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Rock On 2
Cinema
Movie Review: Rock On 2

The concert at the end of the film has some great blend of local talent and Indian rock, and is beautifully shot, but arrives too late in the movie to hold you

11 November 2016
CAST: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen| DIRECTOR: Scott Derrickson
Cinema
Dr Strange Movie Review

The film is a neat explanation, both for the need of, and for the working of, the unbelievable powers of superheroes in Western popular culture

04 November 2016
CAST: Eddie Murphy, Natascha McElhone, Britt Robertson| DIRECTOR: Bruce Beresford
Cinema
Mr Church Movie Review

The film seems to be a very late continuation of Beresford’s curious engagement with the relationship between the White and the African American people

04 November 2016
CAST: Ajay Devgn, Erika Kaar, Abigail Eames, Sayesha Saigal| DIRECTOR: Ajay Devgn
Cinema
Movie Review: Shivaay

In Shivaay Devgn has fallen into the narcissistic trap that actors directing themselves often slip into

29 October 2016
CAST: Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Fawad Khan| DIRECTOR: Karan Johar
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Aye Dil Hai Mushkil Movie Review

Karan Johar needs to screen Aye Dil Hai Mushkil to the infiltrators across the border, with a warning that there would be a repeat screening should they dare cross the LoC

29 October 2016
CAST: Vir Das, Soha Ali Khan | DIRECTOR: Shivaji Lotan Patil
Cinema
31st October Movie Review

This is a blunt and hard hitting movie

21 October 2016
CAST: Gong Yoo, Kim Su-an, Ma Dong-seok| DIRECTOR: Yeon Sang-ho
Cinema
Train to Busan Movie Review

The movie is an out of the box experience for an Indian audience, and though some of the action is excessive and, at times, ridiculous, there is never a dull moment here

21 October 2016
A still from Inferno
Cinema
Inferno Movie Review

‘Inferno’ is a shade more interesting and more compact than the previous Ron Howard adaptations

14 October 2016
Sunny Leone in Beiimaan Love
Cinema
Beiimaan Love Movie Review

The movie is a tactical and cinematic blunder

14 October 2016
CAST: David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o | DIRECTOR: Mira Nair
Cinema
Queen of Katwe

The movie works well as you watch it, but does not leave behind a residue of emotion or thought, to which you can go back to

08 October 2016

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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