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8x10 Tasveer, movie review
8x10 Tasveer has an interesting idea - that a guy can look at a photograph and travel back in time to when the photo was taken. The film is an exciting tale around a person Jai Puri (Akshay Kumar) who is naturally gifted with psychotic powers to peep inside people's past gazing through their photograph for a minute. But this power is very risky as it can even take his life after that dreadful minute. 8x10 Tasveer movie review... Jai is a forest ranger in the woods near Alberta, Canada and lives in a cabin with his girlfriend Sheila (Ayesha Takia). He has been estranged from his parents, Jatin Puri (Benjamin Gilani) and Savitri Puri (Sharmila Tagore). Jai’s father is the CEO of a privately held Canadian oil company whose oil exploration causes environmental damage, which is the cause of tension between father and son. When Jai's father dies due to an accident, one Inspector Mr. ....
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Videsh - Heaven on Earth, movie review
The film inspired by Girish Karnad's play Nagamandala’s Hindi title is Videsh, for international market it is ‘Heaven on Earth’. Chand (Preity Zinta) journeys from India to Canada to marry Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj), a man she has never met and to live with her husband’s extended family in Brampton. Soon trapped between tradition and the desire for happiness, she retreats into a parallel mythical world. But when myth and reality collide Chand must choose between duty and freedom. Videsh - Heaven on Earth movie review... Vibrant and irrepressibly alive, Chand is a young bride leaving her home in Ludhiana, India, for the cavernous landscape of Brampton, Ontario, where her husband Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj) and his very traditional family await her arrival. Everything is new to Chand; everything is unfamiliar including the quiet and shy Rocky who she meets for the first time at the Ar ....
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Aa Dekhen Zara, movie review
Ray Acharya (Neil Nitin Mukesh), a struggling photographer has nothing going for him... until he inherits a very 'special' camera from his grandfather which changes his life in a way that he could not have ever imagined in his wildest dreams. Aa Dekhen Zara movie review... The 'power' of the camera changes Ray's destiny overnight. His life becomes one big roller coaster ride that takes him from rags to riches and also helps him meet the love of his life, Simi (Bipasha Basu) who is an exciting sexy DJ with a mind of her own. Ray doesn’t know that the camera is special until he slowly realizes the pictures he clicks today, develop in future tense. He just checks the camera and clicks a new car parked in his compound. When the photo is developed, it showed the car’s window cracked, and indeed the next day, he witnesses a cricket ball smashing the car’s glass. In a second inst ....
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Ek The Power of One, movie review
Ek The Power of One is the Hindi remake of Telugu super hit Athadu which starred Mahesh Babu as the criminal and Prakash Raj as the cop. The film Ek The Power of One isn't new-age cinema by any standards, but it holds your interest at several moments. There are emotional moments in the archetypal big Indian parivar, some comedy thrown in and its more of a drama with double cross and romance in this action film. The story is about Nandu (Bobby Deol) who becomes an orphan after he is born. The harsh realities of an orphan's life have turned him into a hard criminal. He doesn’t know what love is nor has any feelings of compassion and humanity. He becomes a hit man from his childhood days. Now, an opposition leader Anna Mhatre (Sachin Khedekar) hires Nandu to assassinate himself, while he is addressing a rally for his election campaign - with the intention of getting sympathy supp ....
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straight movie review
Straight is is a hilarious take on confused sexuality of the central character Pinu Patel (Vinay Pathak). It weaves a light hearted comic tale around a motley group of Gujarati NRIs in London played by Ketki Dave, Rasik Dave and others. Last year it was Dostana, now it is Straight. The subject of homosexuality is finally out of the closet in our films. Now “Straight” has Vinay Pathak believing he is gay. In the midst of central London, a successful Indian restaurant called 'Gaylord' is run by Pinu Patel, a Londoner of Indian origin. Pinu suffers from much insecurity, his chief qualm in life is that he is a virgin and has never experienced intimacy with a woman as he is very shy and introverted. His closest friend and ally is his foster brother Rajat (Siddhartha Makkar), whose personality is stark opposite to his own. Rajat has an air of casual, confidence about him and is a ....
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Lottery, movie review
Lottery is a suspense thriller which has the televisions Indian Idol Abhijeet Sawant as Rohit Avasti, a 25 year old junior accountant working in a fashion magazine publishing house. Though it is said that life is beautiful, but it’s untrue for Rohit, who is feels that his life is dull and also being unhappy with his work. The only exciting part is that as he is in an ad agency, he gets to meet up with his dream girl, an attractive model Simran Kapoor (Manisha Kelkar), who is his obsession, his love, goal in life. Rohit's friend Kabir at several times unsuccessfully warns him that Simran only seems to be manipulating him for her personal gains. Soha (Rucha Gujarathi) who is also Rohit’s neighbour is introduced to him. She is aware of Rohit's one-sided unconditional love for Simran. Coming from a disturbed family background, she craves for a strong relationship with a caring man ....
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Barah Aana, movie review
Barah Aana, is a comedy of real life, revolves around a driver Shukla (Naseeruddin Shah), Yadav (Vijay Raaz), who is a watchman and the waiter Aman (Arjun Mathur) who accidentally stumble into a crime and then realize it’s not a bad business. The story in debutant director Raja Menon’s film Barah Aana is set in today’s Mumbai, where the three unlikely friends: a driver, a watchman and a waiter share a room in one of Mumbai slums. They are simple, honest people struggling to eke out an existence in the city. The driver is an older man, stoic but dependable. The watchman, in his 30s, is a pushover at work but otherwise mischievous. The waiter is a young, swaggering chap, brimming with ambition. Living together, their different attitudes spark playful banter. But life isn't so forgiving - Shukla is constantly ridiculed and ill-treated by his mistress, Yadav is being made to d ....
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Firaaq, movie review
Most films about riots are full of violence that they set out to critique. Actress Nandita Das has her debut in direction with Firaaq, which explores the fierce and delicate emotions of fear, anxiety, prejudice and ambivalence in human relationships during the riots. Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories.The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a carnage that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journeys of ordinary people - some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who chose to watch silently. As an ensemble film, it follows multiple narratives that are at times interconnected and at times discreet, yet all are united by their spatial and emotional context. A middle-class housewife Aarti (Deepti Naval) closes the door on a woman desperately seeking ref ....
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Aloo Chaat, movie review
What do you do when your entire family is against the bride of your choice? Do you replace your family? Or do you replace the bride? Or do you make an aloo-chaat of your life? Aloo Chaat movie review... Aloo Chaat’s story begins with Nikhil (Aftab Shivdasani) who returns from the USA to his Punjabi household in Lajpat Nagar, Delhi after completing his education. His orthodox father Purushottam (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), grandmother Beeji (Dolly Ahluwalia) who suspects him to be a gay, confused mother Seeto (Meenakshi Sethi) and an always suspicious uncle Chhadami Mama (Sanjay Mishra) want him to get married. Nikhil refuses to marry any girl his parents show him, which has them worried about their son's attitude. Nikhil on the other hand loves Aamna (Aamna Sharif), a Muslim girl living in America. Knowing that his orthodox family will never approve his choice, Nikhil decides t ....
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Gulaal, movie review
Gulaal is set in Rajpur a fictional city of Rajasthan, where a member of the erstwhile royal family stakes claim to the land of Rajasthan and wants to go back to the days of royalty which challenges the very idea of democracy. Similar to a Shakespearean fable of desire, lost identities, love, greed, violence, murder, deceit, power and innocence, Gulaal is a film inspired by poetry; the forgotten male, macho world of power, corruption and greed, where women are just means to an end while nobody can be trusted. It's a film that brings back poetry to cinema, songs that inspire us, shake us; sometimes a thriller, a drama, but poignant, shocking and provocative. The film Gulaal is about an innocent student Dileep (Raj Singh Chaudhary) who comes to Jaipur to study, accompanied by his faithful servant Bhanwar. Here he comes in contact with Rananjay Singh “Ransa” (Abhimanyu Singh) a co ....
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