Film: “Thanks Maa”; Cast: Shams Patel, Amit Saxena, Ranjit Barot, Alok Nath, Raghuvir Yadav, Yateen Karyekar and Sanjay Mishra; Director: Irfan Kamal; Rating: ****
He’s 12, homeless and he refuses to adopt the swaggering amorality of his friends on the street. They call him Municipal Ghatkopar because that’s the address where he was dumped as a [...]
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Film: “Hello Zindagi”; Cast: Mrunmayee Lagoo, Milind Gunajee, Kitu Gidwani, Neena Gupta, Kanwaljeet Singh; Director: Raja Unnithan; Rating: ** 1/2
A rebellious teenage daughter Kavita (Mrunmayee Lagoo) of a traumatised couple doesn’t know what to do with her life. So she takes off on a journey away from home with a lonely, neglected but brave middle-aged [...]
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Film: “Sugreeva”; Cast: Shivaraj Kumar, Yagna Shetty, Neenasam Aswath, Achyutha, Harish Raj, Harshitha Poonachcha and Kote Prabhakar; Director; multiple directors; Music: Guru Kiran; Rating:***
“Sugreeva” was much hyped as it had been shot in just 18 hours by a team of over 600 skilled artists and technicians of the Kannada film industry. And the movie lives [...]
Film: “Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya”; Cast: Simbu and Trisha; Director: Gautam Vasudev Menon; Music: A.R. Rahman; Rating:**1/2
Gautam Vasudev Menon’s “Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya” is a clean romantic story without any deviation or sub-plots. While he succeeds in telling the love story in a pleasing manner, he fails to present the lead pair’s separation convincingly.
The film is about [...]
Film: “Karthik Calling Karthik”; Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone; Director: Vijay Lalvani; Rating: ***
Desolation is a distant cousin to suburban seclusion. And “Karthik Calling Karthik” is an interesting if flawed fable of the damned.
The protagonist is Karthik (Farhan Akhtar), so timid he could merge into the woodwork of his office if only the decor was [...]
Film: ‘Jugaari’; Director: S.D. Arvind; Cast: Avinash, Harshitha Poonachcha, Avinash, Sharat Lohithashwa; Music: Arjun; Rating: ***
Though there have been many Kannada films that have focussed on the themes of corruption, greed and bureaucratic apathy, the one thing that makes ‘Jugaari’ stand apart is the novel way the themes have been used. The sense of realisation [...]
Film: “Mukhaputa”; Cast: Roopa Iyer, Baby Sania, Anand Theertha and others; Director: Roopa Iyer; Music Director: Hamsalekha; Producer: Narayana Hosamane; Camera: S. Ramachandra; Rating: ***
“Mukhaputa” is Roopa Iyer’s directorial debut and she play an important role in this issue-based film. The movie tries to dispel many pre-conceived notions about young people afflicted by HIV Aids [...]
Film: “Aaptha Rakshaka”; Director: P. Vasul; Cast: Vishnuvardhan, Komal, Vimala Raman, Sandhya, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Bhavana, Ramesh Bhat and Sreenivasa Murthy; Music: Guru Kiran; Rating:****
“Aaptha Rakshaka”, the much-hyped 200th film of late superstar Vishnuvardhan directed by P. Vasu, lives up to all expectations. It reaffirms Vishnuvardhan’s position as one of the most talented stars Indian cinema [...]
