Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Gulshan Grover, Laila Rouass, Arrun Harker, Clemency Burton-Hill, Tolga Safer, Ralph Ineson, Stephen Greif, India Wadsworth, John Warman, Jamie Doyle, Jayson Whiteley, Clifford Samuel, Mikaal Zulfikar, Cloudia Swann, Avtar Kaul, Alex McSweeney, Taru Devani Director: Jagmohan Mundhra Producer: Aron Govil Hair Designer: Michelle Watson Cinematographer: Madhu Ambat Costume Designer: Sarah Tapscott Production Designer: Roger Harris You have it to hand it out to director Jagmohan Mundhra. All his recent films derive their stories from real life incidents. He picks his stories from newspapers and then proceeds to transform them to reel, as he did with Kamla, Bawandar and Provoked among others. This time too he picks on a very topical subject for his film … [Read more...]

Cast: Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Dino Morea, Riya Sen, Vatsal Seth, Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Preity Zinta, Sohail Khan, Amrita Arora, Rekha Director: Sameer Karnik Producer: Sameer Karnik, Bharat Shah, Vikas Kapoor Cinematographer: Gopal Shah, Binod Pradhan Story Writer: Aseem Arora, Sameer Karnik Sound Designer: Leslie Fernandes Music: Monty Sharma, Sajid-Wajid Lyrics: Rahul Seth, Jalees Sherwani Music Company: Eros Music Banner: Mega Bollywood Pvt. Ltd., Future Picture Company Pvt. Ltd What we have here is a very good story idea; what is lacking is proper cinematic treatment. End result; what could have been an applause worthy effort, just about manages to pass muster thanks in the main to the brilliance in between. Another thing that could have worked for the film is … [Read more...]

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Javed Jaffrey (as voice-over of animated characters) Director: Jugal Hansraj Music:Salim-Suleiman Lyrics: Jaideep Sahni Something about the finesse in the promos, which began showing almost six months ago, told me that this film would rescue the Yash Raj banner. And this is something I committed myself to going on record in print in the Financial Chronicle (October 3, 2008) issue. It's scary today to predict the fate of a film based on promos alone. But there was something about the characterisation in this animated film that stood out. So, I guess, I was not wrong. ROADSIDE ROMEO does live up to the finesse in its promos. … [Read more...]

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Celina Jaitley, Amrita Arora, Murli Sharma, Vrajesh Hirjee, Mukesh Tiwari, Ram Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Anjana Sukhani, Sanjay Mishra, Ashwini Kalsekar, Preeti Bhutani, Rakhi Vijan Publicity Designer: Rahul Nanda, Himanshu Nanda Story Writer: Rumi Jaffrey Director: Rohit Shetty Producer: Dhilin Mehta Banner: Shri Ashtavinayak Cine Visions Music Director: Ashiesh Pandit, Pritam , Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani Playback Singer: Shekhar Ravjiani, Sneha Pant, Vishal Dadlani, Suhail Kaul, Suzie. Q, Monali Thakur, Earl , Akruti Kakkar, Javed Ali, Neeraj Shridhar, Kay Kay, Sunidhi Chauhan, Anushka Manchanda, Shaan , Benny Dayal, Anvesha Dutta Lyricist: Vishal Dadlani, Neeraj Shridhar, Sameer , Ashiesh Pandit, Suzie. Q, … [Read more...]

Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Arjan Bajwa, Mugdha Godse, Arbaaz Khan, Harsh Chhaya, Sameer Soni, Kangna Ranaut, Kitu Gidwani Cinematographer: Mahesh Limaye Publicity Designer: Marching Ants Story Writer: ajay monga Costume Designer: Rita Dhody Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Producer: Ronnie Screwvala Production Designer: Nitin Desai Banner: UTV Motion Pictures Music Director: Sulaiman Merchant, Salim Merchant Playback Singer: Mohit Chauhan, Neha Bhasin, Sukhwinder Singh, Salim Merchant, Shruti Pathak, Satya Hinduja, Robert "Bob" Omulo Lyricist: Sandeep Nath Music Company: T-Series Finally, the Diwali week got its due. Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion lives up to all the hype and hoola surrounding it. The film has all the tizzy masala of the fashion world and it combines it with it a story, … [Read more...]

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, Malaika Arora, Aashish Chaudhary, Neha Uberoi, Natasha Suri, Manoj Joshi, Pushkar Jog, Daya Shankar Pandey, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Urmila Matondkar Cinematographer: Paramvir Singh Story Writer: Saurabh Kabra Costume Designer: Naveen Shetty Sound Designer: Dilip Subramaniam Director: Saurabh KabraProducer: Shabbir Boxwala, Ekta Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Shobha Kapoor Production Designer: Pritam Patil Banner: Popcorn Motion Pictures Pvt. Ltd. Music Director: Chirantan Bhatt Playback Singer: Rishi , Paarthiv , Joy , Mahalaxmi Iyer, Ninaad Kamat, Neisha , Shaan , Earl , Sanjay Dutt, Mohit Chauhan, Sunidhi Chauhan Lyricist: Sarim Momin, Hamza Farokhi Saurabh Kabra's directorial debut venture, EMI, is a sweet take on the business of loans: giving, … [Read more...]

Cast: John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Abhishek Bachchan Cinematographer: Ayananka Bose Story Writer: Tarun Mansukhani Costume Designer: Aki Narula, Manish Malhotra Sound Designer: Baylon Fonseca Director: Tarun Mansukhani Producer: Karan Johar, Yash Johar Production Designer: Amrita Singh Nakai Banner: Dharma Productions Music Director: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani Playback Singer: Shankar Mahadevan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan , Vishal Dadlani, Shreya Ghosal, Amanat Ali Lyricist: Anvita Dutt Guptan, Kumaar , Vishal Dadlani Debutant director Tarun Mansukhani's Dostana, is a delightful comedy, spiced with just the right elements of gay eity. There is certain cheekiness about the film, especially in the very blatant manner in which it deals with gay relationships. … [Read more...]