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Thursday, May 23, 2024
TopicFilm review

Topic: film review

Hrithik Roshan’s Super 30 is not only a shoddy job, it’s also disrespectful to engineers

Based on the story of educationist Anand Kumar, Super 30 is a film with too much ambition and bronzer.

As Chennai grapples with water crisis, Do Boond Pani shows what Day Zero can look like

The film exposes the broken government system, and the shoddy execution of welfare projects.

Ayushmann Khurrana’s Article 15 will make ‘upper’ castes uneasy – as it should

Anubhav Sinha’s Article 15 has all the ingredients of a good film, but stops short of being great.

In Shahid Kapoor’s Kabir Singh, the real hero is proud toxic male ego

An angry, abusive surgeon Shahid and a meek subservient Kiara Advani are the lead pair in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Kabir Singh.

Game Over: This Taapsee Pannu-starrer brings our real fears to the forefront

The opening scene is a strong punch to the gut, and leaves you shaken, scared and hooked.

Salman Khan’s Eid release Bharat finally has him play a character his age — a 70-year-old

For a change, a Bhai film actually has a female protagonist with a working brain, even though Katrina Kaif fumbles while delivering lines.

Prithviraj Kapoor’s Sikandar was banned in British cantonments because it was nationalist

Sohrab Modi’s Sikandar was made on an epic scale and released during a period of war and upheaval in India.

Mujhe Jeene Do: When Sunil Dutt shattered inter-faith marriage taboo while playing a dacoit

Written by Sunil Dutt’s closest friend, Aghajani Kashmeri, the script of this 1963 film isn’t black and white, even if the picture was.

Only thing missing from Vivek Oberoi’s Narendra Modi is the cape

PM Narendra Modi fits perfectly as a sequel to Bal Narendra and as a prequel to Akshay Kumar’s ‘apolitical’ interview with Modi.

Mrinal Sen’s Padatik, about dispirited Communists in 1970s Calcutta, is a tale of our times

Padatik is last in Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta trilogy, in which Communists are risking their lives for a cause that forever seems out of reach.

On Camera

Gen Sundarji gave a China strategy 4 decades ago. India failed to execute it at LAC in 2020

Even the worst critics of Gen Sundarji agree that no other General of the Indian Army possessed his intellectual depth, strategic perspective, and the will to transform. He dragged the Army by its bootstraps into the 21st century.

Lower oil prices lead to 4x profits for oil firms, bonanza for govt, but no relief for aam aadmi

Petrol & diesel prices have barely changed since June 2022, even though oil prices have fallen 28% since then. This has boosted profitability of OMCs and dividend payouts to govt.

‘Joint culture needed first’ — CDS Gen Chauhan outlines first steps on the road to theaterisation

ThePrint had reported earlier this month that while theaterisation is the ultimate goal, set to be rolled out one year from now, the focus is on structured jointness initiatives by 2024-end.

Abki baar 90 paar for Congress? Why even 30 more seats will ruffle BJP

Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?