By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Fanney Khan”; Director: Atul Manjrekar; Cast: Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Pihu Sand, Divya Dutta, Karan Singh Chhabra, Anaitha Nair, Girish Kulkarni; Rating: **1/2 Adapted from the Belgian film…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mulk”; Director: Anubhav Sinha; Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Taapsee Pannu, Nina Gupta, Ashutosh Rana, Manoj Pahwa, Kumud Mishra, Prateek Smit Babbar, Prachi Shah, Ashrut Jain, Rajat Kapoor; Rating: ***1/2 Director Anubhav Sinha’s…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Karwaan”; Director: Akarsh Khurana; Cast: Irrfan Khan, Dulquer Salmaan, Akash Khurana, Mithila Palkar, Amala Akkineni, Kriti Kharbanda; Rating: *** Focusing more on the journey rather than on the goal, “Karwaan” is…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Fanney Khan”; Director: Atul Manjrekar; Starring: Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Divya Dutta, Pihu Sand, Girish Kulkarni; Rating: *** (3 and half stars) Tucked away somewhere in this…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mama Mia! Here We Go Again”; Director: Ol Parker; Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Andy Garcia, Celia Imrie, Lily James, Alexa Davies, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Dominic Cooper, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski, Hugh Skinner,…
By Subhash K. Jha Mulk: Starring Rishi Kapoor, Tapsee Pannu, Manoj Pahwa, Prateik Babbar, Ashutosh Rana, Rajat Kapoor, Directed by Anubhav Sinha, Rating: *****(5 stars) Whose land is it anyway? At a time when the…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Karwaan”; Director: Akarsh Khurana; Cast: Irrfan Khan, Dulquer Salman and Mithila Palkar; Rating: ***1/2 Life’s like that. It takes some weird twists and turns to finally put you on the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Nawabzaade”; Director: Jayesh Pradhan; Cast: Raghav Juyal, Punit Pathak, Dharmesh Yelande, Zakir Hussain, Vijay Raaz and Mukesh Tiwari; Ratings: *1/2 Designed as a romantic comedy, the title of this film is…
By Subhash K Jha Film: ‘Mission Impossible 6’ ; Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Fergusson, Sean Harris ; Director: Christopher McQuarrie ; Rating: **** 1/2 (4 and a half stars) Paris has never pulsated with more…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3”; Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia; Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Jimmy Sheirgill, Mahie Gill, Zakir Hussain, Deepak Tijori, Nafisa Ali, Kabir Bedi, Chitrangada Singh; Rating: ** The third edition of…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Mission Impossible – Fallout” Director: Christopher McQuarrie Cast: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Wes Bentley, Fredrick Schmidt, Michelle Monaghan, Alec…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Siberia”; Director: Matthew Ross; Cast: Keanu Reeves, Ana Ularu, Pasha D. Lychnikoff and Molly Ringwald, Rating: * Destructive, suicidal role selections have brought superstar Keanu Reeves’ Matrix-manoeuvred marvellous movie career…
By Subhash K. Jha Dhadak: Starring Ishaan Khattar, Janhavi Kapoor, Directed by Shashank Khaitan, Rating: ** 1/2 (2 and a half stars). Like all great love stories Dhadak ends as a tragedy. Which is not…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Hotel Transylvania 3: Monster Vacation’; Director: Genndy Tartakovsky; Voiceovers by Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez and Kathryn Hahn; Rating: ** Just when you feel happy about animation films coming…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Delhi 47 Km”; Director: Shadab Khan; Cast: Rajneesh Dubey, Dolly Tomar, Mustakeem Khan and Shadab Khan; Rating: **1/2 Ironically for a film set 47 km away from Delhi, it interestingly bookends…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Skyscraper”; Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber; Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Moller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber and Hannah Quinlivan; Rating: ** Despite being visually exciting, suspenseful and…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”; Director: Genndy Tartakovsky; Voice Cast: Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Fran Drescher, Keegan-Michael Key, Molly Shannon, Fran Drescher, Kathryn…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Dhadak”; Director: Shashank Khaitan; Cast: Ishaan Khatter, Janhvi, Ashutosh Rana; Rating: *** (3 stars) Director Shashank Khaitan’s “Dhadak” suffers from a lack of intrigue, right at the outset, as owing to…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Mitti” (Bengali); Writer and Director: Leena Gangopadhyay; Starring Adil Hussain, Paoli Dam Rating: ***(3 stars) At several points in the fitful storytelling about a Kolkata girl’s search for her roots…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Teri Bhabhi Hai Pagle”; Director: Vinod Tiwary; Cast: Krushna Abhishek, Rajniesh Duggall, Nazia Hussain, Mukul Dev, Deepshika and Aman Verma; Rating: *1/2 With a title like “Teri Bhabhi Hai Pagle” one…