Mausam – Tiresome
<Review by: Tushar A Amin> Directed by Pankaj Kapur. Starring Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Supriya Pathak, Aditi Sharma, Anupam Kher, Manoj Pahwa. Over-ambitious, contrived and forced, Mausam is not the epic romance film that Bollywood lovers have been craving for. … [Read More..]
Drive – Pulp and noir, interesting; trying a bit hard, perhaps
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman. Yes it won the director’s award at the Cannes Film Festival this year. And the critics love it. There is … [Read More..]
Hum Tum Shabana – Error of a comedy
<Review by: Tushar A Amin> Directed by Sagar Ballary. Starring Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Minissha Lamba, Satish Kaushik, Sanjay Mishra, Pria Trivedi. Same-same-but-different. Mindless trash comedy minus the star-power. Hum Tum Shabana is an example of a filmmaker’s idea of … [Read More..]
Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster – Awesome threesome
<Review by: Tushar A Amin> Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. Starring Jimmy Shergill, Mahie Gill, Randeep Hooda, Shreya Narayan, Deepal Shaw. A nuanced, pitch-perfect and immensely engrossing thriller-drama, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster is a must watch for anyone craving a well-crafted, … [Read More..]
Real Steel – Lacks heart, originality and direction
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Shawn Levy. Starring Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo. It’s pretty obvious from the posters that this film is going to be B-grade material. That’s inspite of the fact that it has Hugh Jackman … [Read More..]
30 Minutes or Less – Cheap production, cheap laughs
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, Aziz Ansari. Yes it’s from the director of the cult hit Zombieland (which also starred Eisenberg). No, it isn’t as funny or wildly eccentric as … [Read More..]
Soundtrack – Underwhelming
<Review by: Tushar A Amin> Directed by Neerav Ghosh. Starring Rajeev Khandelwal, Soha Ali Khan, Yatin Karyekar, Mohan Kapoor, Mrinalini Sharma. Soundtrack fails to deliver on expectations, with just a few moments that shine through the cacophony of pseudo docudrama … [Read More..]
Jo Dooba So Paar – Half-baked
<Review by: Tushar A Amin> Directed by Praveen Kumar. Starring Anand Tiwari, Vinay Pathak, Sita Ragione Spada, Rajat Kapoor, Sadia Siddiqui, Pitobash Tripathy. Jo Dooba So Paar swings between over-the-top theatrics and faux small-town-realism, in an attempt to tell a … [Read More..]
My Friend Pinto – Unfriend
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Raaghav Dar. Starring Prateik, Kalki Koechlin, Arjun Mathur. My first Hindi review for Minority Review (Tushar Amin handles them usually, but I happened to watch this film, so hey, I’ll give it a shot). … [Read More..]
What’s Your Number? – Formula meets fun
<Review by: Sailesh Ghelani> Directed by Mark Mylod. Starring Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor. Anna Faris, the star of the Scary Movie franchise (the Scream parodies) and talented comic with a face you’ll either love or hate, plays an … [Read More..]
