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Cinema
Ferrari ki Sawaari
A cloyingly sweet story gets stumped trying to bridge a kiddie cricket fantasy with an adult automobile romance
Shanghai
The plot is implausible but the superb acting and understated tone make it eminently watchable
The Helen Fan’s Launda Number
Transgender artist, animator and NID teacher Pradipta Ray makes his debut as an erotic dancer in Gangs of Wasseypur
Rowdy Rathore
When a film’s reference point is bad cinema, you end up with a noxious cipher like this one
Men in Black 3
Josh Brolin is an inspired choice as the young Tommy Lee Jones. But the one-liners, the mainstay of the franchise, are too far apart
Department
With this, it’s clear Ram Gopal Varma has exhausted himself on the mafia-police nexus
City of Irritable Ghosts
Anik Datta’s satire Bhooter Bhobishyot is a worthy cinematic tribute to Kolkata, far better textured than the Kahaani brand of nostalgic love
Bollywood’s Nasa Guy
Bedabrata Pain was up to hi-tech wizardry at a Nasa lab in the US before he quit the job to make a film on the Chittagong uprising of 1930
The Artiste Who Will Never be a Star
Annu Kapoor is a realist. He prays that he’ll be given the gift of beauty, not talent, in his ‘next birth’
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