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    CAST Vidya Balan, Gauhar Khan, Pallavi Sharda, Naseeruddin Shah| DIRETOR Srijit Mukherji
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    Movie Review: Begum Jaan

    Cinematic and historical references aside, Begum Jaan is a disappointingly loud and hectoring film

    14 April 2017
    CAST Lalit Behl, Adil Hussain, Navnindra Behl | DIRECTOR Shubhashish Bhutiani
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    Movie Review: Mukti Bhawan

    In spite of its beauty, this is a morbid film which depresses, to a much greater degree than it enlightens

    07 April 2017
    CAST Rahul Bose, Aditi Inamdar, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Heeba Shah| DIRECTOR Rahul Bose
    Cinema
    Poorna: Courage Has No Limit

    The movie has a striking resemblance to last year’s Budhia Singh: Born To Run

    31 March 2017
    CAST Taapsee Pannu, Manoj Bajpayee, Akshay Kumar| DIRECTOR Shivam Nair
    Cinema
    Movie Review: Naam Shabana

    For Taapsee Pannu, who gives it her best shot, the movie must be quite a let down

    31 March 2017
    CAST Anushka Sharma, Diljit Dosanj, Suraj Sharma | DIRECTOR Anshai Lal
    Cinema
    Movie Review: Phillauri

    The deus ex machina of Phillauri, one has to admit, is brilliant

    24 March 2017
    CAST Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra, Pankaj Tripathi | DIRECTOR Avinash Das
    Cinema
    Movie Review: Anaarkali of Aarah

    A watchable and entertaining film, it keeps you absorbed with its music and its character development right to the end

    24 March 2017
    CAST Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans | DIRECTOR Bill Condon
    Cinema
    Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast

    This is an uneven film, a musical that entertains you in individual scenes, but seems to lose focus on the larger picture

    17 March 2017
    CAST Rajkummar Rao, Geetanjali Thapa | DIRECTOR Vikramaditya Motwane
    Cinema
    Movie Review: Trapped

    This is a movie that, sad to say, is a no-brainer that shocks you with its sheer predictability

    17 March 2017
    CAST: Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, John Goodman| DIRECTOR: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
    Cinema
    Movie Review: Kong: Skull Island

    A monster movie that never ends

    10 March 2017
    CAST: Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt| DIRECTOR: Shashank Khaitan
    Cinema
    Movie Review: Badrinath Ki Dulhania

    The movie positions itself in popular culture as advocating the freedom of a woman

    10 March 2017

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    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

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    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

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    Ram Madhav

    Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

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    Makarand R Paranjape

    Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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    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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