Category Archives: 2014

Movie Preview : PK (releases December 19th 2014)

Via UTV, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Raju Hirani comes “PK”. Fingers crossed for this one.

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Movie Review : Happy Ending (2014)

Rating : Good (3.5/5) Genre : Romantic Comedy Year : 2014 Running time : 2 hours 15 minutes Director : Krishna D.K. , Raj Nidimoru Cast : Saif Ali Khan, Ileana D’Cruz, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shourie, Govinda, Preity Zinta This … Continue reading

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Movie Review : Kill Dil (2014)

[amazon_link id=”B00ODYAHWA” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Rating : Intolerable (1/5) Genre : Drama Year : 2014 Running time : 2 hours 25 minutes Director : Shaad Ali Cast : Ranveer Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Ali Zafar, Govinda Did I say director Shaad Ali … Continue reading

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Movie Preview : Happy Ending (21st November 2014)

From the team that brought you the excellent “Shor In The City”, “99” and the not so excellent “Go Goa Gone”, comes another (hopefully) hatke film. For starters, it has Govinda . . . And if you are still reading, it … Continue reading

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Movie Review : Mary Kom (2014)

[amazon_link id=”B00O1YBHCQ” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Rating : Good (3.3/5) Genre : Drama Year : 2014 Running time : 2 hours 2 minutes Director : Omung Kumar Cast : Priyanka Chopra, Darshan Kumaar, Sunil Thapa Going in to see this move, … Continue reading

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Movie Preview : Kill Dil (November 14th, 2014)

Hold your horses people – this is not a sequel to Kill Bill :-). This is a very inventively named movie starring Ranveer singh, Parineeti Chopra, Govinda and Ali Zafar. The only saving grace here appears to be director Shaad Ali, … Continue reading

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Movie Preview : The Shaukeens (November 7th, 2014)

This is a film I might regret showcasing here. I do it because director Abhishek Sharma (he also directed “Tere bin Laden”) shows promise, and because this appears to be a spinoff of the 1982 Rati Agnihotri starrer “Shaukeen”. The … Continue reading

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Movie Review : Haider (2014)

Rating : Good (3.5/5) Genre : Drama Year : 2014 Running time : 2 hours 40 minutes Director : Vishal Bhardwaj Cast : Tabu, Shahid Kapoor, Narendra Jha, Kaykay Menon, Shraddha Kapoor, Ashish Vidyarthi, Aamir Bashir, Irrfan Khan Director Vishal … Continue reading

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Movie Review : Revolver Rani (2014)

[amazon_link id=”B00KSF7D5M” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Rating : Average (2.5/5) Genre : Drama Year : 2014 Running time : 2 hours 12 minutes Director : Sai Kabir Cast : Kangana Ranaut, Vir Das, Zakir Hussain, Piyush Mishra I had high expectations … Continue reading

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Movie Preview : Haider (2nd October 2014)

After making superb film adaptations of many of the Bard’s plays (Maqbool, Omkara) , Vishal Bharadwaj returns with an adaptation of “Hamlet”. The film is set in Kashmir, and stars Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Kay Kay Menon and Shraddha Kapoor.

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