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As we enter a new year full of promise and endless numbers of amazing cinematic possibilities, it's only right that we take a look back to remember what made 2019 a great year at the movies. This past year marked...

Hindi language film director Anubhav Sinha has been on a tear lately. After cutting his teeth making Bollywood potboilers and making a big splash with 2011's big budget superhero film Ra.One, Sinha took a long break from directing before coming...

The monomymic Vikram is one of my favorite Indian actors. He has, over the course of 25 years, created an amazing body of work that is unlike anything else I can think of. He divides his time between mainstream masala...

Here we go again!My standard admonition about my own lists is that these are, in no way AT ALL, the best movies of the year. They are the ones that gave me the biggest thrills, made me think, made me...

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...

I've had the privilege of covering New York City's South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) since 2010, shortly after I came on board at ScreenAnarchy. Each of those five years has brought at least a couple of films that have made...

Karthik Subbaraj's Jigarthanda is long, juggles multiple storylines, tells complex stories in tiny chunks, is loaded for bear with insider references for Tamil film aficionados that will frequently leave newbs scratching their heads, and is nearly impossible to write about...

Prabhu Deva's Rowdy Rathore is 90 minutes of fast-paced fantastic action, music, and comedy. Unfortunately, the film is 139 minutes long, you do the math. Indian popular cinema plays by its own rules, and I've learned to respect, honor, and...

I've made no secret of my excitement for Prabhu Deva's upcoming Bollywood masala action extravaganza, Rowdy Rathore. The minute the first trailer was leaked onto the internet I was prepared to buy my ticket and wait in line for months,...

I expected to be impressed by the promo for Prabhu Deva's upcoming Rowdy Rathore, but not this impressed!  Rowdy Rathore is the Bollywood remake of S.S. Rajamouli's (Magadheera, Yamadonga) Vikramarkudu, which was original a hit in the Telugu film industry...

Okay, so we all laughed at the ridiculous trailer for Vijay's Deiva Thirumagal, and rightly so.  The Tamil unofficial remake (read: rip-off) of Sean Penn's disastrous I Am Sam not only featured what looked to be astoundingly insensitive portrayal of...