Raincoat
When Mouli Ganguly, playing the Bihari hero's hostess in Kolkata, overhears her houseguest sobbing in the bathroom, she smilingly...
Friday, December 24, 2004
Swades
Somewhere in a village in northern India, a train brings the troubled protagonist Mohan Bhargava chugging...
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Hum Hain Laajawab
The animation-centric family in "Hum Hain Laajawab" looks so real because the feelings that they convey in action and...
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Musafir
Musafir is certainly a grey and grim departure from conventional cinema. It gives us a gritty and violent...
Monday, December 13, 2004
Rok Sako To Rok Lo
The spirit of youthful ebullience irrigates debutant director Arindam Chaudhuri's homage to the urbane romanticism of...
Monday, December 13, 2004
Ab...Bas!
When Shawar Ali gets under the shower in his underwear, you know this film about sex and physical abuse is in serious trouble...
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Khamosh Pani
Khamosh Pani is a small, almost frail film held together by a great inner strength of conviction. In some details, it is exactly...
Friday, December 03, 2004
Hulchul
Years ago, the late O.P. Ralhan made a film called Hulchal, which was about a mistaken murder conspiracy. The pace...
Monday, November 29, 2004
Shark Tale
It's not often that a film makes a tongue-in-cheek comment on crime and social injustice by using devices that...
Monday, November 22, 2004
Mughal-e-Azam
Flawless, seamless, timeless...What do we say about a film that immortalised each one of its cast members and technicians...
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Veera-Zaara
"Which era do these people belong to!" Rani Mukherjee exclaims about the Pakistani girl and the Indian man who...
Monday, November 15, 2004
Aitraaz
A star is born! As the predatory social-climbing seductress who can go to any length to satiate her lust...
Monday, November 15, 2004
Naach
Abhi and Rewa, the two protagonists of Ram Gopal Varma's fascinating study of the dynamics of the man-woman relationship within a...
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Inteqaam
Once upon a time he was the sleek specialist. But now, Punkaj Parasher's take on Paul Verhoeven's box-office hit "Basic Instinct"...
Monday, November 01, 2004
Morning Raga
Morning Raga is as fresh in subject and enticing in treatment as the title suggests. Sure, at first the English language with...
Friday, October 29, 2004
