April 9th, 2010: Love stories seem to be the fav genre of dream merchants here. I’ve a hunch, if we ever do a count of romantic films made in Bollywood, it would easily score over other genres. The question is, how innovative can a love story get in today’s times? Milap Zaveri provides the answer: [...]

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April 2nd, 2010: We rarely make desi movies these days. Palatial mansions, swanky cars, designer outfits, the latest handsets and gizmos have replaced large kothis, traditional outfits, ghoda-gaadis and makke di roti aur sarson ka saag. True to its name, SADIYAAN takes you to a different era, when the warmth of relations mattered the most, [...]

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April 2nd, 2010: Love knows no language. Love knows no barriers. Love knows no age. It’s this thought that director Kabir Sadanand tries to encapsulate in his second directorial venture TUM MILO TOH SAHI.
TUM MILO TOH SAHI may not be the most amazing take on relationships, but it has several moments that make you experience [...]

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- By Taran Adarsh
March 29th, 2010: Corruption has made deep inroads in every sphere of life and Shyam Benegal focuses on it in his new endeavour WELL DONE ABBA!. Like his previous film WELCOME TO SAJJANPUR, WELL DONE ABBA! is also set in rural India and has characters you either know or observed in the [...]

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By: Taran Adarsh
March 29th, 2010: I’ve often said, interesting ideas don’t necessarily translate into enthralling celluloid experiences. That’s what I realized, for the umpteenth time, as HUM TUM AUR GHOST concluded.

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Without any doubt, it is a fact that attempting and then making a suspense thriller appears to be the most difficult task. To do it, a vivid and utter knowledge of the art is required. To help the viewer be attentive and get glued to the seat is not an easy task to accomplish. Some filmmakers have the skills to do all this and Deepak Tijori is one of them.

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S.D. Ahuja’s production, ‘Chowrasta’ is the direction of Anjan Dutta, who has earlier made ‘Bong Connection’ and ‘Bow Barracks Forever’. It stars Atul Kulkarni, Victor Bannerjee, Roopa Ganguly, Naved Aslam and Neil Bose.

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Originally made in Tamil Dashavtar is dubbed in Hindi. The Hindi version comes out now. Kamal Hassan, the versatile actor whose acting skills are always acknowledged in South industry and Bollywood also, appear in 10 different roles in this one movie. Let’s check it out whether this entices or not!

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Since last week, we have been witnessing low budgeted and regional movies. Why? The reason is the producers’ strike that has been going on. Taking advantage of this, the low profile and regional flick have come on the scene. But the question is whether they entice the viewers? The answer is a BIG ‘NO’. Why ‘No’, it is because they have nothing in store to confer a viewer. No story, no screenplay, no direction and no music at all, then do they think that the moviegoer is foolish who can be made fool? Remember, today’s viewer has grown up and cannot be made fool. Producer Anju R Patwa’s Royal Utsav under the banner Athrava Arts hits the screens. Starring Vikram Kumar, Monalisa, Sudesh Berry, Master Abhishek Sharma, Tripta Chopra, Antra Vishwas and Charu Arora; the film is directed by Ravi K Patwa.

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Flops have been emerging on Bollywood scene since long even from the beginning of this year. A few films have just enticed the viewers and became hits, rest simply fell flat. ‘Ek Se Bure Do’ is directed by Tarique Khan and stars Arshad Warsi, Rajpal Yadav, Tussha, Vijay Raaz and Govind Namdeo. A very badly made comedy, the film is poor in every sense of the word.

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