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Ajit Duara

CAST Kangana Ranaut, Danny Dengzongpa, Richard Keep | DIRECTOR Kangana Ranaut and Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi
Cinema
Manikarnika - The Queen of Jhansi Movie Review

The movie is great spectacle, but not hooked up to good story telling

25 January 2019
CAST Radhika Apte, Ravi Kishan, Akshay Oberoi | DIRECTOR Pia Sukanya
Cinema
Bombairiya Movie Review

In short, ‘Bombairiya’ is a disappointing film that should be given a miss

18 January 2019
CAST Emraan Hashmi, Snighadeep Chatterjee, Shreya Dhanwanthary  | DIRECTOR Soumik Sen
Cinema
Why Cheat India Movie Review

The film asks some hard questions about flaws in a higher education apparatus that relies on skills of rote learning

18 January 2019
CAST Anupam Kher, Akshaye Khanna, Arjun Mathur | DIRECTOR Vijay Ratnakar Gutte
Cinema
The Accidental Prime Minister Movie Review

In short, ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ is too obtuse a film to be good propaganda

11 January 2019
CAST Vicky Kaushal, Paresh Rawal, Rajit Kapur| DIRECTOR Aditya Dhar
Cinema
URI: The Surgical Strike Movie Review

The patriotism and nationalism that this movie triggers will only impact an audience for a few weeks

11 January 2019
CAST Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia | DIRECTOR Clint Eastwood
Cinema
The Mule Movie Review

The autumnal feel of the movie rides over some of the more obvious flaws in it

04 January 2019
CAST Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena | DIRECTOR Travis Knight
Cinema
Bumblebee Movie Review

Of all the Transformers films, ‘Bumblebee’ is probably the most accessible to viewers who are not hooked on to the series

04 January 2019
CAST Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif | DIRECTOR Aanand L. Rai
Cinema
Zero Movie Review

It is not a great film, but certainly worth viewing once

21 December 2018
CAST  Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson | DIRECTOR Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Cinema
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Movie Review

At some point in the movie, a certain detachment sets in, and no matter how admiring you may be of this 2.0 version, ‘The Human Factor’ is lost

14 December 2018
CAST Sushant Singh Rajput, Sara Ali Khan | DIRECTOR Abhishek Kapoor
Cinema
Kedarnath Movie Review

A disappointing movie that is visually beautiful, but internally compromised

07 December 2018

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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