Ekk Deewana Tha
Starring: Prateik, Amy Jackson, Manu Rishi, Omi Vaidya, Sachin Khedekar
Directed by Gautham Menon
Rating: ***
If God lies in the details then “Ek Deewana Tha”, Tamil-Telugu director Gautham Menon’s first Hindi film in 11 years, makes it all the way to the church.
But hang on with those bells.
Indeed courtship is treated as a religion in [...]
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March 23rd, 2012 by Daanish Dhansi
Ekk Deewana Tha
Starring: Prateik, Amy Jackson, Manu Rishi, Omi Vaidya, Sachin Khedekar
Directed by Gautham Menon
Rating: ***
If God lies in the details then “Ek Deewana Tha”, Tamil-Telugu director Gautham Menon’s first Hindi film in 11 years, makes it all the way to the church.
But hang on with those bells.
Indeed courtship is treated as a religion in [...]
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March 23rd, 2012 by Daanish Dhansi
Tere Naal Love Hogaya
Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Genelia D’Souza, Om Puri, Tinnu Anand, Smita Jaykar
Director: Mandeep Kumar
Rating: ** 1/2
It’s a sweet love story. A little too sweet perhaps. But handled impressively well, considering it is Mandeep Kumar’s debut direction.
Viren (Ritesh Deshmukh), is a rickshaw driver in Haryana. Minnie (Genelia) is from a rich family and she [...]
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March 23rd, 2012 by Daanish Dhansi
Starring R Madhavan, Bipasha Basu, Dipannati Sharma, Milind Soman, HelenDirected by Ashwini ChowdharyRating: **1/2Just when you think you’ve seen them all, from the hit jodis to the split jodis comes Jodi Breakers…. A jodi-daar pair, Madhavan and Bipasha Basu who set up a business of splitting couples…until they end up splitting the wrong couple. That’s [...]
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March 23rd, 2012 by Daanish Dhansi
Director: Shakun BatraCast: Imran Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sonia Mehra, Ram Kapoor, Boman Irani, Randhir Kapoor, Ratna PathakStars: *** 1/2Among the many smart lines in this film, one is when the girl tells the boy, ‘Tum perfect average ho, na kuch zyada na kuch kam karte ho.’ Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu can be summed up [...]
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February 17th, 2012 by Daanish Dhansi
Starring Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Om PuriWritten & Directed by Karan MalhotraRating: ****Long before the damsel in the den Katrina Kaif signs her writhe petition junta ke naam, the film’s imposing villain and by extension the film, have written their destiny. In bold bloodied letters. E-mail didn’t exist in the 1990s. [...]
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January 27th, 2012 by Daanish Dhansi
PLAYERS – MOVIE REVIEW
Rating: **1/2They say birds of the same feather flock together: Charlie Mascarenhas (Abhishek Bachchan) and Riya (Bipasha Basu) are partners in conning and daredevil robbery.As a last gift, Charlie’s friend Raj (Aftab Shivdasani) reveals through a CD the possibility of a heist. “Ten thousand crore rupees worth of gold would be transported [...]
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January 6th, 2012 by Daanish Dhansi
DON 2 Â MOVIE REVIEWRating: **** Both Salman and Shah Rukh Khan are, perhaps, the biggest prisoners of their own success stories in Bollywood. While the former is deeply mired in his ever brooding Bhai image it is SRK, who at times, redeems himself with his suave performances. No, I certainly have no doubts about their [...]
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January 6th, 2012 by Daanish Dhansi
MOVIE REVIEW Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl
Cast: Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Parineeti Chopra, Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Sharma
Director: Maneesh Sharma
Rating: 3/5
Sometimes a director’s own film works against him. Maneesh Sharma’s debut Band Baajaa Baaraat was such a delightful little surprise packet that expectations were bound to be high. But then Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl proves that [...]
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December 9th, 2011 by Daanish Dhansi
Cast: Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Rajesh sharma
Producer: Ekta Kapoor
Director: Milan Luthria
Rating ***1/2
First: a disclaimer. If cheesy one-liners, ample cleavage displays and orgasms – fake or otherwise – make you uncomfortable then stay away from this film.
‘The Dirty Picture’ not only thrives on these traits but literally celebrates them like never before [...]
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December 6th, 2011 by Daanish Dhansi
Boys bonding is a great subject for comedies. Tarun Mansukhani tried it in “Dostana”. Debutant director Rohit Dhawan gives a far more blithe and effervescent spin to that thing called friendship that makes us do all kinds of weird and wonderful things. Sometimes in tandem.
“Desi Boyz” is a very entertaining yarn about two guys in [...]
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November 28th, 2011 by Daanish Dhansi
Here is a film made on the life of a rockstar whose tryst with destiny does not touch your heart.
In a grey dull European city, we aren’t sure if the frizzy haired, Indo-Persian dressed Rockstar (Ranbir Kapoor) is detained or mugged while he fight backs his detractors to reach the venue to deliver an electrifying [...]
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November 28th, 2011 by Daanish Dhansi