New Delhi, June 28 -- In early 2023, Honey Trehan was confident his film would be released. Punjab '95 had a big star, Diljit Dosanjh, a veteran producer in Ronnie Screwvala, and was already being tal... Read More
New Delhi, June 27 -- The young man in the row behind me in the 7am screening of F1 was having something like a religious experience. I could sense his enjoyment throughout, but in the film's final st... Read More
New Delhi, June 20 -- What might Aamir Khan's last decade-and-a-half have been like had he not done 3 Idiots? I'd imagine his fans, and maybe the man himself, would look at the 2009 film as a positive... Read More
New Delhi, June 17 -- "Are we in the right film?" a girl in the row behind me asked her friend. You could see why she'd be confused. They'd turned up for a New York romance with Pedro Pascal and here ... Read More
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