by Sonal Sher | Mar 27, 2016
I have waited a whole 36 hours before making any public comments or opinions about this film. In part because i had been ranting about it for almost a year and i am sure everyone already knew what i feel about it. And partly because for the first time in a long time i...
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 | Nov 14, 2014
I don’t think i have been this supremely impressed by an actor and so immensely depressed by a film in a very long time. If it were not for the extreme efforts of Ranveer Singh, I would have just bestowed the film with no stars and be done with it. He of course...
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 | 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. ...
by Sonal Sher | Apr 9, 2013
I am not writing this review as a pious old woman who finds the remake business filthy. Yes, I have seen ‘Chashme Buddoor (1981)’ and I thoroughly enjoyed it not because of the nostalgia factor but because it is actually an endearing film which can stand...