By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Bharat Ane Nenu” Language: Telugu Director: Koratala Siva Cast: Mahesh Babu, Prakash Raj, and Kiara Advani Rating: **** Not once does this politician raise his voice. His soft and gentle…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Nanu Ki Jaanu”; Director: Faraz Haider; Cast: Abhay Deol, Patralekhaa, Reshma Khan, Brijendra Kala, Sapna Chaudhary, Manu Rishi Chadha, Rajesh Sharma, Manoj Pahwa, Gurmeet Singh, Mahendra Shrivas, Himani Shivpuri; Rating: **1/2…
Film: Bharat Ane Nenu Language: Telugu Cast: Mahesh Babu, Kiara Advani, Prakash Raj, R. Sarathkumar, Devaraj, Aamani, Sithara, Posani Krishna Murali, Devadas Kanakala, P. Ravi Shankar, Jeeva, Yashpal Sharma, Yogesh, Rao Ramesh, Prudhvi Raj, Ajay, Brahmaji,…
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 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 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 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 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…
By Troy Ribeiro Film: “Midnight Sun”; Director: Scott Speer; Cast: Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shephard, Ken Temblett, Suleka Mathew; Rating: **1/2 If you are a sucker for tearjerkers or simply love-thirsty, then…
By Subhash K. Jha Film: “Peter Rabbit”; Director: Will Gluck; Cast: Domhall Gleeson, Rose Byrne; Rating: ** It was 29 years ago that the idea of yoking an animation version of a rabbit with live…