I have four words for you: Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! Ok I lied: There are more words: Tis wonderful, tis marvellous.

Is it my imagination or is there a Fridaesque effect here?

It has been a year and I have watched Jhoom Barabar Jhoom five times, I think. I am convinced that JBJ‘s poor marketing has led to a great loss for the viewing public. Instead of being marketed as the anti-NRI romantic comedy, the trailers only had those great, goofy dance sequences. Even BI who thinks...

Last year Loins of Punjab Presents was a surprise and a delight. As much as I loved Manish Acharya as director and actor, Anuvab Pal’s script was where the laughs were embedded. This year I have been looking forward to watching Pal’s new script The President is Coming. This afternoon I caught this lovely bit....

Say it isn’t so!Jabberwock tells me this about Karzzzz. Ravi (Dino Morea) is reincarnated as Monty (Himesh Reshamiyya). At some point Monty confronts Princess Kamini (Urmila Matondkar). She asks proof to be convinced that he is indeed the reincarnation of Ravi. Now according to Jabberwock, Monty’s response at this point is that only he the...

I blame myself. I don’t blame Madhur Bhandarkar. Clearly it’s my fault that a man with twin tin ears and the directorial ability of my 8th standard skit-producing classmate and the social empathy of an 80s Woman’s Era agony aunt, wins National Awards and is solely in charge of producing socially relevant cinema. I’m to...

THE NEW Yorker’s film critic Anthony Lane once said that British director Danny Boyle “has energy to burn, but the effects are most ardent and spectacular when he stays close to home”. A worrying thought when you consider how far away from home Boyle is with Slumdog Millionaire. An adaptation of Vikas Swarup’s 2005 thriller...

Takashi Murakami’s Hiropan Rakhi Sawant’s Rakhi Sawant

The trailers are out for Karan Johar’s new production Dostana (directed by Tarun Mansukhani, starring Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra and releasing in November 2008). The teaser suggests that most of the romance and frolic in the sunshine of Florida takes place between the two male leads, Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham. Is Dostana...

You know all those times when you read that someone had stripped for a movie because the sex was integral to the script, and you giggled? I defy you to giggle after watching Lust, Caution. The movie is very pretty but comes to life during the ten minutes of sex between the young spy (Tang...

If you love Frances McDormand then this is a fun movie to watch. Its a tiny little film but Bharat Nalluri somehow manages froth and poignance. It is a bit too heavy-handed to reach the Anita Loos-meets-PG Wodehouse levels of lunacy it was set to meet but still is quite wonderful. Amy Adams channels Lorelai...