Film Review: PK
PK tells the story of an alien (Aamir Khan), who has landed on Earth to observe humans and report back his findings. However, on his first day of landing – nangu in the … Continue reading
Film Review: Happy New Year
A corrupt boxer (Shah Rukh Khan), a partially-deaf pyrotechnics expert (Sonu Sood), an old fat retiree (Boman Irani), a young hacker (Vivaan ‘son of Naseeruddin’ Shah), a drunkard (Abhishek Bachchan) … Continue reading
Film Review: Margarita With A Straw
Margarita With A Straw tells the story of Laila – a young woman with cerebral palsy on a journey of self-discovery and sexuality. The film starts with Laila living a familiar … Continue reading
Film Review: Khoobsurat
Khoobsurat, a remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1980s classic starring Rekha, tells the story of a rich and snobby family of royal heritage, whose patriarch King (Aamir Raza Hussain) loses the use … Continue reading
Ritesh Batra – Taking Indian Cinema To An International Level
Hailing from a history of award-winning short films, big things were expected of Ritesh Batra, especially after his script for his first feature The Lunchboxwas selected for numerous screenwriting labs … Continue reading
Film Review: The Lunchbox
Not to forget the late, great Yash Chopra, but if The Lunchbox is anything to go by, Indian Cinema may have found a new King of Romance in … Continue reading
Film Review: Aurangzeb
A shamed policeman (a short but effective cameo by Anupam Kher) slowly approaching his death informs his policeman son, the cynically suppressed Arya (Prithviraj Sukumaran) that he secretly fathered another … Continue reading
Tera Kya Hoga Kalia
The black demographic of India stands at approximately 0.008% – the near equivalent to the number of people who practice the religion of The United House Of Prayer in the … Continue reading
Book Review: First Day First Show
Trawling a number of bookstores in India to find books on the art of writing for Bollywood, I found nothing but biographies and glossy coffee table books. That was until … Continue reading
Film Review: Race 2
Great music, lovely eye candy, wooden characters and a convoluted plot. Not too different from the original then… Read the full review at the-nri.com.
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