Cinema

Farah Khan admits that it was a big decision for her to work with an actor other than Shah Rukh Khan. However, she is also glad that she worked with someone like Akshay Kumar. While there are multiple reasons behind the comfort level that she shared with Akshay, the biggest of them all was the fact that never once did the actor questions her on her decision to leave Shah Rukh for him.

“All Akshay did was ask about the story idea and then discuss around logistic related to production. Never once did Shah Rukh came in the middle of our conversation, whether…

Ranbir Kapoor quietly did a 2-hour audition for Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. This is the first time since Saawariya that Ranbir agreed to an audition.  Mira has almost solved her casting dilemma over The Reluctant Fundmentalist. She will no more cast an Bollywood actor in the main role, though she had a secret audition with Ranbir Kapoor.  Reveals Mira for the first time, “I did a beautiful audition with Ranbir. Some years ago an audition for Bollywood stars was unheard of. But Ranbir did an excellent full-hearted audition with me. I’ve great love for the guy. He auditioned for two hours and I was deeply affected by his…

Archangel Entertainment’s Payback (UA) is about a person paying back for someone’s noble deed. Kunal (Munish Khan) meets with a serious accident when the car he is driving one rainy night collides with a truck. Lying in a pool of blood and hanging between life and death, Kunal needs urgent medical assistance. Passersby look at him but don’t stop to help. Then, one stranger, Raghu (Zakir Hussain), rushes him to the hospital in his own car but leaves from there, after giving the doctor a fake address and a wrong telephone number.

Kunal, who has got a new lease of life because of Raghu’s help, has faint memories of him and…

Star cast: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde.

Director: Joseph Kosinski.

Plot: Sam Flynn enters the digital world to look for his father, Kevin Flynn, and finds that the world has been taken over by his father’s digital clone, Clu. Will he triumph against the dark forces?

What’s Good: The digital world – it is visually fresh; the action sequences.

What’s Bad: The weak script; the film is boring in the middle.

Verdict: Tron: Legacy fails its legacy because of the weak story.

Loo break: Anytime during the middle portion of the film.

Walt Disney Pictures’ Tron: Legacy is the sequel to the 1982 science-fiction movie, Tron, which…

The title itself suggests that the story is filled with all the piquant elements that make a bold and funny theme. This witty sex-comedy is not a typical rip snorting Bollywood film filled with comedy, action and romance, but is a treatise on the politics of sexuality. ‘Mirch’ does have a frivolous focus on sex, passion and women’s sexuality, but it’s not close to vulgarity. From the first frame to the last, the director has taken lots of pain to deliver a clean crafted film. It’s a four story film set in two time periods, ancient and contemporary. Story-line The story sweeps around a struggling filmmaker…