At Mumbai City District Interclub TT [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]PT Special Correspondent, and Captain/Manager of the triumphant PG Team, Hoshang Katrak, reports[/otw_shortcode_info_box] Parsee Gymkhana (Marine Lines) joined the big league in Table-Tennis and created a record of sorts when, in only their third appearance, they bagged top honours in the city’s premier tournament which concluded at…
‘BLAST FROM THE PAST’ ‘Hero vardi se nahi, iraade se hote hain’, with effusive patriotism, is a dialogue early in the film to seemingly justify macho-man John Abraham to star in, and co-produce this film. The film begins with the 1995 botched attempt at India trying to gain nuclear status. Back then, India had sorely…
‘A Lead Tool Too’ Despite the ‘F’ word bandied about liberally in the film, the viewer is regularly reminded that it also stands for ‘family’, which our hero plans to start with his live-in girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). The opening credits set the tone for the next couple of hours. After a tragedy befalls Wade…
Genre: Drama Rating: 3/5 108 minutes Director : Harish Vyas In Any Other Language Sometime during the latter part of the film, when the middle-aged couple begin to have their irreconcilable differences, the till then subdued wife utters a cliched but telling remark “Our relationship is nominal, our togetherness even more so”. Set in…
Agreeing to disagree That Raazi is one of the most noncontroversial spy films to emerge, from this side of the border at least, can be validated by a statement Sehmat’s (Alia Bhatt) Pakistani army-officer husband Iqbal Syed (Vicky Kaushal) makes to his father Brigadier Syed (Shishir Sharma), “We would have done the same in her…
Genre: Biography, Crime, Thriller Rating: 3/5 98 minutes Director: Hanslal Mehta When I had first heard of the film last year, I had assumed it would be akin to a film on the Mafia, since Omerta is the Sicilian code of silence where the captured admit nothing, for fear of retribution on their families. The…
Baap Aur Punya The best known sequence, till now, of Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor is of ‘Naseeb’ (1981) where the two cavort to the evocatively sung Mohammad Rafi’s ‘Chal mere bhai’. Now, in ‘102 Not Out’, their sixth collaboration, AB and RK deliver an unbridled comedy, based on the eponymous Gujarati play, written by…
‘A Reverse Flick’ Even the most honourable of intentions at the planning stage will not always result in an acceptable finished product. Sudhir Mishra’s ‘Daas Dev’ comes to us on screen more than a decade aafter he had conceptualised a modern-day version of the 1917 Bengali classic Devdas by Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (Chattopadhyay). The text…
Motley Melodrama Celebrated Iranian Majid Majidi’s first film set outside Iran, ‘Beyond the Clouds’, has the master filmmaker capturing the sights and sounds of Mumbai’s slums and shanties, the red-light areas and prison cells – all against the backdrop of poverty and probity. After their parents’ death in a car crash, Aamir (Ishaan Khatter) is…
Unrequited Love The tagline, ‘This is not a love story, but rather a story about love’ threatens to wear thin after a while; but National award-winning director Shoojit Sircar reuniting (Vicky Donor, Piku) with his favourite writer Juhi Chaturvedi manages to hold the viewer’s interest. Varun Dhawan plays 21-year-old Danesh (Dan) Walia, interning in various…
‘Comedy Of Terrors’: “Shake it up”, says Irrfan Khan’s boss, an order the former follows verbatim. Abhinay – son of Marathi and Hindi screen veterans Ramesh and Seema – Deo’s (Delhi Belly) latest, ‘Blackmail’ is a delightful take on infidelity which goes acutely out of hand in a vortex of blackmail and three deaths. Dev…