Cinema

Aatma

Ajit Duara

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

Django Unchained

Ajit Duara

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

A Student of Life

Shaikh Ayaz

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

The Master

Ajit Duara

A film about two disagreeable characters that’s full of style but has nothing to say

The Satire of Subhash Kapoor

Lhendup G Bhutia

The one-armed director of Jolly LLB, who has landed the job of helming the third part of the Munna Bhai series, on how he inhales life and exhales cinema

Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns

Ajit Duara

The film moves from one lovely scene to another without a story

The Attacks of 26/11

Ajit Duara

In a country beseiged by terror, where do RGV’s sympathies lie?

Kai Po Che

Ajit Dua

Just another ‘buddy’ film inhabited by colourless characters

In Pursuit of Greatness

Shaikh Ayaz

Just two years ago, directors were hesitant to cast Raj Kumar Yadav as a hero. Now, with Kai Po Che and Shahid to his credit, this Gurgaon lad is generating much interest