Cinema

That 70s Showman

Shaikh Ayaz

Milan Luthria, director of The Dirty Picture, on his fear of beginnings, love of dark characters and favourite Bollywood era

Ekk Deewana Tha

Ajit Duara

This unusual love story is somehow watchable for holding romance up to reality

Rishi is the least Kapoor-like of the Kapoors: shorn of the family mannerisms and preoccupation with their image. Now, on the eve of turning 60, he is getting the roles of a lifetime and relishing them too

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

Ajit Duara

A goodlooking couple with zero chemistry in a goodlooking film

Reality Check for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

Shaikh Ayaz

The effort to dramatise Imran Khan’s hygiene obsession, the trouble with sparse scenes and how director Shakun Batra tried keeping it real

Chronicle

Ajit Duara

A routine disaster film in which three teenagers acquire super powers

Agneepath

Ajit Duara

This movie marks a return to the worst genre of Hindi cinema, vengeance drama

J Edgar

Ajit Duara

Clint Eastwood studies the twisted mind of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s first director

The Re-making of Agneepath

Sohini Chattopadhyay

An argument with Hrithik Roshan, the monsoon cycle that set up the perfect backdrop for the climax, and other adventures on director Karan Malhotra’s sets