By Subhash K Jha Starring: Alia Bhatt, Vickey Kaushal and directed by Meghna Gulzar Rating: **** (4 Stars). Sometimes a flawed diamond can sparkle and shine brighter than a polished one. Raazi is that triumphant…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Hope Aur Hum”; Directed by Sudip Bandopadhyay; Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Sajid Kabir, Aamir Bashir, Naveen Kasturia, Sonali Kulkarni, Beena Banerjee; Rating: *** There is an unmistakable influence of Giuseppe Tornatore’s…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Raazi” Director: Meghna Gulzar Cast: Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Soni Razdan, Jaideep Ahlawat, Rajit Kapur, Shishir Sharma, Arif Zakaria Rating: ***1/2 Director Meghna Gulzar’s “Raazi” based on Harinder S. Sikka’s novel,…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Hope Aur Hum” Director: Sudip Bandopadhyay Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Sonali Kulkarni, Bina Banerjee, Aamir Bashir, Naveen Kasturia, Kabir Shaikh Rating: ** “Everything happens when it is destined to happen,” this dialogue…
Film: Mehbooba Language: Telugu Cast: Akash Puri, Neha Shetty, Murli Sharma, Amit Anand Raut, Vishu Reddy, Sayaji Shinde Director: Puri Jagannadh Rating: 2.25 Reviewed By: SOCIALNEWS.XYZ Story: Roshan (Akash Puri) is an Indian Engineering Student…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Monster Hunt 2”; Director: Raman Hui; Cast: Tony Leung Chui Wai, Baihe Bai, Jing Boran, Yo Yang, Eric Tsang, Yuchun Li, Tony Yo-ning Yang; Rating: *** Director Raman Hui’s, live-action cum…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “Mahanati”(Telugu with English Subtitles) Director: Nag Ashwin Cast: Keerthy Suresh, Dulquer Salmaan, Samantha Akkineni, Vijay Devarakonda Rating: ****(4 stars) Truth, they say, is often stranger than fiction. Many episodes from…
Film: Mahanati Language: Telugu Cast: Keerthy Suresh, Dulquer Salmaan, Samantha Akkineni, Vijay Devarakonda, Rajendra Prasad, Tanikella Bharani, Bhanupriya, Malavika Nair, Shalini Pandey, Tulasi, Divya Vani, Akkineni Naga Chaitanya, Mohan Babu, Prakash Raj, Krish, Srinivas Avasarala, Senior…
By Subhash K. Jha “Teen Paheliyan”, an omnibus of three short films available on Hotstar; Starring Vikant Massey, Surveen Chawla, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Tina Desai, Paoli Dam, Akshay Oberoi, Shraddha Das and Rukhsar Rehman; Rating:…
Film: Naa Peru Surya, Naa Illu India Language: Telugu Cast: Allu Arjun, Anu Emmanuel, Arjun, Boman Irani, Rao Ramesh, Vennela Kishore, Posani Krishna Murali, Sai Kumar, Thakur Anoop Singh, Charuhasan, Nadhiya, Sarathkumar, Pradeep Rawat Director: Vakkantham Vamsi…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Omerta”; Director: Hansal Mehta; Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Timothy Ryan Hickernell, Keval Arora, Sanjeev Chopra; Rating: **1/2 Hansal Mehta is an accomplished film maker, but his “Omerta” is not one that will…
By Subhash K Jha Starring: Rajkummar Rao; Directed by Hansal Mehta; Rating: **** (Four stars) When a filmmaker takes on the responsibility of telling the story of one of the most notorious terrorists in the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “102 Not Out”; Director: Umesh Shukla; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Jimit Trivedi, Mukesh Hariwala; Rating: *** There have been few more funny and empathetic portraits of generational dramas than Director…
By Subhash K Jha Film: “102 Not Out”, Director: Umesh Shukla, Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor Rating: ****(4 stars) If you overlook the deliberate staginess of the presentation with just two characters aided by a…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Avengers: Infinity War”; Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo; Cast: Robert Downey Jr and the rest of the Marvel marvels; Rating: ** Rating: **(2 stars) Halfway or somewhere after the middle…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Ishq Tera”; Director: Jojo D’Souza; Cast: Hrishitaa Bhatt, Mohit Madaan, Mozhgan Taraneh, Shahbaaz Khan, Aman Verma, Ganesh Yadav and Manoj Pahwa; Rating: *1/2 “Ishq Tera” is a film that approaches its…
By Subhash K. Jha ‘Daas Dev’: Starring Rahul Bhat, Richa Chadha, Adito Rao Hydari, Vipin Sharma, Sourabh Shukla, Vineet Mishra, Directed by Sudhir Mishra; Rating: *** (3 and a half stars). The violence in the…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Daas Dev”; Director: Sudhir Mishra; Cast: Richa Chadha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Rahul Bhat, Saurabh Shukla, Vipin Sharma, Anurag Kashyap; Rating: **1/2 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, the author of “Devdas”, must be cringing…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Avengers: Infinity War” Director: Anthony and Joe Russo Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Zoe Saldana, Karen…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: Pity; Director: Babis Makridis; Cast: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Nota Tserniafski, Makis Papadimitriou, Georgina Chryskioti, Evdoxia Androulidaki, Nikos Karathanos, Kostas Kotoulas, Panagiotis Tasoulis; Rating: **1/2 You realise this art-house film will…