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May 23, 14 • 318 Views • featured, Movies, Reviews • Aniket Dasgupta • No Comments
“Someone gave you bad acid” Those were my thoughts on what happened to the people behind X3 aka X-Men: The Last Stand. How else could they botch up The Dark Phoenix Saga story-line. And after a brilliant reboot with X-Men: First...
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Mar 25, 14 • 748 Views • Movies, Reviews, Videos • Team dfuse.in • No Comments
Kanan and Biswa return. And this time they review the Visual Effects Extravaganza that is Jaani Dushman. Do check out their previous review of Gunda. Follow ‘em on Twitter: Kanan Gill : @KananGill Biswa Kalyan Rath: @KalyanRath...
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Mar 11, 14 • 362 Views • featured, Movies, Reviews • Aniket Dasgupta • No Comments
Is Queen, a rehash of the fish out of the water formula now made popular by English Vinglish? The truth is, it doesn’t matter. People will draw parallels and rectangles but that’s what people do. Queen is by far one of the most...
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Mar 8, 14 • 312 Views • Books, Reviews • Falah Faisal • No Comments
A comic book writer once told me, “When you are making a film, if you need an airport you have to find locations, decorate a set, get permissions. If I want an airport in my comic book, I just have to draw one.” The quote is exemplified in Odayan, an epic...
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Feb 26, 14 • 204 Views • Movies, Reviews • Rajdip Ray • No Comments
Set in the depths of Uttar Pradesh, in a little known place called Bundelkhand, Sampat Pal’s story is one of honour, courage, and dissent against the prevailing patriarchal voices of society. The documentary covers her fights against the injustice meted...
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Dec 25, 13 • 308 Views • Movies • Rajdip Ray • 2 Comments
Along with the disclaimer for smoking, Chander Pahar (The Mountain of the Moon) should have a disclaimer at its beginning which says “Tolerating Dev for 3 hours on screen is injurious to health. It causes angst, nausea and mental retardation.”...
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Dec 21, 13 • 580 Views • Movies, Reviews • Aniket Dasgupta • 13 Comments
I wasn’t exactly expecting a Citizen Kane here. But the film disappointed me so much that I didn’t actually mind the annoying guy on his phone seated next to me. I have been eagerly waiting for this one. I had spent all of last night watching the...
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Nov 6, 13 • 239 Views • Books, Reviews • Ushnav Shroff • No Comments
With a misleading title and having the distinction of being the winner of the 1996 Hawthornden Prize, An Experiment in Love is a novel by Hilary Mantel that is nothing what I expected it to be. Promising romance tales and an experience in love like none other...
