Vasan Bala’s debut feature Peddlers premiered at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival in the International Critics’ Week section. This post is to track all the buzz from the Cannes – pics, videos, interviews, reviews and more. PICS Latest REVIEWS – An early review in French is here. Rated it 3.5/5 and to sum it up [...]
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Vasan Bala’s Peddlers – Tracking all the Cannes buzz
Posted: May 22, 2012 in cinema, Film Festival, Indie, NewsTags: CNN IBN, DearCinema, Features, Hollywood Reporter, International Critics Week, News, Peddlers, pics, Rajeev Masand, reviews, Variety, Vasan Bala
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Ravi Baswani RIP. And the making of the cult classic Jaane Bho Do Yaaro
Posted: July 28, 2010 in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, News, RIP, songs & videos, VOTDTags: Bollywood Blockbusters, CNN IBN, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Kundan Shah, making, Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Sudhir Mishra
The news came as a big shock. Last week he gave an interview saying how he was preparing to direct a film. Infact, he was in Nainital for the recce of the same film. But seems fate had some other plans. Who would have thought! For all the laughs and for all the magic on [...]
Vikramaditya Motwane & Anurag Kashyap on Udaan – two video interviews!
Posted: May 16, 2010 in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, Film Festival, News, songs & videosTags: Anupama Chopra, anurag kashyap, CNN IBN, interview, NDTV, Rajeev Masand, Udaan, video, Vikramaditya Motwane
So, who is this Vikramaditya Motwane ? And why and how he made Udaan, the film which got selected for Cannes this year, the mecca of all film fests! The dream debut of any filmmaker, unless you count Pottymakers like Sajid Khan as filmmaker too! And its also not about going there to pose as [...]
Film Reviews : LSD, Shaapit & Lahore
Posted: March 20, 2010 in bollywood, cinema, film review, reviewsTags: Anupama Chopra, CNN IBN, Dibakar Banerjee, film review, HT, India Today, Indiafm, Indian Express, Kaveree Bamzai, Lahore, Love Sex Aur Dhokha, LSD, Mayank Shekhar, Minty Tejpal, Mumbai Mirror, NDTV, Nikhat Kazmi, raja sen, Rajeev Masand, rediff, review, Sabjay Singh Puran Chuhan, Shaapit, Shubhra Gupta, Taran Adarsh, TOI, Vikram Bhatt
Dhen Tedan! Its friday! And the dope is out. Dibakar Banerjee’s Love Sex Aur Dhokha. Plus Vikram Bhatt is back again and is still struggling to scare us. Sir, aapka naam hi kaafi hai ab! He has competition only from Ramu. And the third release is Lahore. First, its LSD. Click here to read our take on it. [...]
Film Reviews : Right Ya Wrong and Hide & Seek
Posted: March 13, 2010 in bollywood, cast news, film review, reviewsTags: Anupama Chopra, Apoorva Lakhia, Arjan Bajwa, Ayaaz Khan, CNN IBN, film reviews, HT, Indiafm, Indian Express, Irrfan Khan, Isha Koppikar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Mayank Shekhar, Minty Tejpal, Mrinalini Sharma, Mukta Arts, Mumbai Mirror, NDTV, Neeraj Pathak, Nikhat Kazmi, Purab Kohli, Rajeev Masand, rediff, reviews, Right Ya Wrong, Sameer Kocchar, Shawn Arranha, Shubhra Gupta, Sunny Deol, Taran Adarsh, TOI
Not a very exciting friday if you dont count the IPL. At the movies, we are counting the scores of two films – Right Ya Wrong and Hide & Seek. Right Ya Wrong is directed by Neeraj Pathak, produced by Mukta Arta and stars Sunny Deol, Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma and Isha Koppikar. Its seems to be [...]
Film Reviews : Road, Movie, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge & Thanks Maa
Posted: March 6, 2010 in bollywood, cinema, film review, reviewsTags: Anupama Chopra, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, CNN IBN, Dev Benegal, film review, Gaurav Malani, HT, Irfan Kamal, Mayank Shekhar, Minty Tejpal, movie, NDTV, Nikhat Kazmi, raja sen, Rajeev Masand, review, Road Movie, Shubhra Gupta, Taran Adarsh, Thanks Maa, TOI
This friday there are three films and all very different. Road, Movie, Attithi Tum Kab Jaoge and Thanks Maa. Road, Movie is by Dev Benegal and starring Abhay Deol, Tannistha Chatterjee & Satish Kaushik. First, Road, Movie. Will the poster boy of new wave hindi cinema Abhay Deol deliver again ? Or is it desi exotica [...]
Film Reviews : Karthik Calling Karthik & Teen Patti
Posted: February 26, 2010 in bollywood, cast & crew, film review, News, reviewsTags: Ambika Hinduja, Amitabh Bachchan, Anupama Chopra, Ben Kingsley, CNN IBN, Deepika Padukone, Farhan Akhtar, film review, HT, Indiafm, Indian Express, Karthik Calling Karthik, Leena Yadav, Mayank Shekhar, Minty Tejpal, Mumbai Mirror, NDTV, Nikhat Kazmi, R Madhavan, raima sen, Rajeev Masand, rediff, review, Shubhra Gupta, Sukanya Verma, Taran Adarsh, Teen Patti, TOI, Vijay Lalwani
This friday its Ringa Ringa at the movies. In both the films, its too much confusion over one phone call. Karthik Calling Karthik is directed by debutant Vijay Lalwani, stars Farhan Akhtar & Deepika Padukone and produced by Excel Entertainment. Lets see if actor Farhan manages to score a hattrick. Anupama Chopra (NDTV) – Karthik [...]
Film Reviews : Karan Johar’s My Name Is Khan
Posted: February 12, 2010 in bollywood, cinema, film review, News, reviewsTags: Anupama Chopra, CNN IBN, film review, Gaurav Malani, Guardian, HT, India Today, Indiafm, Indiatimes, Kajol, karan Johar, Kaveree Bamzai, Khalid Mohamed, Mayank Shekhar, My Name is Khan, NDTV, Nikhat Kazmi, PFC, raja sen, Rajeev Masand, rediff, review, Shah Rukh Khan, Sukanya Varma, Taran Adarsh, TOI
Its filmy friday. Its Khan-day! Karan Johar’s big budget film My Name Is Khan is the release of the week, starring Shah Rukh Khan & Kajol. So, does its score or not ? Lets check out. Anupama Chopra (NDTV) – My Name is Khan is a film made with sincerity and sweat, ambition and conviction. [...]
Film Reviews : Chandan Arora’s Striker
Posted: February 5, 2010 in cinemaTags: Anupama Chopra, Buzz18, Chandan Arora, CNN IBN, film reviews, HT, Indiafm, Khalid Mohamed, Mayank Shekhar, Minty Tejpal, Mumbai Mirror, NDTV, Nikhat Kazmi, Padmapriya, PFC, Rajeev Masand, rediff, review, Shweta Parande, Siddharth, Striker, Sukanya Varma, Taran Adarsh, TOI
This friday, its Chandan Arora’s Striker starring Siddharth and Padmapriya. Earlier Chandan Arora gave us two delightful films Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon and Main, Meri Patni aur Woh. Will he deliver a hattrick ? Actor Siddharth has been going on and on and on about the film through his tweets. Lets see if its scoring [...]
Film Reviews : Rann, Ishqiya & Road To Sangam
Posted: January 29, 2010 in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, film review, News, reviewsTags: Abhishek Chaubey, Amit Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Aniruddha Guha, Anupama Chopra, Arshad Warsi, Buzz18, CNN IBN, DNA, ET, film, Gaurva Malani, Gul Panag, HT, India Today, Indiafm, Indian Express, Ishqiya, Jaya Biswas, Kaveree Bamzai, Khalid Mohamed, Mayank Shekhar, Naseeruddin Shah, NDTV, Neetu Chandra, Nikhat Kazmi, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, PFC, Rajeev Masand, Ram Gopal Varma, Rann, rediff, review, Ritesh Deshmukh, Road to sangam, Shubhra Gupta, Shweta Parande, Sudeep, Sukanya Varma, Taran Adarsh, TOI, Vidya Balan, Vishal Bhardwaj
Three hindi films this weekend. Its quite a film friday! Two debutants and one veteran! And since we belong to BBC (Bhardwaj Bhakt Club), we made sure that we saw it even before the release. Click here for our review. Ishqiya is directed by debutant Abhishek Chaubey and stars Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Vidya Balan. [...]
