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Popular Male Jodis of Indian Cinema: Part 1

One of the most oft explored themes in Indian cinema is that of Male bonding. Since time immemorial, the male bonding theme was explored in various ways . i.e. through a love triangle ( 2 guys falling for the same girl), lost and found formula, two brothers or friends on the opposite sides of the [...]

Aajcha Diwas Majha Movie Review: A Wasted Opportunity

Marathi cinema has seen some compelling political thrillers in the past such as Saamna, Vazir, Sarkarnama etc which made for some good viewing. Close on the heels of such films comes ‘ Aajcha Diwas Majha’ directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni. Aditya SavnalA cinema lover who loves to watch all kinds og movies and who holds Kanti [...]

A Good Day To Die Hard Movie Review-A Bad Day to Die Hard

  “Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker” It has been 25 years since Bruce Willis first uttered this line in the first Die Hard film thereby endearing himself as John McClane which undoubtedly remains his most popular on screen character since then. One of the best things about the Die hard franchise is that over the years, the franchise [...]

Race 2 Movie Review : Is it Race 2 or Race Thoo?

Not being content with making a terribly clichéd and Indianised version of The Italian Job called Players, Abbas Mustan felt that they needed a film much more worse, which would give them the personal satisfaction of having sunk into abysmally low depths of creativity. Hence they return with Race 2, a film that makes Players [...]

Disappointing Films of 2012

As the year passes by, every film buff likes to look back on the films that gave him/her a sheer viewing pleasure and made for a memorable movie watching experience. And then, there are films which also cause nothing but sheer disappointment, heartbreak and anguish, mainly due to the expectations that were attached to these [...]

Only Vishnuvardhana – An Entertaining Fare

Kannada cinema has gone downhill in the last few years. Many reasons can be attributed to this pathetic state of affairs – most of the films being churned out are remakes, poor production values etc.  In such conditions, coming across a genuinely entertaining film is a huge relief.  One such film is ‘Only Vishnuvardhana’  starring [...]

Mashaal- Yash Chopra’s Fiery Saga

With Kabhie Kabhie and Silsila , Yash Chopra had started moving completely into his favourite genre – Romance. However, the anger against the ways of the society which Yashji had depicted in films such as Deewaar , Trishul still lived within him. This is what he depicted for the last time in Mashaal. Aditya SavnalA [...]

Movie Review Double Bill – Taken 2 and Maattrraan

          “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make [...]

Inspired not ‘Plagiarised’

Since time immemorial, the malaise of plagiarism is very prevalent in Indian Film Industry especially in Bollywood. We have more than often seen directors (read Sanjay Gupta, Mahesh Bhatt etc amongst others) stealing films frame by frame and passing off as their own.  However certain minor changes are made in the script. So that when [...]