Subhash Jha: The lives on the streets never looked more dangerous and less glamorous in Allah ke Banday
A feeling of foreboding and damnation builds up in the narration from the first frame itself. Here’s a gloriously gutsy…
Subhash Jha: “Guzaarish is a big, beautiful, dazzling, emotional movie experience”
Breathe a sigh of relief. During a year when cacophonic crassness masquerading as comic entertainment has been sanctioned by critics…
Action Replayy
It is the season to be jolly. And boy oh boy,if it’s a festive fiesta of flamboyant filminess that you’re…
Subhash K Jha: “For Real is an elegantly crafted piece of cinema”
And quietly slips the night into a tortured morning-time light. While watching the muffled muted voices looking for a way…
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…
