Jason Statham’s doing what he does best. In a gut-busting, gun-fight riddled, action-packed flick he bashes up bad guys galore, and this time he is fighting the Triads (East-Asian mafia), the Russian...
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Fatso – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Pritish Nandy, Rangita Nandy DIRECTOR – Rajat Kapoor WRITER – Rajat Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla CAST – Ranvir Shorey, Gul Panag, Purab Kohli, Neil Bhoopalam, Gunjan Bakshi MUSIC – Sagar Desai The flux of the class-divided world we live in, probably has had the most impact on urban relationships. Its attendant problems of peer pressure, importance of physical beauty, shifting friendships,...
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Jannat – 2 – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Mahesh Bhatt and Fox Star Studio DIRECTOR – Kunal Deshmukh WRITER – Shagufta Rafique (Screenplay), Sanjay Masoom (Dialogues) CAST – Emraan Hashmi, Randeep Hooda, Esha Gupta, Manish Chaudhury MUSIC – Pritam Emraan Hashmi is back struggling to turn a new leaf and make his ‘jannat’ (heaven) on earth. Keeping him company is Esha Gupta as his lover/wife and Randeep Hooda as his...
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Tezz – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Ratan Jain DIRECTOR – Priyadarshan WRITER – Robin Bhatt, Aditya Dhar (Dialogues) CAST – Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Zayed Khan, Kangana Ranaut, Sameera Reddy MUSIC – Sajid-Wajid An action packed weekend this time round brings two action thrillers together. If the other end of the genre is the much-awaited superhero action film Avengers, on home ground is Priyadarshan’s ‘Tezz’. The...
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The Avengers (3D) – Movie Review
DIRECTOR – Joss Whedon WRITER – Zak Penn (Story), Joss Whedon (Screenplay) Based on ‘The Avengers’ comic by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby CAST – Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson MUSIC – Alan Silvestri Things blow up, fly at you, quake, crack, break and explode as the much-loved superheroes Avengers...
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Life ki toh lag gayi – Movie Review
PRODUCER – V.M Final Cut Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, K Sera Sera DIRECTOR – Rakesh Mehta WRITER – Rakesh Mehta CAST – Kay Kay Menon, Manu Rishi, Ranvir Shorey, Pradhuman Singh, Neha Bhasin MUSIC – Vinay Jaiswal Watching Rakesh Mehta’s ‘Life ki toh lag gayi’, one wonders, is this now the standard template Mumbai and its attendant quirks are going to be translated with? Four stories, diverse...
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