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Caption This – September 10
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mail.parsitimes@gmail.com by 15th September, 2016. “Jaldi chalo, apri colony ma navo handsome buddho rehva ayo che!” – by Firoz Batliwalla
Film ReviewWRONG SIDE RAJU (Gujarati)
‘Wrong Side Raju’ is partly based on the 2013 BMW hit-and-run case in Ahmedabad, involving Vismay Shah. Simpleton Raju Bhambani (Pratik Gandhi) is a driver in the country’s biggest law firm, whose owner Amitabh Shah (Asif Basra) shares a tempestuous relationship with his son Tanmay (British-born Kavi Shastri — last seen in ‘Neerja’, as the […]
Film Review: SULLY
Sully is a vivid portrayal of the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ as it was called when Capt. Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger and his First Officer Jeff Skiles heroically landed an Airbus 320 in the icy waters of the Hudson River on 15 January 2009. Failure of both the engines after the plane struck a flock of […]
Film Review: BAAR BAAR DEKHO
Question 1: What if you had the power to look into your future 15 years, or say, even 30 years hence, especially if you were getting married to your childhood sweetheart? Director Nitya Mehra, after having assisted several top-notch directors such as Ang Lee and Mira Nair, turns independent with a seldom explored subject – […]
Film Review – Don’t Breathe
There’s nothing a man cannot do, once he accepts the fact that there is no God’ — so goes the tagline of the film. Stephen Lang plays a blind Iraqi-war veteran living alone with his ferocious dog in an abandoned neighbourhood in Detroit. Three youths Rocky (Jane Levy), her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto) and their friend […]
Film Review: Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gayaa
Firstly, the title — it forewarns you of the couple of hours you would be spending if you decide to watch the film. Hackneyed gags, gorgeous gals and goons galore make up the bulk of the running time of YTTMHG. Mohan and Mann (Jimmy Sheirgill) are identical twins, separated at birth. (No, they’ll never stop […]
Caption This – 3rd September
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Film Review – Mechanic: Resurrection
The genre of a film is foretold by its actor. The English Jason Statham, one of the best known and highly paid stars of the action screen, reprises his 2011 Mechanic role, that of an assassin in this sequel five years later. Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is living a life in near anonymity in Rio, […]
Film Review: A Flying Jatt
When the Chairperson of the Censor Board Pahlaj Nihalani endorses a film, the industry is all ears. ‘A Flying Jatt will create history and remind the viewer of (the 1975 sleeper hit) Jai Santoshi Maa’, the great man opines. But then, Nihalani forgets that history comes in various hues and disparate shapes and sizes. And […]
Caption This – 27 August
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mail.parsitimes@gmail.com by 31st August, 2016. 27th August 2016 “Twinkle, Twinkle now I’m a Bawa star, after gorging on their ‘patia and dhan dar’.” – by Aspi Adi Driver.