The Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker has won Best Picture and five other prizes at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.
Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood’s top prize for filmmakers.
Among those Bigelow and The Hurt Locker beat are ex-husband [...]
Film: Thanks Maa
Cast: Shams, Salman, Almas, Jaffer, Fayyaz
Genre: Drama
Direction: Irfan Kamal
Duration: 2 hours
Story: Muncipalty Ghatkopar, a street kid in Mumbai, finds a two-month baby abandoned on the steps of a children’s home. He begins a hunt for the infant’s mother because he does not want him to grow up motherless like him. His friends, [...]
Anupama Chopra’s review: My Name Is Khan
Pics: SRK, Kajol rock Berlin
Special: My Name is Khan
Bollywood’s most successful commerical director Karan Johar maybe riding high on the success of My Name Is Khan but it is not just the box office that has him beaming.
For the filmmaker My Name Is Khan has been his biggest [...]
Film : My Name is Khan
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Jimmy Shergill, Soneya Jahan, Zarina Wahab
Genre: Drama
Direction: Karan Johar
Duration: 2 hours 40 minutes
Story: Rizwan Khan, afflicted with Asperger’s Syndrome , sets out on a historic journey to meet the US President, when his world takes a somersault after 9/11. His wife, Mandira, meanwhile tries [...]
It has the ‘K’ factor going for it. Eight years after Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar and Kajol came together for one of the biggest Bollywood blockbusters of all time – Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham – the charismatic trio are presenting the trailers of their February 12, 2010, release, Fox Star Studios’ My Name [...]
Gazab comedy, this one. Really, Ranbir is a revelation, Katrina is full of beans and the newly formented Ranbir-Katrina chemistry sets the screen on fire in this mad hatter's tea party that takes you on a roller-coaster ride as Raj Kumar Santoshi tries to retrack his way to his Andaz Apna Apna days.
Film: Ajab [...]
Brawn is back. So is Salman Khan. Rattled by a barrage of recent flops (Yuvvraaj, God Tussi Great Ho, Hello, Heroes), the actor appeared in dozens of television shows in the past few weeks hoping to stay alive in the viewer’s mindspace.
Film: Wanted (Action)
Cast: Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia, Vinod Khanna, Prakash Raj, Mahesh Manjrekar
Director: [...]
Everything seems to be borrowed in Daddy Cool. The film’s title is taken from a Boney M number that everyone jived to in the 1980s and which is rather carelessly inserted in an uninspiring track.
Film: Daddy Cool (Comedy)
Cast: Suneil Shetty, Javed Jaffrey, Aaftab Shivdasani, Ashish Choudhary, Rajpal Yadav, Kim Sharma, Aarti Chabria, Tulip Joshi, [...]