Readers Write In #626: Love-All: This Sudhanshu Sharma Directorial Is a...
By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Very early in Sudhanshu Sharma’s ‘Love-All’, we see a man who has just returned to his childhood city, Bhopal. But there is no glitter, spark, vivacity and nostalgia in his eyes...
View ArticleShiva Nirvana’s ‘Kushi’ is more about star power (Vijay Deverakonda, Samantha...
Spoilers ahead… The premise about science vs. superstition (and adjustment between a couple) is solid. But the exaggerated treatment does not let us take this couple seriously. Vijay Deverakonda gets...
View ArticleAkshat Ajay Sharma’s rather generic ‘Haddi’, on ZEE5, isn’t a bad watch, but...
Spoilers ahead… Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Anurag Kashyap lead a huge cast in a revenge story in the mould of Tamil/Telugu masala movies, but without the electricity that courses through the best films in...
View ArticleInterview: Vidyut Jammwal
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View ArticleInterview: Bejoy Nambiar (‘Kaala’, and his visual influences)
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View ArticleWith Kareena Kapoor Khan, Jaideep Ahlawat, and Vijay Varma, Sujoy Ghosh’s...
Spoilers ahead… This adaptation of ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ suffers from a ‘Drishyam’ hangover, and it might have been better off as a moody drama rather than the moody thriller it wants to be....
View ArticleInterview: Vivek Agnihotri (‘The Vaccine War’)
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View ArticleInterview: Talking Cinema with Ram Gopal Varma
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View ArticleReaders Write In #631: Our biggest superstars are truly back, and it’s a...
By Abishekspeare Growing up as a teenager interested in cinema in a middle-class conservative household was tricky. In a family were drinking scenes were worse than gory scenes, and kissing scenes were...
View ArticleInterview: Tabu / Vishal Bhardwaj (‘Khufiya’)
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View ArticleVishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Khufiya’ seesaws between a deeply personal drama and a spy...
The film stars Tabu, Ali Fazal, Wamiqa Gabbi. There are some typically poetic touches that you expect from this director, but this film needed more. Vishal Bhardwaj’s new film is set amidst covert...
View ArticleReaders Write In #632: The Vaccine War: Potential of a Great Medical Drama...
By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Just before the intermission, in Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Vaccine War’, on a while board with a black color marker, a prominent scientist writes “Only science can win this war.”...
View ArticleInterview: Muttiah Muralitharan / Madhur Mittal (‘800’)
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View ArticleInterview: Lokesh Kanagaraj (‘Leo’)
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View ArticleInterview: Netflix / National Commission for Women conclave
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View ArticleInterview: Shiva Rajkumar (‘Ghost’), by Kairam Vaashi
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View ArticleInterview: Rathna Kumar & Deeraj Vaidy (on writing with/for Lokesh Kanagaraj)
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View ArticleTarun Dudeja’s ‘Dhak Dhak’ is a by-the-numbers female-bonding / empowerment...
The film features Ratna Pathak Shah, Dia Mirza, Fatima Sana Shaikh, and Sanjana Sanghi as Manjari. But the routine screenplay does them (or us) no favours. Four women decide to undertake a bike ride to...
View ArticleInterview: Shiva Rajkumar (‘Ghost’), by BR
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View ArticleReaders Write In #635: This and That…
By V Vijaysree In my Madras childhood, I studied in a girls’ school on Lloyd’s Road – I still shudder if I happen to pass by this building. It looks exactly the same as it did when it sucked the joy...
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