Cinema

Agent Vinod

Ajit Duara

A thriller so pacy that the tale soon turns into a blur of events

When Bond-meets-Bourne-meets-Johny

Shaikh Ayaz

Agent Vinod director Sriram Raghavan on his obsession with rewriting and the influence of Hitchcock and Vijay Anand on his film

This Means War

Ajit Duara

A vulgar bromance about two CIA agents who woo the same woman

The Three-Star Filmmaker

Shaikh Ayaz

Director of Paan Singh Tomar Tigmanshu Dhulia on tightfisted critics, producers he could perhaps kill, and what his experience of theatre and television taught him about filmmaking

Kahaani

Ajit Duara

The film is gripping enough for you to not realise its plot holes until the credits roll

Paan Singh Tomar

Ajit Duara

Part docu-drama, this film tells the story of a forgotten hero with rare depth

Minding their Ps and Qs in Kahaani

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Making the unit behave itself in a horrifying morgue, enforcing the discipline of working in real locations, and the other prefect duties of director Sujoy Ghosh

The Artist

Ajit Duara

Never mind all those Oscars. This film is cute, not great. And the dog is the real Best Actor

Saeed Mirza Is Still an Angry Man

Shaikh Ayaz

The director of the seminal Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai on his career as a novelist, the West’s racist ideas and why he found films “very limiting”