Genre Drama Minutes 135 Director Srijit Mukherji Movie Rating 2.5/5 Shot entirely in Jharkhand and set during Independence on the western border (the original Bengali version ‘Rajkahini’ 2015, was set on the eastern border), Begum Jaan opens with scenes of an old lady stoically rescuing a young women from going the Nirbhaya way. Begum Jaan…
Every Yazdi Karanjia play is a family-affair with Yezdi’s talented family members in the cast (Gher-No-Ghambar). However, Yezdi carries this play entirely on his shoulders as always while delineating the role of the protagonist Dinshawji, taking us down memory lane to the original play in which Dinshaw Daji played the stellar role. Lukewarm at the…
Statutory Warning: This play is injurious to health because you may fall off your seat while laughing, especially during the first half! Any play from Silly Point Productions is not at all silly since laughter is serious ‘business’ for them. (Pun on ‘business’ intended considering the ticket prices!) This play picks you up from the very first…
Sully is a vivid portrayal of the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ as it was called when Capt. Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger and his First Officer Jeff Skiles heroically landed an Airbus 320 in the icy waters of the Hudson River on 15 January 2009. Failure of both the engines after the plane struck a flock of…
There’s nothing a man cannot do, once he accepts the fact that there is no God’ — so goes the tagline of the film. Stephen Lang plays a blind Iraqi-war veteran living alone with his ferocious dog in an abandoned neighbourhood in Detroit. Three youths Rocky (Jane Levy), her boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto) and their friend…
‘The world’s a f—-d up place’ is the refrain of the four disparate youth who set out on a road trip to the foot of the Himalayas in search of M Cream, a mythical drug. Figs (Imaad Shah), with a ‘Que Sera Sera’ attitude and who perpetually swigs Old Monk straight from the bottle as…
The intense chemistry between Nirmal Kumar (Irrfan Khan) and young lad Rohan Goswami (Vishesh Bansal) paves the way for a – not exactly thrilling, but – fascinating film. Nirmal ingeniously kidnaps Rohan, the son of the Home Minister and demands to identify the perpetrators of the man-made calamity which snuffed out the life of his…
‘Mere Paas Maa Hai!’ Rupa 2016, pp 196, Hardcover, Rs. 395 It was around 10 on a lazy Sunday morning, the year, 1970 or so. I was standing at my fourth floor Dhobhi Talao balcony, exactly opposite the Anjuman Fire Temple. My eyes strayed to a posh gleaming car as it pulled up outside the…
Recipe for a successful film: take a controversial subject—ensure the outdoor location is a porous state of India—sign a rockstar hero (the shorter the better) — add a diva – X, Y or Z, preferably an ex (doesn’t matter if they do not have scenes together)—sprinkle liberally coloured powder (no kitchen condiments please)—add one more…
There’s something alluring about Hollywood, and it is not restricted to just us mortals. In the course of their teachings, Paramahansa Yogananda (the subject of this bio-documentary) went there in the 1920s, Meher Baba visited it in 1932. Both these hallowed men count among their followers hundreds of Zoroastrians. In 1920, at the age of…