Genre: Biography, Drama, Comedy Rating: 3.5/5 162 minutes Director: Rajkumar Hirani Clearly deviating from their forte — comedy (Munnabhai films, 3 Idiots), established writers Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi have tried their best to incorporate elements of the genre in their biopic of Sanjay Dutt — ‘Sanju’. The film traces certain phases of Dutt’s chequered […]
‘Collateral Damage’… “She wasn’t altogether there at the end,” says Annie Graham (Toni Collette) of her mother, Ellen, while delivering her eulogy. She also describes the departed woman, with whom Annie had a none-too-warm relationship, as ‘secretive’ and ‘private’. Among those attending the funeral are her husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), teenaged son Peter (Alex Wolff) […]
Genre: Thriller, Action Rating: 1/5 160 minutes Director: Remo D’souza ‘Not A Podium Finish’ Ten years ago, the immaculately white-suited-booted brothers Abbas and Mastan Burmawalla set the template for action-thrillers with their ‘Race’ (adapted from ‘Goodbye Lover’), followed by a sequel five years later. Sidelined from the third installment […]
One of the youngest Zoroastrian colonies in the suburbs, Merwanjee Cama Park, celebrated its Annual Day with great fanfare. Inspite of the rains, residents continued their celebrations and felicitations the following day. Young and promising Percy Amaria’s (who has perfored at the NCPA) rendition of Chaiyye Hume Zarthosti, followed by a few Bollywood and Western […]
‘Bigfoot in the Park’ ‘‘These creatures don’t need our protection, they need our absence”. This would probably be true for all non-humans but in the film its referred to the extinct dinosaurs which inhabited the earth aeons ago and which were ‘revived’ a quarter century ago by the brilliant filmmaker Steven Spielberg. It’s the fifth in […]
PT: Tell us about your childhood, following in your father’s footsteps. Faroukh: Strangely, despite both dad and Jal Kaka being two of the most well-known names in the industry, cinematography wasn’t my preferred vocation. I wanted to be a surgeon. But a chance assignment as a photo-journalist with the Times of India group post my […]
At Mumbai City District Interclub TT Parsee Gymkhana (Marine Lines) joined the big league in Table-Tennis and created a record of sorts when, in only their third appearance, they bagged top honours in the city’s premier tournament which concluded at the NSCI on 31st May, 2018. A hundred teams had battled it out in four […]
‘BLAST FROM THE PAST’ ‘Hero vardi se nahi, iraade se hote hain’, with effusive patriotism, is a dialogue early in the film to seemingly justify macho-man John Abraham to star in, and co-produce this film. The film begins with the 1995 botched attempt at India trying to gain nuclear status. Back then, India had sorely […]
‘A Lead Tool Too’ Despite the ‘F’ word bandied about liberally in the film, the viewer is regularly reminded that it also stands for ‘family’, which our hero plans to start with his live-in girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). The opening credits set the tone for the next couple of hours. After a tragedy befalls Wade […]
Genre: Drama Rating: 3/5 108 minutes Director : Harish Vyas In Any Other Language Sometime during the latter part of the film, when the middle-aged couple begin to have their irreconcilable differences, the till then subdued wife utters a cliched but telling remark “Our relationship is nominal, our togetherness even more so”. Set in […]
Agreeing to disagree That Raazi is one of the most noncontroversial spy films to emerge, from this side of the border at least, can be validated by a statement Sehmat’s (Alia Bhatt) Pakistani army-officer husband Iqbal Syed (Vicky Kaushal) makes to his father Brigadier Syed (Shishir Sharma), “We would have done the same in her […]