Black Friday

Anurag Kashyap’s film, based on the book of the same name by S. Hussain Zaidi, has finally made it to release.   Its appearance in cinemas was halted by the Bombay High Court (even though it had a censor certificate) because of a petition that those accused of the bomb blasts filed, saying that the […]

Kabul Express

Kabul Express is loosely based on the experiences of Kabir Khan (who wrote and directed the film) when he was reporting from there.   As  the movie opens we see two Indian journalists, a reporter and cameraman, land by helicopter in Kabul.   John Abraham is Suhel Khan and Arshad Warsi is Jai Kapoor.   […]

Govinda aur Gori

This should be interesting, a vite voman as the love interest of a main character in a  totally mainstream Hindi movie that has nothing vaguely Rang de Basanti about it. Will there be skimpy costumes?   Drinking?   Smoking?   Pre-marital hanky panky?   Will the woman playing Chichi’s mother threaten to throw herself down […]

More pix from the Guru press conf

Flash!   Damn, I thought I put the ring in my jacket pocket!   Diamante bindi   Abhiwarya   A.R. Rahman wondering, given that 85% of the questions went to AB 2.0, and 10 to Mani, what he’s doing here   Ash making a point   Abhi sending out coded signals through his very own […]

Polyester vs. Khadi: Guru

  Last year it was Rang de Basanti and Omkara…. now, before the  second week of January 2007 is over, we have  Guru.   Three films, all less slapstick and fanciful than, say, Phir Hera Pheri or Chup Chup Ke, more real, yet still with the vibrant song picturizations and visual lyricism that so many […]