At the very outset, I thought Roadside Romeo would be this mediocre Indian animation film produced by Yashraj (who’ve almost stopped producing good films) and directed by Jugal Hansraj (who could never do anything in films ). But surprise… both proved me wrong and I’m very glad about the same.
Roadside Romeo is no ordinary […]

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I’m nuts for animated flicks, so Roadside Romeo does somehow affix the desire. Animation has been an insatiable concept in Indian cinema. The Krishnas and Ganeshas were just flamboyant, plastic 3D and CGI sprouts, never close to the consummate creations by Pixar and Disney.

It is Jugal Hansraj who anticipated a strong potential for a purely […]

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Erich Fromm once said, “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties”. We are biased to the Indian cinematic orthodoxies. It must have taken courage for Kunal Kohli to weave the 200-million Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic into an absolutely different, magical creation. The film is very different, expect the prevalent Bollywood masala, but with […]

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Saif and Rani are back to entertain us this summer with ‘Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic’. After Paheli, where she was paired opposite a bhoot, Rani has now turned into the bhoot (angel) herself

Directed by Kunal Kohli this film is about 4 orphan kids who are forced to live with a man they intensely […]

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Local anesthesia - to the brain!

Tashan is an out-and-out comedy. The action makes you laugh, the romance makes you laugh louder, and it is so funny that the characters make you laugh even when they are seething with anger. And the beauty is I haven’t been able to figure out whether any of this was […]

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