Genre: Drama, Romance Rating: 3/5 102 minutes Director: Kanwal Sethi Telephonic conversations between a divorcee and a widowed mother — both at least in their late 40s — which gradually progress towards a certain degree of romance, are at the centre of ‘Once Again’, available on Netflix. Amar Kumar (Neeraj Kabi, fresh from his stint […]
Genre: Drama, Romance Rating: 2.5/5 140 minutes Director: Sajid Ali ‘A modern-day love story’, proclaims one of the film’s publicity posters. Well, it certainly is — part of the blossoming romance is on the mobile phone. Possibly the eighth Hindi film to be so titled (two of them during the silent era), this latest, co-written […]
Genre: Drama, Thriller Rating: 3.5/5 114 minutes Director: Dipesh Jain ‘Gali Guleiyan’ translates to ‘In the Shadows’. In this sense, the film, for its major part retains a dusky, gloomy look, which is possibly the intention of its first-time feature director Dipesh Jain. Screened so far at almost ten Film Festivals worldwide, Gali Guleiyan features the […]
Originally planned as a seven-minute short (by the director’s own admission), former Google executive Aneesh Chaganty has helmed a rather impressive film in his debut feature outing. The title alludes to a father’s frantic hunt for his missing 16-year-old daughter. It was a happy threesome until David Kim’s (John Cho) wife passes away after a […]
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller Rating: 3/5 133 minutes Director: Michael Noer It would be a toss-up as to whether classics need to be remade, especially if that classic featured legends such as Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. 45 years after their ‘Papillon’ (1973), based on the (exaggerated?) 1969 personal memoirs of Henri Charriere, comes another […]
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller Rating: 3/5 115 minutes Director: Amar Kaushik In 1967, that talented director Raj Khosla completed his trilogy of suspense films — Woh Kaun Thi (64), Mera Saaya (66) and Anita (67) — all of which had the enigmatic beauty Saadhna in the role of the spooky and elusive woman as the […]
“Although the events are dangerously true, this is a work of fiction”. Reminiscing on the opening title-card of the film, one could have had absolutely no idea how ‘dangerous’ – fabled or not – it would turn out to be. And that, probably, would be the only prism through which the Indian censors would view […]
Sequels are not always successful, despite the makers’ best commercial motives and despite how hard the storyline – and budget – is stretched! For those who missed out on the 2016 prequel, Harpreet ‘Happy’ Kaur (Diana Penty) was in the title role with Pakistan as the backdrop. This one shifts base to its more affluent […]
Genre: Thriller Rating: 2/5 141 minutes Director: Milap Milan Zaveri Exiting the auditorium, one gets the clear impression of the producers sitting in their plush air-conditioned offices and glancing inquiringly at each other as if to say “Which story shall we lift now?” Replies one, “In two words — John Abraham. Let him do the […]
Genre: Sports, Drama Rating: 3/5 154 minutes Director: Reema Kagti Referring to the benign Mr. Wadia, the Hockey Federation mogul, Tapanda utters thrice in the film “What a fine Parsee gentleman”! Spanning 12 years — from the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the 1948 Games, ‘Gold’ is the story of Tapan Das (Akshay Kumar) who […]
Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller Rating: 2/5 145 minutes Director: Kamal Hassan ‘Collateral damage’, utters a minor character in the film a couple of times, which left me wondering whether he was referring to the fate of this film — directed, written and co-produced by Kamal Haasan. For those who missed the prequel in 2013 — […]