This Diwali, we have Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Dino Morea, Riya Sen, Vatsal Seth, Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Preity Zinta, Sohail Khan, Amrita Arora and Rekha coming together for your holiday treat. Does Heros - the patriotic, social allegory weave modern characters, into what the audience enjoys? Thats for you to judge.

Director Samir Karnik hasn’t […]

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Rituparno surprises me with surprises every time I voluntarily sit to be surprised by his surprising vision. Yes…I know that was a little verbose…..lekin kya kare? Rituparno’s films are so verbose that I can’t help being inspired to improve my command over the language. I loved ‘Raincoat’ and ‘Antarmahal’ and now ‘The Last Lear’ […]

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You know what makes an actor?
The desire to perform. Nothing else matters.

The Last Lear is yet another addition to Rituparno Gosh’s long list of critically acclaimed films. Based on Utpal Dutt’s play, Aajker Shahjahan the film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta and Arjun Rampal.

Contrary to its name, “The Last Lear” is in fact a series […]

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Believe it or not, the only thing going for Jhoom Barabar Jhoom is Amitabh in his weird pirate costume. He dances every fifteen minutes or so in the first half and provides much needed entertainment breaks. What I really want to say is - the scenes that transpire in between those fifteen minutes, are anything […]

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Will the next Shaad Ali blockbuster live up to our expectations post Bunty Aur Babli?

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Lara Dutta, Bobby Deol and Preity Zinta promises to be an entertaining mess of people caught in quadrangular relationships!
The film has already created press around Daler Mehendi’s song controversy, Big B’s supposedly Jack […]

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