The Words - Review

In The Words, Bradley Cooper is a writer who has spent years trying to find his voice. He has submitted several manuscripts to publishers and although they are encouraged by his talent, Cooper has failed to sell one book. Then, on a trip to Paris with his wife (Zoe Saldana), she buys him a tattered leather satchel to use for his work. She hopes it will...

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Jannat 2 - Movie Review

Directer: Kunal Deshmukh Producer: Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Randeep Hooda Music: Pritam Release date: 4 May 2012 Director Kunal Deshmukh’s Jannat 2 might have been a gripping thriller but is hamstrung by a painfully dull romantic track between Emraan Hashmi and...

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Titanic 3D' more magnificent after 15 years - Review

Film:Titanic 3D  Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Billy Zane  Director: James Cameron  Since "Titanic" originally released in 1997, the first question that comes to one's mind is of reasons to 'revisit' the film. The second question is about a film that may have won maximum Oscars, but whether 3D is good enough reason...

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Ek Deewana Tha 2012 (Review)

Director: Gautham MenonActors: Prateik Babbar, Amy Johnson The boy, an obsessive, relentless roadside Romeo, having chased the girl from the streets of Mumbai to Mallu-land, finally holds her, jolts her up, pops the winning question: “Kamaal ki chemistry hai hamare beech mein (there’s huge chemistry between us). Can't you see it?" No, she says. He obviously can. That’s...

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Gali Gali Chor Hai 2012 (Review)

Director: Rumy Jafry Actors: Akshaye Khanna, Shreya Sharan Fade in. Film starts. Camera zooms in on a mysteriously undivided Madhya Pradesh on the Indian map. Either the movie’s set before 2000, or the filmmakers don’t know better. Singer Kailash Kher cranks up the volume with a noisy song that suitably goes, “Corruption, corruption, corruption ka shor hai,”...

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Agneepath - Review

Director: Karan MalhotraActors: Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif The ageless, eccentric baldie Kancha Cheena (Sanjay Dutt), modeled loosely on the lines of Marlon Brando (Col. Kurtz) in Apocalypse Now, has a thing for the Bhagwad Gita. The line, "Kya lekar aaye the, aur kya lekar jaoge," referring to the perishable human body that's...

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Sadda Adda 2012 - Review

Sadda AddaDirector: Muazzam BegActors: Karan Sharma, Bhaumik Sampat The setting is a café in Delhi. The girl, a reasonably hot one, eyes the boy sitting at a table across. There are two boys on that table in fact. The wrong one collects the signal, goes after her as she leaves. He realises it’s his buddy she was giving “line” to. She tells him so. That other fellow...

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Don 2 - Review

Don 2Director: Farhan AkhtarActors: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra The vice president of the Deutsche central bank, Germany’s equivalent of the Reserve Bank of India, is a gentleman called Diwan (Aly Khan). He is Indian too? Don’s moll exclaims to her boss. “Kya karein sweetheart,” sighs Don, we're everywhere! Thank god for that. This gives Bollywood’s big-budget filmmakers...

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Lanka - 2011

Direction: Maqbool KhanActors: Manoj Bajpayee, Tia BajpaiThe girl's a doctor. So is her dad. Goons guard their house round-the-clock. We’re in a north Indian small town, which like many, we’retold, is essentially one man, Bhaisaab’s (Manoj Bajpayee’s) personal fiefdom. That fellow rapes the daughter every night. The father, unable to bear this’, rats on the don’s deeds to...

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I Am Singh - 2011

Director: Puneet IssarActors: Gulzar Chahal, Amy RasimasRating: *Shaking his head in frustration, the hero complains against racial attacks on sardars by Americans, "Their history and geography is so poor that they can't tell between Arabs, Afghans and Sikhs?"It's a valid point. The insular average American can confound the neo literate. How the Chinese would be as a super-power...

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Critics' verdict: Rockstar gets mixed reviews

Though Ranbir Kapoor has delivered one of his best peformances so far, the film's script fails to live up to expectations. While AR Rahman's music is a plus point, Nargis Fakhri's performance disappoints. Here's what critics are saying about the movie. Says Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama, "Alas! Rockstar is a sumptuously shot movie that is disjointed on script level....

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Mayank Shekhar's review: Miley Na Miley Hum

Director: Tanveer Khan Actors: Chirag Paswan, Kangana Ranaut Rating: * How many times must a debutant hero emerge from the same screen, to repeatedly announce his arrival: The one here first gets out in slo-mo from a BMW (first shot), then out of a chopper (to meet his mother), on a Lexus convertible (that his mother gifts him), bang in the middle of a wedding dance party...

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Mayank Shekhar's review: Tell Me O Khuda

Director: Hema Malini Actors: Esha Deol, Arjan Bajwa Rating: * Here’s the story: The heroine’s an artiste of sorts. Much later in her youth, she figures that she’s in fact an adopted child. Confused by this strange turn of events, she leaves home, generally curious to finally meet her biological parent. Her boyfriend remains by her side. This was Hema Malini’s directorial...

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Ra.One

Movie: Ra.oneDirector: Anubhav Sinha Actors: Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor Year: 2011Before adequately warning children against trying any such stunts, the super-hero leapfrogs over and at right angles of a running train.Background score is ‘70s RD Burman imitation. Brown walls of the majestic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus eventually start to crack, statue of...

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