Category Archives: 2016

Movie Review : Kapoor and Sons (2016)

Posted on March 20, 2016 by amodini

Rating : 4.2/5 Genre : Drama Year : 2016 Running time : 2 hours 12 minutes Director : Shakun Batra Cast : Rishi Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Ratna Pathak Shah, Rajat Kapoor, Siddharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan Kid rating: PG-13 Kapoor & … Continue reading →

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Movie Review : Titli (2015)

Posted on March 12, 2016 by amodini

Rating : 4.5/5 Genre : Drama Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 7 minutes Director : Kanu Behl Cast : Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Lali Behl, Prashant Singh, Amit Sial Kid rating: R “Titli” is the … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Kapoor & Sons (releases March 18th, 2016)

Posted on March 5, 2016 by amodini

Dharma Productions touts it as a “dramedy with soul”. One can always hope, I suppose. Regardless, Kapoor and Sons should be an entertainer, ablaze the way it is with star power. Rishi Kapoor, Rajat Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra, Ratna Pathak Shah, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review : Neerja (2016)

Posted on February 27, 2016 by amodini

Rating : 4.5/5 Genre : Drama/Bio-pic Year : 2016 Running time : 1 hour 42 minutes Director : Ram Madhvani Cast : Shabana Azmi, Sonam Kapoor, Tikku Kid rating: PG-13 Neerja is based on the real-life story of courageous airflight … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Jai Gangaajal (releases Mar 4th, 2016)

Posted on February 20, 2016 by amodini

From the director who brought you middling films like Raajneeti and Gangajal comes Jai Gangajal. Why am I featuring this, you ask, if they were only middling? Because they did have flashes of brilliance and I hope that that brilliance … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Fitoor (releases 12 Feb 2016)

Posted on January 30, 2016 by amodini

Watching the trailer, I thought Tabu’s character reminded me of a fictional character – Miss Havisham. And indeed, looking this up on Wikipedia, I see that this is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations”. With a director like Abhishek … Continue reading →

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Movie Review : Airlift (2016)

Posted on January 24, 2016 by amodini

Rating : 3/5 Genre : Drama Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 10 minutes Director : Raja Menon Cast : Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur, Purab Kohli, Kumud Mishra, Prakash Belwadi Kid rating: PG-13 Watching Airlift, I am reminded … Continue reading →

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