The charm of Pyaar ke Side Effects - despite Mallika Sherawat - was that it was relatable. Shaadi ke Side Effects starts off on a similar note with its play on the little truths of marriage, but combusts in its own ...
"Documentary film hai, bhaiya. Pakka ticket doon?" ("It's a documentary film, brother. You sure you want a ticket?") says the guy at the ticket window, inadvertently summarising the state of documentary film market in India. In the recent past many notable ...
Much like the pristine landscapes of Rajasthan and Punjab and the stunning vistas of Himachal through which it travels, Highway is a film that lacks any ‘tamasha’. It follows both protagonists intimately through their journey, and gives time and space ...
Let’s take a look at everything the film’s slick promotion promised – a big, bad, Bollywood action flick, a tribute to the hindi films of the 70s, an out-and-out buddy flick, and one helluva entertainer. It fails to deliver on most ...
First things first, the title 'Hasee Toh Phasee' is quite misleading and out of place for the movie that follows afterwards. Secondly, there are a few incredulous plot points in the movie that seem to have been worked out in a ...
Fandry (Marathi)
For the last decade, since Shwaas (2004), one has seen Marathi cinema slowly but surely come into its own through some wonderful films like Harishchandrachi Factory, Ghabricha Paus, Valu, Vihir, Deool, and Shala, just to name some. One can safely add ...
Jatishwar (Bengali)
Srijit Mukherjee began with a very good story on reincarnation where Kushal Hazra, an assistant librarian of Chandan Nagar, believes he is Anthony Phiringee reborn. Who is Antony Phiringee? He was Hansman Anthony, a Portuguese songwriter, singer and musician whose command ...
Biriyani (Tamil)
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When he reviewed Jack (1996) and ripped it apart mercilessly, well-known critic Barry Norman happened to mention that you couldn't believe the name of the director in the film's credits is the same as that of one who also directed the ...
Chander Pahar (Bengali)
Chander Pahar (The Moon Mountain) is a legendary classic authored by Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee in 1937 and is set between 1909 and 1910. Interestingly, Bibhutibhushan never stepped out of Bengal and his geographical sources are drawn solely from his collection of travel ...
Ivan Vera Mathiri (Tamil)
In 2011, I had picked M Saravanan's Engaeyum Eppodhum to be the best Tamil film of the year. So, expectations were naturally sky high for his follow up offering, Ivan Vera Mathiri (IVM). However, while the film is engaging ...
“Documentary film hai, bhaiya. Pakka ticket dun?” ("It's a documentary film, brother. You sure you want a ticket?") says the guy at the ticket window, inadvertently summarising the state of documentary film market in India. In the recent past many no.......
Upperstall blogs features filmmakers expressing their thoughts on cinema... and everything else.
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Reading Ray has always been as delightful as watching his films, be it fiction or his articles on cinema. His impeccably crafted prose, both English and Bengali, with its easy flow and delectable flavor, his keen observations, clarity of thought, ready wit and brevity have been the hallmark of most of his writings, just like in his films. So when I
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