Kyun Ho Gaya Na Review

It's that moment in the plot when the narrative is just warming up. Vivek Oberoi plays a happy-go-lucky roving eyed cynic who has lost his money and tickets and must sell tea on the train to make...

Tarzan Review

"Taarzan The Wonder Car" offers a unique opportunity on the plot level. A supernatural killer - a car so sleek in design and so flush with powers to seduce audiences that you wonder why it...

Mujhse Shaadi Karogi Review

What a brat! In a key action sequence in this sprightly dip into blunder-land, Salman Khan fights five-six Akshay Kumars simultaneously.That, in a naughty-shell, is the coolly comic crux of the...

Julie Review

Here's a tale of a hooker that hooks you. Go with open eyes and mind and you will come away an enriched person from this elevating film about a fallen woman.Catch her if you can. She's Julie. A nice...

Asambhav Review

Rajiv Rai is in many ways the guru of hi-tech potboilers in Hindi. He shoots this gun-gals-gizmo film on international terrorism with a multitude of cameras. Often we get split-screen views of the...

Thoda Tum Badlo Thoda Hum Review

What's with these south Indian remakes? After "Tujhe Meri Kasam" and "Khushi", this is the third remake where boy and girl seem to hate each other till the eleventh hour.Till...

Shikaar Review

It's a 'glaring' strategy. The film's official hero Jas Pandher changes his glares in almost every sequence. This, you soon realise, is an ingenious method of hiding the actor's ineptness as a...

Hyderabad Blues 2 Review

All right, the good news first. Nagesh Kukunoor's "Hyderabad Blues" sequel is just the appetizing stuff we were all hoping for.After his grossly underrated "3 Deewaarein" last...

Deewaar Review

"(In) This school of ours he's the headmaster!" guffaws Sanjay Dutt, pointing to Amitabh Bachchan."Deewaar" is largely set in a prison camp in Pakistan. As in Steven Spielberg's ...

Lakshya Review

Noble is not a word that's easily applicable to mainstream Hindi cinema - not when so much of it is about having a good, if not a sleazy, time.But here's a rare, refreshing, path-breaking film that...

Raghu Romeo Review

In his directorial debut, actor-turned-filmmaker Rajat Kapoor audaciously gambols on both sides of the fantasy-reality line...and gets away with it. Neatly."Raghu Romeo" is one of those...

GirlFriend Review

Hell is where Karan Razdan takes us in "Girlfriend". Nothing wrong in a view from the underbelly. But alternate sexuality cannot be turned into an occasion for exhibitionism. Razdan...

Dev Review

How does it feel to be an Indian Muslim? To be constantly told by rabid elements that your real home is across the border?Govind Nihalani's latest work -- in many ways far more powerful than his...

Aan Review

While the cop heroes sweat it out in their humid halos, the men behind the scenes also make their presence felt in rapid fire motions in the emotionless picture show that is "Aan: Men At Work...

Police Force Review

In one-half of this fling....sorry film...Akshay Kumar walks around like a zombie....but I've already forgotten which half. In another half, he gets brutally tortured by his senior colleagues in the...

Hum Tum Review

"And they lived unhappily ever after"....could well be the tag line to Kunal Kohli's engrossing take on the celluloid war which begins with a bang - in more ways than one - and ends with a...

Yuva Review

Abhishek Bachchan blossoms into a formidably engaging actor in this eagerly awaited work of popular art. "Yuva" is that rarity which can be watched both as an entertainer and a vehicle for...

Uuf Kya Jadoo Mohabbat Hai Review

"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." This sums up the last and by far the most unpalatable lap of the Rajshris' new romantic musical, when the villain morphs the...

Charas Review

Sure, it's tough - life, and movies about life. But the trick of mastering the complex manoeuvres of life is to go against the flow. Tigmanshu Dhulia, whose first feature film "Haasil" was an...

Sheen Review

Unlike other films on the mindless brutality of the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir, "Sheen" is not a pretext for Pakistan-baiting. Nor does it turn terrorism into a formula. Rather, Ashok...