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“Aurangzeb”… Games of thrones
Something’s happened to Rishi Kapoor as he’s grown older, fleshier. He’s become a really terrific actor. When he was younger, he was always a competent performer, and sometimes even a good one, but the roles he was typecast in and the assembly-line filmmaking of the time rarely let him break out and deliver anything radically […]
“I Don’t Luv U”… <3 story
May 18, 2013
When a film spells its title I Don’t Luv U, it’s clear that its target audience doesn’t comprise adults but the generation that came of age with Facebook and Twitter (or as a character, here, hilariously puts it, “the burger generation”) – so what might a grown-up gain from a viewing? Perhaps an insight into how […]
“Gippi”… Smells like teen spirit
May 14, 2013
Nothing’s going right for the eponymous 14-year-old heroine (Riya Vij) of Sonam Nair’s Gippi. She’s a klutz. She’s not as thin as the girls around her, and her dresses just won’t fit. (“Thoda full full” is how her classmate Ashish sweetly appraises her.) She doesn’t fit in either, which may be why she escapes – through old Hindi film […]
“Go Goa Gone”… The evil undead
May 11, 2013
The most impressive aspect of Go Goa Gone, the “zom-com” directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, may be its utter disdain for heroics. Even its ostensible hero – Saif Ali Khan, whose star wattage lit up the film’s promos, plays a blonde Russian named Boris (he calls himself Barees) – isn’t so much the […]
“Shootout at Wadala”… Not-so-brief encounter
May 4, 2013
There’s something odd about gangsters with a six pack. How do they maintain it if they’re on the run from the police? Do they simply hide out at the nearest Talwalkar’s, doing bench presses as a henchman holds a gun to a trainer’s temple? And from where do they derive protein? Surely not from the […]
“Bombay Talkies”… Calling the shorts
May 4, 2013
The quartet of shorts that make up Bombay Talkies train a zoom lens on cinema, starting on the outside and slowly drawing us in. In the first story, cinema is on the periphery, visible only as a contributor to the gossip-magazine industry and in a Hindi film music collector’s posters and albums. In the second, […]
“Aashiqui 2.”… A star is reborn
April 29, 2013
A performer spurning his talent and spiraling into self-destruction, another plucked from obscurity and destined for greatness – this is the enduring A Star is Born formula, and in Aashiqui 2, the director Mohit Suri gives this story a refreshing spin. Rahul Jaykar (Aditya Roy Kapur), a singer-songwriter-composer who was once the “nation’s heartthrob,” has […]
“Ek Thi Daayan”… Ain’t that a witch!
April 20, 2013
“This film is a work of fiction and doesn’t stereotype women as witches.” What a curious disclaimer in a movie whose hero – Bobo (Emraan Hashmi), aka “Indiaka sabse bada jaadugar” – sees witches in every feminine form he encounters. He subscribes to the lore that their power lies in their tightly pleated braids, and […]
“Commando-A One Man Army”… Brawn guy in the ring
April 16, 2013
Vidyut Jamwal has a body of granite and a face to match. The gamut of expressions he employs can be counted on a single finger, and if you’re wondering why he’s been cast as Karanvir Singh Dogra in Dilip Ghosh’s Commando-A One Man Army, look no further than the early scene where he’s performing push-ups. […]
“Nautanki Saala”… Drama kings!
April 13, 2013
Ayushmann Khurrana acts with his hands, his eyes, his entire being. In Rohan Sippy’s Nautanki Saala, he plays Ram Parmar (aka RP), the director and lead actor of a smash-hit stage show named Raavanleela. (It seems to be scored, rather oddly, to Mussorgsky’s Night on Bare Mountain.) Khurrana is the least interesting while on stage, where he’s declaiming […]
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