Marking the fourth year of Humaaramovie’s annual short filmmaking competition is a bouquet of seven short films — all with the theme ‘Shor’ (noise) — made by upcoming and talented directors and mentored by acclaimed directors such as Shyam Benegal, Mira Nair, Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Homi Adajania, Sriram Raghavan and Nagesh Kukunoor. . Hello-o-Hello […]
The galaxies are at war again. Rebel Intelligence Officer Cassian Andor (Diego Lune) is in charge of a mini-army which consists of Rebellion Alliance soldier Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), a blind gladiator (Donnie Yen), a freelance assassin (Jiang Wen) and an ex-pilot (Riaz Ahmed), a defector from the Imperial group. Their sole mission is to […]
The title of the film has been taken from a song in ‘Hate Story-3’, which was also directed by Vishal Pandya. But that’s not the only liberty he has taken. He has mutilated — ‘remixed’ being the official term in the industry — at least two iconic songs (‘Pal pal dil ke saath’ and ‘Aise […]
“Rocky, tumhein wahaan nahin jaana chaahiye”, with these seductive words and accompanied by trendsetter Rahul Dev Burman’s pulsating background score (no doubt, aided by Cawas, Kersi and Burjor Lord) does the film begin. Hindi cinema’s leading femme fatale, the Franco-Burmese Helen was at the pinnacle of her career when she got to speak the opening […]
Those who entered the auditorium a few seconds late would be forgiven for presuming that they were watching a documentary on ‘The Art of Kissing’ — thank you, Mr. Pahlaj Nihalani! A half century after ‘An Evening in Paris’ (1967), and against the backdrop of the sights and sounds of Paris, comes a musical rom-com […]
It’s difficult to imagine Robert De Niro in any sport film other than boxing. In his fourth film on the sport (Raging Bull, Night and the City, Grudge Match), De Niro plays the altruistic and patriarchal Ray Arcel who nurtured and propelled Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez) to the pinnacle of boxing glory in the light-middleweight […]
Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston) is the CEO of Zenotek, a computing firm. Her brother Clay (T.J. Miller) is the head of the Chicago branch whose profits have dipped to a meagre 6.5%. Carol’s fiat is to double the profit in three days (just before Christmas) or be prepared for laying off 80 of the branch’s […]
Based on the article ‘Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours’ by David Rohde in the New York Times, Director Peter Berg infuses exactly the right elements to make Deepwater Horizon a formulaic disaster film. The film opens with merely the audio of the testimony which followed the largescale catastrophe on 20 April 2010, 41 miles off Louisiana […]
Short films usually have a deep underlying message attached to them — social, political or religious. They also come with baggage — that of finance, distribution and exhibition constraints although their ultimate aim is to be screened at Film Festivals. All three shorts, screened on Sunday 27th November by aspiring filmmaker Nozzer Pardiwala, have a […]
When once asked why he didn’t make romantic films, Alfred Hitchcock had famously replied, “If I made Cinderella, they would be looking for a body in the coach.” Vidya Balan had made Sujoy Ghosh’s female-centric Kahaani a sleeper hit, with its climax unfolding in the dying moments of the film. Four years later, the suspense […]
Frankly, the initial half hour of the film set me wondering as to which gender and age segment of filmgoers it was targeted at. Even an hour later, I was clueless! Selena (Kate Beckinsale), the death-dealing vampire, is on the run from both the Lycans (werewolves) and their traditional rivals — her double-crossing vampire camp. […]