Sheetal This triple collaboration between producers Karan Johar and Guneet Monga and overseas distribution partners Lionsgate Studios is being marketed as the most violent film Bollywood has ever made. Starring known faces yet relatively new actors, Raghav Juyal, Lakshya...
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Johnson Thomas Directed by Chris Renaud, with screenplay by Mike White and franchise stalwart Ken Daurio, ‘Despicable Me 4’ is not exactly a winning creative follow-up to this financially proficient series. The new setting, new villain and new characters, including...
Parbina Rashid In 2012, Ayushmann Khurrana’s debut film ‘Vicky Donor’ created quite a stir for its bold concept. Critics hailed director Shoojit Sircar for his ‘fertile’ imagination for touching a taboo subject like sperm donation. We loved serial sperm...
Nonika Singh As ‘Mirzapur’, one of India’s most successful franchises, moves into its third season, the delectable signature tune, one of the high points of the series, is the same. So is the signature touch. It’s still the killing...
Punjabi superstars Diljit Dosanjh and Neeru Bajwa impress with their onscreen chemistry in this third outing of the hit franchisee
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Sheetal Set in Rautu Ki Beli village in Uttarakhand, this detective noir film comes from ‘The Fakir of Venice’ director Anand Surapur. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Inspector Deepak Negi, this would rate among his most subtle performances. Streaming on Zee5,...
Johnson Thomas Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s debut directorial feature is a multi-generational ensemble about the modern, middle-class female experience. It focuses on the lives of urban girls/women with Sharma as their common surname. We get a fairly warm, tender dekko into...
Parbina Rashid Celine Dion made us believe in the ‘Power of Love’ when we were young (Jennifer Rush originally sang the song, but Dion owned it with her 1993 cover). Decades later, she makes us believe in the ‘power of...
Nonika Singh Many of us cinephiles have always believed that India’s answer to Hollywood’s ‘Avengers’ and Marvel Cinematic Universe lies in our layered and surrealistic mythology. Telugu director Nag Ashwin has not only managed to dig deep into our mythical...
Vikrant Parmar It’s a fight between good and evil — everyone knows who wins, right? In the Netflix movie Maharaj the course is the same, only the route full of potholes! But before that, why are the religious sentiments of...
Netflix: Trigger Warning
Cast: Jessica Alba, Anthony Michael Hall, Mark Webber, Jake Weary, Tone Bell, Gabriel Basso, Kaiwi Lyman and Hari Dhillon
Sheetal It’s about time the OTT platforms understood that labelling something as ‘Trigger Warning’, ‘Red Notice’, ‘The Gray Man’ or ‘Heart of Stone’ doesn’t guarantee success or likeability of some known actors, with an action background, as lead characters....
The Exorcism
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, David Hyde Pierce, Adrian Pasdar and Tracey Bonner
Johnson Thomas This is a half-baked remake of William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’, in which Russell Crowe plays Anthony Miller, a washed-up actor and recovering alcoholic. He suddenly gets a lifeline when the original lead actor of a film that...
Ishq Vishk Rebound
Cast: Rohit Saraf, Pashmina Roshan, Jibraan Khan, Naila Grrewal, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Shilpa Tulaskar, Akarsh Khurana and Kusha Kapila
Nonika Singh It promises to be an atypical love story, a lighthearted look at Gen Z and their love conflicts. Alas, this spiritual sequel to Shahid Kapoor’s debut film ‘Ishq Vishk’ ends up being neither. A film within a film…...
Prime Video: Federer: Twelve Final Days
Cast: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Mirka Federer, Tony Godsick and Anna Wintour
Parbina Rashid “I hope I won’t have to use those tissues…” From the moment Roger Federer utters those words to the moment he breaks down in front of the 6,500-strong crowd at London’s O2 Arena 12 days later, ‘Federer:...
Kudi Haryane Val Di
Cast: Ammy Virk, Sonam Bajwa, Yashpal Sharma, Yograj Singh, Ajay Hooda, Hardeep Gill, Honey Mattu, Seema Kaushal, Mahabir Bhullar and Manpreet Dolly
Sheetal Punjabi cinema has become inclusive and the latest theatrical offering, Kudi Haryane Val Di, is an example. With Ammy Virk and Sonam Bajwa as his lead actors, writer-director Rakesh Dhawan shifts his focus on the villages of Haryana. The...
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Cast: Manav Vij, Monika Panwar, Saloni Batra, Gopal Datt, Rajesh Tailang, Naved Aslam and Saria Iqbal
Sheetal There’s a limit to how much one can draw from real-life incidents and wrap it in a new fictional story. On the shocking Burari death incident of mass suicide, we already have a well-made documentary, ‘House of Secrets:...
Inside Out 2
Cast: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Ayo Edebiri
Johnson Thomas This sequel to the acclaimed Pixar film delves deeper into the emotional roller coaster called adolescence. The narrative follows Riley Andersen (Kensington Tallman) as she transitions from middle school to high school, encountering the turbulence of puberty...
The Watchers
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Siobhan Hewlett, Alistair Brammer, Hannah Howland, Oliver Finnegan and Charles Camrose
Johnson Thomas AM Shine’s novel is the source material for this half-baked attempt at spooks in the typical Shyamalan tradition. Since it is Night Shyamalan’s 23-year-old daughter Ishana’s debut as a writer/director, it seems the apple hasn’t fallen far...
Chandu Champion
Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Ayan Khan Sroha, Bhuvan Arora, Yashpal Sharma, Rajpal Yadav, Aniruddh Dave, Vijay Raaz, Shreyas Talpade, Bhagyashri Borse and Sonali Kulkarni
Nonika Singh A village boy dreaming of winning an Olympics medal, that too in the 1950s? Sounds incredible, improbable…. Indeed, ‘Chandu Champion’ is a story waiting to be told and even more surprising, why hadn’t we heard it before?...
Eric
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Ivan Morris Howe, Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Roberta Colindrez, Jeff Hephner, Wade Allain-Marcus, Mark Gillis , Dan Fogler and Clarke Peters
Nonika Singh A broken man, a dysfunctional family and a missing nine-year-old kid at the centre of it, Eric takes us into the darkest recesses of human mind yet like the name of its lead character Vincent’s television show Good...
jiocinema Blackout
Cast: Vikrant Massey, Anant Vijay Joshi, Sunil Grover, Mouni Roy, Chhaya Kadam, Jisshu Sengupta, Ruhani Singh, Karan Sudhakar Sonawane and Saurabh Dilip Ghadge
Sheetal There’s a reason certain films don’t make it to theatres and end up premiering on OTT. ‘Blackout’ falls in the same category. Perhaps director Devang Bhavsar overestimated himself while developing his story into screenplay. The Dalal brothers, Hussain...
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Nunez, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Jacob Scipio, Melanie Liburd, Tasha Smith, Rhea Seehorn, Tiffany Haddish, Joe Pantoliano, DJ Khaled, John Salley
Johnson Thomas This is the fourth movie in the series and there’s no let-up here. The ageing buddy-cop duo get into the act and it’s a joyride all the way. They still talk motor-mouthed meaningless stuff, the f-words and...
How to Rob A Bank
Cast: Jordan Burtchett, Tristan McKinnon, Kurt Ostlund, Gavin Langelo, Lesley Mirza and Scott Patey
Nonika Singh He is charming and handsome, looks and lives like a Tarzan, of course on an extravagant tree house. While his identity in the real-life crime documentary is revealed early on, nothing about him or his lifestyle is a...
Parbina Rashid A trip to the Buchenwald Memorial in Weimar, Germany, made me aware of two things — the horror of the Holocaust and the lingering national shame. A mention of my plan to visit the concentration camp made my...
House of Lies
Cast: Sanjay Kapoor, Rituraj K Singh, Ssmilly Suri, Ajitesh Gupta, Hiten Paintal, Simran Kaur Suri
Headlined by Sanjay Kapoor, House of Lies is plagued by a clichéd setting, shoddy plot and seemingly disinterested cast
The Strangers: Chapter 1
Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Ryan Bown, Matus Lajcak, Rachel Shenton, Megan Suri and Gabriel Basso
Johnson Thomas The 2008 film ‘The Strangers’ was indeed a nerve-wracking experience. Sixteen years later, we get a rather watered-down reboot that fails to make the accumulated experience memorable. ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ is neither stylish, nor energetic. This prequel...
Savi
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Divya Khossla, Harshvardhan Rane, Mairaj Kakkar, Raageshwari Loomba Swaroop and MK Raina
Parbina Rashid It can happen only in Bollywood! To retell the mythological story of our own Savitri and Satyavan, it has to borrow the plot of a French film, ‘Pour Elle’ (2008)! But to give credit to director Abhinay Deo,...
Prime Video: Panchayat 3
Cast: Neena Gupta, Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Faisal Malik, Chandan Roy, Sanvikaa, Saad Bilgrami, Pankaj Jha, Kusum Shastri and Vinod Suryawanshi
Sheetal There’s always a chance for the viewers to lose interest in a franchise series with each passing season. Thankfully, that’s not the case with the slice-of-life comedy drama ‘Panchayat’. Despite the third season being released after two years, the...
Mr and Mrs Mahi
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Janhvi Kapoor, Kumud Mishra, Rajesh Sharma, Zarina Wahab, Purnendu Bhattacharya and Arijit Taneja
Nonika Singh Cricket unites the whole of India, so it can certainly be a unifier between husband and wife. Only ‘Mr and Mrs Mahi’ is not just about a couple’s love for cricket. Rather, it blends relationship drama with the...
THE VEIL
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Yumna Marwan, Dali Benssalah, Josh Charles and Thibault de Montalembert
When two women of steel, one a terror mastermind and the other a master spy, clash, the outcome is both exciting and intriguing, which is what makes this web series an interesting watch
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