Looks like filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra has managed to keep the vow he made to himself in 1981 with Eklavya. The filmmaker had vowed to veer away from the traditional song and dance in Hindi films. Eklavya has only one, well-shot song sequence. This dark and brooding film about a former royal family with secrets […]

There have been numerous madcap movies featuring dozens of artists sharing the screen space. ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’ is a flick from the past that comes to the mind first while in the present times Priyadarshan has made maximum number of such movies, whether it is ‘Hera Pheri’, ‘Hungama’, ‘Hulchul’ or ‘Malamaal Weekly’. After an […]

Sunny Deol stars as Karan, a hardworking police officer who gets in the way of a powerful, ruthless terrorist thug named Bhujang (Amrish Puri) and soon finds himself framed and run out of town. He eventually teams up with Jai Singh (Naseeruddin Shah) and Ravi (Jackie Shroff), two of Bhujang’s other victims, in a dangerous, […]

Never has a war movie been known by the degree of bombings and batonings they have shown. It is the tapestry of individual and collective human emotions and conflicts and the situations that they have to deal with within the boundaries of regimentalised ethics of duty, discipline and deliberation, that makes a war epic engaging. […]