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Ajit Duara

CAST Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman | DIRECTOR Peter Berg
Cinema
Movie Review: Patriot’s Day

Patriot’s Day is the unexceptional Hollywood film that is brought out every now and then to broach the subject of patriotism

04 March 2017
CAST: Vidyut Jamwal, Esha Gupta, Shefali Shah| DIRECTOR: Deven Bhojani
Cinema
Movie Review: Commando 2: The Black Money Trail

You can safely conclude that you have watched yet another mindless action movie

04 March 2017
CAST James McAvoy, Betty Buckley, Anya Taylor-Joy | DIRECTOR M. Night Shyamalan
Cinema
Movie Review: Split

Night Shyamalam cannot resist introducing the supernatural into his films, and so the movie quickly descends to the lower depths of exploitation cinema

25 February 2017
CAST Kangana Ranaut, Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor | DIRECTOR Vishal Bhardwaj
Cinema
Movie Review: Rangoon

What we are given in this film is a generalized and sweeping historical background, embellished with lavishly mounted period sets

24 February 2017
CAST Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Naomie Harris | DIRECTOR Barry Jenkins
Cinema
Movie Review: Moonlight

Watching ‘Moonlight’ is an experience that stays with you

17 February 2017
CAST Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Rana Daggubati|  DIRECTOR Sankalp Reddy
Cinema
Movie Review: The Ghazi Attack

To set a film almost entirely in the claustrophobic confines of a war machine, and to keep your attention fixed on it, needs high quality writing

17 February 2017
Movie Review: Rings
Cinema
Movie Review: Rings

CAST: Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki | DIRECTOR: F. Javier Gutiérrez    

10 February 2017
Movie Review: Jolly LLB 2
Cinema
Movie Review: Jolly LLB 2

Replacing Arshad Warsi, who played the lead role earlier, was a marketing decisions to widen the viewership base of the film

10 February 2017
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Cinema
Movie Review: Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

The Final Chapter is an unwatchable film, even for diehard fans of the genre

03 February 2017
Movie Review: The Great Wall
Cinema
Movie Review: The Great Wall

The movie sits uneasily on the dividing line between propaganda and art

03 February 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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