First the good news. Krrish 3 has by far the best special effects one has seen in an Indian film; Dhoom 3 better pack enough fire-power to outdo the mind-boggling wizardry of chameleons morphing into human forms, gravity-defying spins through Mumbai's streets and a couple of breathtaking action sequences. Not to mention the villain’s den atop a Swiss mountain that James Bond would’ve been proud to decimate. Read more
Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox opens with a crisscross of overhead wires that keep Mumbai's lifeline––its local trains––running. Tracks intersect, seemingly randomly, taking people to their familiar destinations. Read more
Ajith Kumar, Arya, and Nayantara starrer Tamil film Arrambam will hit cinemas on Friday, November 1, two days before Diwali. And Ajith’s action and performance in Arrambam is already popular with the film’s YouTube trailer receiving 1.4 million views in five days. Read more
Eros International has released the first teaser of thailavaa Rajinikanth in the upcoming Tamil period film Kochadaiyaan. Directed by Rajinikanth’s younger daughter Saundarya R Ashwin, the film is slated to release on December 12, 2013. Read more
"Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution?" Groucho Marx famously declared. The characters in Maneesh Sharma's Shuddh Desi Romance might agree with this pronouncement. Read more
Anurag Kashyap’s Hindi film starring Irrfan Khan – Dabba or The Lunchbox released in India, UK and US on September 20. The film made its entry into the Best Film award category in BFI London Film Festival 2013’s official competition. Read more
In what is going to be one of the busiest season for Bollywood box office, November and December 2013 will see three epic, high-budget films – Hrithik Roshan’s Krrish 3, Aamir Khan’s Dhoom 3 and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Ram Leela -- hit the screens. Read more
SIIMA 2013, the South Indian International Movie Awards was held on 12th and 13th September 2013 at Expo Centre Sharjah in UAE with actors Shirya Saran, Arya, Rana Daggubati and Sonu Sood co-hosting the event’s “Popular Awards” sections. Read more
In writer Rajat Aroraa and director Milan Luthria’s worldview women are commodities men use for distraction or merely as possessions. Even in the women-oriented The Dirty Picture, Silk proudly proclaims that she’s ‘entertainment’, employing bold gestures to please ravenous men. Read more
For a film that keeps reiterating, "Don't underestimate the common man," Chennai Express does precisely that -- displaying unqualified disdain for the audience's capacity to discriminate between intelligent, self-referencing and lazy writing. Read more
