By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Phullu”; Director: Abhishek Saxena; Cast: Sharib Ali Hashmi, Jyotii Sethi, Nutan Surya, Inaamulhaq; Rating: ***1/2 I remember the first time a woman actually mentioned she was having her “chums”. She…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “All Eyez on Me”; Director: Benny Boom; Cast: Demetrius Shipp Jr., Kat Graham, Lauren Cohan, Hill Harper, Jamal Woolard, Danai Gurira; Rating: ** Directed by Benny Boom, “All Eyez on Me,”…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Phullu”; Director: Abhishek Saxena; Cast: Sharib Ali Hashmi, Jyotii Sethi, Nutan Surya, Inaamulhaq; Rating: ** Good intentions, bad execution is the way one can sum up “Phullu”, a film with a…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “G Kutta Se”; Writer-Director: Rahul Dahiya; Cast: Rajveer Singh, Neha Chauhan, Nitin Pandit, Rashmi Singh Somvanshi; Rating: ****1/2 There are some films that seduce us with starkness. “G Kutta Se”…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The Wishing Tree”; Writer-Director: Manika Sharma; Cast: Shabana Azmi, Harshpreet Kaur, Mark Shaw, Shivani Joshi and Abhas Yadav; Rating: ** At times, cinema is more commendable for its intention rather…
By Haricharan Pudipeddi Film: “Rangoon”; Director: Rajkumar Periasamy; Cast: Gautham Karthik, Sana Makbul, Lallu, Siddique and Daniel Annie Pope; Rating: *** There’s so much to like about Gautham Karthik’s “Rangoon”, despite the familiar path it…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Wishing Tree”; Director: Manika Sharma; Cast: Shabana Azmi, Jayati Bhatia, Jaya Bhattacharya, Makrand Deshpande, Hashpreet Kaur, Shivani Joshi, Aditya Manghani, Varsha Agnihotri; Rating: *1/2 Targeted for children and designed as…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Raabta”; Director: Dinesh Vijan; Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon, Rajkummar Rao, Jim Sarbh, Varun Sharma; Rating: ** In one of the scenes of “Raabta”, liquor tycoon Zakir Merchant (Jim Sarbh)…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Behen Hogi Teri”; Director: Ajay Pannalal; Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Shruti Hassan, Herry Tangiri, Darshan Jariwala, Gulshan Grover, Ninad Kamat, Gautam Gulati; Rating: ***1/2 This rustic title, a slang, is a sure-shot…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “The Mummy”; Director: Alex Kurtzman; Cast: Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella and Annabelle Wallis; Rating: **1/2 If you are a fan of Tom Cruise, who is incidentally the biggest star of…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Raabta”; Director: Dinesh Vijan; Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon and Jim Sarbh; Rating: **** There is something about Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon, something sexy without really getting…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Mummy”; Director: Alex Kurtzman; Cast: Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Marwan Kenzari, Simon Atherton, Sean Cameron Michael, Rez Kempton; Rating: ***1/2 With…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Wonder Woman”; Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine; Director: Patty Jenkins; Rating: ** 1/2(2 and a half stars) To hold back on the season’s biggest blockbuster required super-hero willpower. But I…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hanuman Da Damdaar”; Director: Ruchi Narain; Cast: Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Kunal Khemu, Javed Akhtar, Chunky Pandey, Saurabh Shukla, Makrand Despande, Vinay Pathak, Sneha Khanwalkar, Hussain Dalal; Rating: *1/2 “Hanuman Da…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “A Death In The Gunj”; Writer-Director: Konkona Sen Sharma; Cast: Vikrant Massey, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey, Gulshan Devaiah, Tillotama Shome, Om Puri, Tanuja. Rating: ****1/2 It’s hard to define the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Mirror Game: Ab Khel Shuru”; Writer-Director: Vijit Sharma; Cast: Parvin Dabas, Dhruv Bali, Omi Vaidya and Pooja Batra; Rating: *1/2 Nothing, absolutely nothing, in the psycho-babble that governs this tragic…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Dobaara – See Your Evil”; Director: Prawaal Raman; Cast: Huma Qureshi, Saqib Saleem, Adil Hussain, Lisa Ray, Rhea Chakraborty, Madalina Bellariu Ion, Darcie Lincoln, Chris Martin Hill; Rating: ** This film…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Baywatch”; Directed by Seth Gordon; Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Alexandra Daddario, Rob Huebel, Oscar Nunez, David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, Charlotte McKinney and Izabel Goulart; Rating: ***1/2 The…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Dear Maya”; Writer-Director: Sunaina Bhatnagar; Cast: Manisha Koirala, Madiha Imam, Shreya Chaudhary and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra; Rating: **** First things first. “Dear Maya” is a dear little gem of a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Wonder Woman”; Director: Patty Jenkins; Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Lucy Davis, Said Taghmaoui, Eugene Brave Rock, Lilly Aspell,…