The second part of our exclusive interview with Farhan and Javed Akhtar.
It's all bad. All of it, every last instant, every single word, rants Raja Sen in his review of Humshakals.
NH10 is a scary, compelling ride featuring an actress who surpasses herself, says Raja Sen.
'It might not be supercalafragilisticexpialidocious, sure, but at least it points us in that direction,' Raja Sen says after watching Saving Mr Banks.
Let the grandeur do the talking instead of the gags, says Raja Sen.
'This is a giant film, a magnum opus drunk on its own magnum-ity, and it is perfectly clear early on, as the narrative races out the gate and gauntlets are flung up in the air and shot through with arrows, that a film like this can only work as opera,' says Raja Sen.
The best film won. Until it didn't. Or, depending on where you stand, vice versa.
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Shamitabh spends all its time explaining its own jokes, notes Raja Sen.
While hybrids, CNG and biofuels found favour in 2018 among many carmakers including Maruti Suzuki, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Honda, others such as M&M and Tata Motors have shown full faith in electric vehicles.
Inside Llewyn Davis is a fantastic film, feels Raja Sen.
From discounts to hundred per cent financing to talks of a price hike, companies are doing everything to ensure retail sales pick up this month.
With empty stands greeting the Indian F1 Grand Prix during the first two practice session, Raja Sen begs the organisers to open the gates and bring in the junta. 'At least, Formula One will feel compelled to bring its mega budget circus back to India at the soonest'.
On Back To The Future Day, Raja Sen lists his favourite movies on time travel.
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Raja Sen feels Apoorva Lakhia's Zanjeer is an unwarranted, atrocious remake.
Raja Sen picks the bad movies of the year so far.
Guardians Of The Galaxy takes place in a remarkable world drawn lovingly and beautifully by imaginative folks low on skin-coloured crayons.
Interstellar is an incredible ride, a film that will scare and stupefy and drop jaws and make us weep, the kind of film that makes our hearts thump against our ribs for forty straight-minutes and makes us believe in the glory of the movies.
Nebraska is not merely a black comedy, but one laced with light, with hope, with brightness. Black and White, then. Sometimes they do make 'em like they used.
A movie is no Bollywood movie without a rain sequence!
'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.
Raja Sen reviews Birdman in three sentences, as a tribute to the film's brilliant one-take technique. We space out the review for easy reading.
Emraan Hashmi and director Tony D'Souza try hard, and their effort shows. But Raja Sen wishes he could have said the boys played well.
The film whirrs along from disjointed scene to disjointed scene, the only intriguing ones being weird B-movie moments that turn out, far too frequently, to be Batman's dreams, says Raja Sen
Rush is a rousing, thrilling film, feels Raja Sen.
'If ever there was a film that begged to be celebrated on the big-screen -- heck, that begged viewing with 3D glasses -- it is this one, a sensational ride that throws you, the viewer, into the deep-end and drags you along for a chained and scorched and unbelievable ride,' says Raja Sen.
For starters, Mad Max: Fury Road is gloriously nuts, says Raja Sen.
Rangoon haunts in unlikely fashion and, while the director's most straightforward picture, holds enough of its own marvels to justify multiple viewings,' notes Raja Sen.
Chennai Express is a full throttle masala entertainment ruled by Shah Rukh Khan's star power
Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya is the kinda film Simran (of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge) would have loved, says Raja Sen.
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is a good-looking film but lacks a good story, writes Raja Sen.
Finding Fanny strikes gold, raves Raja Sen.
Raja Sen feels Dedh Ishqiya is a genuinely smart film.
Bhoothnath Returns has a few laughs but it ignores the basics, rants Raja Sen.
Raja Sen says the only superpower Krrish has is that of boring the audience.
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Dil Dhadakne Do is like a really long episode of Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai where Satish Shah doesn't show up, says Raja Sen.
Bombay Velvet is an obviously shallow film, an all-out retro masala-movie with homage on the rocks and cocktail-shakers brimming with cliche.
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