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Ajit Duara

CAST Sachin Tendulkar, Anjali Tendulkar, Ajit Tendulkar | DIRECTOR James Erskine
Cinema
Sachin: A Billion Dreams Movie Review

The film is supposedly a documentary, a genre that ought to repudiate iconography, lest it turn into a public relations spiel, or even, God forbid, propaganda

26 May 2017
CAST Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal | DIRECTOR Saket Chaudhary
Cinema
Hindi Medium Movie Review

Irrfan Khan is the kind of actor who could bring life, if he chooses, into a film called Russian Medium, set in Saint Petersburg

19 May 2017
CAST Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Seema Biswas | DIRECTOR Mohit Suri
Cinema
Half Girlfriend Movie Review

Unfortunately, Half Girlfriend is also a film that inserts a social agenda into the narrative every now and then

19 May 2017
CAST Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpayee, Amit Sadh, Ronit Roy| DIRECTOR Ram Gopal Varma
Cinema
Sarkar 3 Movie Review

While the focus is on Bachchan playing the Maharashtrian version of Don Corleone to the hilt, other characters are moved about the chess board, so that some sort of suspense is created

12 May 2017
CAST Charlie Hunnam, Eric Bana, Jude Law|  DIRECTOR Guy Richie
Cinema
King Arthur - Legend of the Sword Movie Review

If you are stone cold sober and looking to enjoy a great legend on cinema, you may find you are in the wrong movie

12 May 2017
CAST Chris Pratt, Kurt Russell, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel | DIRECTOR James Gunn
Cinema
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Movie Review

Unfortunately, Volume 2 ends up more as eulogy than parody

06 May 2017
CAST Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty |  DIRECTOR S.S. Rajamouli
Cinema
Movie Review: Baahubali 2 - The Conclusion

‘The Conclusion’ is a disappointing follow up to the original ‘Baahubali’

28 April 2017
CAST Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl | DIRECTOR Niki Caro
Cinema
Movie Review: The Zookeeper’s Wife

What the movie is able to do so beautifully is to construct characters, to give them difficult choices, and to leave them to their dilemmas

21 April 2017
CAST Sonakshi Sinha, Kanan Gill, Purab Kohli, Smita Tambe |  DIRECTOR Sunhil Sippy
Cinema
Movie Review: Noor

The movie makes you laugh out loud at the sheer naivety of its presentation

21 April 2017
CAST Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Charlize Theron, Michelle Rodriguez| DIRECTOR F. Gary Gray
Cinema
Movie Review: Fast and Furious 8

The entire narrative of Fast and Furious 8 revolves around the misperception that Dom has betrayed his friends, his colleagues and his newly married wife

14 April 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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