By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Shubh Mangal Saavdhaan”; Director: R.S. Prasanna; Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar; Rating: *** It’s okay if you can’t get it up. There. I said it. It’s taken Hindi cinema years…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Vivegam”; Director: Siva; Language: Tamil; Director: Siva; Cast: Ajith, Kajal Aggarwal, Vivek Oberoi, Akshara Haasan and Karunakaran; Rating: ** Don’t let the hi-tech outlook fool you. At heart, “Vivegam” is…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Babumoshai Bandookbaaz”; Director: Kushan Nandy; Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Bidita Bag, Divya Dutta and Jatin Goswami; Rating: * There is no polite way of saying this. So let’s just put it…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Qaidi Band”; Director: Habib Faisal; Cast: Aadar Jain, Anya Singh, Rating: **** In ‘Qaidi Band’ there is a hotshot lawyer played by Ram Kapoor, who agrees to help innocent undertrials…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “A Gentleman”; Director: Raj-DK; Cast: Siddharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez, Rating: ***1/2 It’s not easy to make a smart sassy film with two airheaded non-actors in the lead. Co-directors Raj and…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Hitman’s Bodyguard”; Director: Patrick Hughes; Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung, Joaquim De Almeida, Kristy Mitchell, Richard E. Grant; Rating: ***1/2 There is nothing…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: Arjun Reddy Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga Cast: Vijay Devarakonda, Shalini Pandey, Rahul Ramakrishna and Sanjay Swaroop Rating: ***** One can’t help but fall in love with “Arjun Reddy”, the film as…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Qaidi Band”; Director: Habib Faisal; Cast: Aadar Jain, Anya Singh, Mikhail Yawalkar, Anna Ador, Cyndy Khojol, Peter Muxka Manuel, Prince Parvinder Singh, Sachin Pilgaonkar and Ram Kapoor; Rating: *** Director Habib…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Hitman’s Bodyguard”; Director: Patrick Hughes; Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung, Joaquim De Almeida, Kristy Mitchell and Richard E. Grant; Rating: ***1/2 There is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “A Gentleman”; Directors: Raj-DK; Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Jaqueline Fernandez, Suneil Shetty, Rajit Kapur, Darshan Kumar and Supriya Pilgaonkar, Rating: *1/2 Gaurav (Sidharth Malhotra), an Indian boy settled in Miami, with a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Babumoshai Bandookbaaz”; Director: Kushan Nandy; Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Bidita Bag, Shradha Das, Divya Dutta, Murali Sharma, Sanjay Inamdar and Bhagwan Tiwari; Rating: *** A tale of karma, Kushan Nandy’s “Babumoshai Bandookbaaz”…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Yadvi: The Dignified Princess”; Director: Jyoti Singh; Cast: Chandrachur Singh, Jyoti Singh, Rahul Godara, Aishwaraya Singh, Charu Vyas, Namya Saxena, Vibhu Raghave, Minnie Pandit, Reshha Sabbarwal and Nikkitasha Marwah; Rating: **1/2…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The Dark Tower”; Director: Nikolaj Arcel; Cast: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor; Rating: ** With an unprecedented avalanche of releases this week, it takes Herculean willpower and positivism to…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Sniff”; Cast: Khushmeet Gill, Manmeet Singh, Surekha Sikri, Sushmita Mukherjee Director: Amole Gupte; Rating: ***1/2 The best thing about “Sniff” is the wonderful children — God bless their untarnished souls…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: Vivegam Language: Tamil Director: Siva; Cast: Ajith, Kajal Aggarwal, Vivek Oberoi, Akshara Haasan and Karunakaran Rating: **1/2 “Vivegam” is Ajith’s show all the way, and the star in his best physical…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Anando Brahma” Director: Mahi Raghav Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Srinivas Reddy, Shakalaka Shankar, Vennela Kishore and Tagubothu Ramesh Rating: ***1/2 Mahi Raghav made a noticeable debut with the slice-of-life campus drama “Paathshala”…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “VIP 2 (Lalkar)”; Director: Soundarya Rajinikanth; Cast: Dhanush, Kajol; Rating: *1/2 Confession time. I haven’t seen the first “VIP” film. And after seeing the follow-up, I swear on my favourite…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Bareilly Ki Barfi”; Cast: Ayushmann Khurana, Rajkummar Rao, Kriti Sanon; Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari; Rating: ****(4 stars) Early in the plot, we are told that the film’s heroine Bitti is…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Bareilly ki Barfi”; Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari; Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Kriti Sanon, Rajkummar Rao, Seema Pahwa, Pankaj Tripathi, Rating: ***1/2 “Bareilly ki Barfi” is a sweet and delectable romance which begins…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “VIP 2: Lalkar”; Director: Soundarya Rajinikanth; Cast: Dhanush, Kajol, Amala Paul, Ritu Verma, Balaji Mohan, Samuthirakani, Vivek; Rating: **1/2 This film suffers from sequel fatigue but unlike its prequel, this is…