Homi Adajania’s ‘Cocktail 2’ wants to be an edgy take on relationships but ends up being silly
Shahid Kapoor and Rashmika Mandanna have been a couple for such a long time that she feels she needs to test whether he’s still in love with her. […]
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BV Nandini Reddy’s ‘Maa Inti Bangaaram’ could have used more highs, but it’s still a solid star vehicle
If our heroes can have generically entertaining action entertainers, why not our heroines? Samantha is in good form as a woman whose strengths are those traditionally associated with
Sasi’s ‘Nooru Saami’ is a superficial, overly melodramatic story that talks about widow remarriage
Swasika plays a widow in her forties, and her two grown-up sons decide that she needs a partner. This creates all sorts of trouble in their village. The
Varsha Vasudev’s ‘Chinna Chinna Aasai’ is a quiet, moving drama about two strangers in Banaras
Indrans and Madhoo play a Malayali and a Tamilian who meet in Banaras. She needs help. He agrees to help her. What follows is a set of conversations
Manoj Tapadia’s ‘Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata’ is a moving, well-crafted tribute to the heroines of 26/11
A few nurses at a government hospital face the worst day of their lives when Ajmal Kasab and a colleague enter the hospital. What follows is like ‘Die
Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s ‘Sing Geetham’ is a sweet, joyous, inventive eco-musical
A barren village loses the only tree it has. The next day, all the villagers find that they are unable to speak normally. They begin to sing. This
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Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’ is a nice movie with many nice bits that don’t add up to an emotionally affecting movie
In the present day, Naseeruddin Shah plays a man on his deathbed who wants to visit his former home in Pakistan. Diljit Dosanjh is the grandson who helps
Aswin Kandasamy’s ‘Double Occupancy’ is a middling story about a gender mix-up
Thanks to a miracle, a child grows up to be male for 12 hours and female for 12 hours. Both halves get a partner, and this could have
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Meera Kathiravan’s ‘Habeebi’ is a diligent documentation of Tamil-Muslim life
Over the course of decades, we follow the ups and downs of a Muslim family in southern Tamil Nadu. There’s a love angle at the centre of this
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Siddharth Koul and Ankit Wali’s ‘Batt Koch’ is an intimate portrait of a Kashmiri Pandit family
A family in Jammu City plans a trip to Kashmir. It is not easy for a number of reasons. What we see here isn’t something dramatic, but the
Pandiraaj’s ‘Parimala and Co’ wastes a talented cast in an utterly clueless movie
Jayaram and Urvashi play a couple that gets involved in a ‘Drishyam’-like murder. For a while, the film looks like a spoof. Then, it gets all serious on
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Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Bandar’ is a brilliant examination of a former star being stuck in one cage after another
Bobby Deol is fantastic in the role of a lifetime as a has-been movie star. His life is down in the dumps. And things get worse when he