Director : Rahul Dholakia Music : Ram Sampath Lyrics : Javed Akhtar Starring : Shahrukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Mahira Khan and Atul Kulkarni Two premier production houses, Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment join hands for an all-out masala fare, a crime thriller , RAEES, starring the badshah himself.Continue Reading
Pankaj Mishra Hindu nationalists have always made large claims about their exemplary and inimitable Hindu-ness. In Essentials of Hindutva, the book that comes closest to defining the ideology of modern Hindu nationalism, V D Savarkar claimed that the Hindus are a people who possess a common pitrubhumi or fatherland, commonContinue Reading
Ghostbusters is a pass time and will pass through timeContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Darjeeling – From the Mountain to the Ocean – Run with Roshni is Roshni Rai’s inspiring story, about how she started running marathons and about her 2012 project ‘Run with Roshni’ to support underprivileged but very talented young Gorkha Runners from Darjeeling to run marathons in different cities ofContinue Reading
Shane J Alliew Running at 133 minutes, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them in a prequel to the Harry Potter Series; directed by David Yates based on J K Rowling’s book of the same name. Incidentally Rowling is also the producer of the film marking her screenwriting debut too.Continue Reading
Dangal is no mean treat; it’s perfection personified and an enormous kick to women empowermentContinue Reading
Shane J. Alliew The one vital question you may ask yourself at the end of 115 minutes of Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange is whether one likes Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange or would you rather like him more as Sherlock (BBC Series). The verdict is split; my favourite beingContinue Reading
Shaad Ali’s ‘OK Jaanu’ is an intense romance drama and AR Rahman‘s score for it is just that — romantic and dramatic. The film is a remake of the Tamil hit ‘O Kadhal Kanmani’, and the composer has reused some of the tunes from the original for this one. TheContinue Reading
Shane J. Alliew “Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d,” William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (Act III Scene 2). Sometimes I am tempted to compare popular Bollywood so-called feminist based cinema to films like The Dressmaker; yet I refrain fromContinue Reading
