To find an actor who resembles the real-life character he has to play is a stroke of pure luck. But to fritter that away by making that reel-life character so uni-dimensional, so uninteresting is pure misfortune, both for the once terrific director, as well as for us viewers who liveContinue Reading
CAST: Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma, Ekavali Khanna, Aman Uppal DIRECTION: Tanuj Bhramar GENRE: Drama DURATION: 1 hour 35 minutes A devastating secret becomes the point of conflict between a father and son. Nithin Swaminathan, played by `Bombay’ and `Roja’ star Arvind Swamy, has got to the point that he can’t keep it in anyContinue Reading
Cast:Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Sheirgill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sachin Khedekar, Divya Dutta, Kaveri Director:Rajesh Pillai Coincidences and happenstance play a major role in Traffic, the late Rajesh Pillai’s Hindi remake of his 2011 Malayalam smash hit of the same title. But thanks to its sharply chiselled screenplay and near-perfect casting,Continue Reading
UK, 2016, 108 minutes, Colour. Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally, Devika Bhise, Anthony Calf, Stephen Fry, Richard Johnson. Directed by Matt Brown. Dev Patel made a strong impression as a young man in the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. He has grown older sinceContinue Reading
Guwahati: Not many from Assam would know that the State still has a stretch of tropical wet evergreen rainforest in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts bordering Arunachal Pradesh. Much of this precious forest has been lost due to illegal logging and encroachment before a part (111.19 sq km) of the once-sprawlingContinue Reading
Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlabarg, Katherine Waterston, Perla Haneyi-Jardine, Sarah’s Snook, John Ortiz, Adam Shapiro. Directed by Danny Boyle. This is a portrait of Steve Jobs rather than a biography. It would be very helpful for appreciating this film to know some details about Jobs, hisContinue Reading
The film will be sympathetically received by believing audiences, by Christians of all denominationsContinue Reading
Aligarh will live on at least as a fitting memory to the spirit of a man who never gave up Continue Reading
Third in the Kung Fu Panda series and running at 95 minutes Po (voice of jack Black), now the established Dragon Warrior has to yet prove his metier as a teacher whilst facing the wrath of Kai (J K Simmons) a powerful and vicious spirit warrior. The film delights, entertainsContinue Reading
There is speculation that Ram Madhvani’s Neerja, running at 122 minutes is all about family more than the incident itself, the plight of the passengers, the crew and above all it’s too Neerja Bhanot cantered. The film revolves around the Libya backed Abu Nidal Organization’s hijacking of Pan Am FlightContinue Reading
