FRAMING MOVIES Special Edition: Twenty-Eight: Amar Prem (1972) October 30, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha From its opening montage of a young rustic girl watching her callous husband bring home another wife, to the dying…
“John Day is a restless edgy drama of the doomed and the damned.” – Subhash K Jha September 14, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha This is no place for the weak. This world as we know it. And this film, as we discover with…
Subhash K Jha: “Policegiri is all loud, rumbustious, over-the-top fun to watch – especially if you are a Sanjay Dutt fan” July 6, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Prakash Raj, Prachi Desai Directed by K Ravi Kumar Look. Indian cinema is like a massive bouquet…
“Gupta’s third film is wacky whimsical dark scrumptious and wonderfully innovative” – Subhash K Jha reviews Ghanchakkar June 30, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha Starring Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, Rajesh Verma, Namit Das Directed by Rajkumar Gupta He is a lazy lazy lad. And…
“Raanjhanaa is an opulent epic seductive, raging and rippling ode to love” – A Review by Subhash K Jha June 23, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha Starring Dhanush, Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Swara Bhaskara, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub Directed by Aanand L. Rai This enormously-enriching film about the…
“The performances make you thankful and relieved” – Subhash K Jha reviews Fukrey June 16, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha Starring Pulkit Samrat, Richa Chadha, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal, Varun Sharma,Vishakha Singh,Priya Anand, Pankaj Tripathi Directed by Mrigdeep Singh Lamba…
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist makes us look within ourselves for answers to the chaos in the world around us.” – A Review by Subhash K Jha May 20, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha Starring Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Keifer Sutherland, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri Directed by Mira Nair The dubbing does…
“The film tries to weave a tender gentle love story around an MMS scandal.” – Subhash K Jha reviews I Don’t Luv U May 19, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha Starring Ruslaan Mumtaz, Chetna Pande Directed by Amit Kasaria The trouble with a well-meaning film such as this is it…
“A zombie fiesta that’s savagely funny and surreptitiously scary…” – Subhash K Jha reviews Go Goa Gone May 15, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha Not taking into account the expression-less “actors” who have infested Hindi films from time immemorial, zombies are a relatively new phenomenon…
“This is Gupta’s big-ticket comeback.” – Subhash K Jha reviews Shootout At Wadala May 6, 2013 | by Subhash K Jha Starring Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Tusshar Kapoor,Kangna Ranaut, Sonu Sood, Manoj Bajpai, Ronit Roy Directed by Sanjay Gupta Babli badmash…