Tag: vishalbhardwaj
Toronto 2015 Review: TALVAR (GUILTY), An Indictment Of Indian Justice
In 2008, Aarushi Talwar, 14, the daughter of middle class parents, was found dead in her Mumbai home with her throat slashed. Suspicion quickly fell upon the family's servant, a Nepali migrant named Hemraj, but when he was found dead...
Toronto 2015: Meghna Gulzar's TALVAR Trailer Opens Old Wounds
Among the films listed in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival is Meghna Gulzar's third directorial effort, Talvar (Guilty is the English title, though not a translation). This film explores one of India's most notorious...
Review: EK THI DAAYAN Is Better Than It Deserves To Be
It's been a strange few years for Bollywood's kissing bandit, Emraan Hashmi. The actor became prominent in the last decade for his willingness to plant his lips on anything that moved on screen, an action still not entirely common in Hindi...
Review: MATRU KI BIJLI KA MANDOLA Mixes Politics With Romance And Does Justice To Neither
Each new film from Indian auteur Vishal Bhardwaj comes with a lot of baggage, but that's by design. Bhardwaj is not only responsible for directing some of the most audacious films of the last decade, but he is also, perhaps...
7 KHOON MAAF (7 SINS FORGIVEN) Review
Vishal Bhardwaj and Priyanka Chopra's 7 Khoon Maaf (7 Sins Forgiven) is one of the most subdued Indian films I've seen this year, and that is a good thing. At its surface, it seems difficult to understand how a film...
7 KHOON MAAF Website Goes Live With Extra Goodies
Vishal Bhardwaj and Priyanka Chopra's new black widow thriller 7 Khoon Maaf keeps getting more and more intriguing. I posted the trailer here a week or so ago, and just a couple of days ago the official website went live...
Priyanka Chopra's SAAT KHOON MAAF Has A Trailer!
I think I pretty much blew my wad as far as info on Vishal Bhardwaj's Saat Khoon Maaf goes when I posted about it last week. The only new thing I have is a trailer. It confounds me, there really...
Priyanka Chopra Is The Hottest Black Widow Ever In 7 KHOON MAAF
One thing about Indian films, they do not hire ugly chicks. Priyanka Chopra is another stunner, and former Miss World. Lately she's stuck herself into several run of the mill rom-coms in Bollywood without too much success, her last truly...