Author Archives: Mihir Fadnavis
Film Review: ‘Ekk Deewana Tha’
This remake of a Tamil film about a lovestruck couple knocks you straight into a nap. Read More »
Film Review: ‘Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu’
This Kareena Kapoor-Imran Khan rom-com is a predictable lollypop date movie that manages to buck some of the genre’s more hackneyed conventions. Read More »
Film Review: Agneepath
Karan Johar’s remake of the 1990 Amitabh Bachchan cult classic is a labour of love that reminds you that love is blind. Read More »
Film Review: Players
A spectacular achievement in stupidity and monotony, ‘Players’ boasts ghastly acting and plot holes large enough to fit the planet Mars. Read More »
Film Review: Don 2
If you like your cinema with snazzy illogical thrills, then ‘Don 2′ is fun-enough junk. Read More »
Film Review: ‘The Dirty Picture’
Despite being a decent snapshot of 1980s Indian cinema, the film is ultimately a shallow portrait of the life of Silk Smitha. Read More »
Film Review: ‘Rockstar’
Barring Ranbir Kapoor’s magnetic performance, Imtiaz Ali’s story of an Indian rock idol is a cinematic belly-flop. Read More »
Film Review: Ra.One
With hokey dialogues and bizarre plot contrivances, Ra.One is a scandalous waste of cinematic resources. Read More »
Best of Mumbai Film Festival 2011
Our pick of must-see movies at the 13th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival. Read More »
Film Review: ‘Mausam’
Part love saga, part history mumbo jumbo and 100 percent cheese, writer-director Pankaj Kapur’s script is riddled with so many inanities that only the sudden appearance of Shahid Kapoor’s moustache helps stir you out of your stupor. Read More »
Film Review: ‘That Girl in Yellow Boots’
Anurag Kashyap’s latest release is undone by a filmmaking methodology that’s just unimpressive enough to alienate the mainstream audience, while ringing clichéd to hardened indie-heads. Read More »
Film Review: ‘I Am Kalam’ Is A Lesson In Restraint
A charming, heartwarming story that captures the conflicted emotions of a poverty-stricken kid with sensitivity, it’s the kind of hopeful, kid’s eye-view Indian dramedy that hasn’t been made since Taare Zameen Par. Read More »
‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ Is A Road Trip To Nowhere
According to scientists, black holes can slow down the progress of time. A similar effect can be felt by viewers of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, a surprisingly inept coming-of-middle-age story that drones on from one lame set-up to the next. Read More »
