Highway (2014) ***

Highway (2014) ***

To be truthful, i am not one of those people who are completely in love with Imtiaz Ali’s body of work. His films about troubled love stories are good, but with the exception to ‘Jab We Met’, he has almost always chosen to give greatly demanding roles to actors who...
Hasee Toh Phasee (2013) **1/2

Hasee Toh Phasee (2013) **1/2

There is a huge possibility that since it had been such a long time (in my case that is more than a month) that i had seen a hindi film, that my mind just lapped up whatever it was offered but, god help me, I enjoyed watching the film ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’....
Short Term 12 (2013) ****

Short Term 12 (2013) ****

One of the few things that i love about this time of the year is that i get to see some really good films. The last 10 days i have slowly but steadily been watching some of them but this is the first time i have felt like writing. For me, there are only two kinds of...
Don Jon (2013) ***1/2

Don Jon (2013) ***1/2

  I once, many weeks ago had a casual conversation with a friend, the central idea being if we are actually the best judge of what we find sexually attractive. How much of our desire is actually generated from the idea of desirable propagated from other people,...
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein (2013) *1/2

Gori Tere Pyaar Mein (2013) *1/2

  In Hindi cinema, there is not one film. There are two. Pre-interval and post-interval. Films are described in this peculiar fashion of before and after, where the intermission attains almost this Christ like status, a vantage point from where the work is judged.  ...
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **

Thor: The Dark World (2013) **

  I guess, I am one of the culprits in this vicious cycle of superhero films, reboots, re-re-boots, mixing worlds and what not. I am one of the many who gets intensely excited when a DC, Marvel film is about to approach, counting moments till Friday despite the fact...