Changing the personality of a lead character midway, this film crashes after a delightful start
17 February 2014A decent romcom idea on paper translates into an extraordinarily dull movie on screen
10 February 2014A masterly noirish re-creation of C-grade smut that takes a hard look at exploitation in cinema
24 January 2014The dead genre of the ‘Muslim social’ has been revived to deliver a smart sequel
17 January 2014So good is its craftsmanship and acting that its lack of meaning is forgivable
13 January 2014It starts out breezy with some laugh-out-loud moments but gets clichéd pretty quickly
19 December 2013The cool tapori act works for Salman but Shahid doesn’t have the panache to pull it off
11 December 2013Brahma 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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