カテゴリー: Bollywood
As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against children with darker complexionsThree months ago, a high court judge in Chhattisgarh, India, hearing a divorce petition by a husband whose wi…
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…
While the premise – an awful man learns from his much better wife – is serviceable, the plot, centring on a tour around second world war sites is woefully misjudgedMuch of this almost wondrously misjudged Bollywood film is perfectly palatable: the tale…
Actor and former Miss World announced move to US at pinnacle of her fame in India eight years agoThe Indian actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas has spoken of how Bollywood’s enduring obsession with fair skin was one of the reasons she left the industry to try …
Adaptation of a nightmare true story about a woman whose children were removed by the Norwegian state gets passionate too lateThis epic Hindi-language testament to tenacious maternal love has been neatly timed for release over the UK Mother’s Day weeke…
Millions flock to see return of actor Shah Rukh Khan, despite rightwing calls for a boycottFor Ganesh Lokhande, an usher at the Regal Cinema in Mumbai’s southern tip of Colaba, it’s been a quiet few years in the job. That was, until last week.Pathaan, …
Try as the industry might, Modi’s quasi-fascist politics cannot be set to jaunty music and helicopter stuntsIf recent Bollywood films are any indication, it is fair to say that India’s film industry is obsessed with Pakistan. Obsessed. Like standing ou…
Laal Singh Chaddha is the latest film to face targeted attacks from anti-Muslim, Hindu-nationalist trolls who some claim are beginning to impact box office performance In August this year, a week after the release of Laal Singh Chaddha, Bollywood’s ada…
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 …
Big releases with usually bankable male stars criticised for formulaic storylines as audience taste evolvesThe opening of a new big-name Bollywood film was once a national event across India, greeted by weeks of fanfare, long queues outside cinemas and…
A thriller that skewers the tense film-maker/reviewer relationship in this tale of a Mumbai serial killer out for revenge on careless journalists Director R Balki must have got a kick out of writing this very enjoyable poison-pen letter to film critici…
Bollywood’s answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a star-studded special effects extravaganza with Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt as convincing romantic leadsAmid a woeful 2022 so far, this almost feels like Hindi mainstream cinema’s last roll of th…
Director Kabir Khan shares his memories of India’s surprise World Cup win, and imbuing his unconventional biopic with generational weightOn Sunday night, one film did a clean sweep of the awards at this year’s Indian film festival of Melbourne: 83, an …
Akshay Kumar is the noble-souled hero charged with marrying off his four sisters, while they are left mostly as figures of funIndian film-maker Aanand L Rai gives his very mediocre melodrama a campaigning message about the culture of dowry-paying, thou…