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 2017Irrfan 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 2017Unfortunately, Half Girlfriend is also a film that inserts a social agenda into the narrative every now and then
19 May 2017While 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 2017If 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 2017Unfortunately, Volume 2 ends up more as eulogy than parody
06 May 2017‘The Conclusion’ is a disappointing follow up to the original ‘Baahubali’
28 April 2017What 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 2017The movie makes you laugh out loud at the sheer naivety of its presentation
21 April 2017The 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 2017Brahma 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 is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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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