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Ajit Duara

CAST Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Karan Soni | DIRECTOR David Leitch
Cinema
Deadpool 2 Movie Review

The film gets stuck into the very stereotypes and cliches it purports to mock

18 May 2018
CAST Sanjay Mishra, Ekavali Khanna, Pankaj Tripathi | DIRECTOR Harish Vyas
Books
Angrezi Mein Kehte Hai Movie Review

Given a subject and treatment that showed so much personal sensitivity and demonstrated such good cinematic skills till the halfway mark, this transition to melodrama is both sudden and unfathomable

18 May 2018
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Naveen Kasturia, Kabir Sajid, Sonali Kulkarni|  Director: Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Cinema
Hope Aur Hum Movie Review

A charming little film that is very easy on the eyes and the mind

11 May 2018
CAST Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Rajit Kapur | DIRECTOR Meghna Gulzar
Cinema
Raazi Movie Review

Extremely well paced, there is not a moment in the film when your attention wanders

11 May 2018
CAST Rajkummar Rao, Timothy Ryan Hickernell | DIRECTOR Hansal Mehta
Cinema
Omerta Movie Review

The movie is a docu-drama that does hold your attention for brief periods of time, but fails to impress overall

05 May 2018
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor|  Director: Umesh Shukla
Cinema
102 Not Out Movie Review

It is about two stalwarts of Hindi cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, playing foolish roles in a badly written movie

05 May 2018
CAST Josh Brolin, Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch | DIRECTOR Anthony and Joe Russo
Cinema
Avengers: Infinity War Movie Review

Too many characters in the movie slows it down to a ponderous pace and scatters the narrative far and wide

28 April 2018
CAST Rahul Bhat, Richa Chaddha, Aditi Rao Hydari | DIRECTOR Sudhir Mishra
Cinema
Daas Dev Movie Review

One would have expected more political, cultural and cinematic sophistication in a film by Sudhir Mishra

28 April 2018
CAST Abhay Deol, Patralekha |  DIRECTOR Faraz Haider
Cinema
Nanu Ki Jaanu Movie Review

Without doubt, this is the most hopelessly cliched film that Abhay Deol has worked in

20 April 2018
CAST Ishaan Khattar, Malavika Mohanan, Gautam Ghose | DIRECTOR Majid Majidi
Cinema
Beyond The Clouds Movie Review

It is a film of piquant melodrama, staged in a manner that is quite unlike the style of Majidi

20 April 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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