Force – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Vipul Shah DIRECTOR – Nishikant Kamat WRITER – Ritesh Shah CAST – John Abraham, Genelia D’Souza, Mohnish Bahl, Raj Babbar, Vidyut Jamwal MUSIC – Harris Jayaraj, Lalit Pandit The current rage of clown-y comedies takes a pause with action thriller ‘Force’. A revenge drama, it is a remake of Gautam Menon’s very successful Tamil film, Kaakha Kaakha (2003) starring Suriya...
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HUM, TUM, SHABANA – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Sunil Chainani, Sameer Srivastava, Subhash Dawar DIRECTOR – Sagar Ballary WRITER – Farhajaan Sheikh (Story and screenplay), Sharat Katariya (Dialogue) CAST – Minissha Lamba, Tusshar Kapoor, Karthik, Satish Kaushik, Sanjay Mishra MUSIC – Sachin, Jigar Going by the production rate of such films, loud and slapstick buffoonery has proven to be the most popular form of comic entertainment....
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Sahib Biwi aur Gangster – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Rahul Mittra, Tigmanshu Dhulia DIRECTOR – Tigmanshu Dhulia CAST – Jimmy Shergill, Randeep Hooda, Mahie Gill MUSIC – Abhishek Ray, Amit Sial, Ankit Tiwari, Anuj Garg,Jaidev Kumar, Mukhtar Sahota, Sunil Bhatia Yeh Jugni badi Crazy hai !! Sure it is crazy. Now it’s a separate story that we never quite got why it is crazy. Sahib, Biwi aur Gangster -The royal threesome. Contrary to...
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Johnny English (Reborn) – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Tim Bevan, Chris Clark, Eric Fellner, Ronaldo Vasconcellos (Co-producer) DIRECTOR – Oliver Parker WRITER – William Davies, Hamish McColl CAST – Rowan Atkinson, Dominic West, Gillian Anderson, Rosamund Pike MUSIC – Ilan Eshkeri Last time round he was at saving the world by trying to over-throw a plot to steal the Crown Jewels. After eight years, Johnny English is back doing what...
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Speedy Singhs – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Frank Siracusa, Ajay Virmani, Don Carmody DIRECTOR – Robert Lieberman WRITER – Noel S. Baker, Jeff Schechter, Matt Simmons and Vinay Virmani (screenplay)Ajay Virmani (creator), Vinay Virmani (story) CAST – Vinay Virmani, Russell Peters, Rob Lowe MUSIC – Sandeep Chowta Yet another under-dog sports film. Yet another Punjabi family in the Western world fighting discrimination through...
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JAMES JEWELL – The Creator Web Series – ALABAMA CHROME with a dash of Bollywood.
Musician turned filmmaker or rather musician returning to his filmmaking roots, James Jewell is a unique combination of being very driven and yet, very gregarious and fun loving. His personality is evident in his music. James has turned his attention, recently to the web, and developed the web series, ALABAMA CHROME, a series of episodes that can be viewed on the web. But this is not some home video...
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Mausam – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Vivek Agrawal, Madhu Mantena Varma, Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Sunil A. Lulla DIRECTOR – Pankaj Kapoor WRITER – Pankaj Kapoor CAST – Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Supriya Pathak, Aditi Sharma MUSIC – Pritam Chakraborty We all love love stories. Especially ones that have a lot of pining and the ‘ever-lasting’, ‘undying’ element to it. We love bashful lady-loves and...
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Crazy, Stupid, Love – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Steve Carell, Denise Di Novi DIRECTOR – Glenn Ficarra, John Requa WRITER – Dan Fogelman CAST – Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Julianne Moore MUSIC – Christophe Beck, Nick Urata Hollywood’s still selling soul-mates and ever-lasting love when Bollywood has long stopped doing that (One thing, we’ve been ahead with, in the game!). ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ does the same routine...
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Rivaaz – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Ashok Nanda, Vidya Kamat DIRECTOR – Ashok Nanda WRITER – Ashok Nanda, Rakesh Chandra Saroj CAST – Deepti Naval, Reema Lagoo, Meghna Naidu, Alok Nath, Rajendra Gupta, Ritisha Vijayvargya, Vijay Raaz, Manoj Biddvai, Yashpal Sharma, Sayaji Shinde MUSIC – Raj Inder Raj, Reeg Deb Rivaaz is a social commentary that tries to bring to us the reality of prostitution practiced by families...
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OM PURI – India’s Finest Actor
The best person in their craft does not need time to establish their identity and prowess. One moment is good enough. A single appearance by Om Puri convinces the audience of the class of this actor. And it is not about the banner, the build up, the dialogues, and all the external factors, it is about the most basic factor, the skill in the actor. He will get your attention doing a street play in...
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