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Collar Bomb: Passable fare
Bollywood, Review, Collar Bomb, Jimmy Sheirgill, Asha Negi, Rajshri Deshpande, Sparsh Shrivastav, Dnyanesh Zoting
Haseen Dillruba: Wild, wicked but with warts
Review, Bollywood, Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey, Harshvardhan Rane, Aditya Srivastava, Ashish Verma, Direction, Vinil Mathew
June: Hard as nails yet sensitive
Suhrud Godbole and Vaibhav Khisti's coming-of-age film is hard as nails while conveying its message, yet sensitive while driving home the point. The script focuses on issues such as bullying, teenage confusion, self-harm and suicide, and
Ray: Uneven, but worth a binge
It's compulsively dark for most parts, often strangely so, the way Satyajit Ray's oeuvre rarely was. Ray had a way of serving the sombre in layers, with simplistic emotions often acting as mask for deeper subtexts.The short stories adapted…
Shaadisthan: Shoddy storytelling
Sometimes, the best intentions are lost in inadequate execution. "Shaadisthan" is a film that talks of women's empowerment, but the effort is burdened by shoddy storytelling that simply fails to hold your attention. The plot and its…
Army Of The Dead: Ocean’s Eleven gets a zombie remix
"Ocean's Eleven" gets a zombie remix in Zack Snyder's latest, as Dave Bautista and company infiltrate undead-infested Las Vegas Strip to try and walk away with a fat load of cash against all odds. The idea manages to stay afloat because the…
Sardar Ka Grandson: Boredom on the house
The problem with "Sardar Ka Grandson" is not that it loses the plot on an absolutely wonky idea. The problem is the film and its makers fail to capitalise on the one asset they truly had. Kaashvie Nair's debut directorial casts Neena Gupta…
Radhe: Salman Khan’s chaos of set pieces
Smart villain is on a rampant spree hawking drugs, smarter cop hammers the hell out of his existence. That's it, that's the story.You couldn't care less, of course if you are a Salman fan, you weren't logging in for the sake of story.…
Photo Prem: Snapshots of feel-good humour
Fifty-something Maee hates being clicked. Which in turn leads to a peculiar problem. She realises there's no decent photograph of her in the house. That's no petty issue if you consider your primary source of remembrance, when you're no…
Another Round: Mads Mikkelsen served with heady twist
Midlife crisis gets a heady twist in Thomas Vinterberg's tragicomedy, serving Mads Mikkelsen on the rocks. "Another Round" (titled "Druk" in original Danish version) kicks in its plot by reversing the premise of alcoholism as cinema…