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Ajit Duara

Cinema-Luck
Cinema
Luck

The movie fails to cash in on its full comic potential because it pretends to be serious. Danny comes good though

28 July 2009
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Cinema
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Teen hormones create more havoc in this film than the evil Lord Voldemort

22 July 2009
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Cinema
Morning Walk

A fair plot but the problem with the film is entirely to do with the performances

15 July 2009
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Cinema
Short Kut

A film from Bollywood on stealing scripts. Nothing but good tips on the business of plagiarism here

15 July 2009
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Cinema
Kambakkht Ishq

A watch that blares bhajans inside Akshay’s tummy. Book a ticket if you need shock therapy

07 July 2009
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Cinema
New York

Tautly paced, with little room for sentimentality, this is serious cinema about being brown in post 9/11 America

01 July 2009
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Cinema
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

This better be turned into a Playstation game. People would have a lot more fun

29 June 2009
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Cinema
Star Trek

You thought one Spock was enough. Well, this film has two. Deal with it

17 June 2009
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Cinema
Detective Naani

Movies that may have never seen the light of day are out and about in these days of dearth. This is one of them

16 June 2009
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Cinema
99

A comedy about match fixing tries hard to deliver, but slips between jokes. Why is fun so difficult? And why is Cyrus such a bore?

15 June 2009

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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