Jack Bauer would approve, says Raja Sen.
Raja Sen, who discovered Pran's filmography in the VHS-crazed era and was instantly hooked, tells us why the late actor's onscreen villiany is stuff legends are made of.
Will things be the same at Bahrain? Here's where we look to the front - by looking at what we've learnt.
This is mostly a bloated, highly undistinguished bit of mythmaking, stuffed to the gills with cliched characters and motivations, says Raja Sen.
To celebrate the 160th birth anniversary of famed artist Raja Ravi Varma, director Ketan Mehta had a get together with the cast and crew of his latest film, Rang Rasiya.
Raja Sen takes stock of Best Director nominees at Oscars 2015.
Raja Sen takes stock of the five Oscar nominees for Best Actress.
Whether the Udta Punjab makers cave in remains to be seen but here's a list of the ones who did.
Raja Sen takes stock of the Oscar 2015 nominations.
'This is the year of the three Bs -- Budapest, Boyhood and Birdman -- and if you love the movies, one or all three of those will feature in your top bracket in English language cinema this year.' Raja Sen takes stock of the recently concluded Golden Globes.
Lingaa can get tiresome, especially with the too-long fight scenes, but remains constantly watchable because of the miraculously light way in which Rajinikanth continues to wear his megastardom around him, says Raja Sen.
Raja Sen was most thrilled about catching Jerry Seinfeld in India this weekend, but the performance has, it appears, been scrapped. For the most preposterous reasons. Here, then, is a script of Jerry and the gang dealing with the news.
Zubaan emerges, sadly, like one of those ads where you can half-hum the song but you forget what it was for, feels Raja Sen.
Hidden Figures tells us a genuinely inspirational story in obvious fashion, and is buoyed by the performances all around, writes Raja Sen.
Rocky showed up at The Golden Globes -- and she won! Raja Sen sums up the 74th Golden Globes perfectly.
This thriller isn't merely predictable, but depressingly drab, says Raja Sen.
The Indian-American astronaut will fly the first space capsules built by private companies, SpaceX and Boeing.
Fading Gigolo is evidence that a movie doesn't have to mumble to be modest.
Puli makes for a truly bad trip, warns Raja Sen.
'Good luck, Chaitanya Tamhane. May the jury system prove better for you than the bench trial did for your protagonist.'
Katti Batti is an imbecilic, cliche-ridden embarrassment that made me want to punch it in the mouth, says Raja Sen.
All Is Well spends two hours desperately tickling the audience but the overall impact is one of torture, says Raja Sen.
'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.
It ends poorly, sure, and has some clumsy moments on the way, but as a children's film, A Flying Jatt goes a helluva lot further than those Krrish things, feels Raja Sen.
Kochadaiiyaan is a fundamentally flawed dud, one without anything to applaud besides grand (if self-glorifying) ambition, rants Raja Sen.
Strange Fruit will never quite sound the same again, says Raja Sen after watching 12 Years A Slave.
The first half of Dishoom is breezy and snappy, and the increasingly irrepressible Varun Dhawan is on point, feels Raja Sen.
'The phenomenal Max Verstappen was both sloppy and superb in Germany, getting caught out during the first two starts, and even spinning his car around to give the crowd something to gasp at with a Batmobile-esque 360 degree turn. 'After Hamilton crashed and Verstappen sniffed victory, though, he pounced hard, put his foot down, and took a deserved race win,' says Rediff's F1 columnist Raja Sen.
The film was set to hit screens on November 7.
In an afternoon of heroes, Sebastian Vettel played the Bond villain at Silverstone, notes Raja Sen, who returns to Rediff.com as F1 columnist!
The circuitous plot spins around the narrative like a yoyo gone berserk, keeping things tight but loopy, writes Raja Sen.
Alas, as an indictment of our legal system, Court doesn't prick deeply, says Raja Sen.
Sarbjit does indeed deal with a story worth telling, but does so in the most obvious and uninspired fashion, writes Raja Sen
1997: Sukanya Verma offers a recap of its memorable imagery.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
The Pro Wrestling League's star quotient took a massive hit on Sunday after one of the Phogat sisters, who are in the limelight following a blockbuster biopic on their struggle, was ruled out of the ongoing season.
Raja Sen lists the highlights from the 89th annual Academy Awards.
It is an important film but that doesn't translate to it being good, writes Raja Sen.
MSG is a feature-length advertisement you'd be best advised to forego, says Raja Sen.
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