'You can't call this a pure Western. This has got love, passion, violence, suspense.' 'This is a film of today.'
Begin Again speaks to the viewer like few films have, says Paloma Sharma.
'Who decides what is jingoistic?' 'What is patriotic?' 'Who decides Lagaan is patriotic and Gadar is jingoistic?'
'When it has to be a simple girl's role, somehow people feel I cannot do it.'
Sreehari Nair lists some movies, documentaries, recorded-performance films, and literature and music suggestions that might help.
'Rafi was singing for Hanuman and I was singing for Ravan.' 'C Ramachandra corrected Rafisaab and he became red in the face.' 'I asked Anna (Ramachandra), "How could you do this?"' 'He replied, "How could I not do this? My song was being spoilt".'
'They (the characters) are not bad people; they are good people, who make bad choices.' 'The idea was to show that when people are put in a situation, which side of the moral spectrum do they fall on?'
'I play an urban girl after a very long time.' 'What I saw in her was that she was very, very, gutsy.'
Irrfan, Deepak Dobriyal, Radhika Madan, Ranvir Shorey, Pankaj Tripathi are all lovely, but make little sense in Angrezi Medium's muddled context, complains Sukanya Verma.
Friendships are not merely severed, but built over scuffles. And just about anything can stir things up -- a long-standing feud, a pointless stare, a disrupted moral stance, a fist that ricochets off a face and smacks another face in the near vicinity, observes Sreehari Nair.
'I don't know whether this curse will be lifted or not. It's in the hands of the audience.'
'Relationships have changed so dynamically that the 'woh' doesn't have to be a person.'
'If the person is silenced, then everyone else is terrorised and won't speak up.' 'See what happened to Kiran Mane, you will face the same fate.' 'They want to send this message to the world through my example.' 'We have to fight this and show that they cannot throttle everyone.'
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan appears a whirlwind ride filled with drama, emotion and, of course, humour, says Namrata Thakker
Oru Oorla Rendu Raja is a tedious comedy drama that attempts to highlight the inhumane working conditions of factory workers in our country.
Biju Menon tells Divya Nair/Rediff.com how he transformed himself to play a 73 year old character, one of his most challenging and satisfying roles as an actor.
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'I am sorry, but not scared.'
Kavalai Vendam may not be high on logic, but watch it for its wacky moments and mindless entertainment, says S Saraswathi.
Tamil film Sakalakala Vallavan Appatakkar lacks imagination, says S Saraswathi.
'The blockbusters are unlikely to be launched in 2020.' 'They will move into the 2021 cycle when confidence level among people will be higher.'
'Huma is one of those actors who makes acting seem effortless.' 'But that happens because she has put in a certain amount of preparation.' 'She has a certain confidence that allows her to let go.'
Director Raghava Lawrence's Kanchana 2 is an enjoyable horror comedy about six ghosts who are out to avenge their deaths.
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This hormone-crazy, romantic-comedy is let down by some tepid direction.
Quite a few Hindi movies have explored different shades of the landlord-tenant relationship in passing or purposefully.
Rediff reader Purnendu Shorey, 48, a former captain in merchant navy based out of Mumbai shares some of his learnings.
As Akshay Kumar promises to impress in Rowdy Rathore, we take a look at the best dual roles in Hindi cinema in the past.
Pankaj Kapoor is one of India's finest actors. Subhash K Jha picks 5 memorable performances.
'It's only in the last seven years, I have taken acting seriously.'
Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.
'I was about 27 at that point in time, and I knew that if I didn't take this leap then, I wouldn't take the leap ever.'
The first half though is not exciting as most of it is wasted on a meaningless romantic angle with some tiresome comedy, feels S Saraswathi.
Jaspal Bhatti's feel for the grime, the confusions, and the madness in our system was so complete that he could take on every kind of woman or man God ever gave to the institutions of India, feels Sreehari Nair.
While we wait for Batra's latest to drop on Amazon Prime Video on February 11, Sukanya Verma looks at how Bollywood has dealt with affairs of the heart over the years.
Kadavul Irukaan Kumarui is plain annoying, warns S Sarawasthi.
