Ki and Ka (2016)

Cast – Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Swaroop Sampat, Rajit Kapur Writer/Director – R. Balki The movie seems a valiant effort by the director who is known to make films on out-of-the-box concepts. The story is about how a couple opts for a path less treaded… the husband is the “artist” who is the home-maker and […]

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Rocky Handsome (2016)

Cast – John Abraham, Diya Chalwad, Shruti Haasan,  Nishikant Kamat, Sharad Kelkar Director – Nishikant Kamat Writer – Ritesh Shah Based On – Movie ‘The Man from Nowhere’ by Lee Jeong-Beom It’s a complete paisa vasool kind of entertainer, said to be based on a Korean film ‘A Man from Nowhere’. I was mentally prepared […]

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Kapoor & Sons (2016)

Cast – Sidharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan, Alia Bhatt, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajat. Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor Director – Shakun Batra Written by.  – Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre Dhillon It’s a story based on a supposedly dysfunctional family… focussing beautifully on its messed up but real characters, and inadequacies and imperfections of relationships. We find ample shades […]

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Jai Gangaajal (2016)

Cast – Priyanka Chopra, Prakash Jha, Manav Kaul, Kiran Karmarkar Director/Screenplay by – Prakash Jha Had this movie not been named after Gangaajal, it would only have been a little fair to the movie itself and the expectations that audience had from it. Not that it’s not entertaining, but it’s no way near Gangaajal, only […]

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Aligarh (2016)

Cast – Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkumar Rao, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ishwak Singh Director – Hansal Mehta Writer – Apurva Asrani Sometimes I just marvel… at the kind of passion film makers have, for picking up stories out of the piles of news items that get accumulated… and creating a humane story out of it, weaving it around […]

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Neerja (2016)

Cast – Sonam Kapoor,  Shabana Azmi, Yogendra Tiku, Shekhar Ravjiani, Kavi Shastri Director – Ram Madhvani Written by  – Saiwyn Quadras, Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh We all knew that Neerja was to be a biopic about Neerja Bhanot based on the hijack incident of 1986. But what sets it apart is that it’s a very crisp, […]

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Fitoor (2016)

Cast – Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif, Tabu, Rahul Bhat, Akshay Oberai, Lara Dutta Director – Abhishek Kapoor Based On –  ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens Writers – Abhisek Kapoor, Supratik Sen It has been credited as an adaption of Great Expectations. A story of a poor boy’s love and obsession for a rich girl. […]

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Ghayal Once Again (2016)

Cast – Sunny Deol, Om Puri, Shivam Patil, Rishabh Arora, Abhilash Kumar, Neha Khan Director – Sunny Deol Story by  – Sagar Pandya, Shaktimaan Talwar, Sunny Deol Statutory Warning: This one could fatally injure your patience. Going by the promos and trailers, much as mentally prepared we were that this was not going to turn […]

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Saala Khadoos (2016)

Cast –  Madhavan, Ritika Singh, Kaali Venkat, Baljinder Kaur, Mumtaz Sorcar Writer/Director – Sudha Kongara Screenplay by – Sudha Kongara, Sunanda Ragunathan, R Madhavan This movie, which seems more of a cross breed between Mary Kom and Chak De, actually gets its genetic qualities from neither. It’s not a biopic like Mary Kom… does not […]

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Airlift (2016)

Cast – Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur, Avtar Gill, Inaamulhaq, Purab Kohli Director – Raja Krishna Menon Writers – Raja Krishna Menon, Suresh Nair, Rahul Nangia, Ritesh Shah The film does ample justice to the curiosity and hype that awaited it. It is realistic and dramatic with the right balance and taut & gripping with just […]

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