Priyadarshan is synonymous with ha-ha-thons, but the talented storyteller has been equally proficient while handling intense dramas like ‘Saza-E-Kala Pani’, ‘Gardish’ and ‘Virasat’. Like ‘Virasat’ and ‘Malamaal Weekly’, ‘Billu’, the accomplished director's new outing, is also set in a hamlet.
Debutant director Madhureet Anand weaves a plot around the kitchen and dining table and infuses it with a fantastic lover who will support, encourage and celebrate with the drab housewife Maya (Raima Sen) who wears sack-like night gowns through the first half of the film.
Anurag Kashyap's fourth cinematic foray following Black Friday, The Return of Hanuman (animation film) and No Smoking is by all means unusual and 'hat ke'. This time he trains his pen and lens on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic novella and lends it a modern dimension.
'Lagaan' and 'Iqbal' are landmark films on cricket. The response to ‘Lagaan’ specifically was so electrifying [and emotional] that theatres turned into stadiums during the penultimate cricket match in the film.
One has often heard, read and seen [on screen] the positive and negative aspects of Bollywood. It would be erroneous to state that ‘Luck By Chance’ does a pol-khol of the glamorous industry. Let's put it this way: The film mirrors the behind-the-scenes drama and manoeuvring exactly the way it occurs in showbiz. Watching ‘Luck By Chance’ is like experiencing it first-hand.
The team behind ‘Raaz - The Mystery Continues’ have often clarified that it's not a sequel to ‘Raaz’, one of the most interesting cinematic experiences, besides being the biggest hit of that year. Yet, you cannot but draw parallels with the first film of the franchise.
First things first! ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ deserves all the accolades and awards that it has been receiving of late and will continue receiving in the future. Also, in this writer's individualistic opinion, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ doesn't make a mockery or an attempt to sell the poverty of India to the West.
In the initial years of his career, Ramesh Sippy made two gems that we remember [and cherish] to this date – ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’ and ‘Sholay’. ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’ was about twin-sisters -- the docile and the aggressive. ‘Sholay’, of course, needs no introduction. Yet, to update the unacquainted, Ramgarh is gripped by a terror called Gabbar. Resultantly, Thakur recruits two men to put an end to Gabbar's tyranny.
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