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 : 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 [...]

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 : 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 [...]

Despite The Gods : Jennifer Lynch’s Hisss story

It was supposed to be Mallika Shehrawat’s international debut. The director had a world famous surname – Lynch. But by the time the film got released, the director, Jennifer Lynch claimed that she didn’t make Hisss. She was nowhere in sight too. During the release, it was Mallika and her good friend Govind Menon (director [...]

First Look : Yashraj Films’ Ishaqzaade (Trailer)

The theatrical trailer of Habib Faisal’s new film Ishaqzaade is out. It stars debutant Arjun Kapoor (Boney and Mona Kapoor’s son) and Parineeti Chopra. The credits include Hemant Chaturvedi (DoP), Amit Trivedi (Music), Kausar Munir (lyrics) and Aarti Bajaj (editor). Aha, who would have thought that one day even Yashraj Films would step into such [...]

First Look : Govind Nihalani’s Kamlu (Trailer)

Govind Nihalani and animation film? Why not? And so there’s a film called Kamlu. We had read about it but had no clue that it’s already complete. It’s about a baby camel called Kamlu who wants to fly. The first theatrical trailer is out. This looks like any other desi animation film – as good [...]

First Look : Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Paan Singh Tomar (Trailer + Synopsis)

Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Paan Singh Tomar has been ready for quite sometime. And UTV has been sitting on it with no clue what to do with it. All kinds of reports were floating since a year or so. They sent it to few festivals abroad, intial reviews weren’t good, there was a plan to shelve it [...]