First Look : Vasan Bala’s Peddlers (Trailer)

Finally, the official trailer of Vasan Bala‘s debut feature Peddlers is out. The film is all set to premiere at Cannes International Critics’ Week. So what works and what doesn’t? Since he is a good friend, i might be biased. But let me try. The visuals look gorgeous, there is a sudden tension in the [...]

Prashant Bhargava’s Patang gets a new trailer

Prashant Bhargava’s debut feature Patang has been doing the rounds of international film festivals since last year and the latest one was the prestigious Ebertfest. It stars Seema Biswas, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sugandha Garg and Aakash Mahayera, and has been shot by Shanker Raman. The film will be finally in US theatres from June 15th. And [...]

First Look : Vasan Bala’s Peddlers (Poster)

This is not really the official poster for its India release. But this is going to be used during the Cannes fest. Peddlers will have its premiere at the Cannes Film festival in Critics Week and will compete for Camera D’Or.

First Look : Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs Of Wasseypur (Poster, Trailer & Synopsis)

Ah, finally. The way Viacom18, the producer of Gangs of Wasseypur, was reluctant to share even on location images of the film after the Cannes announcement, we were thinking if they were going to lay some golden eggs. The trailer, poster and the official synopsis of the film is finally out. Let’s go one by [...]

First Look (Trailer) : Nikhil Mahajan’s Pune 52 (Marathi)

In the last few years Marathi cinema has done everything that Hindi cinema wasn’t doing. And most importantly, tackling subjects which are rooted. As they say, if we don’t tell our stories, who will? A good marathi film is not a surprise any more. The question is how good it is? Here’s a trailer of [...]

Vasan Bala’s Peddlers selected for Cannes Critics’ Week 2012

I am not sure how and where to start this post. Still too excited about the news. But let’s get the news first. Vasan Balan‘s debut feature Peddlers has been selected to premiere at Cannes International Critics’ Week. Yay! And since this is his first feature, it’s also going to compete for Camera D’Or. Every [...]

First Look : Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely (3 Teasers)

Sorry to flood the blog with so many back to back posts on Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely. But two reasons – Cannes doesn’t happen everyday. Nor do Indian films qualify there regularly. Also, the information is coming out bit by bit. First came the news of its selection at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard [...]

First Look : Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely (Stills + Official Synopsis)

What we know – Ashim Ahluwalia’s debut feature Miss Lovely is going to Cannes in Un Certain Regard section this year. The film is set in Bombay’s B/C grade film industry and it stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh and Anil George. What we don’t know – what does the film look like? No stills/clips/trailer available [...]

First Look : Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai (Trailer)

The much anticipated trailer of Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai is finally out. Have a look. So far Dibakar’s record has been cent percent – 3/3. Will he deliver once again? Going by the trailer, it surely seems so. But then, political films are a different beast. SEZ, activism, murder, accident, conspiracy theories and the mess and [...]

First Look : Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai (Poster)

The first poster of the much anticipated film of Dibakar Banerjee, Shanghai, is out. The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Kalki Koechlin.