It’s the sequel to the 2017 sleeper hit ’47 Meters Down’, where a couple of girls in a cage crash down into the ocean, with oxygen depleting. This one, for obvious reasons has a suffix: Uncaged. It involves four girls – twice the number, but with half the thrills and excitement. Mia (Sophie Nelisse) and […]
‘Do animals too get judged on Judgement Day?’ asks the 10-year-old Obama (Ahmed Abdulhafiz) of his adoptive father. The naivety of the question has to be judged from the title, which translates to ‘Day of Judgement’. Beshay (Rady Gamal) is a 40-year-old, leprosy-afflicted, society-shunned Egyptian who ekes out a living at Garbage Mountain, collecting worthy scrap […]
Set in Madhopur, Bihar, in 2005, with joints having names like ‘Murgh Donald’ and ‘Shotgun Shaadi Band’ (the film, incidentally, was initially titled ‘Shotgun Shaadi’) abound in this unending drama of forced marriages from the girl’s side (for a change), in cases where exorbitant dowry is demanded. Hukam Singh (Javed Jaffrey), who specializes in such […]
45 years after ‘Gupt Gyan’, the first sex education Hindi film was released, debutante director Shilpi Dasgupta comes up with a film centred around a sex clinic. A few years ago, we had well-made flicks on the subject – Vicky Donor and Shubh Mangal Saavdhan. Sonakshi Sinha plays the protagonist Babita (Baby) Bedi, who inherits her […]
CGI-created wildlife, in all its glory, comes alive in the opening frames of The Lion King, exactly 25 years after the earlier version was exhibited to awestruck audiences worldwide. The occasion – Simba, the month-old lion cub, and the newly anointed heir to Pride Lands, is greeted with obeisance by his father, King Musafa’s subjects. […]
‘A world without the Beatles is infinitely worse’, we are told at one point in this film. Worse than what, we aren’t told. Doesn’t matter, because the film is about the Beatles, though not exactly. Confused? Then read on… Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is an amateur singer, working in a cash-and-carry in a coastal town in […]
There is no doubt that his recent – successive and overwhelming – victory notwithstanding, Narendra Damodardas Modi has been, inarguably the most charismatic leader the country has witnessed in the last two decades. Omung Kumar, who already has two biographies (Mary Kom, Sarbjit) under his belt was perhaps best qualified to helm this particular venture. This […]
No prizes for guessing why, but films on politics, national fervour and patriotism seem to be the flavour of the season, and the rule rather than the exception. RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), the abbreviation of the film’s title, begins with black-and-white frames of an agent being brutally tortured in an ISI detention cell. Mercifully, […]
It’s that time of the year – the “get me to the baug on time,” time. The time when the monthly budget goes awry, and if it is a family wedding, it goes absolutely ballistic. The marginal utility of the bank simply does not seem to diminish. Carl Menger who propounded the theory of Marginal […]