Subhash Jha: “The Film Emotional Atyachar is a wicked and wacky road movie”
Every character in debutant director Akshay Shere’s savage, funny, bitter, and violent ode to the road movie wants money. Sometimes…
Subhash K Jha: “Antardwand avoids the easy road to realism”
Set in the mythic killing fields of rural Bihar where nothing works, except the law of the lawless Antardwand takes…
The performances make Brick Lane a film worth a look – Subhash K Jha
Arranged marriages are almost always compromised arrangements. They require tremendous compromises and determination on the part of the less disgruntled…
Subhash K Jha: Bumm Bumm Bole doesn’t forget to be an entertaining story
Majid Majidi’s Children Of Heaven comes down to earth in an endearing spiral of the spellbinding and the sensitive. Let’s…
Subhash K Jha reviews Hai Marjawaan
As Shakespeare said in another context, this is a grave matter. Gurinder Chadha’s new…er, ghoulish comedy (for the want of…
Subhash K Jha: Badmaash Company is a film that is too smart for its own good
There’s a longish sequence in an American eatery in the second-half of this deeply flawed and yet refreshingly cool urbane…
Subhash K Jha: You will find some uncomfortable answers in City Of Gold
Move aside. There is no room for artifice in Mahesh Manjrekar’s latest work. A raw, guttural, gritty, intense, edgy, mordant…
Subhash K Jha: In Phoonk 2 you wonder what the fuss is about
In one of his multitudinous interviews to promote this intended shiver giver Ram Gopal Varma said the scariest film he…
Subhash K Jha: The style behind Paathshaala is in its inner conviction
If a piece of cinema ever had its heart in the right place, this is it. Don’t let the sluggish…
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…
