Alia (Manjari Fadnis) is the sole daughter of Peter Patrick from a middle-class family of Udaipur. Being a girl child, subjected to lowly and menial jobs at home, and generally despised by everyone, her father gets her married, against her will, to loud-talking Kunwar Vikram Pratap Singh (Ashutosh Rana) from an aristocrat family. Jeena takes […]
Lion is intended to be a moving tribute to the 80,000 children who manage to get lost in the streets of India every year. Based on the autobiography ‘A Long Way Home’ by Saroo Briesley, the film begins in Khandwa (MP) in 1986, when five-year-old undernourished Saroo (essayed by eight-year old debutant Sunny Pawar), after […]
Married for 10 years and First Lady for a shade under three years, Jacqueline Kennedy has been arguably the most popular and charismatic First Lady of the US, even after her remarriage five years after her husband John F. Kennedy’s assimilation. Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s Jackie is an account of her interview to Life correspondent […]
There’s a lot of thought process (read: passion and defining moments) behind the films of Martin Scorsese — whether they be on crime (with Robert De Niro — Goodfellas, Mean Streets), or on faith & religion (The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun). After waiting for over a quarter century to adapt Shusako Endo’s 1966 novel […]
Watching ‘Moonlight’, one could be forgiven for presuming that the film was shot in Africa – the locales, the penury and the privative conditions of the principal characters in the film being adequate affirmation. The film portrays Chiron’s life in three stages – as a 10-year-old boy, as a teenager and finally as an adult. […]
The colour of the skin and the power of the human ‘computer’ are the mainstay of Hidden Figures, directed and co-written by Theodore Melfi and based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film opens in 1926 in West Virginia, in an era and place when racism and segregation were prevalent in the US. […]
Akshay Kumar’s voice during the opening disclaimer, that the film is not based on any actual incident, is in total contrast to the 2013 Jolly LL.B. which portrayed the celebrated hit-and-run case in Delhi. The sequel, clearly devised to bank on Akshay’s star-power, has protagonist Jagdishwar Mishra aka Jolly (Akshay) as the 15th legal assistant […]
Doshipura in UP is the setting for this Muslim social drama. Middle-aged Raza (Danish Hussain) lives with his bedridden father and extended family. He harbours a guilt – his sister Zahara (Neelima Azeem) had to flee India and settle in Pakistan. A failed marriage and years later, she comes visiting to India. Like scores of […]
Raees is purportedly made on the life of liquor baron Abdul Latif — who had amassed a fortune dealing in liquor in dry Gujarat — although the film’s disclaimer declares it as a work of fiction. Set in the late 70s and 80s in Fatehpur, Gujarat, Raees Alam (SRK) is a myopic school-going boy whose […]
Welcome to the American world of corporate take-overs, welcome to the land of inked contracts, cheesy hand-shake agreements, milkshakes and burgers. Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) is a struggling traveling proprietor-cum-salesman from Illinois, touring towns, attempting to sell his five-spindled milkshake machine and getting doors slammed in his face – well, most of the time. And […]
Shaad Ali’s (Saathiya) tryst with the romance genre continues. This time he’s opted to remake Mani Ratnam’s Tamil version of ‘OK Kadhal Kanmani’. Adi (Aditya Roy Kapur), a video-game designer from Kanpur, meets Tara (Shraddha Kapoor), an architecture graduate at a friend’s church wedding. The two don’t have any compunctions about communicating and relaying phone […]