'Midnights Children' the film is an adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of the same name. The Bollywood version stars Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Siddharth, Ronit Roy, Rahul Bose, Shabana Azmi, Soha Ali Khan, Seema Biswas, Rajat Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Sarita Choudhary, Shahana Goswami, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Darsheel Safary in lead roles.
The film has humour and heart as it has some beautiful moments and quite decent performances from the lead cast.
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Inkaar is yet another film with the typical Sudhir Mishra type of a stamp. The film is realistic, hard hitting and is about gender politics and power play in a corporate house (in particular here as in advertising agencies).
Inkaar begins as a love story of Rahul Verma (Arjun Rampal) and Maya Luthra (Chitrangada Singh) and then it goes on to become an eyeopener for the current generation of executives. The relationship begins with adoration initially but as things get hotter with regards to promotion of these executives things drop down to such a level where charges of sexual harassment ae thrown upon each other.
Rahul Verma is the CEO of an advertising agency where his protege Maya Luthra too is vying for the top job in the company. What looked like a healthy competition started stinking once misunderstandings are created between them. Maya files a case of sexual harassment agains ....
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NFDC (an Indian Government body) has funded this film about a simpleton titled ‘Gangoobai’ who is an aged Maharashtrian maid servant, a resident of Matheran, in Maharashtra, India.
Gangoobai is a childless, elderly widow, who have lived her life in the hill station of Matheran, near Mumbai. Old enough to be a grand mother in a typical conservative Indian lifestyle.
She loves tending to flowers in the garden where she is working as domestic help. She is concerned about tending to her beloved flowers and working as domestic help in a few homes. One of the weekend bungalows in Matheran is owned by the wealthy Hodiwala family.
This lady falls instantly in love with an exotic, custom-made saree – Gara saree, when she sees the daughter of her land lady and yearns to own one in her lifetime. She instantly falls in love with this exotic, custom-made creation - and longs to own one ....
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Out of the blues comes a film like It’s Rocking: Dard-E-Disco, which still reminds us of how we could tolerate such flicks a couple of decades ago. Further, we are now living in the generation where even without stars, but having good content, they do well like Vicky Donor or even the last week's release Luv Shuv tey Chicken Khurana.
Directed by Ashok Tyagi the story of It’s Rocking: Dard-E-Discois about two brothers - Rocky and Rambo, (Akshay Kapoor and Aryeman Ramsay respectively), who think that they are so attractive, that they have the impression that they are the only - most sought after guys.
Dad Sharat Saxena, wonders whether his kids do have any future, while the boys are pampered a lot by their mom, played by Upasana Singh,
Trying to gain entry in Bappi Lahiri's night club, they are thrown out. But as a sheer co-incidence, they are offered entry tickets, and th ....
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Student Of The Year is a Dharma Productions venture, directed by Karan Johar himself. The film was much awaited and popular among the youth who is also the target audience of this film.
The story of “SOTY” revolves around a school St. Teresa managed by Dean Yogender Vashisht (Rishi Kapoor), where students are divided into 2 groups- “The Tata” and “The Bata” groups so to say the rich kids who get in on monetary basis and the students who get admission on the basis of their merit and scholarships.
It is a story about a few students – their lives, friendships, relationships, etc. Rohan Nanda (Varun Dhawan) who is the younger son of a leading business tycoon is a rich spoilt brat, he is the stud who all girls die for, captain of the football team, he is a twisted character, too proud of his money and name, believes there is no one who is good enough to compete with him and t ....
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Tai is a Marathi word and it means – elder sister. In The Name of Tai movie review...
Directed by Ujjwal V. Thengdi, In the name of Tai is a female oriented story inspired by a true story of a well educated valiant woman in a village who faces the wrath of the politicians and builders.
Tai (Nishigandha Wad) is a courageous lawyer who chooses to tread the dangerous path of confronting the rich, powerful and politically well connected people. Tai is determined to bring justice to the poor village farmers who are a victim of the high handedness of the land sharks who act in connivance with the politicians.
It is about the challenges and the humiliation she undergoes, yet not budging a bit on her battle for the common cause of protecting farmers land from the corridors of Power.
This story is based or let us say ‘inspired’ by a real life incident of an ordinary woman who ....
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English Vinglish, a Bollywood film which marks Sridevi’s return to the silver screen, is directed by debutant director Gauri Shinde and produced by R. Balki.
Money, Fame and the ability to talk and write English. InIndia, these 3 factors play a huge role in how society judges an individual.
English Vinglish is the story of Shashi Godbole (Sridevi), a woman who doesn't know English and is made to feel insecure about this by her family and society at large. The film though light-hearted is about the touching and transformational journey of Shashi.
Shashi is a loving wife, caring mother and a nice daughter-in-law. She has brought up her daughter and son and now that they are school going, she manages to find time to make ladoos for private events and marriages. Though it doesn’t seem like it was needed to run the family, she manages to make a bit of extra money, which she saves ....
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It is an adaptation of the hugely popular gujarati play Kanji virudh(vs) Kanji. It has sensitive issues taken up, and it is a mockery of the so-called godmen and unfounded rituals.
Kanjibhai Mehta (Paresh Rawal) is an atheist, who runs an antique shop. For him, god and religion are nothing more than a business proposition. An astute businessman, he never misses an opportunity to buy old or antique sort of idols of gods and other religious idols, which he usually sells as ‘antique’ or ‘rare’ idols at 10 times its original price or even more.
The average and gullible buyer who is also a believer in god, truly wants to believe that these are actually centuries old and rare finds. God is the biggest money spinner for Kanjibhai, while his wife is as devout as one comes, infact so much so, that she goes the extra mile to atone for her husband’s sacrilegious babblings.
The life has ....
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Heroine is a bold, glamorous film with shocking, scandalous and manipulative ‘behind-the-scenes account’ of the reality behind the mask of glitz and glamour that our film stars inhabit. (Heroine - movie review)
The film is based on the life and times of a superstar heroine from the dream factory we call 'Bollywood'. It is not based on the life of any particular yesteryear divas Madhubala or Parveen Babi or any others. It is a contemporary film which reveals the underbelly of the Bollywood film industry and its well-kept secrets.
Heroine features Kareena Kapoor as Mahi Arora - the protagonist along with actors Arjun Rampal, Shahana Goswami, Divya Dutta and others.
Mahi Arora’s character is of a "bipolar and schizophrenic" female as Kareena mentioned in her latest interviews.
Mahi is having an affair with reigning superstar Aryan Khanna (Arjun Rampal) who is yet to divorc ....
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When tradition kills…
Riwayat is a bollywood drama, musical directed by Vijay Patkar, with the award winning screenplay by Dr Sanjay Patole and Ajay Patole and produced by Dr Sanjay Patole and Dr Ajay Rane.
The movie depicts the emotional journey of Anita Desai (Samapika Debnath) - the protagonist against the backdrop of a serious global issue involving new born baby girls. Anita sacrificed everything in her quest against traditions.
It is a sensitive film that entertains while touching our hearts to make us think about the 100 million baby girls missing from the world.
A dynamic lady, Anita works for an NGO towards the welfare of children. She gets married to Raj, the handsome younger son of a wealthy industrialist Mr Desai. Raj is an ideal son, a caring brother and a loving husband
Soon after marriage an official assignment takes her to the rural primary health centre in ....
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