Fate brings together strangers Shiv Kumar (Naseeruddin Shah) and Tara Deshpande (Kalki Koechlin) when their respective spouses end up in the same hospital. Shiv and Tara are oblivion to what life has in store but learn to embrace hope and wait. Endlessly! Despite the dark premise, the film is sprinkled with generous doses of humour ...
Fate brings together strangers Shiv Kumar (Naseeruddin Shah) and Tara Deshpande (Kalki Koechlin) when their ...
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From Gulzar to Sahir Ludhyanvi, writers in Hindi films have given us some of the most soulful, evocative poetry. We’ve put together the most heartwarming/heartbreaking verses/poems in Bollywood movies. Hear them out on YouTube if you can. 1. Ardh Satya (1983) Chakravyuh mein ghusne se pehle, kaun tha mein aur kaisa tha, yeh mujhe ...
From Gulzar to Sahir Ludhyanvi, writers in Hindi films have given us some of the ...
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Noted critic Roger Ebert’s words “Movies are like a machine that generates empathy” resonate strongly when we watch works like Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh. Set in the monumental Indian city Aligarh, the film empathetically visualizes the hypocritical treatment meted to Shrinivas Ramachandra Siras by one of nation’s most renowned universities. Professor Siras was suspended from his ...
Noted critic Roger Ebert’s words “Movies are like a machine that generates empathy” resonate strongly ...
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Vikram Kumar’s Surya-starrer 24 is the kind of film that would be fiercely defended by casual movie-goers, especially in the current array of mediocre entertainment movies in Tamil. ’A high-concept film with a marvelous execution’, ‘a good mix of romance and sci-fi,’ ‘Suriya is back on the rise and Samantha is so bright & beautiful’ ...
Vikram Kumar’s Surya-starrer 24 is the kind of film that would be fiercely defended by ...
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One of the most tragic events in the history of India and Pakistan, the Partition of 1947 is fraught with stories of grief, pain, horror, disbelief. Several Indian filmmakers have explored this theme. Few such films, however, are known of, from across the border. A lot of these stories have gone unspoken, unheard. Exploring one ...
One of the most tragic events in the history of India and Pakistan, the Partition ...
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Dear Shahrukh Khan, After watching Fan, I’m rather skeptical of saying I’m your biggest fan. A doting, well-wishing fan, nevertheless! Quotidian, I know but true for whatever it’s worth. I fell in love with you in 1989. Circus. I was four then and didn’t know what love meant but I secretly relished getting an eye-full ...
Dear Shahrukh Khan, After watching Fan, I’m rather skeptical of saying I’m your biggest fan. ...
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Alfred Hitchcock once said, “the length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” But that hardly holds true for Hindi cinema. Our Bollywood musicals unapologetically stretch up to two and a half to three hours. Sometimes, more! Now, the duration may not have always have to do with the ...
Alfred Hitchcock once said, “the length of a film should be directly related to the ...
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Kipling’s Jungle Book is a work of art and the most recent cinematic adaptation takes care to stay in the background and simply provide a platform for Kipling to reach out and tell us his timeless story. “Imagine that you are seated before a fire. You are in a glade of a great forest; towering ...
Kipling’s Jungle Book is a work of art and the most recent cinematic adaptation takes ...
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There’s an understated ease in how the characters play out and the screenplay unfolds. Kapoor and Sons isn’t your staple mainstream Bollywood. The characters are unerringly drawn, real and relatable. The director (Shakun Batra) doesn’t start defining them as soon as he introduces them to us. He lets them be. They mold along the way ...
There’s an understated ease in how the characters play out and the screenplay unfolds. Kapoor ...
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The countdown begins! 48 hours to go (as I write this). One of my most awaited films of 2016 (because Sidharth Malhotra!) Kapoor and Sons is set to hit the screens this Friday. The trio – Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, Fawad Khan – were in town (Le Meridian, Delhi) yesterday to promote the ensemble family ...
The countdown begins! 48 hours to go (as I write this). One of my most ...
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Around the release of Neerja, we caught up with Shabana Azmi and Sonam Kapoor for a quick conversation about their film, their journey in the industry and more! Here are the excerpts: Sonam, this is your first biopic where you play a titular role/solo lead. How different or difficult was the experience compared to ...
Around the release of Neerja, we caught up with Shabana Azmi and Sonam Kapoor for ...
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French/Turkish filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s poignant début Mustang, is about the socially mandated sexualization of women. It opens with a premonitory voice-over: “Everything changed in the blink of an eye. One minute we were quiet. The next we all danced.” Set in a small Turkish coastal village by the Black Sea, Mustang is narrated by a ...
French/Turkish filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s poignant début Mustang, is about the socially mandated sexualization of ...
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We caught up with Alia Bhatt at Dusit Deverana, Gurgaon, where she was promoting her film Humpty Sharma ki Dulhaniya, to talk about her journey so far in Bollywood, her relationship with Varun Dhawan, her favorite directors and more! Student of the Year. Highway. 2 States. 3 films. 3 hits. How has the experience ...
We caught up with Alia Bhatt at Dusit Deverana, Gurgaon, where she was promoting her ...
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There are two types of people who dive (whether voluntarily or not) into a Quentin Tarantino movie. The first are those who brace themselves for the blood and gore and violence about to come, half-gritting their teeth; and the other are those who look forward to it, who realize that these very signature elements of ...
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Dipankar Sarkar
