Project Power Brings A Bad Name To Superhero Genre
My worst suspicions about films helmed by two directors are confirmed by this squint-eyed superhero fiasco. Never trust any film that has more than one director. Too many cooks not only spoil the broth but they also turn a potential main dish into a sidey affair. Project…
Los Lobos Is The New-Age Pather Panchali
Nothing prepares you for life better than life itself. Nothing prepares you for a film as powerful as this. As I watched this extraordinary Mexican film about a young single Mexican mother’s migratory experience in the USA with her two…
Janhvi Kapoor Speaks About the Success of Gunjan Saxena | TBI Exclusive
Janhvi Kapoor, daughter of Sridevi and Boney Kapoor, has recently been seen in Gunjan Saxena, a film that celebrates the story of a female fighter pilot of the same name. The film has been receiving various accolades with Janhvi’s performance…
Flesh: Stomach Churning Brutality In The Name Of Realism
Where does the depiction of exploitation mutate into a form of exploitation itself? The answer is embedded in this sickeningly violent eight-episode series on human trafficking where the victims, all children and young women, are violated so brutally and graphically…
Class Of 83: On Target But Suffers From Nervous Exhaustion
From Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer and Shimit Amin’s Ab Tak Chappan to Mahesh Manjrekar’s Kurukshetra and Prabhudeva’s Wanted, in how many films have we seen the cop-hero battling the dreaded ‘System’ from the outside? As far as originality goes, Class Of 83 scores poorly. It looks like an encore of dozens of anti-establishment and angry-cop films we have seen over the years, when…
Mee Raqsam Is A Glorious Father-Daughter Drama
In the idyllic village of Mijwan, there lives a Muslim girl whose heart beats for the Bharat Natyam dance form. Bharat Natyam? Her family and the village community are aghast! Yeh toh kafiron (non-believers) ka kaam hai. How can a…
Death On The Nile Trailer: Ali Fazal’s One Shot Looks Worth More Than His Fukrey Character
The star-studded trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s Death On The Nile made its royal appearance on the internet on Wednesday. And it felt like a dazzling achievement to see Indian actor Ali Fazal in the midst of marquee names which include…
Fagara: A Formula Family Film With Lots Of Emotions
This Hong Kong production has become quite a rage outside its home domain mainly because the characters are culture-blind. Though they are purely Oriental in looks and language with plenty of chinks in their armours, the three sisters Acacia (Sammi…
Family Romance LLC: A Japanese Gem
For Werner Herzog, cinema is a medium that is meant to carry forward man’s ever-renewable conversation with nature. This slender masterly portrait of human relationships is played out mostly in a blossoming park filled with luscious flowers where we are…
Lata Mangeshkar and Sridevi: There Can Never Be A Divine Combination Like Theirs Again
When it came to ghost voices Sridevi was at her best when the Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar sang for her. Sridevi once told me, “When Lataji sings for me, I feel half my job has already been done. She doesn’t only sing the lines but she…