Reviews

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 […]

It has all the ingredients that the audience would want to expect and lap up with glee. A gluttonous appetite for the grotesque stands satiated.

The Vikram Vedha conflict is best summarized in the synthesis when Darrow says ‘the purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog- to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or to hand to life until death takes him’.

Balki’s 'Chup' is a silently promoted tribute to the class and clause that was Guru Dutt.

‘Me Time’ written and directed by John Hamburg, who also did ‘I Love You, Man’ and ‘Along Came Polly’, and it is as fine a premise as any to pair a standard straight man with a wild and crazy friend from his youth.

Hyderabad: This one is a confluence of talent from the small and big screens. The idea of bringing popular telly stars along with those from Telugu film industry does appear novel and interesting but the handling of ‘Wanted PanduGod’ turns out to be a tad disappointment. Directed by Sreedhar Seepana, ‘Wanted PanduGod’ promises to be […]

At a time when risks are fatal, Anurag Kashyap makes bold to tell a kind of story that you may well associate with the Terminator genre. The ‘futuristic’ entry into the present to save a past, with an enigmatic split memory between original intent and contemporary content constitutes the basis of this two-hour plus thriller. […]

Hyderabad: Anand L. Rai plays the perfect spoil sport. On the day when the nation is celebrating the sibling relationship, he chooses to tell us a tale dealing with a tale that labours on how much a brother has to suffer to get four sisters married. The project that has out lived its shelf life […]

Laal Singh Chaddha perhaps is symbolically a seagull – Jonathan Livingston’s Seagull. In flight. A flight engineered by not even self-desire but by a compelling physics and an insatiable urge. Yes, Forrest Gump and Tom Hanks is also about an inexplicable man with a unique persona of passion and nativity. Built selflessly and with amazing […]

Hyderabad: This is a textbook case of how a good film idea can falter at the edit table. Telugu cinema appears to be completely oblivious to the craft of editing a film. A director understandably loves everything he perceives and shoots. It is the task of the editor to ensure the captain does not indulge […]

Director: David Leitch Cast: Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, and Sandra Bullock A lot can happen during a train ride and director David Leitch proves that with his latest outing ‘Bullet Train’. From people being killed with the venom of a deadly snake and their eyes oozing out blood, terrorising ‘twins’ […]