By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Baywatch”; Director: 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 “Baywatch” is a…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Dear Maya”; Director: Sunaina Bhatnagar; Cast: Manisha Koirala, Madiha Imam, Shreya Chaudhary, Iravati Harshe; Rating: **1/2 While the promos and the title suggest that the film “Dear Maya” is about a…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Baywatch” Director: Seth Gordon Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Priyanka Chopra Rating: *** 1/2 (3 and a half stars) The vicious reviews in the foreign press are hard…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mirror Game: Ab Khel Shuru”; Director: Vijit Sharma; Cast: Parvin Dabas, Dhruv Bali, Sneha Ramchander, Pooja Batra, Omi Vaidya and Shanti Akkineni; Rating: *** With a weird name like “Mirror Game:…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “War Machine”; Director: David Michod; Cast: Brad Pitt, Ben Kingsley and Meg Tilly; Rating: * 1/2 Last week, Brad Pitt was in Mumbai to promote his new film which was…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Thodi Thodi Si Manmaaniyan”; Director: Aditya Sarpotdar; Cast: Arsh Sehrawat, Shrenu Parikh; Rating: ** There is a point in the pulsating though ultimately fagged-out plot where the young protagonist, lost…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Lost City of Z”; Director: James Gray; Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Angus Macfadyen, Edward Ashley, Clive Francis, Ian McDiarmid, Franco Nero, Matthew Sunderland, Johann Myers,…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Pirates of the Caribbean – Salazar’s Revenge”; Directors: Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg; Cast: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin R. McNally, Golshifteh Farahani, David Wenham, Stephen Graham,…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Sargoshiyan”; Directors: Imran Khan and Vijay Verma; Cast: Imran Khan, Hasan Zaidi, Inderneil Sengupta and Sara Khan; Rating: ** It takes guts to continue to believe in the Kashmir that…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Pirates of the Caribbean – Salazar’s Revenge”; Directors: Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg; Cast: Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, Kevin R. McNally, Golshifteh Farahani, David Wenham, Stephen Graham, Orlando…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Sachin: A Billion Dreams”; Director: James Erskine; Cast: Sachin Tendulkar, Anjali Tendulkar, Ajit Tendulkar, Sara Tendulkar, Mayuresh Pem, Mayur More; Rating: *** “Sachin: A Billion Dreams” is a biopic that gives…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Sachin: A Billion Dreams’ Director: James Erskine Starring: Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Anjali Tendulkar, Sara Tendulkar, Mayuresh Pem Rating: **** 1/2 There is something about Sachin Tendulkar,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Thodi Thodi Si Manmaaniyan”; Director: Aditya Sarpotdar; Cast: Mukesh Tiwari, Shrenu Parikh, Arsh Sehrawat, Rahul Raj Malhotra, Abhinav Parashar, Shilpa Tulaskar and Kuldeep Sarin; Rating: ** Simple but a bit convoluted,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Sargoshiyan”; Directors: Imran Khan and Vijay Verma; Cast: Indraneil Sengupta, Hasan Zaidi, Sarah Arfeen Khan, Aditi Bhatia, Khalid Siddiqui, Alok Nath, Farida Jalal, Tom Alter, Shahbaaz Khan; Rating: ** If the…
By Vikas Datta Title: Lucknow: The City of Heritage & Culture – A Walk Through History ; Author: Vipul B. Varshney & Ajaish Jaiswal (photographer); Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 2,500 It is…
By Somrita Ghosh Book: The Queen; Author: Anita Sivakumaran; Publisher: Juggernaut; Price: Rs 350; Pages: 279 A young, talented and beautiful 16-year-old school-going teenager girl is inspired by her mother to enter the movie industry…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Circle”; Director: James Ponsoldt; Cast: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glenne Headly and Bill Paxton; Rating: ** In today’s tech-age, where social media…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Half Girlfriend”; Director: Mohit Suri; Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor; Rating: *** 1/2 (3 and a half stars) You can accuse Chetan Bhagat’s novels of being lots of things from…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Half Girlfriend”; Director: Mohit Suri; Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Rhea Chakraborty, Anisa Butt and Vikrant Massey; Rating: ** Adapted from Chetan Bhagat’s novel by the same name, director…
Subhash K Jha Film: “Hindi Medium” Director: Saket Chowdhary Starring: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal Rating: **** 1/2 Irrfan Khan was last seen taking on corrupt forces in “Madaari”. He is back, this time…