‘Kalank’ movie review: An attempt to map a love triangle onto the tragedy of the Partition goes awry

Abhishek Varman’s melodrama stars Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Sonakshi Sinha, Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt, Aditya Roy Kapur and Kunal Kemmu.

Nandini Ramnath

· Apr 17, 2019 · 01:56 pm

‘The Tashkent Files’ movie review: Vivek Agnihotri puts the hysterics into history

Shweta Basu Prasad plays a crusading journalist in a conspiracy thriller about the death of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966.

Nandini Ramnath

· Apr 12, 2019 · 07:35 am

Kashmir films have always been about the location – but are now making room for locals

A crop of Kashmiri actors is making their presence felt in films set in the Valley, as well as outside it.

Nandini Ramnath

· Apr 09, 2019 · 10:50 am

The Modi biopic missed its release date but half of the web series on him is out. What’s it like?

The first five episodes of the 10-part web series ‘Modi: A Common Man’s Journey’ are out on the streaming platform Eros Now.

Nandini Ramnath

· Apr 05, 2019 · 08:15 am

‘Romeo Akbar Walter’ movie review: Some moments of spark in a slow-paced spy thriller

John Abraham goes undercover in Pakistan in Robbie Grewal’s spy thriller set in 1971.

Nandini Ramnath

· Apr 05, 2019 · 07:15 am

In Assamese film ‘Aamis’, an insatiable appetite for love and meat has strange consequences

‘Kothanodi’ director Bhaskar Hazrika’s new movie takes the idea of desire in unusual directions.

Nandini Ramnath

· Apr 03, 2019 · 10:15 am

‘The Least of These’ movie review: A timid recreation of the murder of missionary Graham Staines

Aneesh Daniel’s film revisits the horrific killings of the Australian missionary and his children in Orissa in 1999.

Nandini Ramnath

· Mar 29, 2019 · 08:15 am

‘Gone Kesh’ movie review: An uneven saga about hair loss and rediscovered confidence

Qasim Khallow’s directorial debut centres on a teenager who loses her locks to alopecia.

Nandini Ramnath

· Mar 29, 2019 · 07:45 am

‘Notebook’ movie review: Forget the romance and look out the window

In Nitin Kakkar’s Kashmir-set film, a diary sparks off love between teachers separated by time and distance.

Nandini Ramnath

· Mar 29, 2019 · 07:00 am

‘Junglee’ movie review: Save the elephants (it helps if Vidyut Jammwal is around)

Chuck Russell’s adventure drama stars the action hero as the only thing that stands between pachyderms and poachers.

Nandini Ramnath

· Mar 29, 2019 · 06:45 am

What the ‘PM Narendra Modi’ trailer tells us about Bollywood, politics and propaganda

Yet another Bollywood hagiography or an inflection point in the debate about the relationship between politics and cinema?

Nandini Ramnath

· Mar 23, 2019 · 02:00 pm

‘Delhi Crime’ review: Tautly staged and superbly performed, but questions linger

Richie Mehta’s seven-episode series is a fictionalised version of the police investigation into the brutal gang-rape of a physiotherapy intern in 2012.

Nandini Ramnath

· Mar 22, 2019 · 01:45 pm