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
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
New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- The most wrenching moment in The Voice of Hind Rajab comes late in the film. The Red Crescent despatchers have lost contact with the Palestinian girl they've been talking to. The... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- Imagine you're on the fringes of the Delhi arts scene in the late 1980s. A friend invites you to see a rare movie shoot in town. You head to the School of Planning and Architectu... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- There are, broadly speaking, two types of Vishal Bhardwaj films. The first kind unfold with control and fixity of purpose: Maqbool, Omkara, Haider. The second, films like Matru K... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- Desperate for money, Marty Mauser (Timothee Chalamet) enlists his friend Rachel (Odessa A'zion), who's married but likely carrying his unborn child, for a hopelessly long shot in... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- It's rare to see Hindi cinema offer up this neat a contrast. Three weeks ago, Sriram Raghavan's Ikkis, a film on the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War, released in theatres. This weekend, A... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- I wonder if Vir Das was a fan of Scrubs. So much in Happy Patel reminded me of Zach Braff's sitcom: the cutaways and inserts, the sheer number of throwaway gags, the gravitation ... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 1 -- Madan Lal Khetarpal is in Lahore. He's attending a college reunion and seeing the house where he grew up, but really, he's building up courage to visit the place where his son Aru... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 26 -- Lokah is far and away the best commercial film of the year, yet little that it does is blazingly new. Instead, it excels as precisely calibrated popular filmmaking that respects ... Read More