Reviews

Prime Video’s latest offering The Rig is a group of workers on an oil rig

The story revolves around Arjun (Aadi), a simple and innocent cab driver who gets entangled in a drug deal

This film is very caricatured and only pleasant moments are when you have old Burman (SD and RD) songs are played to appropriate scenarios and a few other old numbers too. Skip this if you have a sense of humour.

The narrative in itself is not contrived it is constantly punctuated by needless dances and songs to have the lead pair display their anatomy wardrobe and seeming dance skills.

The filmmaker plays with the havoc caused to a girl possessed by an evil spirit who walks into the girl's life.

Go for it and catch it with a charm and the presentation, not to mention peer pressure.

This one is for movie-goers who are madly in love with thrills and chills.

The series Wednesday centered on the sociopathic daughter of the Addam’s Family belongs to Disney breakout star Jenny Ortega. She leaves her stamp on the character who is now high school age.

Not often that a sequel hold out the same or even more interest than the first of a series. Abhishek Pathak achieves this task effortlessly. If anything it is the lukewarm response from the cineaste that is a tad disappointing . It is a tragedy of our cultural ethos that good works get cold shoulders. […]

Hyderabad: The first Black Panther movie, part of the MCU, opened with incredible scale and scope. Not to mention its star cast and the vision of Ryan Coogler. A lot has changed since then. Chadwick Boseman who played T’Challa/Black Panther passed away due to colon cancer. Disney plus has almost taken over the MCU with […]

Hyderabad: At a time when actors are looking for image changes to further their careers, it is interesting that Sooraj Bharjatiya decides to move away from his comfort zone and make an out and out near adventure thriller based however on human sentiments (his forte). Even the hunky-dory family gets a shake up in the […]

The plot of this thriller revolves around an impoverished girl named Yashoda (played by Samantha) who consents to be a surrogate mother.

Hyderabad: Designed to be whacky comedy, Phone Bhoot some-how fails to take off. Making a comedy is always a huge risk. The viewer needs to be on the same page. This is a much bigger risk than one can imagine. Obviously, the idea of a ghost with a corporate plan and non-vengeful is a good […]

Given the disappointing footfalls in mainstream Bollywood cinema, this week is not even perceived as sleeper hit?

Title: Dubai Bling (series) Cast: Zeina Khoury, Safa Siddiqui, Lojain Omran, Kris Fade, DJ Bliss OTT platform: Netflix For any reality show set in Dubai, expect to see a lot of gold, dazzling jewellery, palatial homes and beautiful exterior shots of Dubai’s landscapes. The series ‘Dubai Bling’ has all these tropes and is replete with […]

Hyderabad: To sit through Thank God even in its truncated two-hour version gives you the feeling that you are required to evaluate a television reality show. With the protagonist trying hard to anchor the show aka Big B, the filmmaker robs it even of the minimal space of creativity. The promos already tell you that […]

The long preface notwithstanding, the laboured attempt to portray Akshay Kumar as a rationalist who is talking of evidence – scientific evidence over faith gets to be a non-starter. As a viewer you know the film maker is conning you and sooner than later the protagonist is going to spill the beans and show up […]

Things begin to hot up when social activist Sameera(Laila) goes missing and leaves behind her son Timmy ( Rithvik ) with a terminal disease. ON the trail is Inspector Vijay with his uncle (Munishkant).

Though an origin story, neither does it have the punch that Nolan’s Batman Begins had nor the charisma of Snyder’s Man of Steel.

Hyderabad: You need audacious gumption to make a spy thriller in its over-simplistic template as perceived by Ribhu Das Gupta. You also need amazing bad luck to be tempted into this adventure and tolerance to sit through this Afghan-Pak connect anti-terrorist story reduced to the simplicity of a chor-police game. Kids a couple of decades […]

When you build a story about a lad from the town and you are dealing with a character who is a protagonist outside the Bollywood stereotype

By Dr YL Srinivas and Sneha Varghese Hyderabad: Motivation is often sought in the pages of hardly -touched self-help books with suspicious ‘click-bait’ (or rather ‘pick-bait’!) titles that have pages and pages of sermonizing and quick fixes, making the reader who seeks practical answers and real experiences lose interest, and give up halfway on their […]

Hyderabad: Madhuri Dixit’s ‘Maja Ma’ seems to have a promising plot, but it falls really short of expectations. One could put it down to a casting fail, but Madhuri as a closeted lesbian doesn’t come close to portraying the complex emotions her character goes through. The film begins with Ritwik Bhowmick’s Tejas getting to ready […]

By Shanti Hyderabad: If the teaser and trailer of the Nagarjuna-starrer ‘The Ghost’ are anything to go by, the film should have been very impressive. But, looks like Praveen Sattaru didn’t completely succeed in recreating the magic of his previous film ‘PSV Garuda Vega’, which helped Rajasekhar revive his career. One can’t really say ‘the […]