By Troy Ribeiro Film: “JD”; Director: Shailendra Pandey; Cast: Lalit Bisht, Vedita Pratap Singh, Govind Namdev, Aman Verma, Arvind Gaur, Meenakshi, Amar Singh; Rating: ** In the very first scene, an editor of a renowned…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Bhoomi”; Director: Omung Kumar; Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sidhant Gupta, Sharad Kelkar, Riddhi Sen, Veer Aryan, Puru Chibber and Shekhar Suman; Rating: *1/2 “Bhoomi” seems to be a rehash…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Bhoomi’ Director: Omung Kumar Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sharad Kelkar, Shekhar Suman Rating: **** Rating: **** “Jadd se ya dhadh se?” Sanjay Dutt plays a cruel KBC with…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Haseena Parkar”; Director: Apoorva Lakhia; Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Priyanka Setia, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang, Rating: **** If only Haseena Parkar didn’t suffer from the curse of clunky, inept,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “The Final Exit”; Director: Dhwanil Mehta; Cast: Kunaal Roy Kapoor, Ananya Sengupta, Scarlett Wilson, Elena Kazan, Archana Vedasastry and Reyhna Malhotra; Rating: ** You’d either love “The Final Exit” or hate…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Haseena Parkar”; Director: Apoorva Lakhia; Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Priyanka Setia, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang, Rating: ** A biopic on the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar, Director Apoorva…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Kingsman: The Golden Circle”; Director: Matthew Vaughn; Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Pedro Pascal, Edward Holcroft, Hanna Alstrom, Emily Watson, Sophie…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Newton”; Director: Amit Masurkar; Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Anjali Patil, Pankaj Tripathi, Raghubir Yadav, Sanjay Mishra and Mukesh Prajapati; Rating: *** Low-concept and modestly-scaled films are always hard to sell, but authentic…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Newton’; Director: Amit R Masurkar; Starring: Rajkummar Rao, Anjali Patil, Pankaj Tripathi; Rating: **** In Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s “Satyakam”, a film that echoes in unexpected ways in the new Rajkummar Rao…
Film: Jai Lava Kusa Language: Telugu Cast: N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as Jai, Lava Kumar, and Kusha, Nivetha Thomas, Raashi Khanna, Ronit Roy, Nanditha Raj, Hamsa Nandini, Priyadarshi Pullikonda, Abhimanyu Singh, Harish Uthaman, Tamannaah (Special…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Patel ki Punjabi Shaadi”; Director: Sanjay Chhel; Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Prem Chopra, Vir Das, Divya Seth Shah and Payal Ghosh, Rating: *1/2 The story is set in Adarsh Housing…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “American Assassin” Director: Michael Cuesta Cast: Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Shiva Negar, David Suchet, Taylor Kitsch, Navid Negahban, Scott Adkins, Charlotte Vega, Joseph Long, Mohammad Bakri, Tolga Safer, Khalid…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Simran”; Starring: Kangana Ranaut, Sohum Shah; Director: Hansal Mehta Rating: *** 1/2 (3 and a half stars) Imagine if your child turns out to be a sociopath. This, in one…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Lucknow Central”; Director: Ranjit Tiwari; Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Diana Penty, Ronit Roy, Gippy Grewal, Deepak Dobriyal, Rajesh Sharma, Inaamulhaq and Veerendra Saxena; Rating: ** Close on the heels of the Yash…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “B.A. Pass 2”; Director: Shadab Khan; Cast: Kritika Sachdeva, Sasho Satiiysh Saarathy, Sanghmitra Hitaishi, Indraneil Sengupta, Aarav Choudhary, Saurabh Dubey, Shubhangi Latkar and Sukhbir Kaur Lamba; Rating: ** Produced by the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Simran”; Director: Hansal Mehta; Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Sohum Shah, Rupendra Nagra and Aneesha Joshi; Rating: ***1/2 “Simran” is a film about an unconventional, 30-plus Guajarati divorcee Praful Patel who lives with…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Lucknow Central’ Director: Ranjit Tiwari Starring: Farhan Akhtar, Gippy Grewal, Diana Penty, Deepak Dobriyal, Rajesh Sharma, Inamulhaq Rating: **** “Lucknow Central” is by far the most engaging thinking-man’s thriller of…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Title: A Bonsai Tree; Author: Narendra Luther; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 227 Many books have been written on India’s partition but here is a first-hand account of the horror by a migrant…
New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) If you are an adventure enthusiast or an avid biker, want to shoot your experience and post videos on social media platforms seamlessly, here comes “GoPro Hero 5 Black” that…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Daddy”; Director: Ashim Ahluwalia; Cast: Arjun Rampal, Aishwarya Rajessh, Farhan Akhtar, Nishikant Kamat, Anand Ingale, Rajesh Shringarpure, Purnanand Wandekar, Anupriya Goenka, Mir Sarwar, Usha Naik and Deepak Damle; Rating: ***1/2 Narrated…
