Category Archives: crime

Movie Review : Ugly (2014)

Posted on March 9, 2015 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B00TJG07CW” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Rating : Good (4/5) Genre : Thriller Year : 2014 Running time : 2 hours 8 minutes Director : Anurag Kashyap Cast : Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Surveen Chawla, Rahul Bhat, Vineet Singh, Girish Kulkarni … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : NH10 (releases 13th March 2015)

Posted on March 2, 2015 by amodini

Watching this trailer makes my hair stand on end. And that’s not the chief reason I want to watch NH10 – it’s director Navdeep Singh, who in 2007, gave us the exceptional “Manorama 6 feet Under”. This film stars Anushka Sharma … Continue reading →

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Movie Review : Badlapur (2015)

Posted on February 25, 2015 by amodini

Rating : Good (3.8/5) Genre : Thriller Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 14 minutes Director : Sriram Raghavan Cast : Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Kumud Mishra, Vinay Pathak, Yami Gautam, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, Divya Dutta [amazon_link … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Detective Byomkesh Bakshi (3rd April 2015)

Posted on January 23, 2015 by amodini

I’m really looking forward to Byomkesh Bakshi. For starters, it’s a detective film, which we have precious few of (there was Manorama Six Feet Under, but it’s been a few years), and then it is directed by Dibakar Banerjee. And … Continue reading →

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What To Watch On Netflix Instant – Edition #22

Posted on December 19, 2014 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B00IIUATDM” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]- The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) Based (loosely, I assume) on Wall Street conman Jordan Belfort, this is a 3 hour long ride, featuring lots of over-the-top sexual situations and Leonardo DiCaprio in his … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Kill Dil (November 14th, 2014)

Posted on October 24, 2014 by amodini

Hold your horses people – this is not a sequel to Kill Bill :-). This is a very inventively named movie starring Ranveer singh, Parineeti Chopra, Govinda and Ali Zafar. The only saving grace here appears to be director Shaad Ali, … Continue reading →

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Movie Review : Mardaani (2014)

Posted on August 30, 2014 by amodini

Rating : Good (4/5) Genre : Drama Year : 2014 Running time : 1 hour 54 minutes Director : Pradeep Sarkar Cast : Rani Mukherjee, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Anil George, Jishu Sengupta Kidwise : PG-15 Shivani Shivaji Roy (Mukerji) is … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Raja Natwarlal (releases August 29th)

Posted on August 5, 2014 by amodini

Emraan Hashmi returns after Ghanchakkar with another interesting looking film. Kunal Deshmukh directs this one, and while he’s directed other forgettable films, let’s hope this one’s the exception to the rule.

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What to Watch on Netflix Instant : Edition #18

Posted on June 8, 2014 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B000IZ7YK6″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Chinatown (USA, 1974) This Roman Polanski film stars a much younger (but still balding) Jack Nicholson as detective J.J. Gittes, who specializes in catching cheating spouses. When hired by a Mrs. Mulwray to expose the … Continue reading →