Subhash K Jha reviews
200 reviews of Indian films, average rating 3.4/5.
Guns, girls, grime and glory come together in a layered tale of corruption, politics and kinetic camaraderie.
Read the full reviewIt is impossible to believe that this war epic has been directed by a first-time filmmaker.How can a virgin artiste conceive such a vivid portrait of the rape of a civilization? This isn't really a film.
Read the full reviewDarr@The Mall is done with less stress on savagery than the genre favours.
Read the full reviewThis could not have been an easy film to make. Applaud the director for flavouring the Indian heartland with a plot that reads like pulp fiction but feels like a slice of ugly Indian history.
Read the full reviewSince its protagonists are largely loathsome in their self serving attitude, this is not an easy film to like .
Read the full reviewTo come across a film with so many talented actors all under one roof is a delightful experience.
Read the full reviewLuckily the film never needs to run into any mortifying roadblocks.It's a smooth ride all the way .
Read the full reviewEarthy robust and virile Desi Kattey is the macho gun gaan that fans of Anurag Kashyap and SanjayGupta's cinema would identify with. If you like stories about boys on a rampage this one will make your heart swell with manly pride.
Read the full reviewFireflies is an imperfect film about flawed characters who disguise their spiritual ennui in tailored postures of sophistication.It's not a great film.
Read the full reviewYou may not agree with the cheeky politics of Zed Plus. But you can't deny its integrity warmth and humour.
Read the full reviewThe film takes on the theme of greed and covetousness and turns it into a pleasant satire.
Read the full reviewBadlapur Boys mixes the newly-revived thrill of the game of kabbaddi with an old fashioned melodramatic plot. The authentic locations and a deep affinity with the grassroot level add to the rugged sporting spirit.
Read the full reviewSadly the humour is decidedly more dead in Crazy Kukkad Family than the patriarch who just refuses to die. The writing could have done with less lungs and more brains. This is one crazy family we don't want to run into .
Read the full reviewMore brilliant than the film is Vikram's multi-personality performance which holds the film together, loopholes and all.Vikramembraces the grotesque as possessively as the glorious.It doesn't matter which language you speak or…
Read the full reviewInstead of trying so desperately to weave the landscape into a plot, the director should have made a documentary on the coffee plantations of Coorg. For now, I am off coffee.
Read the full reviewBadmaashiyan revels in an innocuous irreverence. It's an original and frequently funny comedy of ongoing errors where various characters including a wholesome conscience-stricken girl (Gunjan Malhotra) , a hilariously…
Read the full reviewAs you watch the talented but largely anchorless actor Vinay Pathak slip easily into the part of the real-life freedom fighter Gaur Hari Das , you feel he is holding back when he could easily let go.
Read the full reviewSome effective acting by Rajit Kapoor as the disciplinarian principal who crumbles when faced with a domestic crisis ,and Jimmy Sheirgil as a cop who changes colours faster than the film's loose-limbed script can register, and a…
Read the full reviewWords of praise seem hollow when it comes to a film that describes a life so inspirational.
Read the full reviewPuli walks on the wild side and doesn't seem to care about getting crushed. Don't look for Baahubali here. You will be better off .
Read the full reviewThough not unwatchable Baaghi lays way too much stress on optical thrills.Forget feeling for the lovers, you wait for them to stop singing dancing and fighting long enough to give love a chance.This is a narrative so busy having…
Read the full reviewThough the film flounders in the over-dramatic pauses in the plot it manages to hold its precarious narrative in place almost all the way.
Read the full reviewIn Bollywood dreams die first. But such a rare film on the subject must not be allowed to die.
Read the full reviewSahi Dhande Galat Bande is a kind of unique effort. It teases the conscience awake. It's a warm and honest film that looks with unblinking directness at issues which are more relevant now than ever.
Read the full reviewSahi Dhande Galat Bande is a kind of unique effort. It teases the conscience awake. It's a warm and honest film that looks with unblinking directness at issues which are more relevant now than ever.
Read the full reviewMissing On A Weekend is a film in a hurry. Abhishek keeps the weekender plot moving at a brisk, if not breathless, trot.
Read the full reviewIt is the underused Purbi Joshi as Himesh's overbearing girlfriend who steals the show. She imparts a sense of lived-in authenticity to her role, almost at times going beyond the script in search of her character's lost soul.
Read the full reviewIt's all too pretty, too predictable and too soft and gentle to make a lasting impact.
Read the full reviewFor all its faults Alif must be seen for its strong message on the importance of formal education for every child ,even if it means offending some who would rather have the young imprisoned in ignorance.
Read the full reviewTake a bow, Mr Bose. Poorna is not just a tale of the triumph of the human spirit. We all have a Poorna inside us waiting to conquer our own Everest.
Read the full reviewThis is an brave and bright film with its heart in the right place and its gaze refreshingly free of a gender bias fixed firmly at the crotch level.
Read the full reviewMenon is not impatient to tell Roshan Kalra's story. The narrative's pace in unhurried but never dull.
Read the full reviewThere is a very good reason why this interesting satire on petty crime and plummeting morals in Delhi is captioned "Season One".
Read the full reviewZero works . It celebrates incompleteness as no other movie in any language has ever done. Like the film, BauaaSingh isn't afraid to fail. He has the great immortal Sridevi telling him it's okay to fail. I couldn't ask for more.
Read the full reviewOld yet passionate, frail yet sublime, the estranged lovers in Yash Chopra's film are no ordinary love birds.
Read the full review"Swades" is a unique experiment with grassroots realism. It is so politically correct in its propagandist message that initially you wonder if the government of India funded the director's dream.
Read the full reviewHeart-warming in its sincerity and utterly wedded to the feeling of romantic integrity, "Jab We Met" is the kind of cinematic experience that is hard to come by in this day and age of smoky cynicism and borrowed rage.
Read the full review...is a sly, shimmering mirror of a dysfunctional society always craving for more... not knowing where the greed to be upwardly mobile finally ends.
Read the full reviewThis serial killing story badly needs bailing out. Kay Kay Menon with his strong, wry unsmiling presence brings grit to the feeble drama. Arbaaz Khan as his adversary in the police department has nothing much to do.
Read the full reviewThe most cherishable quality of this film, which tries to portray the cultural fabric and its tragic-comic resonances in a society trapped between the machinations of religion and politics, is its transparency.
Read the full reviewA mellow, mirthful and at times moving story of three north Indian migrants, “Barah Aana” may not be the ideal idea of an evening out or even an entertainer.
Read the full reviewHaunting and powerful in its depiction of a time when humanity is frozen in anguish and terror, “Firaaq” draws its tremendous strength from the screenplay and characters which seem to observe life’s keenest and meanest blows…
Read the full review“99” is not the film you’d have liked to see after such a long period of deprivation.Where you’d want a big burp-inducing pickled and pappadomed thali, “99” serves up a tangy appertif that you can nibble with pleasure but not…
Read the full reviewBaat Pakki is one of those tragic comedies that dont elicit a hint of humour.
Read the full review...is not just a film that opens up the tattered edges of Indian politics. It dares to walk right into the muck with restraint, vigour and some sensitivity. The film has some outstanding cinematography by Sachin Kumar Krishnan.
Read the full reviewWhile "Tere Bin Laden" is many notches above the run-of-the-mill satire, as a spectral swipe at Osama-phobia, Bush-bashing and global terrorism, this one doesn't quite make the cut.
Read the full reviewThe free-flowing enchantment induced by this film about the simmering discontent of a nation and a generation hurling into damnation is so real and yet so surreal, you wonder if there can ever be a film so filled with indignant…
Read the full reviewLoot looks like an unfinished product from a group of actors and technicians who lost their way in transit. This one should have ideally remained in the cans.
Read the full review“Kahaani” is one of those rare films that can easily lay claim to being a game-changer. And yet the narrative makes no claims.
Read the full reviewSocha Na Tha is an endearing effort to give a virgin twist to the boy-meets-girl theme. And though Abhay Deol is not quite the new dude to watch out for he does hint at a talent that could emerge in the future.
Read the full reviewThis is the only gangster film in loving memory with no punctuation marks. No shot in the entire larger-than-strife films on murky morality lasts longer than five seconds.
Read the full reviewYou wait for the horror to get sexy. Instead the sex gets progressively horrific. No Satan or its messenger can be as scary as Emraan Hashmi chewing on his two heroines' lips as though he has just relinquished vegetarianism.
Read the full reviewIn the clamorous clutter of releases this week, Cycle Kick stands out for being the least fashionable/trendy and the most original. Yes, it has its flaws – it is excessively syrupy in places and often amateurish in parts.
Read the full reviewSaheb Biwi Aur Gangster creates a world far removed from Guru Dutt’s classic, and yet the two works are miraculously joined at the hip. Almost every character from the Guru Dutt film is replicated if not parodied in Dhulia’s film.
Read the full reviewLet's first get the picture right. Contrary to what the trailers and promotional images tell is Fugly is not a Fukrey-friendly flick about four friends having a ball in life. This film means business.
Read the full reviewA long-delayed film but one that comes with its own baggage of silent merit, The Hangman hinges on a rather heart-wrenching irony.
Read the full reviewThere are as many coils, twists and tangles in the film’s plot as there are in Naseer’s wig, though the plot is not half as riveting as Naseer’s hair.
Read the full reviewIt constructs the dynamics of love and redemption from the rubble of a lost world . It gets its indomitable storytelling power from the writing and dialogues.
Read the full review...all said and done Heartless works within its ambitious realm of love, betrayal and mortality. It makes an endearing departure from routine romances about broken hearts and mended morale.
Read the full reviewBravo, Yashraj for bringing such exceptional new talent to our cinema.
Read the full reviewOne wouldn't like to see Zokkomon as a wasted effort. It pushes the envelope a little towards the right direction in providing entertainment for kids.
Read the full reviewHow and where does one begin to describe the infinite satisfaction of watching a film that emerges from the closet with some arresting and disturbing home-truths on what goes on when the lights are off ?Tiptoeing through the…
Read the full reviewShagird is not devoid of merit. The Patekar characters affinity to vintage film songs gives a centre to an otherwise-doddering tale of desperate corruption.
Read the full reviewKhap should be commended for attempting a socially-relevant theme with some amount of detachment and equanimity.
Read the full reviewYou leave the film with the painful sound of crashing dreams reverberating in your ears.
Read the full reviewSaheb Biwi Aur Gangster creates a world far removed from Guru Dutt's classic, and yet the two works are miraculously joined at the hip. Almost every character from the Guru Dutt film is replicated if not parodied in Dhulia's film.
Read the full reviewLakshmi is a powerfully told inspirational tale that doesnt brush the brutal reality of s**ual exploitation under the rug. It pulls out uncomfortable home truths.
Read the full reviewWhile credit must be given to writer-director Rumy Jaffery for focusing on the issue of corruption noble intentions don't necessarily make a notable work of art.
Read the full reviewAs an actor Vijay Raaz seldom lets down a film. Here he takes on the added responsibility of direction. He keeps the proceedings even-paced and free of techno-generated upheavals.
Read the full reviewThe partition has given us many memorable films. Kya Dilli Kya Lahore brings us a heart-warming, seriocomic parable on cross-border amity.
Read the full reviewYou may not be overwhelmed by Vishwanathan's satire. But you won't come away without a smile and smirk in this sly look-see at rural India where every second citizen is a certifiable attention-seeker.
Read the full reviewHawaa Hawaii is an extraordinary saga of ordinary lives, the kind we often pass by at traffic signals .Amole Gupte penetrates the heart mind soul and dreams of those unsung lives.
Read the full reviewSo who said the world of the makebelieve had to follow any rules? Yup, there is no business like show business. This whodunit means business.The suspense drama is bright, bouncy,believable and entertaining.
Read the full reviewHero-panti is a full-on paisa vasool Sajid Nadiadwala entertainer. It doesn't quite measure up to the requirements of the theme of honour killing that it so valiantly puts forward.
Read the full reviewHeropanti is a full-on ‘paisa vasool’ Sajid Nadiadwala entertainer. It doesn’t quite measure up to the requirements of the theme of honour killing that it so valiantly puts forward.
Read the full reviewCitylights would remain with me for a long time. Gripping glorious and unforgettable, it is a shattering life-changing experience.
Read the full reviewThis quirky charmer from first-time director Nitin Kakkar is fresh in vision and enchanting in execution.The only happy outcome of the cross-border divide is a heartwarming film such as this.As we often say about the Wagah…
Read the full reviewFilmistaan is neither for or against either country. It’s blissfully pro-Bollywood. So what happens when a struggling assistant director from India bonds with a CD pirate of Bollywood films in Pakistan?
Read the full reviewLight on top and substantial underneath, this is the Rang De Basanti of the post-Modi era.
Read the full reviewIn trying for a merger of mayhem and emotions the film finally falls apart like the shattered pieces of a broken heart. We expect so much and get so little. That's life.
Read the full reviewPizza is a fear fest with a yummy twist at the tale's end. Unlike other films of the horror genre this one doesn't depend on excessive gore to send shivers up our spine.
Read the full reviewKick toh banta hai, boss! The number of times the word 'kick' kicks into this heady cocktail of comedy and action, you'd think there's no word in the dictionary that gives our hero a greater kick than…well, kick.
Read the full reviewThe self-awarded 4 stars on its poster notwithstanding Singham Returns delivers quite punch-filled sequel to the cops-and-politicians game plan Shetty and Devgn had assembled in the original Singhammovie.
Read the full reviewA stellar cast only adds to this accomplished film's sense of creative propriety. Mardaani is a film that makes all the correct noises about child trafficking.
Read the full reviewSassy and slick, Raja Natwarwal is a con caper done up in playful shades and mischievous flavour. It's enjoyable while it lasts.
Read the full reviewMary Kom is a motivational masterpiece. From first frame to last it grips your senses and irrigates the parched corridors of your heart like very few bio-pics in recent times.
Read the full reviewHrishida won't recognize this as his Khubsoorat. But he won't disapprove of what has been done to his work.
Read the full reviewI came away with the baap-beti relationship rather than the love story. As for food, I craved for more. Burp re burp.
Read the full reviewEkkess Topon Ki Salaami deserves a 21-gun salute. It has a heart and it doesn't hesitate in letting it show.
Read the full reviewBang Bang gets the boredom quotient bang-on. The rest is all noise and fury about a diamond, Kohinoor no less, stolen from a British museum.
Read the full reviewVishal Bhardawaj's third Shakespearean sojourn is his best yet.Haider is like a painting viewed from the road inside an art gallery…distant yet vivid,unforgettable layered lifelike and yet exquisitely poetic.
Read the full reviewWild and wacky Tamanchey is an enjoyable rollercoaster rider about two mismatched criminals on the run who fall hopelessly in love. You know where this reckless couple is hurling to.
Read the full reviewIgnore the malicious comments on the film. Go see Sonali Cable. It is a very original and intelligent script, deftly edited and performed.
Read the full reviewFor all its sins of excesses HNY is a full-on paisa-vasool experience. It is a rollicking rumbustious ode to the spirit of whopping howling shrieking and bantering camaraderie.
Read the full reviewYou may not think much of the characters' shallow shindigs during the time of exceptional stress. But one thing is for sure. You've never seen anything like this in Hindi cinema.
Read the full reviewIf you love art and cinema, and cinema as art, then don't miss this one. The best film of the year.
Read the full reviewThe Shaukeens is a rib-tickling rumbustious sleaze-less comedy that Basu Chatterjee is likely to smile at.It's bound to make you laugh out loud . Unless you are Jackky Bhagnani.
Read the full reviewIf you love art and cinema, and cinema as art, then don't miss this one. The best film of the year.
Read the full reviewI have to admit Kill/Dil is a smaller disaster than Gunday.Ranveer who played one of the two buddies in the earlier films as well, is far more entertaining here. He's still way over the top.But here he is hammy in a pleasant way.
Read the full reviewAt times Happy Ending is a savagely wicked ,sinfully irreverent smart and sassy rom-com. At other times, it just doesn't move.
Read the full reviewEccentric in its own write–and that is not a typo–Dulal and Mainak, as played with unconditional fluency by Naveen Kasturia and MayankTiwari ,are what Jai and Veeru would have been if Sholay had been a film about Salim and Javed…
Read the full reviewEven though PK left me underwhelmed at times, there is no denying its utter sincerity of purpose.That feeling when you're effortlessly floating in the air….In PK director Raj Kumar Hirani makes us feel good about life.
Read the full reviewThis is a thriller which leaves us with a sense of utter futility about the quality of life that we lead.
Read the full reviewThis is a love story where most of the playing-time is devoted to the protagonists locked in a scuffle of the most physical and violent kind.
Read the full reviewBipasha Basu tries hard to infuse life in the inert plot. She fails,though we can't blame her.Even the stunning Kerala locales look listless when weighed against the cartoonish terror and lust of a pair which knows they are…
Read the full reviewBaby is one helluva roller coaster. Miss at your own risk.
Read the full reviewGoing back in time is never an easy task in cinema. Many have failed to court periodicity convincingly. Hawaizaada gets away with its flight into the mind of the man who dared to fly.
Read the full reviewHow long can you watch three good-looking people doing the dumbest of things in the misguided hope that they would scare you with their propensity to think with their private parts in public places.
Read the full reviewThis is a dark, desperate, sinister, gutsy and gripping thriller which may not tilt you to the edge of the seat.
Read the full reviewKhamoshiyan makes you shiver. But not in fear. It just makes you shake in embarrassment for all the ghosts and spirits who are so royally snubbed and insulted by such travesties of terror.
Read the full review'Roy is an interesting-shaded in pastel colours and a tender timbre the debutant director Vikramjit Singh undertakes an intriguing journey where the real mocks the reel and the creator merges into his creation.But finally the…
Read the full reviewShamitabh is not just a homage to the great Bachchan baritone it is also a magnificent ode to the theme of human mortality . The love of Bollywood (sorry, Mr Bachchan) runs across the plot in frenzied rhythms.
Read the full reviewBadlapur takes the cinema of eye for an eye to a new high. The feral ferocious face-offs between Varun and Nawazuddin captured in the colour of wrath and doom by cinematographer Anil Mehta, confer a vital visceral velocity to the…
Read the full review...may lack the subtle cynicism and insinuated acrimony of Shimit Amin's original. It is nonetheless a gripping gaatha dunked in gore and violence about the blurred line between the law and lawlessness.
Read the full reviewChittagong doesn't portray the Britishers as only ogres and sadists. Thank Goodness for some restraint in the conflict. For cinema to accommodate history, there must be a sense of balance between drama and authenticity.
Read the full reviewDavid is a world shot in a deep-focus darkness lit up at the edges by a sense of joie de vivre that the characters preserve even when their soul is under siege. Nambiar bleeds brilliancy into the film.
Read the full reviewIt is all fun to watch-loud, rumbustious, over the top, ear-splitting fun provided you are a Singham-Dabangg aficionado, and a Sanjay Dutt fan.
Read the full reviewThere is much to commend in this dark tale of a woman's night out with psychotic killers.
Read the full reviewSometimes ailing and healing become a unified process. Just as suffering is a precursor to wisdom, so too a film about the curative process can...
Read the full reviewA disarmingly frank sex comedy that knocks the pants off all moral policing and strips the holier-than-thou brigade to the bare essentials.Gulshan Devaiah is delightful as the guy who just cant keep it in his pants.
Read the full reviewThis is arguably the best political thriller that Bollywood has so far given us.
Read the full reviewBarkhaa rains down a rhapsody of drama and romance. A heartwarming at times touching tale of an innocent girl's journey into the world of deceit, compromise and corruption, it echoes Raj Kapoor's Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Kamal…
Read the full reviewFor a film about losers "John Day" proves to be a paradoxically profitable movie-viewing experience for the audience.
Read the full reviewLakshmi is a powerfully told inspirational tale that doesnt brush the brutal reality of s**ual exploitation under the rug. It pulls out uncomfortable home truths.
Read the full reviewA scintillating synthesis of the cerebral and the sensual, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is a rare Bollywood whodunit cooked on the slow burner at a tantalizing temperature.Dibakar Banerjee's Calcutta of the 1940s pulsates with heart…
Read the full reviewIt may not be revolutionary in concept or path-breaking in execution. But make no mistake. Ek Paheli Leela is the surprise of the year.
Read the full review...has some lucid moments of self-questioning where the religious divide is pungently scrutinized and satirized. Hilarity at the cost of organized religion is not an easy target to achieve for any filmmaker.
Read the full reviewOur enjoyment-quotient matches `Boss` Akshay`s step-by-step, scene-by-scene, frame-by-frame chuckle for chuckle.
Read the full reviewGabbar Is Back knocks the bottom off the action genre with a breathless ode to Swach Bharat. The film may appear louder-than-life to the dainty-hearted.
Read the full reviewBombay Velvet for all its sins of excesses, is the gangster epic that Bollywood was waiting to unleash.
Read the full reviewThere are bad films. Then there are bad films masquerading as works of art.
Read the full reviewABCD2 is the happiest film of the year. Remo's coming-of-'edge' dance-and-drama razzmatazz is suffused with a steep quotient of what the French call joie de vivre and what we down here refer to ascheez badi mast mast.Despite its…
Read the full reviewThe duo does nothing without seeking backslapping punchlines in their violent arguments. It's almost as if they're two stand-up comedians seeking an audience.
Read the full reviewSecond Hand Husband is an impatient film. It wants to cramp the destinies of all its characters into one range of vision and quickly get them to sort out the marital mess that surrounds the storytelling like excessive topping in…
Read the full reviewDrishyam is the fourth remarkable film this July. The story of an ordinary family under extraordinary stress, Kamat puts his finger on the pulse of the original Malayalam film to convert into into an all-new gripping thriller.
Read the full reviewGo , laugh a while at the engaging antics of our two suicide bomber heroes. They are a riot. No pun intended.
Read the full reviewBrothers may not appeal to those who look for laughter in times of despair.There is barely room for a whiff of a smile in this dark sanguinary and seductive tale of destruction and redemption told in a free-wheeling style that…
Read the full reviewThe creative zest to tell a rock-solid story in a language that is both virile and sensitive comes from director Kabir Khan himself who films S Hussain Zaidi's fantasy novel with a reliable quotient of compelling scenes and…
Read the full reviewThe creative zest to tell a rock-solid story in a language that is both virile and sensitive comes from director Kabir Khan himself who films S Hussain Zaidi's fantasy novel with a reliable quotient of compelling scenes and…
Read the full reviewOnce a while there comes along a man who genuinely wants to change the world we live in. Manjunath is the hard hitting conscientious story of one one braveheart who tried to make a difference. And paid with his life.
Read the full reviewKatti Batti is not a great film. But it's done with a lot of heart. There are many limp episodes in the plot, and marginal actors who come and go preteding to be more important to the plot than they really are.
Read the full reviewIt's a hardhitting unconstitutional message, packaged and projected with a precarious panache peculiar to Sanjay Gupta's cinema. If you've ever wondered what edge-of-the-seat thriller meant, here's your chance to find out.
Read the full reviewGunashekar has recreated the 13th century with magnificent dexterity. This is a milestone of a film with a powerful message on women's empowerment.
Read the full reviewIt's all a vehicle to enhance Salman's image as the messiah of the downtrodden. He is one helluva angry man who's not just anti-establishment but anti-antipathy. He implores the public to rise and revolt against humbug.
Read the full reviewIt's all a vehicle to enhance Salman's image as the messiah of the downtrodden. He is one helluva angry man who's not just anti-establishment but anti-antipathy. He implores the public to rise and revolt against humbug.
Read the full reviewShaandaar is awfully written and indifferently directed enough to put you off destination weddings forever.
Read the full reviewA word about the absolutely technique-less technique applied to the film.
Read the full reviewIt takes a while to figure out why this deliciously yummy concoction about urban aspirations is called `One By Two`
Read the full reviewCharles Sobhraj gets an unexpectedly arresting lease of life in this gutsy lucid and robust bio-pic . Director Prawaal Raman sweeps us into Sobhraj's exploits .Once in, there's no way out. Suffer the seduction.
Read the full reviewFinally though you come away from the film wondering what our cinema is coming to and where is it heading. Guddu Ki Gun is a one-line joke carried too far. Guddu can't keep it down. This film just can't keep it up.
Read the full review...is solidly grounded in family values. At a time when the joint family is getting fragmented here is a film from two people who would die for their family. For Sooraj and Salman, it's all about loving the family.And we love it..
Read the full reviewNo matter how you look at it, the film and every rich resplendent moment in it, belongs to Parineeti Chopra.
Read the full reviewTamasha is not free of glaring drawbacks. The narrative tends to humour itself to the extent of supreme selfindulgence and the pace when Deepika goes missing, is languid.
Read the full reviewHere is every Indians ultimate tolerance test: sit through this film. I dare you.
Read the full reviewThis is a wonderful wonderful film with moments and performances that I will cherish forever. What stays long after the film is its admirable equanimity in portraying gender equations.
Read the full reviewKajarya is not quite the long-legged social statement that the film's well-researched plot would suggest. But it has its heart in the right place. And its theme of mass gender annihilation makes our blood freeze .
Read the full reviewChalk N Duster is not great cinema by any stretch of the imagination. It is often crude and unapologetic in its melodramatic pitch. But its heart is in the right place.
Read the full reviewNo expense has been spared to ensure that Girish Tairani post-debut vehicle catches the audiences' fancy.
Read the full reviewI wish I could say, go have a blast, to stay in the mood of the Osama-Obama war to finish. But really all I can say is, not again please? Thank you.
Read the full reviewThere are passages in Zubaan where we see the director's vision of an individual held ransom by his ambitions, and we are shaken in a rejuvenating way.
Read the full reviewIt is unequivocally evident from the start of this dark gripping thriller about damnation and tentative redemption that Kamat is a director who understands John's physicality as well as his emotional strengths.
Read the full reviewOnce in while you tend to overlook the glaring aberrations in a story that is so well-intended that it makes you wonder: why didn't someone make this film before?
Read the full reviewThe comic world of Santa Banta Pvt Ltd is suffused in an exasperating chaos. You want to be amused. You wait for punchlines. There is not one gag here that would evoke even a mild laughter in the audience.
Read the full reviewThis is not film about a neat denouement. Messy lives, sordid relationships, betrayal and revenge run through the veins of the film. Barbara Cartland would have frowned. But Agatha Christie would have assuredly approved.
Read the full reviewThis morally uplifting inspirational heartwarming fable is a must watch, if only to see how difficult it is to be simple.And how much we miss those simply told tales of life byHrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee.
Read the full reviewNo, you really can't pluck holes in Nagesh Kukunoor's enchanting excursion into the heart of innocence and salvation.
Read the full reviewDLKH is a heartwarming charmer suffused with that lived-in feeling which seemed to have vanished in the run to that glitzy shallowness where a dhoom or a bang-bang were seen as viewer-friendly explosions.
Read the full reviewThough this is a film about painful revelations Dear Dad is not a sad film. It doesn't celebrate human frailty. But it tells us it's okay to be what we are, who we are and never mind why we are what we are.
Read the full reviewOne Night Stand is easy on the eye and not heavy on the heart despite the dramatic potential of the plot.This an erotic emotional excursion that makes me curious to see what the debutant direct would attempt next.Hopefully a…
Read the full reviewNot since Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox have I seen an Indie film addressing itself to the ageless issue of human desolation and individual grief with such warmth, dignity grace honesty and humour.
Read the full reviewThis film is certainly not for the squeamish or the weak at heart. But for those who are familiar with Ram GopalVarma's appetite for the abominable, Veerappan is just the beast to grab at your nearest theatre.
Read the full reviewTe3n grips us from the first frame. It is a thriller with a heart, soul and most exceptionally, a conscience.
Read the full reviewWith fresher dialogues, more credible situations and a less clunky attitude to that thing called love Do Lafzon Ki Kahani could have been a far more gratifying ode to romantic yearnings.
Read the full reviewRaaz Reboot is not quite that scary. No way! We are way too cynical and habituated to the conventions of the horror to be shaken to our core.
Read the full reviewThis is film that doesn't flinch from the fearful ugliness of existence. It's also a brutal and haunting reminder of how rapidly the lines dividing the law-makers and law-breakers are disappearing.
Read the full reviewThough I found Dishoom to be way too formulistic to make as strong an impression as Rohit's directorial debut film Desi Boyz , there is virtue in vice. Dishoom proves it.
Read the full reviewGreat Great Masti is stuck in a time-warp.Innuendos , comparing penises to bananas and referring to pubic hair asjhaad(bush), are no longer cool even in school back-benches.Shockingly the female actors are shown to participate in…
Read the full reviewSee the film for its sincerity and passion the the dedication to recreate an era and aura long gone and irretrievable.
Read the full reviewTiger is a laugh riot in conveying the spellbound bewilderment of an ordinary guy who can suddenly fly….The narrative keeps pace with its sincerely committed hero most of the way, slowing down reverentially for an animation…
Read the full reviewSeeds of discontent and disorientation are sown in uncomfortable alcoves all across the film. The narration moves roughly and restlessly from one episode to another. The editing is abysmally patchy.
Read the full reviewParched celebrates the joie de vivre of shared grief among women who live their wretched lives on the edge and are only too happily to topple over when pushed and provoked.
Read the full reviewInteresting music pieces(Vishal-Shekhar), a furiously implosive background score(SouravRoy) and a principal cast that believes in the plot's quintessential rags-to-riches logic tends to keep the storytelling afloat.However Banjo…
Read the full reviewMirzya makes us feel with time-stopping stillness when the only sound we hear is that of two hearts beating, that this is only was to feel love, with a ferociousness that precludes options.No wonder we FALL in love.
Read the full reviewRock On 2 is pretty much the most engaging and authentic sequel I've seen coming out of Bollywood in recent times. If as Shakespeare volunteered, music is actually the food of love, then this film is a feast.
Read the full reviewForce 2 is not a great one for spreading the message of peace.
Read the full reviewOk Jaanu is far superior to the original Mani Ratnam film . Visually rich and textured to accommodate words and emotions in beautiful places in the heart, this is a tender and seductive return to form for a director who had lost…
Read the full reviewIf only Jolly LLB 2 didn't fumble at crucial plot points. Awkwardness sits on the proceedings.
Read the full reviewIn creating a world where women rule the roost, the film misses the wood for the trees. Or sex for the sleaze.
Read the full reviewNoor is not one of the best films on journalistic ethics. It doesn't do to the contemporaryMumbai media world what the Paul Newman-Sally Field starrer Absence Of Malice did 30 years ago .
Read the full reviewWatch Sarkaar 3 for the way Varma frames the familial feud in flames of fury. The performances are largely effective specially those byRonit Roy and Amit Sadh.
Read the full reviewHalf Girlfriend is a gorgeous-looking film with no real relevance beyond its Valentinian boundaries, with plenty of unspoken chemistry between the lead pair.
Read the full reviewNot every movie experience has to be motivated by a socio-political purpose. Sometimes you just need to have fun at the movies.
Read the full reviewIf you miss "Queen", you may never get a chance to know how Rani journeyed into self-actualization. And that would be your loss entirely.
Read the full reviewOur thoughts exactly as we go from a feeling of watching a cleverly constructed film to a sense of over-constructed but nevertheless engaging spry spy comedy.
Read the full reviewWriter-director Syed Ahmad Afzal has told a story that seems destined to be put on screen. The politics of our disembodied democracy is sexily sketched.
Read the full reviewI would call it a tour de force but for the abject absence of flamboyance in the presentation.
Read the full reviewThe film's emotional affluence is matched by its technical finesse.
Read the full reviewPiku is an exceptionally intimate character study.The three principal characters bare their frailties on camera as though they were part of a reality show that had no cameras. The emotions are raw and unabashed.
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