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Story:  Amitabh Bachchan, a principal of a premier college in Bhopal, is forced to resign from his post after he makes a controversial statement about India's reservation policy. Having alienated himself from his well-wishers and students, which includes his dalit protegee, Saif Ali Khan, he tries to rebuild life again. More importantly, he tries to save the Indian education system from unscrupulous sharks like Manoj Bajpayee who want to totally commercialise it and convert it into India's largest money-making enterprise, courtesy private coaching centres, capitation fee etc.  Movie Review:  Filmmaker Prakash Jha is a breed apart. Beginning as a premier proponent of India's parallel cinema movement in the 1970s-1980s, he never chose to lose his moorings. Instead, he opted to increase the contours of his canvas by opting for a kind of cinema that combined art with mainstream, meaning with masala. Hence the importance of films like Gangajal, Apharan, Rajneeti, w...

Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara Director:  Zoya Akhtar  Starring:  Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Abhay Deol Rating:  * * * * Jokes about teachers. Fights over girlfriends. Silly word games. Bare chests. Rippling muscles. Streaked hair. Sigh. Glossy looking and beautifully written. I must confess by the time I finished watching  Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara  I was convinced that no one can make a bromance as beautifully as a woman. The film is gentle, taking time out to look at horses running in the meadows, feel the wind the air, swim with the fish underwater. All that male beauty may be a little manipulative and the plot is a little contrived--three adventure sports to test your courage--but the story keeps you engaged. A meditative take on growing up, becoming a man, taking responsibility for one's actions, it has the courage to go for long periods with no dialogue. A scene where  Hrithik Roshan  does a Finding Nemo and another where the boys disco...

Review: Chillar Party   (Children) It’s one filmi formula that has traditionally been failsafe. Herd a bunch of frisky and fancy-free kids together, throw them into an emotional whirligig that pushes them to raise the banner of revolt against insensitive adults and let the ensuing tussle do the rest. It makes for good, unadulterated fun. Right up your street? Then Chillar Party is a must-watch for you. It squeezes in a quiet message even as it portrays the world purely from the gawky-eyed point of view of children. The film strikes a perfect balance between the two poles of the script. Well, almost. Written and directed by the duo of Vikas Bahl and Nitesh Tiwari and bankrolled by UTV Spotboy, Chillar Party got superstar Salman Khan so excited that he came on board as co-producer well after the film had got off the starting blocks. Great judgment – Chillar Party is indeed a film worth backing every which way. It moves from the light-hearted to the thought-provoking and f...

Release date: May 6, 2011 Director: Vikram Bhatt Cast: Mahakshay, Tia Bajpai, Arif Zakaria, Achint Kaur, Mohan Kapoor Haunted Poster I was the sort of child who was afraid of the dark, who used to imagine that a ghost would emerge from the commode, that there were spirits under my bed and figures hiding in the patterns of the mosaic tiles on the floor. Kids, I tell you! But I have no explanation for the fact that as a rational grown-up, although I do not believe in ghosts, somewhere at a sub-conscious level that I hate to acknowledge, I get unsettled by ghost stories. So it’s confession time: I kept a light on in my room the night after I watched Vikram Bhatt’s  Haunted . It’s silly of me, of course, but it made me realise that despite all my reservations about this film, it had struck home. Haunted  is a horror film about a young real estate agent finalising the sale of a house when strange things start happening in the night. He discovers that a female occupant of that...

A feel good entertainer Rating: **** Tanu Weds Manu movie is a romantic comedy which revolves around two characters Manu and Tanu. Marriages are made in heaven! Though the road to heaven migh t be a little "tedha". Manu (R.Madhavan) is a guy from Delhi who has been a working as a doctor in London for the past 12 years. He comes down to India to get married because according to his family it is time. Tanu (Kangana Ranaut) is a girl from Kanpur who is done with her studies at Delhi University. She does not want an arranged marriage because she is in love with a guy named Raja (Jimmy Shergill) and wants to marry him. Manu falls in love with Tanu for the first time when he comes to see her in Kanpur. However, she asks him to refuse the marriage proposal and he agrees. Manu goes to see many girls but discovers that Tanu is the only girl he wants and decides to marry her. In the movie, small town is spot on. The girls learn dance moves from Nach Baliye, learn Engli...

Toonpur Ka Superhero  the bollywood movie directed by Kireet Khurana is an entertainer for children with the  combination of animation with live form in film in which popular actors Ajay Devgan and Kajol has taken the leading roles.           Toonpur Ka Superhero in one of popular and big movie in bollywood apart from "Tees Maar Khan" that was released in this week and one must say it was a smart ploy to unleash this flick at this time owing to the high demand from the kids’ section.Toonpur Ka Superhero is basically a movie meant for the pre-teens. But there’s no harm for an adult in watching a decent flick even if that makes you revisit your childhood.  The story is pretty simple out here. Ajay Devgn is a devoted father and an actor but his children desire to see their dad as a real-life saviour a la Superman.Moreover the film is concerned , Toonpur, the kingdom of cartoons, is ruled by the king Tooneshwar, who is kind and just towards his p...

Director: Farah Khan Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Akshaye Khanna Rating: *** Farah Khan knows exactly what she wants (rather what she can get) from her cast and employs them to that effect. With her trademark film-inside-film setting, when she wants someone to play the role of a boisterous, atrocious and artificial actor in her film, the natural choice is Akshaye Khanna. Katrina is cast as the quintessential Bollywood actress who has to wear more makeup and less clothes and do practically nothing in the film. The biggest novel (rather navel) factor she brings to the film is her super-sexy midriff and her hip-hot gyrations. With Akshay Kumar coming into picture, Farah seems to leave behind her Manmohan Desai masala method and adapts her film to brother Sajid Khan’s slapstick sensibilities. Ten minutes into the film and Tees Maar Khan (Aksha...