What would you do if you were a woman, backpacking on your own in a faraway continent, and ‘accidentally’ bump into a stranger who delivers a worn-out, clichéd pickup line? Laugh it off and walk away, or fall an unsuspecting prey to his wiles? Scripted by Shaun Grant and based on the 2011 novel by […]
First, the title – an astute ploy by director Bhandarkar to bear out part of the lengthy disclaimer that Indu Sarkar is a work of fiction. This, despite the director, who’s also co-scripted the film, going on record to say that “The film is 70% fiction and 30% documented fact”. Indu Sarkar – a pun […]
Walking Tall At 100 – Homi R Mehta PT Special Correspondent Hoshang K Katrak Reports There’s something magical and truly incredible about people reaching their 100th milestone. Indeed those who hit a century have luck and God by their side – like Homi Rustomjee Mehta, the ‘young’ man from Cama Park, born on 23rd June, […]
Following in the footsteps of her mother Aparna Sen, Konkana has crafted (written and directed) an immensely watchable debut film. McCluskiegang, four decades ago, was a prosperous town in Bihar (now Jharkhand) with a sizeable number of Anglo-Indians. In the Christmas holidays of 1978, Nandu (Gulshan Devaih) along with his wife Bonnie (Tillotama Shome) and […]
What can you say of a Holocaust film where most of the tender moments and emotional scenes are not of the Holocaust or the prisoners sent off to execution camps, but of the zoo animals who share an intimate, warm and almost human relationship with their caretakers! Dr. Jan Zabinski (Johan Heldenbergh) and his wife […]
Picked up by a sneery sheriff and his deputy from a cafeteria, hauled into the slammer and breaking free with military-precision impunity, Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) flexes his muscles and uses both his fists to telling effect. Jack Reacher 2 is an out-and-out action thriller, with the opening scenes bearing faint resemblance to Rambo: First […]
The amusing title is apparently inspired from the song in ‘Waris’ (1969), which had newcomers as actors. The similarity between the two films ends there. Brought up by an uncle and aunt, Kunwar Aditya Pratap Singh (Sharad Malhotra) is from an erstwhile royal family. His palace is home to spooky ghosts and eerie goings-on, family […]
31 October 1984 was a dark and black-lettered day in the annals of Indian history. The film is Director Patil’s effort to recreate an episode emanating in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assass-ination by her two Sikh bodyguards on that day. As Devender Singh (Vir Das), his wife Tejinder (Soha Ali Khan) along with their […]
One more film on the Kashmir insurgency, though it’s a circuitous attempt to bring to screen a real-life incident. Iqbal Khan (Narendra Jha), an engineer working in the Public Works Department in J&K, is a doting husband and father. His scruples, leading to his refusal to do the terrorists’ bidding, draw the ire of his […]
A film which was held up by the censors for close to 3 years due to the profligacy of its profanity is bound to be a head-turner. For one not used to the old Delhi or North Indian rural ‘tapori’ language, this film may be a revelation, or fill one with a sense of revulsion […]
The trend of last-minute insertion of an item song — by saleable artistes — during the end credits is a fairly new phenomenon. In Fuddu, the filmmakers need not have bothered with Sunny Leone and Sharman Joshi. The opening shot of the film gives the viewers a hint of the ensuing couple of hours. 44 […]