Raja Sen

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Review: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is all show, no reality

Review: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is all show, no reality

Rediff.com   9 Jun 2014

Are you all set for Palak Dikhhla Jaa, asks Raja Sen.

Review: Holiday is too slow to thrill

Review: Holiday is too slow to thrill

Rediff.com   6 Jun 2014

Holiday takes obscene amounts of time getting to the point, says Raja Sen.

Review: Rajinikanth's Kochadaiiyaan is a bad puppet show

Review: Rajinikanth's Kochadaiiyaan is a bad puppet show

Rediff.com   23 May 2014

Kochadaiiyaan is a fundamentally flawed dud, one without anything to applaud besides grand (if self-glorifying) ambition, rants Raja Sen.

Review: X-Men: Days Of Future Past has a blast with the past

Review: X-Men: Days Of Future Past has a blast with the past

Rediff.com   23 May 2014

X-Men: Days Of Future Past crams so, so much plot into its two-hour running time that there isn't room to get bored, raves Raja Sen.

Review: Fading Gigolo is a lovely, bittersweet film

Review: Fading Gigolo is a lovely, bittersweet film

Rediff.com   16 May 2014

Fading Gigolo is evidence that a movie doesn't have to mumble to be modest.

Titli: Tears, blood and a wedding

Titli: Tears, blood and a wedding

Rediff.com   14 May 2014

Kanu Behl's directorial debut Titli looks promising.

Review: Drag every kid you care about to Hawaa Hawaai

Review: Drag every kid you care about to Hawaa Hawaai

Rediff.com   8 May 2014

This is a brisk, enjoyable film, and while the climactic race is somewhat marred by an overdose of melodrama - Gupte's far better at subtler strokes than the few broad ones he tries - it is rare to find a Hindi film hero more deserving of our cheers than Arjun. That unfortunate hint of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag in the final race doesn't alter the fact that this is an earnest, important and evocative film.

The National Awards continue to confound

The National Awards continue to confound

Rediff.com   21 Apr 2014

In a year where we can find positives in wins for the great Gulabi Gang documentary and ace cinematographer Rajeev Ravi, the silver lining doesn't seem as wide if our priorities remain as skewed.

First Look: Ben Affleck's Gone Girl

First Look: Ben Affleck's Gone Girl

Rediff.com   15 Apr 2014

The film releases on October 3, and from this first look, we're already hooked.

Review: Bhoothnath Returns needed Bhoothnath to direct

Review: Bhoothnath Returns needed Bhoothnath to direct

Rediff.com   11 Apr 2014

Bhoothnath Returns has a few laughs but it ignores the basics, rants Raja Sen.

Happy 75th birthday, Francis Ford Coppola

Happy 75th birthday, Francis Ford Coppola

Rediff.com   7 Apr 2014

Raja Sen wishes Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary filmmaker who transformed The Godfather into an immortal screen classic, a happy 75th birthday.

Review: Captain America is finally worth celebrating

Review: Captain America is finally worth celebrating

Rediff.com   4 Apr 2014

'This is the first of (ideally) many superhero films that will appeal to those who aren't already besotted by the comics and the characters,' says Raja Sen after watching Captain America.

Review: O Teri is a sham about scams

Review: O Teri is a sham about scams

Rediff.com   28 Mar 2014

O Teri, which borrows heavily from Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro drowns it all in slapstick so noisy it all comes off as more lame than loving, more blasphemous than beholden.

God save the Queen

God save the Queen

Rediff.com   28 Mar 2014

The fact that a woman-centric film can challenge those increasingly inane hero-vehicles is certainly cause for celebration, raves Raja Sen.

Review: Neighbours isn't worth a review

Review: Neighbours isn't worth a review

Rediff.com   14 Mar 2014

Why is a horror film on vampires so bloodless and awful, asks Raja Sen.

Review: Kangna rules in Queen

Review: Kangna rules in Queen

Rediff.com   7 Mar 2014

Kangana Ranaut is gobstoppingly spectacular. The actress has always flirted with the unfamiliar but here -- at her most real, at her most gorgeously guileless -- she absolutely shines and the film stands back and lets her rule.

Review: Dallas Buyers Club is as smart as it is inspiring

Review: Dallas Buyers Club is as smart as it is inspiring

Rediff.com   28 Feb 2014

'This is a stirring, touching film but it stays impressively away from overt manipulation.' 'It is a film about smarts,' says Raja Sen after watching Dallas Buyers' Club.

Review: Monuments Men isn't worth a showing

Review: Monuments Men isn't worth a showing

Rediff.com   21 Feb 2014

It seems exasperating that with this amazing story, George Clooney couldn't bring about a rousing, breast-beating, educative motion picture with The Monuments Men, rants Raja Sen.

Review: Gunday is utter garbage

Review: Gunday is utter garbage

Rediff.com   14 Feb 2014

'Director Ali Abbas Zafar has directed a monstrous film, one with a repellent 70s-set storyline that makes no sense whatsoever, and a cast who should all hang their heads and offer up a minute's silence for assaulting their respective filmographies,' says Raja Sen after watching Gunday.

Review: Her is the Best Picture of the year, by far

Review: Her is the Best Picture of the year, by far

Rediff.com   14 Feb 2014

For all its conceptual highs, Her is not a film about technology, though it is partly a cautionary fable. This is a film about love. A film to love.