Genre: Musical, Family, Fantasy Rating: 4/5 130 minutes Director: Rob Marshall The first thing one is likely to remember of the 1964 classic ‘Mary Poppins’ are the songs, especially ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ and the wonderfully made-up ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’. Though set in 1935, the sequel comes 54 years later. Michael Banks (Ben Winshaw), a recently widowed dad…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 2nd January, 2019. Winner: “Alia: My dear Ranbeer – you’re dressed like topli paneer! Ranbeer: Alia, my bachchi – you’re dressed like patra-ni-machhi!“ -By Ayesha T. Baliwala
Coomi Kaajwali came to Meherbai’s house to exchange a soiled 500 Rupee note saying, “Meherbai, mari jaaon tamara par thi, please change this meli-gheli note for a nice new crispy one. You see, our entire family of ten members has to attend a lagan this evening and I don’t have a decent note for the 501 rupees pehramni.” Meherwanji: Coomi-mai, this is our house,…
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Action Rating: 3/5 159 minutes Director: Rohit Shetty Let’s get one thing clear – Rohit Shetty has proved amply in the past that his films (Golmaal, Singham), like Manmohan Desai’s in the 70s, are intended to titillate the grey cells – not stimulate them; nor has he ever demonstrated any pretensions to…
Parsi Times is thrilled to welcome on board the absolutely hilarious and super talented, TV, theatre and Bollywood personality, Cyrus Broacha, known for his inexhaustible and uproarious wit! What better way to ring in the New Year than laughter? And who better than Aapro Cyrus, the Brand Ambassador of Humour itself, to ensure we’re on…
‘Reach for the moon and the stars will fall in your lap,’ seems to be the philosophy followed by SRK and the people responsible for bringing the film to its title ‘Zero’. In a runtime of two-and-a-half-hours plus, Zero undergoes a series of transformations – possibly more than the number of titles thought of by the…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 26th December, 2018. Winner: “Amit Shah: Agar aap hame 5 SAAL aur MAUKA denge… RaGa: To yeh tumhe PAANCH-SAU BAAR aur DHOKA denge!!!“ -By Kayomarz Dotiwalla
. On October 28th, 2018, the NCPA launched a new venue – ‘The Secret Garden’, within its vast campus. After the success of the first edition, we are proud to present the second edition of this event on January 12th featuring, The Whole Notes. In 2019, NCPA takes you on a different journey to experience the feel…
Three directors for a single Marvel super-hero flick! Even so, too many cooks haven’t spoilt the plot! First noticed in the comic-book in 2011 and now scripted by Rothman with Phil Lord, the new character, Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) is an Afro-American-Latino Brooklyn teenager transformed into his super-hero avatar, when he’s bitten by…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mailparsitimes@gmail.com by 19th December, 2018. Winner: “Anand: My darling, I will buy you the most expensive jewels in India. Isha: My love, I will buy you India!!!“ -By Farrokh J Majumdar (New Delhi)
Genre: Drama Rating: 3.5/5 105 minutes Director: Peter Hedges The Beautiful Woman plays a dutiful mother to her wayward son Ben (Lucas Hedges) in ‘Ben is Back’, written and directed by the latter’s father Peter Hedges. It’s Yuletide, and the family consisting of Holly Burns (Julia Roberts), daughter Ivy (Kathryn Newton) — by a previous…