Category Archives: romance

Movie Preview : Fitoor (releases 12 Feb 2016)

Watching the trailer, I thought Tabu’s character reminded me of a fictional character – Miss Havisham. And indeed, looking this up on Wikipedia, I see that this is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations”. With a director like Abhishek … Continue reading

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Movie Review : Tamasha (2015)

Rating : 3.8/5 Genre : Drama/Romance Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 35 minutes Director : Imtiaz Ali Cast : Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Piyush Mishra, Javed Sheikh Kid rating: PG A man and woman meet in lovely … Continue reading

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Movie Preview : Tamasha (releases Nov 25th 2015)

It’s been a while since I could get behind an Imtiaz Ali film. I think this could be the one. Doesn’t hurt that the film stars the most charismatic couple in Bollywood.

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Movie Review: Shaandaar

Rating : 1/5 Genre : Romance Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 24 minutes Director : Vikas Bahl Cast : Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Pankaj Kapoor, Sanah Kapoor Kid rating: PG If you read the subtitles of this … Continue reading

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Movie Preview : Katti Batti (releases 18th September 2015)

From the director of the fantastic D-Day comes romance Katti Batti. Yes, Katti Batti is a very different genre from D-Day, but here’s hoping Nikhil Advani comes through again!

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What To Watch On Netflix Instant: Edition #26

A Series Edition this time – here are 5 recent Netflix Series I enjoyed: [amazon_link id=”B00WK6ZE26″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Witnesses (“Les témoins”, France, 2014) This is a very atmospheric mystery-thriller series with two detectives in a small, sleepy, coastal French … Continue reading

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Movie Review : Dil Dhadakne Do (2015)

Rating : 4.2/5 Genre : Romantic Drama Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 50 minutes Director : Zoya Akhtar Cast : Anil Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Shefali Chhaya, Anushka Sharma, Zarina Wahab, Farhan Akhtar, Rahul Bose, Parmeet … Continue reading

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Movie Preview : Dil Dhadakne Do (5th June 2015)

From the director of the lovely “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” comes Dil Dhadakne Do. Lots of big names in here : Priyanka Chopra, Anushka Sharma, Ranvir Singh, Farhan Akhtar, Rahul Bose, Shefali Chaya and Anil Kapoor.

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Movie Review : Bombay Velvet (2015)

Rating : 3.5/5 Genre : Romantic Thriller Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 30 minutes Director : Anurag Kashyap Cast : Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Kaykay Menon, Karan Johar, Satyadeep Misra, Siddharata Basu, Manish Chaudhary, Vivaan Shah Kidwise … Continue reading

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Movie Review : Piku (2015)

[amazon_link id=”B00W7CC4NU” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link] Rating : 4.3/5 Genre : Drama Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 3 minutes Director : Shoojit Sircar Cast : Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, Irrfan Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Jishu Sengupta, Moushumi Chatterjee … Continue reading

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