Category Archives: bollywood

Movie Review : Mary Kom (2014)

Posted on October 26, 2014 by amodini

[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)

Posted on October 24, 2014 by amodini

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)

Posted on October 17, 2014 by amodini

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)

Posted on October 13, 2014 by amodini

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 Preview : Haider (2nd October 2014)

Posted on September 23, 2014 by amodini

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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Movie Review : Khoobsurat (2014)

Posted on September 21, 2014 by amodini

Rating : Average (2.5/5) Genre : Drama Year : 2014 Running time : 2 hours 7 minutes Director : Shashanka Ghosh Cast : Sonam Kapoor, Fawad Khan, Kirron Kher, Ratna Pathak-Shah, Aamir Raza Hussain If you read my post previewing … Continue reading →

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What to Watch on Netflix Instant : Edition #20

Posted on September 16, 2014 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B00EO2I6QK” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]– Barbara (Germany, 2012) It is 1980s East Germany, some years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Dr. Barbara Wolff has been assigned to work at a provincial hospital as punishment for expressing … Continue reading →

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Movie Review : Finding Fanny (2014)

Posted on September 13, 2014 by amodini

Rating : Poor (0/5) Genre : Drama Year : 2014 Running time : 1 hour 54 minutes Director : Homi Adajania Cast : Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Arjun Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Pankaj Kapoor So, Being Cyrus was OK. Not spectacular – … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Khoobsurat (releases 19th September 2014)

Posted on September 2, 2014 by amodini

A rom-com courtesy Disney Pictures and Anil Kapoor Films, this one might be interesting if it does not get too juvenile/cheesy/nausea-inducing. Sonam Kapoor and Fawad Khan star.

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