Bollywood
Subhash K Jha: Prince is more the Bourne territory than Ghajini
Look what the cool cat dragged in! It’s not a bird (though he does fly across the sky). It’s not a plane (though many of those in many shapes and sizes are seen hovering in the film’s spectrally-shot skyline). And it’s definitely not Superman. Though Mr Oberoi wouldn’t mind being one. Hey guys, it’s our [...]
Subhash K Jha: The Dimple-Nana relationship is endearing in Tum Milo Toh Sahi
Just for the pleasure of watching Nana Patekar and Dimple Kapadia together, this quaint and sincere look at love across three generations is well worth a dekko. Dimple Kapadia, exuding a warmth that pervades the screen plays a feisty Parsi woman who isn’t deterred let alone defeated by attempts to dismantle her dream, namely a [...]
Subhash K Jha: They don’t make screen-moms like Rekha and Hema any more!
It is deliciously ironical that during the week that our tennis queen Sania Mirza announced she would marry in Pakistan, comes this film where the young desi pair threatens to get married and move to Pakistan. Life often imitates art. And art is often a close companion of kitsch and melodrama. Kitschy melodrama is attacked [...]
Subhash K Jha: Well Done Abba is a little sparkling gem of a film.
Drawn from the innermost recesses of its extraordinarily versatile, profound and prolific creator’s mind, somewhat like the water that emerges from Boman Irani’s well at the end of this delicately-drawn satire on babu-giri and redtapism, Well Done Abba is a little sparkling gem of a film. Its humour, warmth and tenderness are not as easily [...]
Subhash K Jha: The chemistry between Warsi and Mirza is first-rate.
The sheer delight of watching Arshad Warsi playthe lead rather than the supremely self-assured sidekick gives this otherwise-pale rom-com a cutting edge. Arshad in his own words plays a guy, who can see dead people. Wish he could see dead plots too. The screenplay by Arshad Warsi, Soumik Sen and Arshad Ali Syed is a [...]
Subhash K Jha: Shaapit has a certain coherence and clarity generally denied to the horror genre
There are good spirits and bad spirits waltzing all over the place. All we have to do is reach into the past and pull out the relevant ghoul and voila, we are into the realm of the spooky-cool. Vikram Bhatt’s Shaapit has a certain coherence and clarity generally denied to the horror genre. Bhatt, a [...]
Subhash K Jha: Love Sex Aur Dhokha gets as rough and jolting as any film can
There is no love in any quickly-digestible packages, little on-screen sex, and a whole lot of dhokha in Dibakar Banerjee third and most tricky film. Tricky, because the characters are constantly talking and living their lives on camera. We see them as they are, stripped of all vanity, ridiculously self-serving but still capable of bouts [...]
“Right Ya Wrong is the surprise shocker of the year” – Subhash K Jha
Don’t breathe. Don’t dare even blink. And please forget that visit to the loo. Damn, even the bag of popcorn will be forgotten on your clenched lap. Right Ya Wrong is the surprise shocker of the year. If you’ve forgotten that jump-out-of-the-seat feeling then it’s time to nudge it awake again. Debutant director Neerraj Pathak [...]
“Hide & Seek packs a punch” – Subhash K Jha
So whodunit? Put a bunch of assorted dysfunctional men and women into a shopping mall not to shop, but to get bumped off. And voila, the whodunit takes the characters to shop until they drop , one by one. There’s a Santa Claus with a hatchet in hand running around the deathly-still sparkling-clean spotless and [...]
Subhash K Jha: Thanks Maa is a journey into lives that were born into despair
He’s 12 and homeless. And he refuses to adopt the swaggering amorality of his friends on the street. They call him Municipal Ghatkopar because that’s the address where he was dumped as a child. But he prefers to be known as Salman Khan. Salman, you fear may appear in this uplifting tale of street children [...]
Subhash K Jha: Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? is essentially a one-episode sitcom
Being Ajay Devgan and Konkona Sen Sharma’s guest, Paresh Rawal makes the first bonafide guest appearance in our cinema. And what pest this guest is! With so many films about the guest as an intruder, this one takes the creak. And yes we do mean creak. The plot sets out portray the bin bulaye mehmaan [...]
Subhash K Jha: Teen Patti re-defines the male-adventure genre
If you can get over the ludicrousness of a distinguished mathematician whose God is Albert Einstein and who at the end of the film gets the ‘Isaac Newton Award’ for excellence in his field, masquerading as a seedy gambler (in a lungi, if you please!) then Teen Patti is a surprisingly skillful and audaciously complex [...]
“My Name is Khan is a flawless work” – Subhash K Jha
He repairs almost anything, including irreparably damaged relationships. But this film about damaged lives needs no repairing. My Name Is Khan is a flawless work, as perfect in content, tone and treatment as any film can get. The ‘message’ of humanism doesn’t comes across in long pedantic speeches. The film’s longest monologue has our damaged [...]
Subhash K Jha: Rann is Ram Gopal Varma’s best work since Company
Think. Really hard. What are we all doing with the opportunities that life so generously provides us? In the mad mindless rush towards self-gratification, are we somewhere sacrificing those values that brought us, kicking dragging and sacrificing from a hard-earned freedom from colonialism to the new millennium where we, the collective civilization, are now poised [...]
Subhash K Jha: ‘Accident On Hill Road’ is road rage in all its gory splendour
There’s a man stuck on your windshield! You want to scream to Celina Jaitly. But gosh, she does so much of that screaming thing herself you don’t really want to add to the din in this gory tale of the raat. In fact ‘Raat aur bahut sara din’ could well be the title of this [...]
Subhash K Jha: ‘Raat Gayi…’ exudes the scent of intelligence and competence
Somewhere on the second-half of this slightly seductive jigsaw about a one-night scam, filmmaker Sudhir Mishra shows up as Neha Dhupia’s father who drops in to have a chat with his sullen sultry daughter on the way to the airport. Little does the stoic Mishra know beti-babe has two men stashed away in a cupboard [...]
Subhash K Jha: Rocket Singh, like its uncompromising protagonist, stands tall
It is very important to understand what cinema means to you. Is it just a vehicle to indulge in mindless diversion? In that case Rocket Singh – Salesman Of The Year is not your cup of tee-hee. If cinema as a popular and predominant work of art is meant to make viewers reconsider the quality [...]
Subhash K Jha: APKGK is an airtight trapeze down that familiar romantic lane
If you’ve ever wondered what on earth is on-screen chemistry, here’s your one-stop all-purpose encyclopaedia on celluloid magic. Fasten your ‘see’-it belts, as veteran filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi sheds all his Lajja and pulls out all the stops to do a wacky, goofy, edgeless, weightless comedy of characters who walk in and walk out of frames [...]
Subhash K Jha: Teree Sang is a sweet and likable spin on premature parenthood
This is Raj Kapoor’s Bobby with furtive sex and a baby thrown in for good measure. Otherwise the boy-meets-girl formula never seemed more homage-bound. Soft to the touch, but underpinned by a strong message on sex and the single parent, Teree Sang is a sweet and likable spin on premature parenthood. The prim and propah [...]
Subhash K Jha: Love Aaj Kal is a incredibly enchanting excursion into the matter of the heart
The first thing to be said about this incredibly enchanting excursion into the matter of the heart as seen in contemporary times and in times gone-bye-bye , is … what’s wrong with these two people who are so much in love ? We can see that love. They can’t. That’s the paradox of love in [...]
Subhash K Jha: Luck is original in concept and engaging in execution
Let’s get one thing straight. This is a film about subverted heroes. People who need big money so desperately they are willing to participate in a crazy game of life and death orchestrated by a man who has turned betting on human beings into a galloping global industry. Sanjay Dutt strides across the wide screen [...]
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