Review
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At one point, the narrator Cutter says of the audience that has just witnessed a magic trick being performed: “Now you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it. Because you don’t really want to know.” The Prestige tells the story of two magicians obsessed with each other’s downfall. But at a deeper level,…
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What is it with Hindi movies and infidelity? For a while now, this has been the focus of a number of movies beginning with the execrable Murder. Abbas-Mustan’s latest thriller Naqaab is yet another in this series. Much bile has been vented about the tagline – The most shocking thriller of the year – in…
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Yet another movie waiting to be made, and for a variety of reasons. Firstly, Hitch is one of the most obvious targets for a Hindi movie remake, and it was even more obvious to me, even while watching the original, that Govinda would do well in the Kevin James role. Secondly, if Govinda was making…
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The problem with Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is simply this: it never really takes flight. It is well conceived and occasionally well written. There’s much warmth and sexiness on display. And it’s far more interesting than the other honeymoon movie that came out around the same time – Just Married. But somehow, it just doesn’t…
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It looks like a penchant for humor runs in the family. Jason, son of Ivan Ghostbusters Reitman, makes his feature debut with Thank you for smoking, a satire aimed at lobbyists in general and tobacco lobbyists in particular. I haven’t chuckled this often during a movie in a while. What’s interesting is how he trusts…
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Yess. I actually watched itt. Sometimes you go in expecting the worrst. Through loong, bittter experience, I’ve learnt that thiss might be a good strategy to adopt. Howeverr, instead of being an atrocious, abominable mess of a moviee, Aap Kaa Surroor: The Moviee: The Real Luv Story turns out to be merely forgettablle. Praise the…
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In some ways, this was a movie just waiting to be made. Shankar is a director with a proven ability to create box office magic with movies involving middle-class supermen fighting corruption. Rajni is a star who has made a career out of playing such roles. The only question that remains is: do we get…
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When I was driving back home after watching Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, I asked myself how I would describe the experience to my friends. My top three candidates were: 3. A lengthy rant involving the occasional throwing of cosmic questions into the void, such as “What were they smoking when they wrote this?” or “What moron…
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Does he plan it all out, or just make it up as he goes along? So wonders an admiring British officer after yet another of those insane Jack Sparrow escapades that leave him, improbably, out of harm’s way (for the moment) and at an advantage over his rivals. With Sparrow, one really couldn’t be sure.…
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I think the first thing that strikes you when you see this movie is the level of emotion on display. The earlier movies had a certain cool reserve that masked whatever emotion the main characters were feeling. This one dared to be sentimental. Not that I think this is a bad thing, mind you. However,…
