Happy Birthday, Shah Rukh Khan. The king of romance has always been open about his lack of love for romantic movies. Yet here he is, dancing his heart out on the top of a train in Chaiyya Chaiyya. No doubt he owes his blockbuster career to those films. His puppy dog eyes, endless energy and… Continue reading Happy 51st, Shah Rukh Khan
Author: Hamida Parkar
Writer & Editor
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Karan Johar's affair with one-sided love continues. Only this time he ups the ante of lovers in self-destruction mode. That been said, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil is perhaps the most real film he has attempted till date. I did enter expecting the usual KJo drama but the director has steered away from all of that. Instead we have… Continue reading Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Pink
Pink crawls under your skin. And stays there. It drives home the "She said No" message many times over. The first half is nail-biting. In comparision, the second half pales but only just. Kudos to director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and writer Ritesh Shah for crafting and delivering a superb argument on the nuances of consent. The three lead… Continue reading Pink
Sultan
Forget the Anushka Sharma and Salman Khan you have ever seen before. You will always remember Aarfa and Sultan created by Ali Abbas Zafar in Sultan. They make this Haryanavi wrestling drama a satisfying, inspirational and emotional ride. Sport, romance and suspended reality join forces to punch you in the face like never before. You… Continue reading Sultan
Udta Punjab
Director Abhishek Chaubey injects Udta Punjab with a concoction so potent it's impossible to come out of it without feeling trippy. The caveat is: it's not an easy film to digest or absorb fully in first viewing. Edgy, dark and risqué, laced with black humour and colourful lingo, it takes you to places unseen in… Continue reading Udta Punjab
Fan
When a fan Gaurav Chandna outshines the star Aryan Khanna in a film, you know that an actor called Shah Rukh Khan is killing it. Maneesh Sharma's Fan scores big on three fronts. One: It's a songless, thrilling, tense ride. Totally not what you would expect of a typical SRK film. The director sticks to… Continue reading Fan
Kapoor & Sons
You are hot. Tia (Alia Bhatt) tosses this fact out of the way as soon as she meets hotshot, successful writer and elder Kapoor son Rahul (Fawad Khan). Right then. But the one who tugs at her heartstrings is younger brother Arjun (Sidharth Malhotra), unsure and yet-to-find-fame writer. Watch the pair rock away the night… Continue reading Kapoor & Sons
Aligarh
"Oh dear moon, Fear not the dawn that separates us, For we must meet again, When the world sleeps." Late author, linguist and professor Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras wrote these lines for his poem Grass Under My Feet to describe the loneliness of a man looking at the full moon, yearning for his lover. "The full… Continue reading Aligarh
Neerja
Neerja Bhanot, an ordinary 23-year-old girl from a middle-class family, found courage and calm in her job as senior flight purser on the fateful Pan Am Flight 73, flying Mumbai to US on 5th September, 1986. She alerted the pilots so they could evacuate as soon as she realised their plane was hijacked by four… Continue reading Neerja
Goodbye Sadhana
Her ethereal, graceful presence mesmerised on the silver screen. Sadhana was an actress who made one fall in love with her in a moment. No questions asked. She left her stamp in Hindi cinema with only a handful of films between 1960 and 1967 before thyroid took over: Love in Simla, Parakh, Hum Dono, Prem… Continue reading Goodbye Sadhana
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