Suparna Sharma reviews
69 reviews of Indian films, average rating 2.4/5.
'Chaarfutiya Chhokare' is built around a mildly interesting germ of an idea, 12-13 year old boys taking to crime because of human trafficking.
Read the full reviewThere are interesting aerial shots, and the camera is always in motion. The kabaddi playing boys are not bad either.
Read the full reviewGour Hari Dastaan: The Freedom File is a very solemn, very onerous, very sanctimonious harangue about many, many things. All things, in fact. But at its core it's a film about director Anant Mahadevan and writer C.P.
Read the full reviewThere is no reason for 'Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke' to exist except that producer-director Jyotin Goel's son, Dev Goel, is now of kissable age and has acquired muscles — feats that daddy dear thinks deserve a public audience.
Read the full reviewUnlike director Sanjay Gupta's Kaante (2002), which was a rather dingy copy of Reservoir Dogs, Quadri's film is a homage to that film.
Read the full reviewAll the time weeping — everybody weeps one by one and then they weep in unison and then again they weep some more, solo, till we come to the point where some intense, quivering sort of love happens that makes us want to slip into…
Read the full reviewThe film is flawed, not just in pacing, but also some characters.
Read the full reviewDaas Dev is more interested in telling us the story of power, than the story of ishq...
Read the full reviewSoni, who has written and directed My Birthday Song, is so in love with his own creation that he wanted his presence to be felt throughout.
Read the full reviewIt is both a terrifying and inspiring story and Kukunoor tells it with almost a schizophrenic cinematic narrative that is grim, claustrophobic and gory one moment, and the next breezy, airy and luminous.
Read the full reviewTill Dawood Ibrahim dies of old age, or is claimed by one of his own, we'll keep dreaming of catharsis. But director Nikhil Advani feels differently.
Read the full reviewMickey Virus is an okay film that's powered by its first half, when it is with Dilli ke bachche who wear funny T-shirts, speak sadak-chaap language, but are accomplished and cool.
Read the full review...Krrish 3 doesn't soar. In fact, Krrish doesn't even fly about a lot. And so he doesn't scoop us up either, and lets us off a bit disappointed after promising an exciting, thrilling ride.
Read the full review...is stretched, dragged and pulled in all sorts of irrelevant directions just so it covers the remainder time. Prabhu Dheva's films are infantile fantasies that seek to gratify the fragile male ego and libido.
Read the full reviewShaadi Ke Side Effects is a greater film on screen than it is on paper because it has the talented Mr Akhtar and Ms Balan. Both bring warmth and a mature, knowing naughtiness to their interactions. They are fun to be with.
Read the full reviewKatiyabaaz is a funny, moving and very well-researched documentary that's definitely worth watch. It's also deeply reassuring. As the wires of bureaucracy cross with political live-wires, a bulb goes off — Ritu Maheshwari.
Read the full reviewVisually the film is seductive – pink saris in sepia dehaat — but its message is scary. While I had severe problems with its glorification of vigilante justice, there were a few moments when I was both thrilled and moved.
Read the full reviewThe entire film is a conversation between the two men, with just two more characters appearing. It is beautifully sparse and keeps us more than just interested. We are involved.
Read the full reviewThe listlessness then is evenly spread. There's a certain decrepit feel to almost every scene, interaction and character that's not easy to accomplish when you have young boys fist-bumping each other.
Read the full reviewHate Story 2's story is the barest-minimum required for a revenge saga. It has none of the layers, substance of the original. And its characters are like chess pieces programmed to play single-line roles: bad man, bruised girl.
Read the full reviewPizza has all the horror paraphernalia -- dead bodies with axe embedded in their heads, little girls with dark circles calling out papa, chaabi-waale eerie toys, doors that slam shut, phones that are dead. Even a red doll.
Read the full reviewIn the film's dull menu the only item of interest is Aditya Roy Kapoor. Despite the complete lack of reciprocity from Parineeti, he is able to get intimate with her and turn the screen into a pool of feelings.
Read the full reviewThough Charudutt Acharya's characters in Sonali Cable have stories and context, his film flails about, unable to decide what it is.
Read the full reviewThe film's high point is seeing Ravi Varma's paintings. It establishes that the painter-artist's life is a powerful story that needs to be told by a better, more accomplished director and actors.
Read the full review'Kill/Dil' flirts with the idea of having rotten men as its lead pair. It even seems to enjoy their bloody bonhomie. But it chickens out. What a shame! And what a waste!
Read the full reviewWhat's also very disturbing here is that even when the film is saying something important, it's surrounded by conventional and corny stuff. Weighted down by cliches, the film often feels tiresome.
Read the full review...for the last 10 or 15 minutes of 'Baby', it keeps you on the edge and sends you off feeling happy. But, too little, too late Pandey has written the story, script and directed 'Baby'.
Read the full reviewBarring a few brief peccadilloes, the film is now homage to the redeeming powers of love and the institution of marriage.
Read the full reviewQueen is a well-meaning, well-mannered film that's funny and packs in small, elevating, but palatable messages. It challenges nothing.
Read the full reviewRagini MMS 2 has the standard plot of film within a film. But it's been used to great effect and impact here. Has just the right amount of mambo-jambo to carry the conceit of horror films forward.
Read the full reviewBhoothnath Returns tries to strike a high moral tone in its social messaging, but creatively it doesn't flinch from being crassly exploitative.
Read the full reviewA review of Guddu Rangeela in its own tone and style would simply say, with a smilie: GR is neither rangeela, nor very guddu-guddu. And for this the satisfied team of Subhash Kapoor and Arshad Warsi are to blame.
Read the full reviewOho! But we've done this before. Many times. So many times. Family. Bichde bhai... Same-to-same. Ok-ok. Let's do different. Make them Christian. Boxers. Ya! But how will audience samjho? Tattoos. Many. Very many. And Cross.
Read the full reviewAamir Khan and the film's director have Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock on their mind. They believe that some exaggerated posturing and a bowler's hat will get the job done. It's doesn't.
Read the full reviewHero rhymes with zero and it's tempting, for the sake of the headline and because in the first five minutes of the film my hand went lurking about in search of an eject button, to just write off this film as a big, fat zero.
Read the full reviewBased on a brilliantly layered script and screenplay by Behl and Sharat Katariya, Titli's plot is linear, but it's made up of merging, giddy spirals of deceit, lies and crime, all of which are devoted to winding down many lives.
Read the full review...despite its Adults Only certification, doesn't spend much time in dingy bedrooms, or with the girls.
Read the full reviewBang Bang! is pure Hrithik porn. A star as big and stunning as Hrithik needs grand outings.
Read the full reviewGhayal Once Again uses the dhai kilo ka haath myth, Sunny's goodwill, reputation and moral underpinnings, but, it's a mediocre film. A much lesser film than the original it is leaning on.
Read the full reviewMubarakan is a very entertaining, enjoyable comedy of bad manners. It is politically incorrect and completely in control of its screwball plot, gags, funny asides, mental lines and sparkling characters.
Read the full reviewMy only humble request is that the next director who gets to sign Ms Leone in a title role and the film is certified A, no time must be wasted in telling a story.
Read the full reviewBhoothnath Returns tries to strike a high moral tone in its social messaging, but creatively it doesn't flinch from being crassly exploitative.
Read the full reviewIttefaq entrusts all its cracking scenes and lines to an efficient ensemble of actors.
Read the full reviewRajamouli has reserved all the grander and grandstanding for later, after interval. That's when the film stands up and begins to strut like an epic.
Read the full reviewSanjay Dutt's screen time is too less to feel his presence in the film especially in the first half.
Read the full reviewWatch it for not just an incredible performance by Hooda, but also how smart biopics can be made. Not all have to be like Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya.
Read the full reviewWatch it for not just an incredible performance by Hooda, but also how smart biopics can be made. Not all have to be like Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya.
Read the full reviewThe motive of this tacky, third-rate propaganda piece is all too apparent in the story it wants us to go home with.
Read the full reviewThe film's high point is seeing Ravi Varma's paintings. It establishes that the painter-artist's life is a powerful story that needs to be told by a better, more accomplished director and actors.
Read the full reviewWeaving in this typically Indian absurdity, that we all get and perpetuate, to a rather banal moment is what makes Mukti Bhavan a must watch.
Read the full reviewThough the film is emotionally unsure, it manages to extract some lovely performances from its sturdy ensemble of supporting actors.
Read the full reviewVarun can do action, comedy, romance, dance, look queer, yet in all of these it's also very apparent that he's faking it, pretending.
Read the full reviewGoes cuckoo after a crafty, confident start...Irrfan Khan, of course, is the king of sardonic humour, with snarky lines delivered straight-faced.
Read the full reviewOctober is about love, of course. But more than that, it's about the inevitable grief that love leads to.
Read the full reviewAnd as I walked away from Mulk, marvelling at its crackling drama, high emotional quotient, its gritty appeal, whistle-worthy dialogues and politics, after a long time I doffed my hat to Bollywood.
Read the full reviewSatyameva Jayate's plot is twisted to hide some nice surprises, and its killing scenes, though daffy, are bloody and have enough filmy drama to keep us engaged.
Read the full reviewIf, post-Diwali, you are in desperate need for a deep nap, check yourself into a show of Duds of Hindostan.
Read the full reviewBut more than that, Nakkash is important — because it's a good thing when movies refuse to let us slip into complacency.
Read the full reviewVodka Diaries is a very bad, very poor, often-incoherent and illogical pirated copy of Shutter Island.
Read the full reviewPadmaavat is offensively chauvinistic, blatantly right-wing, and quite unabashedly anti-Muslim.
Read the full reviewBaaghi 2's plot is simple. It's also a copy. And yet three writers were required to collaborate on its screenplay.
Read the full reviewOmerta is an honourable film, but it often looses track of itself as it goes off on tangents so obscure and weak.
Read the full reviewManu Rishi, who has written the film, has his heart in the right place, but seems to have misplaced his brain.
Read the full reviewThis ploy, of a child's courage to look death in the eyes and talk to us about it, has some power and function at the beginning. But when it goes on and on, it starts to grate.
Read the full reviewGiven the amount of time devoted to action sequences in Saaho, Prabhas' moves have no smoothness or finesse. As he lumbers, his thighs thunder. And when he's not fighting, he looks pasty, his body is droopy and language languid.
Read the full reviewRewriting historical defeats with patriotic fervour...
Read the full reviewWhen Rajini Sir arrives, it's as if the screen itself folds from both ends to bend down in a respectful namaskaram.
Read the full reviewThe recent history of the Kashmir and Kashmiris -- Pandits and Muslims -- deserves a humane film by an honest and skilled writer-director. This is not that film.
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