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In the Beginning There is an Opening Scene

After Aamir and No One Killed Jessica, Raj Kumar Gupta’s third film, Ghanchakkar, is going to hit the screens in June. While the earlier films were hard-hitting gritty fares, Ghanchakkar is a darkly humorous, quirky entertainer. Gupta speaks about realism, changing genres, working style, creative process and his evolution as a filmmaker

Aashiqui 2

A heart-wrenching romance that may even make you believe

Ek Thi Daayan

An entertaining and entirely irreverent ghost story

Nautanki Saala!

A delightful film falls apart in the second half

The Happy Quitter

Kai Po Che star Sushant Singh Rajput dropped out of his engineering course and a successful theatre and television career to boot, and even has a back-up plan to run a canteen in Film City in case cinema begins to bore him

Chashme Baddoor

David Dhawan is surely aware of the empty-headedness of his film

The Camera Has Stopped Rolling

It has never been easy for India’s most powerful documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan to screen his films. He has now decided he will make no new films till people get to see his earlier ones

Aatma

The talented Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s strange choice of a lead role in Hindi cinema

Django Unchained

Tarantino seems to care more about his place in pop culture than history or morality

A Student of Life

Mira Nair speaks of being a child of the street, her need for a talisman film while she is shooting, and of the perversity of item numbers

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