The Love Guru Central: The movie review

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In our continuing coverage of the movie “Love Guru”, we have some posts left including the review of the movie itself, our opinions on whether the movie was really as offensive as self proclaimed leader of the [...]

Movie Review: The Happening

*Note : This review contains spoilers so please do not read it if you intend to see the movie and do not want to anticipate the fun ! *
“The Happening” - a much awaited release from M.Night Shyamalan debuted at a strong # 3 position this weekend with a $ 30 million take. I contributed [...]

The Resurrection of Indiana Jones

*** Some Spoilers ***
Don’t expect anything new out of the new Indiana Jones movie. Lucas, Spielberg and Ford get together and revive the franchise after Indy rode off into the sunset couple of decades ago in the Last Crusade. The movie is set in 1957. Everything is intact - Indy’s penchant for adventure, street smart [...]

Bhootnath: Really scary

Be scared of the latest Bollywood movie, Bhootnath ….. real scared. Be scared because you have to pay real money for the ticket.
Regarding, Bhootnath. I watch desi movies in theaters because I get so few of them. Normally I don’t read reviews or hype, so I can form my own opinions. Ditto for Bhootnath, I [...]

Review: The Darjeeling Limited

I recently watched Wes Anderson ’s “The Darjeeling Limited” on DVD.
The film stars Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman (who also co-wrote the movie). The three play the Whitman brothers who have not spoken for a year- since the death of their father. Their mother is missing from the funeral – much as she [...]

When Jodhaa met Akbar

(Note: Special thanks to Santosh for allowing me to write this one )
Jodhaa Akbar is like a cupcake : sweet, ornate, decorative but not substantial. In essence it is a love story but with swords, sand, elephants and lots of color. Ashutosh Gowariker’s labor of love /depiction of labored love -is a 3 and a [...]

‘Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal’ should have been named ‘Missed Goal’

Over the weekend I had the misfortune to watch Goal or as the title is supposed to be “Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal”, directed by Vivek Agnihotri.That mish-mash of a title itself should have warned me. There is a particular pain to watching a bad Hindi film - I cannot describe it exactly but [...]

Does ‘The Namesake’ stand a chance?

Do they stand a chance? Image from IMDB.

With the 80th Academy Awards set to air on Feb. 24th 2008, movie makers are working hard to get in their nominations. Besides the controversial “Eklavya- The Royal Guard“, the other “Desi” movie in the running is “The Namesake”.
The team is doing it’s best to [...]