Forget Dharmatma; forget Dayavan. Sarkar 3 is the closest to The Godfather you’ll get to see — in terms of dialogues, the sepia-coloured frames, the subplots, or even the grating and rasping voice of the Don (one could be forgiven for wondering whether subtitles would be needed). The Bal Thakarey inspired character Subhash Nagre’s (Amitabh […]
What can we say of a film which has a great scope storywise, hits all the right notes in the beginning, reminds you of one of the greatest blockbusters of all times (DDLJ), and whose supporting cast has three of our most talented actors – Saurabh Shukla, Sanjay Misra and Darshan Jariwala, but regrettably still […]
When one has a premonition that death is imminent, there is bound to be consternation. And when the person happens to be a 77-year-old, there could be some amusing moments too. Septuagenarian Daya (Lalit Behl) wakes up one morning to harry his son Rajiv (Adil Hussain) into accompanying him to Benaras in order to spend […]
An inveterate alcoholic, Gloria (Anne Hathaway) — the once professional, now-fired blogger — gets kicked out of her live-in boyfriend Tim’s (Dan Stevens) pad for her all-night drinking bouts, and er, a little bit of lying. Heading back to her parents’ unused home in New Jersey she chances upon her old classmate Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) […]
The phenomenal success of the 2015 Neeraj Pandey directed ‘Baby’ (oh yes, it was Akshay Kumar’s baby back then) undoubtedly inspired him to write ‘Naam Shabana’, a prequel to explain the female protagonist’s entry into the faceless agency that looks after the country’s security. Shabana, a martial arts champion, lives with her mother Farida (Natasha […]
Adapted from W. Bruce Cameron’s 2010 novel — with a few changes — A Dog’s Purpose is a charming, and at times, sentimental tale of a dog’s life and his purpose on earth, vis-à-vis humans. Narrated by the dog Bailey (voice of Josh Gad) the film starts off with a young Red Retriever being adopted […]
At 13 years, one is just about old enough to learn about the Himalayas, notably its tallest peak Mount Everest. On 25 May 2014, Malavath Poorna, the impoverished daughter of poor and illiterate Adivasi village-folk in Telengana, became the youngest female to ascend the famed peak. In his second directorial effort (Everybody Says I’m Fine, […]
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 […]
Think wrestling, and the late Dara Singh comes willy-nilly to mind. Aamir Khan was born in the year India’s most famous wrestler made the eponymous Rustom-e-Hind (1965), a title he was bestowed with 11 years earlier. No wonder then that the punctilious and given-to-precise-details actor was fated to make, and star in, a film on […]
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 […]