カテゴリー: Crime films
After hit takes on Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Romeo and Juliet adaptation sees dead-eyed lovers drag one another to gutter and graveIt must be Misbegotten Adaptations week. This Hindi gangland epic’s credentials are impeccable: dire…
Lawrence Valin directs and stars in this Paris-set drama, where a young man caught between cultures infiltrates criminals shaped by Sri Lanka’s civil warHere is a Paris-set story that unfolds during the Sri Lankan civil war and revolves around Tamil im…
Director Devashish Makhija slowly ramps up the tension with a sharp eye for oppressive realism and social satire as a father tries to out run his oppressors in this gritty thrillerWhere many thrillers programmatically crank up tension with every scene …
Pushkar-Gayatri’s reboot of their 2017 hit improves on the original thanks to two zingy lead performances from Saif Ali Khan and Hrithik RoshanVikram Vedha was a Tamil hit in 2017, a twisty, semi-subversive thriller in which a bad-ass Chennai cop and …
There are hints of Sergio Leone and Cormac McCarthy in this Rajasthan-set mystery starring the actor and his sonRaj Singh Chaudhary is the Indian actor, screenwriter and now director who has developed his career under the mentorship of Anurag Kashyap, …
Drama about a reporter who knows too much about a gruesome traffic incident checks off a grocery list of urgent questions without examining themA young girl gets run over at the beginning of Suresh Triveni’s Jalsa, a brutal event that brings to mind Pa…
Drama about a reporter who knows too much about a gruesome traffic incident checks off a grocery list of urgent questions without examining themA young girl gets run over at the beginning of Suresh Triveni’s Jalsa, a brutal event that brings to mind Pa…
Alia Bhatt stars as schmaltz and spectacular fantasy-musical setpieces balance the gruesomeness of this true-crime yarnHere is a luxuriously sleazy-sentimental melodrama about the Mumbai underworld, directed with gusto by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the pow…
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…