It seems no one bit into Vishwas Patil's tale of a nautch girl on a journey to find love. The film sank to the bottom of the ocean to finally lie atop a pile of Bollywood flops. Rajjo barely made ...
She's no 'Pretty Woman' walkin' down the street. With trimmed hats, stilettos (higher than her dreams) or with a brazen billionaire to whisk her away into a fairytale of fantasies. She...
Evil doesn't raise its ugly head anymore. It raises a finger. But then 'Good' flies too. In 'Superhero' form - Caped, masked, winged - with muscles of steel and hearts of gold. Our...
Among the more intriguing characters in Mickey Virus, a thriller built around a bunch of hackers gone bonkers, are two that aren't on the screen at all. One of them is only heard over the phone, t...
Babli is a lovable lout, a cocky car thief in Delhi with loud shirts and the inevitable heart of gold. But that’s not enough for a Bollywood hero. Babli’s also an orphan who gives his ill-...
Every true-blue Indian must nurture a Bollywood dream, at least that’s what most Indian filmmakers want us to believe. Whether it’s Ram Gopal Verma’s isolated poignant drama ‘N...
When the album's first song—the title song of Besharam by Ishq Bector—a mediocre foot- tapper at best—turns out to be the catchiest song, it's not good news for the rest of t...
Shoojit Sircar’s Madras Cafe starring John Abraham and Nargis Fakhri is not just another typical Bollywood masala flick but is a thought provoking, heart touching political drama. It’s a f...
A pro-Tamil outfit opposing Bollywood actor-producer John Abraham's film Madras Cafe on the ground that it depicted LTTE in bad light today claimed a special preview of the movie would be held for...
(Last year, I had seen the film at New Delhi’s Osian’s Cinefan Festival, where it picked up the Best Film Award for its humane treatment of a taboo subject: male sex workers. The jury&rsqu...