by Sonal Sher | Sep 18, 2015
That time of year has arrived when I watch that one film that is going to fill me up with enough venom to spew all over my computer screen. A film so unoriginal that all the Kader Khan and David Dhawan comedies, I used to frown upon as a snobbish teenager suddenly...
by Sonal Sher | May 22, 2015
Rarely ever do sequels ever reach the quality of the original film, a fact that is true for cinema everywhere. But with ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’, Anand L Rai gives us everything better than the first. We finally get the intensely damaged lead pair in all their glory....
by Sonal Sher | Aug 2, 2014
My brother asked me to watch this film because he knows my absolute love for DDLJ. So he had a simple request, watch this film and spew poison on paper afterwards. I am not in really bad mood, so i am not going to go ape shit on its ass but I shall say this one very...
by Sonal Sher | Feb 14, 2014
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’....
by Sonal Sher | Dec 19, 2013
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,...
by Sonal Sher | Nov 22, 2013
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. ...