Good performances alone do not a film make. You need equally deft direction to transform a good script into a cinematic experience worth spending time and money on.‘Maharathi’, alas, turns out to be yet another case of missed opportunity.The film, based on a long-running Gujarati play, is a situational thriller with many a twist in […]

PRANALI is a 2002 Bollywood Hindi movie released on May 2 under the banner of Harward Entertainment.The movie preview proves to have a strong story outline and hope it lives upto the mark.Directed by Hirdesh Kamble and Produced by Nikhil Mathur the film depicts the story of a poor village girl, married off to a […]

Another animation (a good one though) goes into the credit list of the Indian cinema.The movie Jumbo is about a fat, blue colored, young elephant named Jaiveer, who loves playing with frogs and is in his own dream world where there are loads of fun and fun around.Everything is happy around him but one thing […]

Ghajini, director A R Murugadoss’s remake of his Tamil blockbuster, is a throw back to what Hindi films used to be: a three hour extravaganza of romance, comedy, action, set-piece songs and drama.It’s a revenge saga, apparently, a powerful film with a riveting story that has the power to sweep you off your feet from […]

If memory serves right, in his ’superstar’ heyday, Rajesh Khanna did not take his shirt off, like today’s studs routinely do. So it is a shock to see the star in his seventies, bare his hairy chest and fleshy back — he belongs to the age when the gym was not the star’s second home […]