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'Ek Din' review: Sai Pallavi the one spark in earnest, stilted romance

New Delhi, May 2 -- "Do you think you're Superman?" Meera (Sai Pallavi) scolds her colleague Dino (Junaid Khan) after he nearly gets run over saving a child who wanders into traffic. He protests, and ... Read More


'Michael' review: A bland biopic and a soulless PR exercise

New Delhi, April 25 -- It's telling that one of the producers of Michael is John Branca, an entertainment lawyer and co-executor of the Michael Jackson estate, played in the film by Miles Teller. This... Read More


'Model': A classic documentary shows fashion's human face

New Delhi, April 24 -- For the final flourish in a commercial for a leggings brand, a Busby Berkeley-like parabola of limbs is envisioned. Each leg will belong to the same model; the plan is to shoot ... Read More


'Toaster' review: Another effortful, unfunny Rajkummar Rao comedy

New Delhi, April 19 -- In the week of her passing, Toaster has a doozy of an Asha Bhosle joke. Distraught Glenn (Abhishek Banerjee) has to address the small gathering at his mother's funeral. To get t... Read More


Asha Bhosle's empire of desire

New Delhi, April 17 -- It's about an hour into Jewel Thief (1967). The plot is cheerfully sordid but the music has been respectable. Lata Mangeshkar has sung two chaste songs. Now it's time for some f... Read More


'The Drama' review: Jittery comedy can't face up to its dark secret

New Delhi, April 4 -- Long before The Drama unveils its central conflict, the filmmaking clues us in on where we're headed. Kristoffer Borgli's film opens with a Hitchcockian closeup of Zendaya's ear.... Read More


'The Testament of Ann Lee': Whole lotta shaking in wild, vivid musical

New Delhi, March 22 -- A small group of Shakers looking for a piece of land to base their operation are lost in the wild. By nightfall, the oldest, Hocknell (David Cale), seems to take leave of his se... Read More


'Dhurandhar: The Revenge' review: Sequel rages past the point of exhaustion

New Delhi, March 19 -- Of all the possible callbacks to Dhurandhar, there was one scene that was always going to be revisited in the sequel. At the start of the first film, Intelligence Bureau chief A... Read More


'Subedaar' review: Anil Kapoor is a great grump but the film can't keep up

New Delhi, March 6 -- Throughout Subedaar, various characters tell retired army man Arjun Maurya (Anil Kapoor) that he's no longer on the border. Sometimes it's a threat, sometimes a plea, but the imp... Read More


'Hamnet' review: Shakespeare film is moving but too cautious

New Delhi, March 2 -- I first heard it about 15 minutes into the film, when Agnes tells the village tutor whom she likes, and who's crazy for her, that she can read landscapes on his hand. "You saw a ... Read More