Salt is one of those rare action flicks that has non-stop hard hitting action for ninety minutes straight and is all done with a brain. Originally, written for a male lead star, in which Tom Cruise was the primary candidate but after he turned it down because it was too similar to his role in [...]

The second weekend Box-office of Warner Bros. Pictures’ dream-themed film Inception directed by Christopher Nolan and top-lining Leonardo DiCaprio, was rock solid and scored an appreciating gross collection of Rs.39, 892,195 in India. In the US Box Office, Inception retained its No.1 slot with an estimated chart-topping $43.5 million at 3,792 locations. The drop was [...]

The reason why the series on HBO, ‘Sex And The City’ rocked, was because the four women at its center were smart and funny and genuinely devoted to each other despite their differences. Also because it was a pleasure to see a show that celebrated different choices for adult women and because the clothes were [...]

The bigger the budget, the bigger the names, the bigger the hype, hoopla and razzmatazz, the bigger the expectations from the film. Kites has some of the biggest names in the business – Rakesh Roshan, Anurag Basu and Hrithik Roshan, to name a few – and the film, therefore, carries this gargantuan responsibility on its [...]

Veteran (and divorced) NYPD cop Jimmy Monroe (Bruce Willis) wants to give his daughter the wedding she’s always wanted – but the only way he can afford it is by selling his rare and valuable baseball card. When it’s stolen from under his nose, he Jimmy recruits his police partner of nine years, Paul Hodges [...]

Gerard Butler plays Milo Boyd, an ex-cop turned unwashed, unshaven bounty hunter who gambles and drinks too much. He’s also ex-husband to intrepid girl reporter Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston). At the start of the film, she’s investigating a mysterious suicide for a story in the New York Daily News but is held up by a [...]

Jag Mundhra comes up with a fairly taut thriller, which is absorbing in parts. Inspired by the Hollywood film Single White Female [Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh], the film has been adapted decently well to suit Indian sensibilities, but there’s a hiccup. Neetu Chandra uses every predictable trick in the book to make Tanushree’s life [...]

Housefull narrates the tale of Aarush (Akshay), a perpetually unlucky bloke and a loser in life who moves into the house of his best buddy cum another loser, Bob (Ritesh) and his wife Hetal (Lara). But things continue to go wrong for Aarush. Convinced that true love can fade away his bad luck jinx, a [...]

Love Sex Aur Dhokha is not the archetypal/mundane/formulaic stuff that one has grown watching. Love Sex Aur Dhokha is not for the faint-hearted. Love Sex Aur Dhokha is not for the orthodox/conformists/moral watchdogs of society. First things first! It’s not another version of Steven Soderbergh’s SEX, LIES, & VIDEOTAPE [1989], as widely rumoured. Now let [...]

I’ve often said, interesting ideas don’t necessarily translate into enthralling celluloid experiences. That’s what I realized, for the umpteenth time, as Hum Tum Aur Ghost concluded. Hollywood has attempted several films wherein the living has been shown interacting with the dead. In fact, two decades ago, there was a mad rush to Indianize Ghost [Patrick [...]