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Ajit Duara

CAST Vineet Kumar Singh, Jimmy Shergill, Zoya Hussain, Ravi Kishan | DIRECTOR Anurag Kashyap
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Mukkabaaz Movie Review

It is disappointing that Kashyap has chosen a formulaic narrative structure to talk about an important issue like the social reality of the caste system

12 January 2018
CAST Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson | DIRECTOR Adam Robitel
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Insidious: The Last Key Movie Review

This is probably the worst written and directed instalment in the series

05 January 2018
CAST Christopher Plummer, Charlie Plummer, Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg | DIRECTOR Ridley Scott
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All the Money in the World Movie Review

The movie is paced well, and is a good thriller

05 January 2018
CAST Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Girish Karnad, Sajjad Delafrooz | DIRECTOR Ali Abbas Zafar
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Tiger Zinda Hai Movie Review

The film ends up as a crashing bore. This Christmas movie will let you down

23 December 2017
CAST Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Andy Serkis, Laura Dern | DIRECTOR Rian Johnson
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Movie Review

It is a dull movie that lumbers along for almost three hours, to tell us about yet another stage in the never ending clash between the liberals and the fascists

15 December 2017
CAST Vijay Varma, Neeraj Kabi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui | DIRECTOR Amit Kumar
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Monsoon Shootout Movie Review

The best thing about the movie are the top notch performances all around

15 December 2017
CAST Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Maksim Matveyev, Kirill Grebenshchikov | DIRECTOR Karen Shakhnazarov
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Anna Karenina: Vronsky’s Story Movie Review

Technically, the biggest problem with this film is that it is dubbed in English

08 December 2017
CAST Varun Sharma, Richa Chadda, Ali Fazal, Pankaj Tripathi, Rajiv Gupta | DIRECTOR Mrighdeep Singh Lamba
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Fukrey Returns Movie Review

The ‘fukrey’ do not really return in full measure in ‘Fukrey Returns’

08 December 2017
CAST Arbaaz Khan, Sunny Leone | DIRECTOR Raajeev Walia
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Tera Intezaar Movie Review

The movie sells you Sunny Leone, and then leaves you to extricate yourself from a grotesque nightmare

01 December 2017
CAST Kapil Sharma, Ishita Dutta, Monica Gill | DIRECTOR Rajiv Dhingra
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Firangi Movie Review

Kapil Sharma has an enviable reputation as a stand-up comic, but in the movie he turns out to be a very flat actor

01 December 2017

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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