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  Hungama 2 Movie Review: Shilpa Shetty, Meezaan are far from funny in Priyadarshan's film

  July 24, 2021 11:29 IST

  If you were a tad excited for Hungama 2, it might be because Priyadarshan's comedies like Hera Pheri, Malamaal Weekly, Hungama and Huchul among many others were laughter riot. They had their char...

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  Toofaan Review: Farhan Akhtar packs a powerful punch the Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra way!

  July 16, 2021 13:41 IST

  Toofaan is everything it is hyped to be. Those slo-mo shots of knockout punches, the dreamy sequence of rustic Mumbai lanes and dramatic cinematography, framed to precision.  It has an amiable un...

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  Jagame Thandhiram Review: A charismatic Dhanush cannot save the dragging plot

  June 21, 2021 11:14 IST

  Immigrant politics, racism, xenophobia and gangsters, Karthik Subbaraj’s Jagame Thandhiram appears to be an intense, thought-provoking and complex on the paper. However, it has been given a...

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  Sherni Review: Compelling, realistic and perspective describe Vidya Balan's unconventional entertainer

  June 18, 2021 10:57 IST

  A simple man-animal concept on paper may seem rather dull or subdued but give it to filmmaker Amit Masurkar and he shows how to give it a nuanced satirical spin. Sherni, starring Vidya Balan as the le...

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  Loki Review: Tom Hiddleston is enigmatic as the God of Mischief in this terrific show

  June 09, 2021 18:31 IST

  Marvel has been on a roll with its web series. Wanda Vision was set as a sitcom, Falcon and the Winter Soldier was a next-gen sci-fi thriller and Loki is their introduction to the expanded world of my...

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  Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai review: Salman Khan returns in cop avatar to defeat drug mafia

  May 13, 2021 20:33 IST

  Best Eid gift for Salman's fans! Bollywood superstar has finally dropped his much-awaited film. The actor released his film Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai on May 13. The first thing to notice in th...

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  Out of Love 2 Review: Rasika Dugal, Purab Kohli can slowly drag you into binge-watching this riveting thriller

  April 30, 2021 17:42 IST

  You know something is not right when the scenes are obscure, the grass is damp and the drumbeats pace up rhythmically. And if you have watched Out of Love season one, you probably know why things are ...

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  The Big Bull Review: Abhishek Bachchan is an unconvincing messiah in this blotched scam

  April 09, 2021 20:46 IST

  Blame it on Bollywood that oftentimes makes films based on true events and real-life personalities with a conventional template that try to paint an empathetic image of their subject. Recent film...

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  Saina Movie Review: Parineeti Chopra's portrayal of resilience in Saina Nehwal's biopic wins hearts

  April 02, 2021 19:43 IST

  There are two ways to go about it when you recreate an icon's life on screen. You could keep it plain and simple, with lots of melodrama and pep scenes for inspiration which is the easy way out b...

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  Roohi movie review: Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor, Varun Sharma starrer is horribly boring

  March 12, 2021 18:24 IST

  Stree was smart stuff, Roohi seems like random fare. The comparison had to crop up, the only reason the producers seem to have made Roohi is because they struck gold with Stree. Blending horror with h...

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  The Girl On The Train: Derailed drama

  February 27, 2021 15:54 IST

  Don't sit on the edge of your seat as you watch this, you might just fall off dozing. They needn't worry about comparisons, there's scope for none. Ribhu Dasgupta's Bollywoodised r...

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  AK Vs AK: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap starrer is the quirkiest film Bollywood made this year

  December 25, 2020 14:55 IST

  Vikramaditya Motwane's film thrives on its sheer absence of genre-specifics. It involves real people playing out a fictional storyline, and yet the narrative coldly draws from their lives to set ...

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  Durgamati Movie Review: Bhumi Pednekar's horror-thriller is low on scares, high on clichés

  December 11, 2020 11:01 IST

  You were just beginning to get excited about new-age Bollywood horror after cutting-edge stuff as Stree and Tumbbad. Then came Laxmii, and now Durgamati -- as rude reminder that Bollywood horror still...

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  Chhalaang Movie Review: Rajkummar Rao, Nushrratt Bharuccha starrer is a simple story with simple message

  November 13, 2020 12:33 IST

  Sports films can no longer be just about sporting themes and students coming of age, we have crossed that generic phase a while back. So Hansal Mehta, in the most mainstream film he has made in a whil...

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  Ludo Movie Review: Peculiar play of emotions

  November 12, 2020 17:33 IST

  Anurag Basu, hand that rolls the dice, has been among mainstream Bollywood's most interesting storytellers over the recent past. With Ludo, he structures a narrative that would remind you of his ...

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  Laxmii Movie Review: Akshay Kumar is the only Diwali blast in this humorless horror-comedy

  November 10, 2020 8:00 IST

  Known for stepping into the shoes of every character with perfection and leaving the audience amazed by his versatility, actor Akshay Kumar treated his fans with one of the most awaited films of ...

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  Khaali Peeli Movie Review: Ishaan Khatter, Ananya Panday's taxi misadventure is not all fun

  October 03, 2020 6:54 IST

  To say the film has a wafer-thin storyline would be an insult to the fact that wafers do have texture and taste. These days, when packaging and marketing has become all-important in the world of Bolly...

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  Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare Movie Review: Konkona Sen Sharma, Bhumi Pednekar's film is well-intentioned

  September 19, 2020 7:17 IST

  Dolly and Kitty could be any smalltown cousins. In the world of Alankrita Shrivastava, they become fictional case studies of real desires that the Indian woman of today might harbour, even as she grap...

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  Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl Movie Review: Set-piece biopic manages to regale

  August 13, 2020 14:31 IST

  Gunjan Saxena's life unfolds as a set-piece biopic, played out to a pattern. The approach has its advantage. When your aim is to inspire with the story of an achiever who triumphed against all od...

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  Shakuntala Devi Movie Review: Vidya Balan starrer adds up to one-time watch

  July 31, 2020 11:23 IST

  Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman in his 1978 classic, Autumn Sonata, set up an enchanting conflict of emotions between a renowned classical pianist and her rather average daughter, who stifles beneath th...

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  Dil Bechara Movie Review: Sushant Singh Rajput's last film strucks the right chord among viewers

  July 25, 2020 10:53 IST

  Let us just pretend I am not dying. That line does become more than a filmi dialogue when Sushant Singh Rajput utters it at one point. It sounds eerie, is ironic given the sadness it exudes and, in re...