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 14th November, 2018. Winner: “Yogi Adityanath: Congratulations for being the Game-Changer! Narendra Modi: And to you for being the Name-Changer!!” -By Firuza R. Jussawala
The only semblance of thuggery in the film was a half hour into the film when one started to get the feeling that it was the viewer who was being waylaid… It’s 1795 and the well-entrenched East India Company dupes a Maharaja (Ronit Roy), killing him, his wife and his son. His daughter Zafira survives,…
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 6th November, 2018. Winner: “Big Doggie: Bhai, can I please have some of your anti-wrinkle cream?” -By Noshirwan A. Bamji
The 20th edition of MAMI (Mumbai International Film Festival), under the aegis of Jio and Star, was a stupendous success. From 25th October to 1st November, cineastes from all over rubbed shoulders at the 18 screens spread across the city. PT Film Critic Hoshang Katrak shares a glimpse of some of MAMI’s best… SHOPLIFTERS…
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 31st October, 2018. Winner: “Sachin: “Yar, dono PMs mein difference dekho… Imran daud ke fekta tha, aur NaMo fek ke daudta hai!!“ -By Kayomarz Dotiwalla
The perils of viewing a sequel, if one hasn’t watched its predecessors, are quite a few: understanding the story and characters, lack of continuity, etc. In ‘Halloween’, the eleventh in the series, which began in 1978 with (surprisingly) the same title, director and co-writer David Green, ensure that the 10 sequels/remakes are bypassed. Jamie Lee…
‘What goes up must come down’ – director Chawla gives us a lesson in quantum physics while loosely adapting his film on the 1987 Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen starrer, ‘Wall Street’. Rizwan Ahmed (debutant Rohan Mehra) is a small-time share broker from Allahabad who aims big, he sets base in the commercial capital to meet,…
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 24th October, 2018. Winner: “Rahul: How come everyone’s clapping for me? Modi: ‘Coz your mic wasn’t working. Here take this one!” -By Wahbeez Mehta
Genre: Drama Rating: 1.5/5 142 minutes Director: Vipul Shah Arjun Kapoor’s droopy eyelids and drowsy demeanour might not be the only reasons the viewer would have snoozed halfway through the film. No fewer than eight jarring songs have been sadistically inserted as timely alarms, lest the paying viewer enjoy his slumber. Fittingly, the film opens…
For the first time ever, NCPA takes you on an exciting journey with an exclusive event – ‘The Secret Garden’ – featuring Marshall and ‘The Mischief’. The Mischief comprise an edgy, fun-loving, 4-piece Alt-rock outfit, known to be amongst Mumbai’s meanest musicians! The band’s music is a culmination of vocalist Yohan Marshall’s lyrics and song…
When William A. Wellman wrote the story for the first ‘A Star is Born’ (1937) and won the Oscar for his efforts, little would he have envisaged that three remakes would follow – in 1954, 1976 and 2018. The most recent, and an almost faithful adaptation of the 1976 version, has Lady Gaga (born Stefani…