By Subhash K Jha Film: “Nanu Ki Jaanu”; Director: Faraz Haidar; Cast: Abhay Deol, Patralekha, Manu Rishi Chadha; Rating: ***(3 Stars) One moment can change your life. So says the film regarding our nasty habit…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Truth and Dare”; Director: Jeff Wadlow; Cast: Lucy Hale, Violett Beane, Tyler Posey, Hayden Szeto, Landon Liboiron, Sophia Ali, Nolan Gerard Funk; Rating: **1/2 Director Jeff Wadlow’s “Truth or Dare” is…
By Vikas Datta Title: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership; Author: James Comey; Publisher: Pan Macmillan; Pages: 305; Price: Rs 799 As an Assistant US Attorney in New York in the early 1990s, James…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Beyond the Clouds”; Director: Majid Majidi; Cast: Ishaan Khatter, Malavika Mohanan, Goutam Ghose, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Dwani Rajesh; Rating: *** Iranian director Majid Majidi’s “Beyond the Clouds”, set in Mumbai’s underprivileged class,…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Beyond The Clouds”; Director: Majid Majidi; Cast: Ishaan Khatter and Malavika Mohanan; Rating: ***** There came a time in this cyclonic tale of squalor, despair and redemption where I thought…
By Vikas Datta Title: In a Cult of Their Own – Bollywood Beyond Box Office; Author: Amborish Roychoudhury; Publisher: Rupa Publications India; Pages: 276; Price: Rs 295 Aamir Khan’s “PK” is considered one of his…
New York, April 17 (IANS) A New York court has rejected a motion to prevent prosecutors from reviewing a series of documents seized by the FBI from the offices of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney….
By Subhash K. Jha Film: Mercury; Director: Karthik Subbaraj; Starring: Prabhudheva; Rating: * (1 star) Sometimes the message is not enough. Not when you have to wade through acres of lush — in this film,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Rampage”; Director: Brad Peyton; Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Joe Manganiello, P.J. Byrne, Marley Shelton, Jason Liles; Rating: **1/2 The title says it all……
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mercury”; Director: Karthik Subbaraj; Cast: Prabhu Deva, Sananth, Deepak Paramesh, Shashank Purushotham, Anish Padmanabhan, Indhuja, Gajaraj, Remya Nambeesan; Rating: ** Designed to speak about the horrors of corporate exploitation, industrial wastes…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “October”; Director: Shoojit Sircar; Cast: Varun Dhawan, Banita Sandhu, Gitanjali Rao, Sahil Vedoliyaa; Rating ***1/2 Director Shoojt Sircar’s “October” is a poignant tale about love and hope, where Shiuli or night…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “October”; Director: Shoojit Sircar; Cast: Varun Dhawan, Introducing Banita Sandhu; Rating: *****(5 stars) In a film where everything that could possibly wrong for the characters, does go wrong, there is…
Film: Krishnarjuna Yudham Language: Telugu Cast: Nani, Anupama Parameswaran, Rukshar Mir, Ravi Awana, Brahmaji, Nagineedu Director: Merlapaka Gandhi Rating: 2.5 Reviewed By: SOCIALNEWS.XYZ Story: Krishna (Nani) is a villager who is desperate for a girlfriend. He…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Unfreedom”; Director: Raj Amit Kumar; Cast: Victor Banerjee, Bhanu Uday, Preeti Gupta, Bhavani Lee and Adil Hussain; Rating: ***(3 Stars) It is not difficult to understand why this film was…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Title: Education of an Ambassador: Reflections on Higher Education Reform in Kerala; Author: T.P. Sreenivasan; Publisher: Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd; Pages; 248; Price: Rs 800 Reforms anywhere face resistance. This will be…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Mango Dreams”; Director: John Upchurch; Cast: Ram Gopal Bajaj,Pankaj Tripathy, Samir Kochar, Rohini Hattangadi, S.M. Zaheer; Rating: * 1/2 (one and a half stars) Only 15 minutes into this appallingly…
By Ananya Das Book: The Tandoor Murder; Author: Maxwell Pereira; Publisher: Context; Pages: 280; Price: Rs 599 A human body chopped into pieces and thrown into a tandoor. A bonfire as the makeshift funeral pyre…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Blackmail”; Director: Abhinay Deo; Cast: Irrfan Khan, Kriti Kulhari, Arunoday Singh, Divya Dutta and Omi Vaidya; Rating: *** Designed as an edgy, noir drama, “Blackmail” uses relentless ingenuity to dig its…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Missing”; Director: Mukul Abhyankar; Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Tabu, Annu Kapoor; Rating: ***1/2 That face is the map of the human heart. No one does it like Tabu. Not when she…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Missing”; Director: Mukul Abhyankar; Cast: Tabu, Manoj Bajpayee, Annu Kapoor; Rating:*1/2 A psychological thriller, ‘Missing’ is about the search of a three-year-old child, Titli, who goes missing from a resort in…