Daayen Ya Baayen – Review
FILM – Daayen Ya Baayen PRODUCER – Sunil Doshi DIRECTOR – Bela Negi WRITER – Bela Negi CAST – Deepak Dobriyal, Manav Kaul, Badrul Islam, Bharti Bhatt, Pratyush Doklan, Girish Tiwari MUSIC – Vivek Philip Mundane has a delectable quirkiness and the regular can be enriching. While we sink into ‘urban’, ‘hip’ and ‘fast’ tales that reflect our lives (to an extent), Daayen ya Baayen...
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FROM PARIS WITH LOVE – Review
FILM – FROM PARIS WITH LOVE PRODUCER – LUC BESSON, INDIA OSBORNE, VIRGINIE SILLA DIRECTOR – PIERRE MOREL SCREENPLAY – ADI HASAK STORY – LUC BESSON CAST – JOHN TRAVOLTA, JONATHATN RHYS MEYERS, KASIA SMUTNIK. MUSIC – DAVID BUCKLEY Man and machine, has made for million stories and makes for one yet again. Pierre Morel-directed and Luc Besson-written ‘From Paris with Love’ is that mean...
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Walkaway – Those Pesky Moms
Walkaway – Those Pesky Moms Director: Shailja Gupta Cast: Manu Narayan, Samrat Chakrabarti, Pallavi Sharda Walkaway has some fine dramatic moments and the script is definitely not one of them. It gets too repetitive. Consider this co-incidence. We have three male characters and ironically all three of them have the similar problem, an overbearing mother who is out to ruin their relationship...
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FILM – LETTERS TO JULIET – Review
FILM – LETTERS TO JULIET PRODUCER – Ellen Barkin, Mark Canton, Eric Feig, Caroline Kaplan DIRECTOR – Gary Winick WRITER – Jose Rivera,Tim Sullivan CAST – Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave MUSIC – Andrea Guerra Love stories have a few beliefs set in stone. That believers in love are forever moon-struck and looking for romance in every little stone...
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THE OTHER GUYS – Review
FILM – THE OTHER GUYS PRODUCER – Gary Sanchez Productions, Mosaic Media Group (as Mosaic),Wintergreen Productions DIRECTOR – Adam Mckay WRITER – Adam Mckay, Chris Henchy CAST – Will Farrell, Mark Walhberg, Samuel Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Eva Mendes. MUSIC – Jon Brion Every organisation, especially public, has two faces. One: the dynamic heroes, the role-models, leaders from the front,...
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HISS – Review
FILM – HISS PRODUCER – Govind Menon, Vikram Singh, Ratan Jain, William Sees Keenan DIRECTOR – Jennifer Lynch WRITER – Jennifer Lynch CAST – Mallika Sherawat, Irrfan Khan, Divya Dutta, Jeff Doucette, Mallika Sherawat’s body double. MUSIC – Alexander von Bubenheim ‘Hiss’, the Mallika Sherwat-Jennifer Lynch film about the legend of the dreaded snake-woman is a spiritually draining experience....
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Jootha Hi Sahi – Slow and Long
Jootha Hi Sahi – Slow and Long Director: Abbas Tyrewalla Cast: John Abraham, Pakhi, Madhavan, Nandana Sen Take six or seven semi talented actors who are being forced to emote, throw in a clichéd story, actually not a story but more an unfolding of something that is beyond the comprehension of the audience. It begins with John’s character telling the ultimate lie. He is the suicide counselor,...
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RAKTH CHARITRA – Review
FILM – RAKTH CHARITRA PRODUCER – Cinergy Films, Sheetal Vinod Talwar and Madhu Mantena DIRECTOR – Ram Gopal Verma WRITER – Prashant Pandey CAST – Vivek Oberoi, Shatrugan Sinha, Abhimanyu Singh, Sushant Singh, Radhika Apte, Rajendra Gupta, Zarina Wahab, Ashish Vidyarthi, Priyamani MUSIC – Sukhwinder Singh, Bappi, Tutul Gore learns a new language. Of desperation. Pushing boundaries takes...
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Ramayana – Review
FILM – Ramayana PRODUCER – Deepa Sahi, Maya Digital Media DIRECTOR – Chetan Desai SCREENPLAY – Chetan Desai and Rituraj Tripathi DIALOGUES – Rituraj Tripathi VOICES – Manoj Bajpai, Juhi Chawla, Ashutosh Rana, Mukesh Rishi MUSIC – Sharang Dev Pandit ‘Bakwaas’ is hindi slang for ‘rubbish’. It is difficult to imagine the word ‘rubbish’ figuring in Homer’s Illiad yet it passes...
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Knockout – Review
FILM – Knockout PRODUCER –Sohail Maklai DIRECTOR – Mani Shanker WRITER – Mani Shanker DIALOGUES – Shiraz Ahmed CAST – Sanjay Dutt, Irrfan Khan, Kangana Ranaut, Sushant Singh MUSIC – Gourav Dasgupta L.K.Advani has been reported to have had tears by the end of Knockout. No, it is definitely that bad. Puns aside, it is not bad at all. And for a remake, it is quite absorbing, even true to...
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