Take a bow, Bomi Dotiwala! After ‘Munnabhai MBBS’, it seems any film with Munna in the title is obligated to have a carrom-playing scene – along with an oblique reference to the queen – and the doctor being ‘gently coerced’ into coming home. While returning home sozzled after being forced to retire as a chorus […]
‘Sing’, also released as ‘Mindenki’, is a Hungarian short film which opened at the 14th Asiana International Short Film Festival in Seoul, and has bagged 13 awards, including the coveted Oscar for Best ‘Live Action’ Short Film this year. Written and directed by Kristof Deak and shot in six days, it has the 10-year-old Zsofi […]
From 26th May to 4th June 1940, in the French coastal town of Dunkerque, a little over 300,000 troops – mostly British, some French and Belgian – were reined in onto the town’s beach by a sustained German fire – both artillery and aerial. Tommy (Fionn Whitehead), a young petrified British soldier, tries every means […]
Whatever little success the film is likely to enjoy would be largely due to Ranbir’s histrionics, as also the free-flowing lyrical nature of the dialogues – especially in the first half. Young Jagga (Ranbir Kapoor) is adept at investigating cases and arriving at theories. When his father ‘Tooti-Footi’ (Saswata Chatterjee – the assassin in ‘Kahaani’) […]
Charlton Heston’s ‘Planet of the Apes’ (1968), almost a half century ago, set the tone for ‘War’ – the eighth overall and the third in the trilogy – a distinctly refreshing and inspired film, helmed by Matt Reeves. Following the earlier two – ‘Rise’ (2011) and ‘Dawn’ (2014) – the apes having suffered huge losses […]
The web slinger is back. His experiences with the Avengers notwithstanding, he returns in a fresh, if not slicker, avatar. Fifteen years after Spider-Man hit the screens and 10 years after Spider-Man 3, the latest in the franchise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has the 19-year- old English actor Tom Holland essaying the role of, […]
In her first Hindi film in five years–‘English Vinglish’ in 2012 being her last– Sridevi turns out to be as impressive and charismatic, if not more. ‘Pink’ and ‘Maatr’, in recent times, have underscored the aftermath and trauma of a sexual assault on a hapless victim and her family. In ‘Mom’ we have Devki Sabharwal […]
To begin with, there’s something about the title — it may seem both bizarre and mystifying. There’s nothing but comedy and romance in the film, though. Kumail Nanjiani (Kumail Nanjiani) — the Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley — a Pakistani by birth but an American through upbringing is a part-time standup comedian […]
Rarely does one come across a film on crime with high-octane car-chase sequences, accompanied by an ear-pleasing soundtrack. Baby Driver (Ansel Elgort) suffers from a constant ringing in his ears – a result of a car accident in his childhood that killed his parents – but compensates for his disability by perennially donning earphones and […]
After ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ in which the Kabir Khan-Salman Khan film had overtones of Indo-Pak amity, the duo now train their sights on our Eastern neighbour. Jagatpur, in Kumaon, is the abode of Laxman Singh Bisht (Salman Khan) and younger brother Bharat (real-life brother Sohail). Laxman is derisively called ‘tubelight’ — the Indian connotation for a […]
Riteish Deshmukh and Vivek Oberoi provided some antics in their ‘Masti’ series. In the long awaited ‘Bank Chor’ (the title’s refrain sounds conveniently like the Indian expletive — and one guesses, deliberately so), Champak Chandrakant Chiplunkar (RD) and his inept cronies from Delhi, Genda (Vikram Thapa) and Gulab (Bhuvan Arora) hijack a bank. In the […]