Vikas Bahl’s Shaitaan, based on the Gujarati horror film Vash, fails to deliver. After an okayish first half, the film, starring …
Sunehre Din
Sunehre Din is yet another creaky, old film that has not held up well at all. A stupid, insufferable story …
Laapataa Ladies
Simplicity might be a structure easy enough to scorn but if the director knows how exactly to engage the audience, it could …
All India Rank
Writer and Lyricist Varun Grover’s maiden directorial outing, All India Rank, captures the growing optimism of 1990s India in its …
The Holdovers
The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne, stands as solid testament to the age-old adage, “Never count an auteur out.” The …
Director’s Note: My Sona!
My Sona! (dur: 4.22 mins, Hindi subtitled in English, short fiction, 2024) – an ultra, ultra short film on Najma’s …
Raja Jani
The Yul Brynner-Ingrid Bergman starrer Anastasia (1956) gets the Hindi film treatment with Raja Jani and to be honest, the film by and large …
Fighter
One look at director Siddharth Anand’s filmography informs you of his love for Hollywood genre movies. Thus, it comes as …
Tumsa Nahin Dekha
Gopal kills his partner and has to go on the run abandoning his wife and baby son. Twenty years later …
Dunki
Over the past two decades, Rajkumar Hirani has earned both critical and massive commercial acclaim for his films that expertly …