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
New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- With the Mumbai Film Festival cancelled this year, Indian cinephiles found their best options down to Goa's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and the International Film... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- The last thing we hear in Dhurandhar is: "Yeh naya Hindustan hai. Yeh ghar mein ghusega bhi, aur maarega bhi"-this is the new India. It'll break into your home, and kill you too. ... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- Mukti's stalker has just turned up at her engagement party and thrown Molotov cocktails. She responds by hugging and trying to reason with him. He blames her for everything, thre... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- At the end of seven episodes you might wonder, what exactly is this? Another season of The Family Man is over, but it doesn't feel like it. Nothing's been resolved, all possibili... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- At the end of seven episodes you might wonder, what exactly is this? Another season of The Family Man is over, but it doesn't feel like it. Nothing's been resolved, all possibili... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 21 -- Partly by choice, partly through circumstance, 120 Bahadur is out of sync with the times. Razneesh Ghai's film, about a famous battle in the Sino-Indian war of 1962, chooses to b... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Ajay Devgn used to throw himself into comedies. I never thought he was a great comic (compare his effortful style to the ease of Akshay Kumar), but he more or less got the job do... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 13 -- It's the one scene many fans of Dil Se would prefer wasn't there. Amar (Shah Rukh Khan) has followed Meghna (Manisha Koirala) from her home in the north-east to Ladakh, professin... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- There's a scene in Dhoom Dhaam (2025) where Yami Gautam's character goes off on a rant about patriarchy. It felt to me a moment written for the express purpose of being able to sh... Read More