Tag Archives: Bipasha Basu
Revisiting Hip Hip Hurray and Chak De India
Yash Raj Films’ Shimit Amin directed movie – Chak De India (2007) can deservingly claim to be the best sports movie made in Bollywood. If we set aside the biopics of the Indian sportspersons released during the past few years, … Continue reading
Ladaai abhi jaari hai
Kashmir is burning despite the recent Govt. steps (and suffocated because of them). Lamhaa (2010) is still relevant in the present scenario. Lamhaa is a certainly one notch below follow-up by the maker of Parzania (2005) , Rahul Dholkia who … Continue reading
Double crossing whom Director Duo ? The audience ?
Being always in search of new tricks of fooling the typical Indian moviegoers, certain oversmart Bollywood filmmakers have started the franchisee business. If one movie succeeds on the box office, these clever guys convert the title of that movie into … Continue reading
I am contrasting it with Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Writing positive reviews for such movies which were not only box office disasters but also trashed by the critics, is nothing new for me because I believe in the quote of esteemed movie reviewer Aruna Thyagarajan (moviezombie) : ‘Review is … Continue reading
Emraan Haashmi’s first step on the silver screen
Emraan Haashmi is one of the popular heroes (though not in the league of the Khans or the Deols) of Bollywood today. Footpath (2003) is his debut movie which was made by his uncles Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt as … Continue reading
Even the title is not original
Bollywood filmmakers are habitual of lifting the story ideas, plots and sometimes the whole scripts from foreign movies(and old Indian movies too). Sometimes they do not reveal the source of the story and shamelessly take its credit but sometimes they … Continue reading
If only I were the director of this movie !
With sincere thanks to my friend Suketu who inspired me to write a review of Bollywood movie – Rakht which was released in 2004, the first thing that I am willing to say is that I wish I were the director of this … Continue reading
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