I’ve developed a policy for weekend movie-watching over the years:   Fridays and Saturdays, anything goes, but Sunday evenings, no depressing films allowed.    There’s nothing worse than going to sleep Sunday night after seeing Enemies: A Love Story or Pixote.   Under this criteria, Chandni Bar should be seen no later than Friday […]

  O.k., let me come clean with you.       I have a teeny, tiny crush on Ritesh Deshmukh.   It’s nothing serious, and I was thrilled to see him recently in as good a movie as Bluffmaster (especially given some of his other films, like Out of Control), but this   – ahem […]

While not a mainstream Hindi movie, I thought I’d include  a  review here that I did a few months back of Deepa Mehta’s most recent film.   Water, the final film in director Deepa Mehta’s trilogy of the elements, proves to moviegoers that good things can come to those who wait. The history of the […]

First thing I noticed is that the name of the film’s jeweler is listed before the opening credits even start running.   Once the movie gets underway, you understand why: the women, and quite a few men, are dripping in more bling than you’d see at the BET awards. The story in a nutshell: Rani […]