2 States

Review :- For an audience that has been around from the ’80s, debutant Abhishek Varman’s ‘2 States’ may seem like they are revisiting K Balachander’s mega hit ‘Ek Duuje Ke…

Karle Pyaar Karle

Review :- Karle Pyaar Karle (KPK) is cinema born in the ’80s, rechristened in 2014. While the film has been lavishly mounted because it supports Bollywood’s nepotism, practice of a…

Yaariyan

Review :- ‘Grease’ was the word. Helping hormone-rushed youngsters slide into puberty and outta tight-fitting pants. ‘Yaariyan’ could have been the word. About friends, first-kisses and hot flushes. Peppered with…

Ram-Leela

Review :- What new can a filmmaker do with William Shakespeare’s classic love-story Romeo and Juliet? The answer is, if you are Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is technically sound and…

Ishq Actually

Review :- Ishq Actually is not for those who know what they want from life. It’s for the overtly romantic types, who watch films, read poetry and hope to walk…

The Lunchbox

Review :- Like a tiffin carrier, The Lunchbox has levels – it is the story of a man so lonely, he’s forgotten what any companionship means. It is the story…

Issaq

Review :- Welcome to the holy city of Banaras – replete with ‘spesal’ paan, levitating smoked-up (on herbs) saadhus, Banarasi babus high on bhaang and others’ biwis on un-Holi celebrations.…

Luv U Soniyo

Review :- Mark Braganza (Tanuj) is a happy-go-lucky youngster who loves his family, friends and pretty much everyone. Defying Bollywood’s stereotype, that popular kids in college are seldom nice, Marky…

Ramaiya Vastavaiya

Review :- Welcome to Animal Farm. With ample chicks, hens, horns; many ‘murgas’, mulgis, mummyjis and baaratis. Add to this rustic beauty some colours of harvest, village belles, jadoo ki…

Lootera

Review :- Lootera is a love saga of yore. The plot is an amalgamation of a story written by Vikramaditya Motwane with O’Henry’s short story, The Last Leaf. It begins…