By Subhash K Jha As one by one all the pending films, big or small, are succumbing to the digital temptation we have it from informed sources that Rohit Shetty’s Sooryavanshi and Kabir Khan’s 83, both ...
Class Of ‘83(Netflix) Starring Bobby Deol,Anup Soni, Joy Sengupta Directed by Atul Sabharwal Rating: ***(3 stars) In how many films from Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer and Shimit Amin’s Ab Tak Chappan to Mahesh Manjrekar’s Kurukshetra and Prabhudheva’s Wanted have we seen the cop-hero battling the dreaded...
Fagara(Hong Kong in Chinese) Starring Sammi Cheng as Acacia, Megan Lai as Branch, Li Xiaofeng as Cherry Directed by Heiward Mark Rating: ** ½ This Hong Kong production has become quite a rage outside its home domain mainly...
Flesh(Eros Now) Starring Swara Bhaskar, Akshay Oberoi Directed by Danish Aslam Rating:** Where does the depiction of exploitation mutate into a form of exploitation itself? The answer is embedded in this...
Hammer(Video On Demand) Starring Will Patton, Mark O’Brian Directed by Christian Sparkes Rating: * ½ Hammer is one of those bogus thrillers that draws inspiration from Guy...
Masaba Masaba soon on Netflix, which marks the acting debut of dress designer Masaba Gupta, seems to be a new voice in an old jukebox. I hate to say ‘old...
Trance(Malayalam, Netflix) Starring Fahadh Faasil as Viju Prasad / Pastor Joshua Carlton,Dileesh Pothan as Avarachan, Nazriya Nazim as Esther Lopez,Gautham Menon as Solomon Davis, Soubin Shahir as Mathew Varghese,Chemban Vinod Jose as Issac Thomas Directed by Anwar Rasheed Rating: **** Given the current bleakness all around us, we have...
7500(Amazon Prime) Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tobias Ellis,Omid Memar as Vedat Directed by Patrick Vollrath Rating: *** ½ Straightaway, 7500 –which is the aviation code for being hijacked—joins the ranks of the...
Where is Apoorva Lakhia? Not much has been heard of the filmmaker since his last feature film the powerful but unsuccessful gangster film Haseena Parkar which was released in 2017. But...
Yaara(Zee5) Starring Vidyut Jammwal as Phagun,Shruti Haasan as Sukanya,Amit Sadh as Mitwa,Vijay Varma as Rizwan.Kenny Basumatary as Bahadur,Sanjay Mishra as Chaman Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia Rating: * ½ Apart from some actors whom we trust to deliver on demand, there is nothing in Yaara to invest more than...
Lootcase(Disney-Hotstar) Starring Kunal Khemu,Rasika Duggal, Gajaraj Rao,Vijay raaz, Ranvir Shorey Directed by Rajesh Krishnan Rating: *** I have to be honest. I haven’t LOL-ed so many times in any other recent film. And for once, the laughter ...
Raat Akeli Hai(Netflix) Starring : Smita Singh Starring: Nawazuddin Siddiqui,Radhika Apte,Shweta Tripathi,Tigmanshu Dhulia,Shivani Raghuvanshi Directed by Honey Trehan Rating: **** A death in the family kills a lot of hopes and expectations built around the life of the...
Shakuntala Devi(Amazon PrimeVideo) Starring Vidya Balan,Jisshu Sengupta, Shakuntala’s husband,Sanya Malhotra ,Amit Sadh Directed by Anu Menon Rating; *** ½ The best part of getting Vidya Balan...
In what could be regarded as a big breakthrough in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, writer-director Rumi Jaffrey who was a close friend of the dead actors, says Sushant had spoken to him...
Palm Springs(Video On Demand) Starring Andy Samberg as Nyles, Cristin Milioti ,J. K. Simmons ,Camila Mendes ,Tyler Hoechlin ,Meredith Hagner Directed by Max Barbakow Rating: * ½ Much as I tried to make sense of this scatterbrained...
Dil Bechara(Disney-Hotstar) Starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjana Sanghi Directed by Mukesh Chhabra It is very difficult to not get emotional about Dil Bechara, it’s about two dying people in love. Also, and more importantly, the film’s...
