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Review: The Dirty Picture

Fantasy?

To start with, Vidya Balan is a superb actor and she puts across a brave and unrelenting portrayal of Silk. (Try YouTubing Silk Smitha and you’ll know why this movie is called The Dirty Picture.) However, that’s all there is to the movie. It’s almost as if nothing else matters. Naseeruddin Shah who plays a [...]

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Review: Ragini MMS

Director: Pawan Kripalani Cast: Raj Kumar Yadav, Kainaz Motivala A young couple, a spooky house and a Marathi-speaking neon lit ghost  – the perfect setting for a dirty weekend getaway destination. Add a dash of Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project to this and you have Ragini MMS. While this movie might not be the perfect follow-up [...]

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Review: Shor in the City

Shor in the City is a brilliant movie. Yes, it does have a lasting hangover from many a Guy Ritchie movie but then it plays so well with human emotions that you tend to start liking this dark comedy. This movie actually manages to get the needed Mumbai feel across without being pretentious. It’s a [...]

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Interview: Kainaz Motivala

Kainaz Motivala studied to become a journalist, was a part of the modelling industry, switched her career to acting and is even a published writer. Here, she talks to us about her forthcoming release, Ragini MMS apart from how she values the script in a move the most and how she doesn’t want to do [...]

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Reptilian Death’s new album + Metal Night @Blue Frog,Mumbai

Sahil Makhija a.k.a Demonstealer’s side project Reptilian Death , is going to launch their new album ‘The Dawn Of Consummation And [...]

X: 11 Filmmakers, 1 Film

Anthology films are here to stay. This one may seem like one but it isn’t one. This one’s just called [...]

Drugs, Guns and Zombies

If I wrote this as a review it would merely be a whiny rant about why the movie was kind [...]

Review: Bombay Talkies

Bombay Talkies is the much awaited anthology film that aims to celebrate Indian cinema cause you know it’s the 100th [...]

Rearview: Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino has a handful of movies that he can be proud of, in terms of direction and artful execution, [...]

Rearview: Zero Dark Thirty

There’s something awfully sinister about the way Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have constructed Zero Dark Thirty. Initially meant to [...]