War films in India off-late have been, frankly speaking, quite nonsensical. Starting with Border and all the way to LOC, these pop-patriotic efforts …
Ayutha Ezhuthu
Like with Gajini (2005), where I saw the Hindi version first, here too, I saw Yuva (2004) before Ayutha Ezhuthu and again with the …
Perazhagan
Perazhagan is an entertaining enough watch, lifted even more by Suriya’s brilliant double act. The film is a re-make of the …
Yuva
After the creative and commercial debacle of Dil Se (1998), just when you thought Mani Ratnam had bounced back to form with the …
Aar Paar
Kalu (Guru Dutt), a taxi driver who was sentenced to prison for speeding, is released two months before his term …
Mr and Mrs 55
An impoverished and struggling cartoonist, Preetam (Guru Dutt), encounters Anita (Madhubala) at a tennis match. Anita is controlled by her …
Maqbool
At last! Vishal Bhardwaj’s take off on Macbeth and The Godfather, Maqbool, shows that a good, sensible film can indeed …
Sujata
When her kinfolk die in a plague epidermic, an untouchable girl is sheltered in infancy in an emergency by an …
Main Prem Ki Diwaani Hoon
Considering that he is regarded as a director who has been much aped in Bollywood, it is astonishing to see …
Apur Sansar
Kolkata 1930; Apu/Apurba Kumar Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) has quit college due to financial problems. He leads a precarious existence but …