SHANGHAI music review: Vishal-Shekhar make a musical social comment!

Music director: Vishal-Shekhar
Lyrics: Vishal Dadlani, Dibakar Banerjee, Anivta Dutt Nandan, Neelesh MisraClick here to read more

MLA movie review: This film will make your stomach churn!

Walking into Shiv Dubey’s MLA- An Inside Intruder with your tummy full is a dangerous proposition because you’ll either doze off or have haunting nightmares about the film for the days to come. If not, then you’ll simply throw up!

Picture this: you are watching a predictably boring 90’s film, preferably a C-grade production with an amazingly simplistic and dumb storyline. You have to look at actors who wear the same expression throughout the film and mouth the most cliched lines. The conventional ‘hero’ and ‘heroine’ break into a dance and go on a romantic escapade absolutely unannounced. There’s err…a black villain…a corrupt MLA, a squeaky clean industrialist, the hero, with no playful or fun shades to his holier than thou persona. The political battle between the hero and villain begins in the middle of an item song, followed by a bludgeoning background score, a titillating skin show and overt deshbhakti. If you can stand all this unfolding on the big screen at a lazy – at times even at a deadeningly lethargic pace – and want to test your threshold for pain, go catch this one.Click here to read more

LOVE, LIES AND SEETA movie review: Sloppy and slow

Actors are uncomfortable and lack energy, making the film boring

For a moment, imagine yourself as a filmmaker who has been given this scenario to make a film – three flatmates who fall for the same hot, young woman. Now she is no damsel in distress but a strong woman with a mind of her own. If you were told to make a romantic comedy out of this basic plot line, what would you have done?Click here to read more

DEPARTMENT movie review: Watching this torture should be declared a crime

Ram Gopal Varma is turning into a serial offender. Lately, every film that he has directed has been unwatchable and it’s only getting worse with each passing moment

It has been a while since Ram Gopal Varma, a filmmaker who earned the respect of his fans by making films like Satya, Rangeela and Company, made a decent film. When was the last time you watched an RGV film and come out even half-impressed? Don’t remember? Don’t blame yourself. The only person responsible is the man himself – someone who was once looked upon as the saviour of good cinema in Bollywood. As soon as his protégés like Anurag Kashyap, Shimit Amin and Jaideep Sahni found their voices and moved out of his ‘factory’, the quality of Varma’s films began to drop consistently.Click here to read more

DEPARTMENT music review: Lively and powerful

With songs like Dan dan cheeni , the soundtrack of Ram Gopal Varma’s Amitabh Bachchan-starrer is likable, but it could’ve been better

Film: Department; Music Directors: Dharam-Sandeep, Vikram Nagi, Bappa Lahiri; Lyricists: Vaayu, Shabbir Ahmed, Sandip Singh; Singers: Paroma, Ravi, Sandeep Patil, Ritu Pathak, Mika, Sudesh Bhosle, Sanjay Dutt, Farhad Bhiwandiwalla. Rating: ***Click here to read more

GABBAR SINGH movie review: Pawan Kalyan hits the bull’s eye

Gabbar Singh is the Telugu remake of Salman Khan-starrer hit Hindi movie Dabbang. If Dabangg boosted Salman’s career, it seems Gabbar Singh will bring Pawan Kalyan to the centrestage, thanks to the commercial elements in the movie

Pawan’s last few films – Teen Maar, Komaram Puli and Panjaa – were box office duds, but this film will be liked by his fans.Pawan has one of the the largest fan following on Orkut and he also has a strong mass following. Harish Shankar has made sure that he pleases both, the educated and the mass audiences by packaging the movie well. The South actor’s energy level, dialogue delivery and comedy timings are top class throughout the film. Gabbar Singh is a Pawan centric film, just like Dabbang, which was centred around the charisma of Salman.Click here to read more

KATARI VEERA SURA SUNDARAAGI movie review: A treat to watch

Katari Veera Sura Sundaraangi, which was publicised as the first full-fledged 3D film in Kannada language, is a socio-fantasy movie. The highlight of the film is Upendra’s dialogue delivery, grand visuals and the entertainment quotient

Watching an opulent 3D film shot on huge sets is a new experience for the viewers.The second half is not as entertaining as the first half because many sequences are extremely predictable and are borrowed from other successful non-Kannada films. The screenplay is also weak in the second half. Katari Veera Sura Sundaraangi could have won a lot of accolades if the pace of the film had been maintained throughout. The narrative is too predictable as the story is a mix of sequences seen in successful Telugu films like Yamagola, Yamadonga and Jagadeka Veerudu. Barring Upendra‘s well written dialogues and his enigmatic performance, nothing stays with you.Click here to read more

ISHAQZAADE movie review: A deadly romance!

Director Habib Faisal comes up with a winning love story – one that is a tragic reality in several small towns in India – and spices it up with tangible romance and drama

Ishaqzaade is a love story set against the backdrop of two political families – the Qureshis and the Chauhans – living in a small town called Almor in what looks like Northern India. The patriarchs of both families are fighting to become the next MLA, involving in caste politics to fill their vote bank. It’s an environment of hooliganism and hatred.Click here to read more