Rediff's film critic Raja Sen lists her top Hindi movies of 2015.
Val Kilmer, who had been battling cancer for years, passed away on April 1 at his Los Angeles home.
Rediff's film critic Raja Sen lists his worst Hindi movies of 2015.
Here's thanking you for being you, writes Raja Sen.
Karan Johar raves about this week's movie release, Good Night Good Morning; calls it celebral.
Dhobi Ghat is a middling debut by Kiran Rao, watchable due to its nuances but simply not interesting enough to recommend.
Rediff's film critic Raja Sen lists his top 10 actors of 2015.
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The film is well made and strongly acted but is not as enjoyable to watch as it deserved to be.
No Problem is devoid of taste, flavour and jokes.
The one and only Sachin Tendulkar has been motoring along with phenomenal precision for the last few years, and the mammoth occasion of the ton of tons, the hundredth of hundreds, ought to be a moment of immensely heady celebration, a hitherto unimagined batting record that should galvanise the nation and bathe it in bubbly as we toast and thank our stars, says Raja Sen.
Farah Khan's Tees Maar Khan is so silly, it hurts.
Raavan's deadliest sin isn't in the clumsy dialogue, hammy acting or lame, oversimplified adaptation but in that it fails to engage us.
It's been a truly solid year, one where we have many more than 10 movies worth applauding!
Director Marc Webb's strength as a director lies in just how smoothly he flips genres, switching between gears with immaculate ease.
Arjun Rampal is the best thing in the biggest budget Indian feature of all time, says Raja Sen.
ZNMD doesn't earn our laughs, says Raja Sen.
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Rediff's film critic Raja Sen lists his best Hindi songs of 2015.
Raja Sen completes 10 years of film-reviewing for Rediff.com. In the third of a special series, we look at his most cruel movie reviews!
'Self-importance and egos were thrown aside as a dazzling assemblage of Hindi movie directors arrived at the venue, more than a half hour ahead of the scheduled time... It was fascinating to see all of Hindi cinema represented in one hotel ballroom... The assemblage was magnificent -- from Shyam Benegal to Anurag Kashyap to Abbas-Mastan to Gauri Shinde to Rajkumar Hirani...' Raja Sen was present at an evening not to be forgotten.
Some words on The Amazing Spider-Man ONLY for those who have already watched it. After writing a completely spoiler-free review, lifelong fan Raja Sen finally explains why the reboot matters.
Guzaarish starts off slow and beautiful, but gradually, sadly congeals into a wet mess.
The film looks really good, but ends up being a drag.
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey is a clumsily structured, unevenly paced film, with very few good moments.
Here's my list of 10 reviews that generated the hottest debates and arguments, reviews that a lot of you disagreed with and reviews I still hear complaints about.
Raja Sen lists his reasons for not wanting to watch Rohit Shetty's latest comedy Bol Bachchan.
2012 has been a highly unpredictable season, but will it be the year of the underdog? We're likely to see a bit of a see-saw situation over a season where, well, we're all still guessing, notes Raja Sen.
Raja Sen completes 10 years of film-reviewing for Rediff.com. In the first of a special series, we look at his best-reviewed movies!
'And then came a mail from Sourabh, talking about how I'd forgotten his birthday but also --in that offhand way -- mentioning how he'd been diagnosed with cancer.'
We're in for a year of fuel-management and engines with laryngitis. Gone is the full-blooded roar resonating through Formula One as the sport tries to reinvent itself, writes Raja Sen.
'In Mumbai, isolation is a very different isolation.' 'It's not about actual physical loneliness.' 'It's the loneliness in the company of others, and I felt that that is a very Mumbai thing.' 'You can be travelling in the ladies compartment squashed against everybody's armpits and still be really, really sad and alone.'
Salman Khan does his thing like only he can in Jai Ho. And the crowd responds. Raja Sen shows us, in his review.
Prince, remembers Raja Sen, snuck his way into an underage brain and sparked off deliciously inappropriate thoughts in style.