To enable filmmakers infuse it with the desired melodrama, this one too, as with almost all biopics, starts off with the usual disclaimer: although inspired by true events… The film opens with a voiceover that introduces herself as Harpreet Kaur, centre-forward of the Indian hockey team, who admits that ‘this story is not about her…
Genre: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Adventure Rating: 3/5 118 minutes Director: Peyton Reed For those who had missed out on the 2015 ‘Ant-Man’, Scott Lang aka Ant-Man had been under house arrest for close to two years for his ‘heroic’ role in the Civil War (‘Captain America…’). Fast forward 20 years and we have Scott trying to…
Genre: Animation, Fantasy 101 minutes Rating: 4/5 Director: Wes Anderson BFF, not so long ago, signified something else: it meant the friendly and loyal dog. Writer/producer/director Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel) takes us through a story of exile and reinforces our belief, though circumlocutorily, that BFF is still the canine. Orphaned…
Genre: Thriller, Crime Rating: 2.5/5 125 minutes Director: Stefano Sollima Political connotations abound in the sequel to ‘Sicario’ (2015) as the US government machinery is let loose to battle the forces which smuggle in illegal immigrants from the porous US-Mexican border. Alongside battling the exterior forces, a few scenes in the beginning seem to suggest…
“Based on Vikram Chandra’s 2006 thriller novel of the same name and touted to be the first Indian original series from Netflix, the eight episodes have Saif Ali Khan as the scornful cop, Sartaj Singh, coerced and frustrated by his superiors, on the trail of top crime lord and gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddique). The…
Genre: Biography, Drama, Comedy Rating: 3.5/5 162 minutes Director: Rajkumar Hirani Clearly deviating from their forte — comedy (Munnabhai films, 3 Idiots), established writers Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi have tried their best to incorporate elements of the genre in their biopic of Sanjay Dutt — ‘Sanju’. The film traces certain phases of Dutt’s chequered…
‘Collateral Damage’… “She wasn’t altogether there at the end,” says Annie Graham (Toni Collette) of her mother, Ellen, while delivering her eulogy. She also describes the departed woman, with whom Annie had a none-too-warm relationship, as ‘secretive’ and ‘private’. Among those attending the funeral are her husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), teenaged son Peter (Alex Wolff)…
Genre: Thriller, Action Rating: 1/5 160 minutes Director: Remo D’souza ‘Not A Podium Finish’ Ten years ago, the immaculately white-suited-booted brothers Abbas and Mastan Burmawalla set the template for action-thrillers with their ‘Race’ (adapted from ‘Goodbye Lover’), followed by a sequel five years later. Sidelined from the third installment…
One of the youngest Zoroastrian colonies in the suburbs, Merwanjee Cama Park, celebrated its Annual Day with great fanfare. Inspite of the rains, residents continued their celebrations and felicitations the following day. Young and promising Percy Amaria’s (who has perfored at the NCPA) rendition of Chaiyye Hume Zarthosti, followed by a few Bollywood and Western…
‘Bigfoot in the Park’ ‘‘These creatures don’t need our protection, they need our absence”. This would probably be true for all non-humans but in the film its referred to the extinct dinosaurs which inhabited the earth aeons ago and which were ‘revived’ a quarter century ago by the brilliant filmmaker Steven Spielberg. It’s the fifth in…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Even before its release, ‘Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain’ has bagged thirteen international awards, including one for Faroukh Mistry for ‘Best Cinematography Feature Film’ at the Five Continents International Film Festival earlier this year. Three Filmfare trophies – two earned by his acclaimed cinematographer father, Fali Mistry for ‘Guide’ and ‘Fakira’, and one by…