LIFF Special Movie Review: Nirbashito
Churni Ganguly’s National Award winning film Nirbashito (The Banished) is both an unflinching and compassionate look at the idea of…
LIFF Special Movie Review: Saari Raat
On a stormy evening, a married couple (Konkona Sen Sharma and Rittwik Chakraborty) on vacation takes refuge from the rain…
LIFF Special Movie Review: One Crazy Thing
Out-of-work actor Jay (Ray Panthaki) struggles to make ends meet while managing his family’s London tandoori restaurant. Jay was once…
LIFF Special Movie Review: Umrika
The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival opened this year with Prashant Nair’s second film Umrika, starring Suraj Sharma, Toni…
LIFF Special Movie Review: M Cream
In writer-director Agneya Singh’s first feature film, M Cream, four entitled, privileged Delhi twenty-somethings — Maggie (Auritra Ghosh), Niz (Raaghav…
LIFF Special Movie Review: Haraamkhor
In a village in Gujarat, a married schoolteacher, Shyam (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), begins a relationship with one of his teenaged students,…
LIFF Special Movie Review: Monsoon
It was no surprise that Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson’s very fine documentary, Monsoon (which was part of the Official Selection…
LIFF Special Movie Review: Dhanak
Pari (Hetal Gada), 10, and her younger brother, Chotu (Krrish Chhabria), 8, live with their aunt and uncle after their…
Bajrangi Bhaijaan Movie Review
Almost every Bollywood junkie knows what to expect when they walk in to a cinema hall to watch a film…
Baahubali Movie Review
Let’s get two things straight. Baahubali was never going to be a shrinking violet and S.S. Rajamouli is not the…
