This should have been the week of Fifty Shades of Grey but instead…
Badlapur
Vengeance is the motor that drives Sriram Raghavan’s fourth feature.
Varun Dhawan plays Raghav, a white-collar employee whose wife (Yami Gautam) and son are killed during a bank robbery. Raghav becomes obsessed with the idea of vengeance, and goes after Laiq (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), the man he believes shot his wife. The adult-rated movie, whose songs are currently hogging the airwaves, also stars Huma Qureshi, Vinay Pathak, Radhika Apte, Divya Dutta and Pratima Kazmi in key roles.
Qissa
Anup Singh’s Partition-era drama is finally being released in select cinemas.
Umber Singh (Irrfan Khan) is a Sikh who relocates to Punjab in India after the Partition. Obsessed with begetting a male heir, he decides to ignore the evidence and brings up one of his daughters as a boy. Kanwar (Tillotama Shome) also believes the lie, until she weds Neeli (Rasika Dugal) and re-discovers her true identity with tragic consequences. The director had previously explored the Partition in his 2001 docu-feature The Name of a River, which revisits the Bengal side of the story by paying tribute to Ritwik Ghatak’s Titas Ekti Nadir Naam.
Wild
If your memories of Reese Witherspoon don’t extend beyond Legally Blonde, this is the movie for you.
The underrated actor co-produced and stars as Cheryl Strayed, an American writer who trekked all by herself for over a 1,000 miles and recorded her experiences in the 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Witherspoon is tipped for a Best Actress Oscar gong for her performance.
Whiplash
JK Simmons seems to be a shoo-in for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Simmons, the shiny-headed character actor from countless movies and television series, plays the kind of teacher many of us have had – he is a perfectionist but utterly nasty tyrant who isn’t above throwing furniture at his students to make them perform better. Damien Chazelle’s second feature stars Miles Teller as the jazz drumming pupil who is the target of his music instructor's bullying.
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Badlapur
Vengeance is the motor that drives Sriram Raghavan’s fourth feature.
Varun Dhawan plays Raghav, a white-collar employee whose wife (Yami Gautam) and son are killed during a bank robbery. Raghav becomes obsessed with the idea of vengeance, and goes after Laiq (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), the man he believes shot his wife. The adult-rated movie, whose songs are currently hogging the airwaves, also stars Huma Qureshi, Vinay Pathak, Radhika Apte, Divya Dutta and Pratima Kazmi in key roles.
Qissa
Anup Singh’s Partition-era drama is finally being released in select cinemas.
Umber Singh (Irrfan Khan) is a Sikh who relocates to Punjab in India after the Partition. Obsessed with begetting a male heir, he decides to ignore the evidence and brings up one of his daughters as a boy. Kanwar (Tillotama Shome) also believes the lie, until she weds Neeli (Rasika Dugal) and re-discovers her true identity with tragic consequences. The director had previously explored the Partition in his 2001 docu-feature The Name of a River, which revisits the Bengal side of the story by paying tribute to Ritwik Ghatak’s Titas Ekti Nadir Naam.
Wild
If your memories of Reese Witherspoon don’t extend beyond Legally Blonde, this is the movie for you.
The underrated actor co-produced and stars as Cheryl Strayed, an American writer who trekked all by herself for over a 1,000 miles and recorded her experiences in the 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Witherspoon is tipped for a Best Actress Oscar gong for her performance.
Whiplash
JK Simmons seems to be a shoo-in for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
Simmons, the shiny-headed character actor from countless movies and television series, plays the kind of teacher many of us have had – he is a perfectionist but utterly nasty tyrant who isn’t above throwing furniture at his students to make them perform better. Damien Chazelle’s second feature stars Miles Teller as the jazz drumming pupil who is the target of his music instructor's bullying.
