Jab Tak Hai Jaan isn't Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge once more, although Aditya Chopra’s watery story tries very hard to reprise several key motifs.The numbers just don’t add up. Shah Rukh Khan doesn't look 28, Katrina Kaif 21 or Anupam Kher 50. Read more
James Bond’s Skyfall, re-released film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Sameer Sharma’s Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana. Deepa Deosthalee discusses what in cinemas impressed her this week. Read more
Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha’s Bollywood action film Dabanng 2 – a sequel to the 2010 blockbuster Dabangg -- is scheduled for a Christmas release (December 21). But “Tiger” Khan is already using his official Facebook and Twitter pages to promote the trailer and first look of the film. Read more
Chakravyuh is a ‘Bollywood political thriller’. Which is a shame, because the issue that Prakash Jha and his writer Anjum Rajabali address is among the most critical ones of our times––the rise of Naxal insurgency and its increasingly vocal and often violent clash with the establishment. Read more
One of Bollywood’s Diwali entertainer Talaash is set to release on November 30. The official trailer and the first look of Aamir-Rani-Kareena starrer Talaash has been revealed giving some insight into its plot. Read more
Set in the turbulence of 1930 British India, Bedabrata Pain's film Chittagong is an inspiring version of Ashutosh Gowariker's dud Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. It corrects the crucial narrative and stylistic lacunae of Gowariker’s film. Read more
Rani Mukherji-starrer Aiyyaa is lacklustre. It's not the quality of humour, weakness of screenplay or slow pace that ultimately gets to you. It is the crudity and the pelvic thrusts which force you to look away. Read more
Veteran and well-respected Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan celebrates his 70th birthday on Thursday, October 11 with his family members including Jaya, Abhishek, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, daughter Sunaina and grand-daughter Aaradhya Bachchan. Read more
English Vinglish Review -- Ignore the cliches of the Mind Your Language-type institute and try looking at life through a woman's eyes for a change. Sridevi's English Vinglish is refreshing, to say the least. Read more
Umesh Shukla's Oh My God! based on his own successful play Kanji Viruddh Kanji, which in turn was inspired by the Australian film The Man who Sued God (for once the makers acknowledge their source) isn't interested in any serious engagement with the question of god's existence or the purpose of human suffering. Read more
