New Delhi, June 13 -- There are times we look for complexity and depth in cinema, and times when a few simple pleasures will do. Small joys, like arcane assassin guild rituals. Or Keanu Reeves hitting... Read More
New Delhi, June 5 -- What a wonderful world it would be if Tamil and Telugu commercial directors could apply their considerable talents to telling concise, coherent stories. The bloat is out of contro... Read More
New Delhi, June 4 -- Lynching is thought to have originated as a term sometime in the 1700s. The word conjures up an evil of the past, barbaric and unthinkable in a modern civilised society. It is, th... Read More
New Delhi, May 23 -- Even as Sanjay Mishra delivers a climactic speech at his customary 20 km/hr, a third of Delhi's film journalists are slouching in the cinema aisles, physically present, spirituall... Read More
New Delhi, May 23 -- Even as Sanjay Mishra delivers a climactic speech at his customary 20 km/hr, a third of Delhi's film journalists are slouching in the aisles of the theatre, physically present, sp... Read More
New Delhi, May 18 -- One of the first things we notice in The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On is a slogan painted on a car belonging to anarchist Kenzo Okuzaki: "To kill ex-prime minister Kakuei Tanak... Read More
New Delhi, May 17 -- "I need you to trust me." Though Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) asking people to place their trust in him has always been the implicit theme of the Mission: Impossible series, the first... Read More
New Delhi, May 1 -- Ajay Devgn isn't the worst star-actor in Hindi films today, but he's the most boring. Nowadays he tends to play unflappable types who either take on powerful adversaries or have to... Read More
New Delhi, April 26 -- Narendra Dubey (Emraan Hashmi) is getting his daughter ready for school. She's reluctant to go; the 'gun waale bhaiyya' on the bus is scary, she says. Who would you rather have ... Read More
New Delhi, April 25 -- What we do in memes doesn't echo in movies. Studios want their releases to go viral so badly they'll try and reverse engineer such moments. But more often, the things that work ... Read More