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A controversial film is best seen with the people among whom it raises a controversy , so I changed my usual venue for seeing films and off I went to a multiplex situated in the muslim area of Kurla and watched it with an audience containing a majority of muslims.... And straightaway , I must...

The story is set the midwest of America , in an isolated region in the state of Oklahoma.... And it's also set in the sweltering heat of august , when the plains are baked by the sun and people are drenched in sweat.... The old patriarch of a family has disappeared and his daughters have...

Southern United States in the first half of the 19th century---a stronghold of black slavery and of those who practice it..... Northern United States in the same period---a part where slavery has been abolished.... The blacks in the northern part are are free men at least---though...

Nelson Mandela , the modern day Gandhi.... And like Gandhi he led his people to freedom crossing numerous obstacles along the way , and like Gandhi he preached forgiveness and reconciliation with the oppressor at the end of it all..... And he went on to rule the very nation that had once...

Spoiler alert !! American bulllshiit---that's what this movie was named when it began as a screenplay.... One wonders what kind of run the film could have had at the box office they had continued with a name like that.... But they changed the ' bulllshiit ' to ' hustle ' , and boy ...

The only thing interesting about ' Yaariyan ' is the songs . Like so many movies in the past from Dev Anand and Mala Sinha's 'Maya' to Ajay Devgan and Madhoo's 'Phool aur kaante' this film too hopes to ride onto box office success on the strength of it's music inspite of a mediocre script...

Dedh Ishqiya seems to be a muslim social---almost.... Dialogues in some parts of the movie are in chaste urdu that recalls the bygone era of nawabs and begums.... And interspersed in between dialogues are urdu shayaries delectably chosen by born conneissuers of the language..... It...

Thank god I don't play on the stock market..... The kind of greedy selfish and gone case people who are shown to be part of the profession called stock brokers in this film would make a good person quit playing in shares after seeing this film anyway.... The moment Jordan Belfort ( played by...

Nowadays Yash Raj films seems to have started making films keeping the international audience in mind : ' international ' meaning the Pakistan and middle east audience allied with Indian and Bangladeshi muslims.... .....For almost all the characters in the film are shown to be...

It has become director Tigmanshu Dhulia's favourite setting , the one he excells in showcasing---the mofussil town of UP which is bristling with guns , where violence is a way of life and fortunes are created using the power of the gun.... ....And lately it has become my favourite setting too ...

Ranjar---a town in Gujarat that is India's equivalent to Pakistan's barbaric north west frontier province in the art of violence ; a place with an endless supply of bullets , a place where manufacture of desi replicas of Kalashnikov rifles vies for attention with that of long range sniper rifles...

The best way to enjoy Insidious chapter 2---don't watch chapter 1 first !! .....For those who saw the first part are complaining about how the second part does not measure upto the first etc . But because I haven't seen the first part I was able to enjoy the chapter 2 of the Insidious series...

With this film Rakesh Roshan seems to have the ambition to make an Indian superhero film that can match Hollywood . But can he match Hollywood ?? The answer is---not really.... The only thing Rakesh Roshan can do is---he can copy it.... ....For the film's scenes seem to be copied...

Knowledge is power.... And information---it makes you god.... That's what Julian Assange is probably feeling when Wikileaks is shaking governments around the globe.... He and Daniel Domscheit-Berg begin to work on Wikileaks , a website for sharing classified information which is not...

If there were any doubts as to who is the bigger star among the two of them , then this movie makes it all too clear who was and is the real action king of Hollywood.... ......For Arnold Schwarzenegger's role is less important as Sylvester Stallone gets the meatier and chunkier role in the...

I had never heard of Shahid Azmi till this movie came along.... Even the media which is neck deep into secularism had not dared to create a hero out if him , which is why I had never heard of him.... Yet the director keeps the tall ambition of painting Shahid as a hero---as a man who stood...

Spoiler alert !! The sea near the horn of Africa near the failed state of Somalia---one of the most pirate infested waters in the world.... Yeah , because famine like conditions prevail in Somalia , more and more of Somalians are forced to turn into buccaneers in order to survive.... And...

The depths of space and the universe beyond---man has always been filled with wanderlust to explore the realms of the unknown.... But uncharted territories are alive with mortal dangers that lurk at every corner , and space is no exception.... In the atmosphereless dark world between two...

<article> I have always been fascinated by royals---by Indian maharajas and maharanis and Nawabs and begums and Badshahs and Shehenshahs and foreign Kings and queens and princes and princesses . Whenever I travel I have mostly heritage holidays---of magnificent palaces and mighty forts which...

Two little girls from two families are kidnapped presumably by psychos---and a slow mayhem ensues..... Welcome to the art of making...and seeing....a slow paced thriller.... .....and welcome to making and seeing it at it's finest.... There is a suspect , but the police do not have enough...