Banchha Elo Phire
It needs great guts to make a directorial debut with what claims to be a ‘sequel’ to Tapan Sinha’s classic …
Chhoo Mantar
This 1958 Pakistani film, made in Punjabi and directed by Mushtaq Hafiz, is an extremely tacky and a pretty blatant yet bland …
The Bard In Bengali Films
William Shakespeare’s representation on Indian film has mainly focussed on the Pan-Indian identity of his works on celluloid. Not many …
Gangster
“Smoking is injurious to health. It causes cancer.” Gangster, a doomed love story triggered and filled with a lot of …
Chocolate
Chocolate seems to be the flavour of some Bengali filmmakers these days. Soon after Dark Chocolate, which was a dark …
Thodari
Prabu Solomon gets it all wrong with Thodari, his weakest film by far. What should have been an enjoyable train …
Love Express
Laal (Dev) belongs to a strict house-hold where they believe in disowning a family member if he/she commits more than …
Guddi
Yet another collaboration between actress Nishi, director Jugal Kishore, composer Hansraj Behl, and singers Shamshad Begum and Mohammed Rafi, Guddi is one …
Iru Mugan
A fine performance, actually two by Vikram, fail to rescue Iru Mugan. The film, mounted as an action thriller, is time …
Shaheb, Bibi, Golaam
There is possibly no such thing as a pure freestanding “thriller thriller” and this comes across lucidly in film critic …