Cinema

What the Fish

Ajit Duara

It starts out breezy with some laugh-out-loud moments but gets clichéd pretty quickly

India’s Short at the Oscars

Omkar Khandekar

Twenty-two-year-old Bombay native Subhashish Bhutiani has always wanted to make films. Now, his short film Kush is in the running for an Oscar

R…Rajkumar

Ajit Duara

The cool tapori act works for Salman but Shahid doesn’t have the panache to pull it off

Leading Man’s Best Friend

Divya Unny

From his launda gang to the big screen, Raanjhanaa’s Zeeshan Ayyub is looking Benaras talking Gorky, and redefining the role of the supporting actor in Hindi cinema

Bullett Raja

Ajit Duara

The bonding of Saif Ali Khan and Jimmy Shergill’s characters is the crux of this weak film

Gori Tere Pyaar Mein

Ajit Duara

An ill-matched lead pair and phony environment make this film hard to watch

The Outsider

Shradha Sukumaran

Hard worker, Govinda fan, Kareena agnostic, non-reader, big dreamer and former chubby kid—Ranveer Singh is an unexpected movie star, and the surprise is entirely pleasant

Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela

Ajit Duara

Bhansali’s Gujarati Romeo & Juliet is beautiful but unmemorable

In the candid banter typical of his films, Richard Linklater talks about 18 years with the same two characters, a career on the periphery of the Hollywood studio system, and the evolution of the love story in cinema

Charging Forth

Nikhil Taneja

Paul Schrader, the mind behind some of Hollywood’s most seminal films, talks about cinema’s crisis of form, parting ways with Martin Scorsese, and Bollywood’s body obsession