Archive for the ‘Comedy’ Category
De Dana Dan (2009)
Infused with wickedly funny dialogues, naughty one liners and hilarious situations, director Priyadarshan’s De Dana Dan is a rip-roaring comedy which requires one to put aside his/her sense of logic to let the laughter sink in for the next three hours. Shot entirely in Singapore, the film starts slow but soon the real fun begins as ...
Rocket Singh – Salesman of the Year (2009)
Rocket Singh is not a great film – for great films usually do very well with critics and rake in the moolah at the box office too – but it certainly is a good one. To begin with, it is refreshing to see Ranbir Kapoor step out of the romantic-stooge mould he has been stereotyping ...
Wake Up Sid (2009)
Whether it’s the typical Indian soap opera family saga, a controversial extra marital soap opera, or a playful film full of ribald humor, like him or loathe him, Karan Johar just knows how to make films. Period. With his latest venture Karan and Dharma Productions have come of age; quite ironically in a film that ...
What’s Your Raashee (2009)
What’s Your Raashee? is Ashutosh Gowariker’s sardonic way of asking ‘what’s your patience’ (or ‘how far can your bladder hold’ as an Indian critic has unabashedly pointed out). The Lagaan director (and hardcore Swadesi) had seriously lost his marbles as he ran out of patience and dignity during an awards show when he derided ...
Life Partner (2009)
Like all art forms, films have their own genres: thriller, suspense, romantic, comedy etc. Bollywood has all those and one genre that stands entirely on its own – the Govinda movie. Now how does one define a quintessential Govinda flick? Calling it mindless entertainment would be too simplistic, it is crass yet erudite, educating audiences ...
Kambakkht Ishq (2009)
After a long tedious week, what one desperately needs is mindless entertainment. And this is precisely what Kambakkht Ishq promises and delivers: Bollywood masala coated in glam, tossed with idiotic humour, garnished with scantily clad women, spiced with a brigade of Hollywood superstars, and of course that special condiment a super sexy Kareena Kapoor igniting ...
Little Zizou (2009)
Indian cinema has been making serious inroads and developments into unchartered territories without the stereotypical Bollywood masala in tow- so much so that now even the term ‘Bollywood’ has been swiftly erased and replaced with the more professional diction of ‘industry’. With offerings of films like Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye, Chak De India, Life in ...
Billu Barber (2009)
Billu Barber easily proves what you already know: Shah Rukh Khan has tremendous star appeal but when it comes to acting, he can easily be upstaged, in this case by the better Khan – Irrfan Khan. Billu is a story set in the picturesque village of Budbuda, where Billu the hajam (Irrfan Khan) struggles ...
Dhoondte Reh Jaoge (2009)
Just when we begin to praise Bollywood for making alternative films, it throws a film like Dhoondte Reh Jaoge in our path making one feel either nervous for having cast an ill omen on the industry, or worse, feeling like a dimwit to have spoken too soon. For all the Farhan Akhtars and Anurag Basus, ...
Afsar (1950)
Synopsis The journalist Kapur (Dev Anand) comes to a village run by corrupt politicians led by the village tehsildar (Kanhaiyalal). They mistake him for a government inspector and treat him like a VIP. The expose of rural politics is intercut with a love story between Kapur and the tehsildar’s sister Bimala (Suraiya). Review Afsar, Navketan’s first film, was ...
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