Interview: Karan Johar
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View ArticleReaders Write In #455: Kashmir Files Part II
By Aman Basha Part II of this piece: https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2022/03/20/readers-write-in-452/ The continuation and conclusion of my Interview with Ahmed Ali Fayyaz Q: Some people attribute...
View ArticleInterview: Vidya Balan
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View Article10 Questions: Vidya Balan
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View ArticleInterview: Yash (KGF / KGF: 2)
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View ArticleInterview: Prashanth Neel (KGF / KGF: 2)
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View ArticleIn Tushar Jalota’s inconsistently written ‘Dasvi’, Abhishek Bachchan is a...
Spoilers ahead… Things just happen. There’s an easy-breezy air about the whole thing, and the film is an easy watch. But it’s hard to take anything or anyone seriously. In Tushar Jalota’s Dasvi...
View ArticleIn ‘KGF: Chapter Two’, director Prashant Neel and his star Yash deliver a...
Spoilers ahead… The film works at two levels. One, we get a huge action spectacle with inventive set pieces. And two, we get a style-filled masala movie, filled with whistle-worthy moments. Prashanth...
View ArticleReaders Write In #459: Self reflective movies and their charm
By Kartik Iyer Richard Linklater was working on Apollo 10 ½ : A Space Age Childhood since about 2018-19. I remember the earliest story broke when Linklater’s production company, Detour, published a...
View ArticleGowtam Tinnanuri’s ‘Jersey’, with Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur, is generic...
Spoilers ahead… The film is Shahid’s show. It is one of his finest performances. He underplays every moment and adds a few more shades to the character than the screenplay does. Gowtam Tinnanuri has...
View ArticleAjay Devgn’s ‘Runway 34’ transforms a tense and horrifying real-life event...
Spoilers ahead… All of this should have been tense, nail-biting stuff – but it looks generic due to the generic visual effects, the generic dialogues, and the generic characters. The first half of...
View ArticleAhmed Khan’s ‘Heropanti 2’ has some good stunts but everything else is bad
Spoilers ahead… Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the villain, a magician named Laila. The actor has a lot of fun with this part, which is tailor-made for hamming. Eight years after the first Heropanti, which...
View ArticleReaders Write In #462: Gangubai Kathiawadi – Impotent Pomposity
By Karthik Iyer Vijay Raaz’s character, Raziabai, symbolizes Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi. Dolled up, impotent pomposity. Raaz has no real use in the movie, just like the movie has...
View ArticleRaj Singh Chaudhary’s ‘Thar’, on Netflix, is a neo-Western that sets up an...
Spoilers ahead… None of these characters or situations are written with any depth, and apart from veterans Anil Kapoor and Satish Kaushik, no one is capable of fashioning at least the semblance of a...
View ArticleInterview: Kangana Ranaut (Dhaakad)
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View ArticleKangana Ranaut gets into action mode, but even she can’t battle a script that...
Spoilers ahead… The film looks spectacular but we feel we have seen it all before. Razneesh ‘Raz’ Ghai’s Dhaakad is the kind of action-thriller where someone in the back room tells the field operative...
View ArticleAnubhav Sinha’s ‘Anek’, with Ayushmann Khurrana, takes us into the problems...
Spoilers ahead… The big problem is the very direct dialogue, which makes us feel like we are listening to a political manifesto. The visual and conceptual touches work much better. Anubhav Sinha may be...
View ArticleInterview: Rakshit Shetty (777 Charlie)
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View ArticleReaders Write In #465: In ‘Toolsidas Junior’ Other than Snooker, Motivational...
By Carlos Luis ‘Toolsidas Junior’ by Mridul Mahendra might not be as celebrated as other sports dramas in India, but it happens to give one of the first representations to a game of snooker as a sport...
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