カテゴリー: Action and adventure films
Kumar does his best to inject some humanist gravitas into a film set during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, that is otherwise obsessed with duty and sacrificeThe hope is that the Hindi mainstream is learning from its current spell of commercial turbulence…
The big Diwali release is the latest entry in Rohit Shetty’s ‘Cop Universe’, once again featuring Devgn as the purveyor of supposed nation-saving coolOpening with a special shoutout to the Jammu & Kashmir police, this is the fifth entry in the so-c…
This tasty piece of action cinema provides crunches, squelches and and spatter effects as the good guys and bad guys delightfully smash each other to piecesThe first shot fired in Indian Hindi-language action thriller Kill isn’t unleashed with deadly i…
Amitabh Bachchan plays a mythological warrior in a withered dystopian city where desert car chases, CGI magic and a semi-divine dictator ruleThis fizzy Telugu-language mashup of Indian mythology, martial arts and Bollywood-style dance-romance-and-melod…
Sidharth Malhotra fights like a machine in an Indian action film cut from similar cloth as the jingoistic Rambo seriesDepending on your age and perspective, you may or may not have fond memories of the three Rambo films. Where the first one was rather …
Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone can’t inject feeling into an air force love story with lifeless CGI and obtrusive product placementFresh off the megahit Pathaan, director Siddharth Anand is back with yet another star vehicle, this time pairing Indi…
Kapoor plays the scion of a wealthy family whose violence is the result of a craving for love and validation, in a regressive Bollywood blockbusterAlready topping the box office in India, Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s bombastic action film is high on shock tac…
This British action comedy is a nuptials-based kung fu homage. Leads Priya Kansara and Ritu Arya discuss auditions, stereotypes – and being the next Tom CruiseA few years ago, Priya Kansara was working in an ordinary office communications job for a hea…
Entertaining new version of Pakistan cult movie follows a young noble boy spirited away to a poor village when a rival clan slaughters his parentsImagine Game of Thrones crossed with Gladiator and you’ll have something like this entertainingly old fash…
A hero of the 2008 Mumbai hotel siege gets a relentlessly entertaining biopic, going all-out with the hagiographic bells and whistlesAs unstintingly jingoistic as it is relentlessly entertaining, this Bollywood blockbuster celebrates a fictionalised ve…
Anubhav Sinha’s action thriller asks pertinent questions about political conflict and cultural identity“Peace is a subjective hypothesis,” says one character in Anubhav Sinha’s new action thriller, which examines the political conflicts that have plagu…
Fans and critics welcome multilingual, pan-Indian, historical-action-romance blockbuster from the renowned Telugu film-maker SS RajamouliThe cinema aisles are lit up with the screens of a dozen mobile phones as a third of the audience shuffles in unapo…
Why use the door, Salman? Bollywood megastar goes back to basics, pummelling everything in sight including narrative cohesionWhat was originally scheduled as India’s big Eid blockbuster for May 2020 is opening a year later in cinemas everywhere but Ind…
Devika Bhise as the widowed monarch Rani Lakshmibai shows the Victorian Brits, including Rupert Everett, what she’s capable of in this impressive dramaAs Rani Lakshmibai (Devika Bhise), the titular queen in this colourful historical epic, slices and di…