Film: Aurangzeb; Starring: Arjun Kapoor, Prithviraj, Rishi Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Amrita Singh, Swara Bhaskara, Sasheh Agha, Tanve Azmi; Directed by Atul Sabharwal; Rating: **** Sapna se badaa apna hota hai...It's okay to sacrifice one's dreams for the sake of those you love. This is a recurrent thought in this hard-hitting family drama about fatally flawed people who flock together, in search of a happiness that is snatched from them by a fate far more cruel and savage than what we generally see as destiny. The destiny that seems to ...  Read More

This week the Indian audience is privy to two book-film adaptation. And both have succumbed to the temptation of ‘Hollywoodizing’ the books. Baz Luhrmann has done it with ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Mira Nair has done the same with ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. Mira Nair’s film is an adaptation (quite a loose adaption) of Mohsin Hamid’s highly acclaimed 2007 book of the same name. In the book the protagonist Changez (played in the film by Riz Ahmad) is seen in conversation with an unnamed and ...  Read More

Movie: "I Don't Luv U"; Cast: Ruslaan Mumtaz and Chetna Pande; Director: Amit Kasaria; Rating: *** The trouble with a well-meaning film such as this is it cannot take the story and characters to their logical conclusion and somewhere ends up 'tale'-diving at crucial junctures in the plot. To begin with, we are introduced to Yuvaan and his college friends in Delhi whose only passtime is chasing dreams. The ogling, gawking, giggling, nudging, and winking references to campus courtship, though neatly filmed by cameraman Saurav Vishwakarma, ...  Read More

Film: "The Great Gatsby"; Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Amitabh Bachchan; Directed by: Baz Luhrmann; Rating***1/2 Baz Luhrmann's lurid, 3-D take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" works despite itself. Jay Gatsby's doomed love for Daisy Buchanan is in danger of getting subsumed in the glitter of 1920s New York, which unravels in a montage of Charleston and chatter, but the film thankfully finds its soul just in time. The director of "Moulin Rouge" - in familiar territory as he ...  Read More