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Ajit Duara

CAST Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock | DIRECTOR Michael Bay
Cinema
Transformers: The last Knight Movie Review

The movie is fairly engaging but suffers from torturous repetition of ideas and images

30 June 2017
CAST Upen Patel, Shiv Darshan, Natasha Fernandez |  DIRECTOR Suneel Darshan
Cinema
Ek Haseena Thi, Ek Deewana Tha Movie Review

To describe this film as a disappointment, would be an understatement. It is the worst Hindi film released in 2017

30 June 2017
CAST Salman Khan, Om Puri, Matin Rey Tangu, Zhu Zhu | DIRECTOR Kabir Khan
Cinema
Tubelight Movie Review

The movie is a very generalized adaptation of the American film Little Boy

23 June 2017
CAST Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira | DIRECTOR Benny Boom
Cinema
All Eyez On Me Movie Review

The film lacks the cinematic craft to express the connection between the maker and the audience

16 June 2017
CAST Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Rhea Chakraborty | DIRECTOR Bumpy
Cinema
Bank Chor Movie Review

The stereotypical imagery of Riteish Deshmukh and Vivek Oberoi works against the idea of taking this duo seriously

16 June 2017
CAST Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe | DIRECTOR Alex Kurtzman
Cinema
The Mummy Movie Review

It seems that the director was handed two different scripts, one on the mummies of Egypt and the other on zombies, and decided to combine them into a single entity

09 June 2017
CAST Sushant Singh Rajput, Kriti Sanon, Jim Sarbh |  DIRECTOR Dinesh Vijan
Cinema
Raabta Movie Review

All you feel is irritation at the mundane level of thinking that the writer of this film has displayed

09 June 2017
CAST Adil Hussain, Huma Qureshi, Lisa Ray | DIRECTOR Prawaal Raman
Cinema
Dobaara: See Your Evil Movie Review

The movie is akin to watching a Stage Company in India churn out a replica of the latest successful play in London

02 June 2017
CAST Vikrant Massey, Ranvir Shorey, Kalki Koechlin | DIRECTOR Konkana Sen Sharma
Cinema
A Death in the Gunj Movie Review

A Death in the Gunj is Konkona Sen Sharma's good debut, and a very promising one

02 June 2017
CAST Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Kaya Scodelario | DIRECTOR Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
Cinema
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge Movie Review

Sad to say, the series has run its course, and it is about time it shut shop

26 May 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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