カテゴリー: Bollywood
Director Advait Chandan is too literal in his adaptation of the 90s classic but finds a warmth and political honesty the original lacksBollywood megastar Aamir Khan’s “Hanks-ish likability” is tested to the limit by his new project with his Secret Sup…
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…
Krishnakumar Kunnath, a star Bollywood singer best known as KK, complained of feeling cold and unwell before collapsingStar Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, has died of a suspected heart attack at age 53 after a concert on …
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…
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…
The music of Bappi ‘Da’, who died last week, fueled global hits and was sampled by Dr Dre and MIAAt the height of his fame in the 1980s, “the disco king of Bollywood”, Bappi Lahiri, who died this week, was composing nearly 15 soundtracks a year.Born in…
There are shades of 90s erotic thrillers in this enjoyable if overcooked tale of romantic dissatisfaction and infidelityRomance in your 30s is no puppy-love business: youthful idealism ebbs with each passing year, while regrets gradually encroach. Sett…
The singer who defined music and melody for generations in India has died in Mumbai Lata Mangeshkar, one of India’s most influential singers, known as the “nightingale of Bollywood”, has died in Mumbai aged 92, with two days of national mourning declar…
Case against Shilpa Shetty over incident at Aids awareness event had languished in legal systemThe Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has been formally cleared of obscenity charges dating from when the Hollywood actor Richard Gere publicly kissed her at an A…
India’s stunning 1983 World Cup triumph is retold in endearing style by a sports film with a sharp anticolonialist drivePreviously a fashioner of star vehicles for Salman Khan, director Kabir Khan anchors this nimble and big-hearted biopic of the India…
Over-reliance on a spooky score and clunky pacing mean that Vishal Furia’s remake of his own film simply reiterates the original’s dubious and simplistic talking pointsVishal Furia’s long-awaited Hindi remake of his Marathi-language horror Lapachhapi f…
One of Bollywood’s most bankable actors has written a revolutionary pregnancy book that lifts the lid on libido, caesareans and more. She discusses power, pay and the reality behind the glamourDays after giving birth to her first child – an emergency c…
Grown adults behave like horny kids in this ill-judged comedy, meant to start discussion about contraception in IndiaThe eyebrow-raising title is intentional: Satramm Ramani’s comedy has been fashioned after 2017’s Toilet: A Love Story and 2018’s Pad M…