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Mad Max: Fury Road
Director George Miller, originator of the post - apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary “Mad Max” franchise has comes up with “Mad Max: Fury Road,” - a return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Miller unleashes a world gone mad with the concussive force of a high octane Road War as only he can deliver it. The futuristic-thinking director has pushed the limits of contemporary cinema to re-imagine the beauty and chaos of the post-apocalyptic world he created and the mythic Road Warrior adrift within it. Tom Hardy stars as Max in the title role in the fourth part in the franchise’s history. Oscar winner Charlize Theron stars as Imperator Furiosa. Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a WarRig driven by Imperator Furi ....
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Citylights - Movie review
A touching film based on the life of Deepak Singh in Rajasthan who comes to the City of Dreams - Mumbai with his wife and daughter in hope of a better life. CITYLIGHTS - movie review... The film CITYLIGHTS is a remake of the BAFTA nominated British film Metro Manila (2013). Deepak Singh (Rajkummar Rao) was in the army much earlier. As he wanted to be with his family, he quits the job and sets up a cloth store in Rajasthan. Being unlucky, his debts go on piling on with compounded interest which finally leads to shutters down on the shop. He has nothing to do. Nowhere to go. When his life struck by a tragedy, he migrates to Mumbai, with his wife Rakhi (Patralekha) and young daughter Mahi, hoping for a better life. Being naïve, Deepak has only a single lead as a source, that of his  friend Omkar who had come to Mumbai, some time ago. However, upon arriving, he soon discovers ....
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Silver Linings Playbook is a family drama, comedy and a love story presented by the Weinstein Company, based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quick, written and directed by David O. Russel. It stars Bradley Cooper (Hangover, Limitless), Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, X-Men: First Class, the master actor Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), and the famed Bollywood actor Anupam Kher. Chris Tucker (of Rush Hour fame) is in the film for a short yet impressionable role. Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job and his wife. He has the only place to go back is with his parents. Pat suffers from a bipolar disorder, and after spending eight months in a state institution, on a plea bargain, he stays with his father (Robert DeNiro) and mother (Jacki Weaver). During his time at the mental health facility, Pat forms a close friendship with a fellow ....
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With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes. A Good Day to Die Hard movie review... This is the fifth in the series of the action films Die Hard which began with Die Hard in 1988. In all the four previous films John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis), is a New York City police detective who finds himself fighting a group of terrorists. Bruce Willis is back as John McClane, an iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop, who for the first time finds himself on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack (Jai Courtney) – unaware that his son is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. A high-ranking corrupt Russian officer in Moscow, Viktor Chagarin (Sergei Kolesnikov), plans on incriminating a political prisoner, a gov ....
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The film Kai Po Che is based on Chetan Bhagat’s bestselling novel 'The 3 Mistakes of My Life'. Kai Po Che actually means a triumphant yell in Gujarati, usually heard during the kite flying festival. This slice of life film is an unforgettable ode to friendship and the magical moments one shares with one’s closest pals.

Kai Po Che- movie review

Abhishek Kapoor shows celebrations of festivals, drunken dancing, watching cricket matches together, how three friends strategize to catch the attention of the cute neighborhood girl. Friendship is being there to watch each other’s back in troubled times and to celebrate one’s successes by screaming “Kai Po Che”! It is the story of best friends Ishaan (Sushant Singh Rajput), Omi (Amit Sadh) and Govind (Raj Kumar Yadav). This trio is young, ambitious and restless – who want to make a mark in the India of the early 2000’ ....
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The movie is set in early 1980's, based on real life bunch of conmen who pulled off many clever robberies and their prey being mainly the famous businessmen and politicians. During that time the politicians and businessmen hoarded huge amounts of black money in cash and jewellery. This was done to avoid taxes which were quite high in those times. The film is directed by Neeraj Pandey - whose earlier work was critically acclaimed as well as a commercial success - A Wednesday. It actually happened during the early eighties that a group of smart conmen pretended to be CBI officers or Income Tax officers and they confidently conducted raids on targeted businessmen and politicians. They would stash away the cash and jewellery in metal trunks and seal the locks, give signed documents mentioning the list of items to the victims assuring them that they would get all their bounty back after ....
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An exceptional suspense thriller with an unusual narrative, unlike other edge of the seat thrillers, this one has a narrative never seen before in hindi cinema. Talaash is an psychological suspense thriller. During the course of investigation of an accidental death of a superstar Inspector Shekhawat (Aamir Khan) experiences an inner guilt of the loss of his son. The case turns into a life altering chase for Inspector Shekhawat when he is forced to reel under the repercussions of a broken married life with wife and come face to face with his suppressed grief of drowning of his son. In recurring outbursts of anguish, Shekhawat visualizes various options he could have taken to avoid the accident. Shekhawat is simultaneously engrossed in the investigation as well as the “I could have done this … or that…” which could have prevented his son’s accidental death. The film begins wi ....
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Director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) creates a groundbreaking movie event - Life of Pi,  about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with another survivor…a fearsome Bengal tiger.   The film Life of Pi is based on the best selling novel by Yann Martel. It is an imaginative adventure story of a teenager - Pi Patel (Played by Suraj Sharma) and now he is grown up an adult (played by Irrfan Khan) who narrates the story to a young author in the film.   Pi Patel is the son of Gita Patel (Tabu) a mathematician Santosh Patel (Adil Hussain) who is the owner of a private zoo in Pondicherry (India) who decides to move to Canada, for a bright future. They have to surrender the zoo land to the local municipal au ....
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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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