Tag: bollywood
Review: DANGAL, A Familiar Tale, Told With Bollywood Flair
I've been interrogated about my love-stroke-obsession with Indian cinema ever since I began writing about it on these pages a little over six years ago. I'm not Indian, before this summer I had never been to India, and I didn't...
Ajay Devgn's SHIVAAY Trailer Promises A Bollywood CLIFFHANGER
Bollywood superstar Ajay Devgn hits the director-producer-star trifecta with his upcoming Shivaay, and judging from the nearly three million views the trailer has racked up in the day since it arrived online it would appear that Devgn has the makings...
Neruppu Da: The Cult of Rajnikanth
How is one to introduce Rajinikanth to an unfamiliar audience? Rather how is one to explain him? To call him a mere 'actor' would be demeaning him. He stopped being merely an 'actor' long long ago. He has even outgrown the term...
Trailer: Salman Khan Wrestles With Fate In SULTAN
Salman Khan is back on the big screen this Eid with his new film Sultan. Sultan tells the story of a washed up wrestler fighting for redemption. It's the kind of comeback story that Hollywood has filmed a million times,...
Review: In FAN, Shah Rukh Khan Desperately Seeks Himself
The Bollywood film industry is a notoriously incestual beast. Film culture is so much a part of the Indian psyche that films are referenced and cross-referenced across all forms of communication from the visual and performing arts to political discourse...
WTF Is This? Turkey Goes Bollywood In BIR BABA HINDU
In my years following the cinema of India, from big budget blockbusters to no-budget crapfests, I've seen some weird shit. However, nothing from India has come close to preparing me for the mind-bending collision that is Turkey's Bollywood-style musical comedy...
Review: In FITOOR, Bollywood Places Beauty Above Substance, Again
Abhishek Kapoor's Fitoor, a Kashmir set adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, marks yet another step on the downward spiral that is the modern Bollywood blockbuster. I hate to write lines like that, I've invested quite a bit of time and...
Akshay Kumar Returns In SINGH IS BLIING Trailer; Nonsense Ensues
Back in 2008, Akshay Kumar set the Indian box office on fire with Singh Is Kinng. That film introduced filmgoers to Akshay's Harpreet Singh, a guileless Sikh do-gooder who gets caught up in mafia shenanigans. It also featured Akshay rapping...
BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING Trailer Hints At An Epic World Of Love And Violence
Today is the day! After nearly two years of waiting the first theatrical trailer for SS Rajamouli's Baahubali: The Beginning is live! I've seen Rajamouli's last five films, so I had some idea of his capabilities going in, however, this looks...
Mini Teaser Alert! First BAAHUBALI Teaser Is Here!
The world is watching as SS Rajamouli's medieval epic Baahubali creeps closer to worldwide release this July. We've been waiting patiently for a real trailer for almost two years no, and while it seems we'll have to wait a couple...
Review: DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY, A Reimagining Of The Bengali Sherlock Holmes
Sometimes I loathe the expectations with which I burden myself.Dibakar Banerjee's latest film, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, is a period piece that focuses on the origin of India's greatest literary sleuth. The Byomkesh Bakshy character comes from the many works of...
Trailer Alert! BOMBAY VELVET From Anurag Kashyap First Look Here
The first trailer for Anurag Kashyap's upcoming Bombay Velvet is finally here.The film, Kashyap's follow up to his critically acclaimed dark thriller Ugly, is a period gangster piece set in '60s Bombay. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor, who appears to...
Bollywood Week Coming To Cancún, Mexico
The Mexican city of Cancún is set to host film productions from India in the near future and so it is organizing the first Bollywood Week outside of the United States in June. Cancún wants to let the Indian film...
J Hurtado's 13 Favorite Indian & Pakistani Films Of 2013-2014
I know, I know. It's cheating to have two years represented in my year end list. However, I didn't get a chance to make my lists last year, and these films deserve your notice.2012 was a banner year for Indian...
Review: HAPPY NEW YEAR, Quick-Witted Candyfloss For The Spectacle Inclined
Say what you want about Farah Khan, the woman knows what it takes to make a good looking movie.The director of Happy New Year appears to have gotten her groove back after the disastrous multi-million dollar escapade that was Tees...
Bollywood's Greatest Adventure Returns To The Big Screen With SHOLAY 3D In January 2014!
This is Bollywood.There is no film that has more deeply ingrained itself into the Indian collective consciousness as Ramesh Sippy's epic Eastern Western, Sholay. Initially a critical and box office failure, the film quickly became the all-time highest grossing film...
Saif Ali Khan & Vidyut Jamwal Clash In BULLETT RAJA Trailer
First of all, that is a terrible poster. What the hell were they thinking?Anyway, Tigmanshu Dhulia returns to the director's chair after the critically acclaimed Paan Tomar Singh and Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster with a more standard looking masala film,...
Review: YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA 2 Goes Any Which Way But Good
A couple of years ago, Bollywood legend Dharmendra (Sholay) put together a wacky comedy starring himself and his two movie star sons, Bobby Deol and Sunny Deol. That film was called Yamla Pagla Deewana (Nutty, Looney, Crazy) and was a...
Review: GO GOA GONE Goes Great Guns, Gets Gasps And Giggles
Color me genuinely shocked. I went to to Bollywood's first zombie comedy with very low expectations and came out completely enthused about the finished product. Directorial team Raj & DK took a lot of very broad references and influences and...
Trailer Alert: BOMBAY TALKIES Gathers Bollywood's Brightest Lights
Bombay Talkies is a project that I'd heard about in passing, but never really paid much attention to until now. The film is a collaborative work between several of the highest profile directors and performers in Bollywood, and it actually...
