ALADIN- alittle more talk, a little less magic In an ideal scenario, if you had a magic lamp and three wishes, you would be very careful and wise in your choice. Unfortunately, in our bollywood take on this age old tale, Aladin wishes for Jasmine (Jacqueline Fernandez), Jasmine and you have guessed right: Jasmine again; couldn’t get more predictable. Set in the fantastical ‘Khwaish City’,the... 

INTERVIEW WITH ACTOR- NEETU CHANDRA Tell me about your role in 13 B? Play a shy coy girl, who is a regular simple housewife, who thinks the television is a danger to her family and life. 13 B is a supernatural thriller. The effects and the production was of the highest order and really cool. It was fun working with a team which has suc h technical finesses Was Traffic Signal your first movie? No... 

Dostana is a Karan Johar production. No, don’t take my word for it, nor Karan’s, the film is feel good cinema. Again nothing wrong with it, this is mass communications, and here is a feel good mass communicating product…except it takes on the subject of being “gay,” but in a light and feel good manner. It appears as though “gayism” is suddenly exploding in Bollywood.... 

The first thing that strikes the “Bollywood centric” viewer, is that not since Monsoon Wedding, do we have a film, which is also an good and enjoyable Bollywood watch, for the people with that sensibility, along with being an interesting attempt by the West, to attempt a crossover into pure play Indian territory. This it does achieve. Despite having some glaring holes in the script, namely In... 

Firstly take out from your system that Madhur makes “reality movies.” PAGE 3 people in the real life party and are very normal and don’t resort to child porn, CORPORATE types who go to Nariman Point to work, don’t spend their evening sleeping around, else India would not be an economic powerhouse..ditto for FASHION, it is based on true events, but after that- highly sensationalized and “made... 

Meeting All The Checklist Items An Ashok Amritraj movie, of late, has some characteristics. It is safe, does not take too many chances on the script, which in turn follows a pretty straightforward traditional three act structure, has a feel good and happy ending and moves along at a crisp enough pace to prevent boredom or too much of seriousness to set in. In effect traditional family fare and nothing... 

Caught a press screening of Rock On! at the beautiful Saratoga area in   Northern California. 60 minutes, oh 60 minutes separates this movie from being a reasonable watch to being a classic watch. It was 60 minutes too long, if 60 minutes had been shaved off a super movie would  have played out. The two biggest strengths of this movie are a) a strong story told via underplayed emotions and b) extraordinary... 

Caught a screening of the eagerly avaited Mumbai Meri Jaan, and have to  admit, if this was about the spirit of Mumbai, then one came out of the  theater feeling very dispirited.    In an audience of approx 40 people, in the Bay Area, this is what   worked in the film- Some very fine acting, good dialogues and fine   production values. Now the big drawback and bore. It was very, very  ...