TopicFilm review

Topic: film review

There are no winners in Tiger Shroff’s Student of the Year 2 & audience is the only loser

Madhavi Pothukuchi - May 10, 2019

Punit Malhotra-directed Student of the Year 2 also stars debutantes Ananya Pandey and Tara Sutaria.

BR Chopra’s Naya Daur is still relevant for an India fighting age-old labour problems

Madhavi Pothukuchi - May 5, 2019

Naya Daur remains a classic for it captured the lower income groups’ sentiment in the 1950s — not totally anti-machine, but wary enough.

Even Sunny Deol’s dhai kilo ka haath cannot fill in this Blank

Madhavi Pothukuchi - May 1, 2019

Patchy acting and direction remind you of the good old Sunny Deol films and why they must remain in the past.

Devdas: The tragic hero act that made KL Saigal a household name

Sharanya Munsi - April 14, 2019

On actor-singer KL Saigal's 115th birth anniversary, a look at PC Barua's iconic 1935 film that first put tragedy in Indian cinema’s romance.

Vivek Agnihotri’s Tashkent Files adds confusion to many conspiracies over Shastri’s death

Madhavi Pothukuchi - April 12, 2019

Characters and plot lines aren’t sketched out well in Tashkent Files, and seem to appear out of thin air, just like ‘facts’ about Shastri’s death.

Sahir’s poetry in ‘Kabhi Kabhie’ and our forever connection with them

Amit Upadhyaya - March 10, 2019

Yash Chopra’s ode to complicated relationships was made immortal by the man behind its poetry – Sahir Ludhianvi.

Has the Internet killed the film critic in India?

Apurva Asrani - November 28, 2018

In this age of 'fastest finger first', do critics have the time to digest a film before they put out their reviews, asks editor-screenwriter Asrani.

Tipu Jayanti may be in the soup, but film ‘Johar-Mehmood in Goa’ placed him with Nehru & Gandhi

Sharanya Munsi - November 11, 2018

I.S. Johar’s celebrated 1965 comedy with Mehmood delivered a message on secularism that has been followed by Bollywood ever since.

As CBI investigates CBI, the movie to watch is Special 26

Sharanya Munsi - October 28, 2018

Neeraj Pandey-directed and Akshay Kumar-starrer Special 26 is a con artist drama based on a real-life incident.

‘Seeta Aur Geeta’ is the legacy of Hema Malini, the actor

Amit Upadhyaya - October 21, 2018

Hema Malini ruled the film from start to finish, which also starred reigning superstar Dharmendra and Sanjeev Kumar.

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