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... 

I am sure each one of us has been through situations which we want to forget and just move on with life. Here is a movie which does exactly that; it reminds you that nobody is perfect and that we are all mortals and can and will make mistakes; we all have skeletons, be it big or small in nature, buried in our closet. Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi is a story about people and relationships. The movie begins... 

2009, an otherwise dismal year for Bollywood, ends on a positive note with 3 Idiots. The film is an entertaining watch and also has an underlying message of following one’s dreams and on a side note, that innovation are something the Indian education system, rarely promotes, if anything, it negates the imaginative mind. The film is about campus life, albeit, not in the traditional Bollywood way,... 

For starters ‘Kurbaan’ definitely has it’s heart in the right place, kudos to Karan Johar for attempting something out of his comfort zone of feel good mushy NRI oriented love stories. The film deals with Islamic fundamentalism and the stance of the moderate Muslim on the subject. It doesn’t glorify nor does it empathize with either side, which works in favour of the film. What could have...