During my adolescence in the 1960s, by sheer happenstance I became privy to the insulated world of a Bombay kotha: …
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, the show created and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Netflix, aims to be a grand and majestic …
Dahaad
Dahaad, an eight-episode web series directed by Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi, is a police procedural drama centering on the …
Kalank
Kalank has all the theatrics and posturing of an epic stage act. The setting is more surreal than real. The …
Force 2
Force 2 is little more than a pretty good-looking film where some well-staged action set pieces try unsuccessfully to overcome …
Akira
Akira could have done with a shot of madness. It is not a film meant for conventional treatment that involves …
Tevar
Yet another tale of the damsel in distress (Sonakshi Sinha), a powerful, eccentric goon who covets her (Manoj Bajpayee), a …
Lingaa
Lingaa (Rajinikanth), a petty thief, learns how his grandfather, Raja Lingeswaram (Rajinikanth again), was tricked by the British into sacrificing all …
Action Jackson
Vishi (Ajay Devgn), a hard-working hotel concierge in Pune, doubling up as a street-side thug in Mumbai, and his lookalike, …
Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty
Today, marketing a film, creating relevant hype and timing its release correctly plays a much, much bigger part than really …