Real Steel (Dir.: Shawn Levy; Cast: Hugh Jackman et al.) Real Steel is a heartwarming story of estranged father and son bonding and an underdog story packaged in a new bottle – in a world of robots boxing it out in arenas for professional glory and money in an imaginary future world. Hugh Jackman stars…
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Review: Where Is The Land?
Where is the Land? (Dir.: Hushyar Z. Nerwayi) I watched Where is the Land? at the Kolkata Film Festival 2012. The director, Hushyar Z. Nerwayi was there himself and was introduced by the festival director just before the film begun. Where is the Land? is a drama that follows a couple living in a village…
Review: Noukadubi
Noukadubi (Dir.: Rituparno Ghosh; Cast: Riya Sen, Raima Sen, Jishu Sengupta, Prosenjit Chatterjee et al.) Noukadubi (The Boatwreck) is Rituparno Ghosh?s adaptation of the Rabindranath Tagore novel bearing the same title. The plot of Noukadubi deals with a case of mistaken identity and the ensuing choices and about how it affects the lives of a…
Review: Notting Hill
Notting Hill (Dir.: Roger Michell; Cast: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts et al.) Notting Hill is a romantic drama/ comedy starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts plays a film star and Hugh Grant plays a bookstore owner. They meet at his bookstore and another chance meeting later, a relationship grows between these two individuals…
Review: Moneyball
Moneyball (Dir.: Bennett Miller; Cast: Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman et al.) Moneyball is a bat-meets-number, sports-meets-analytics story with a tight plot that hooks the viewer and manages to keep him engaged till the end. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, trying to put together a winning…
Review: Moner Manush
Moner Manush (Dir.: Goutam Ghose) Moner Manush is Goutam Ghose? screen adaptation of the Sunil Gangopadhyay novel bearing the same title. Moner Manush is a depiction of Lalan Fakir, an Indian saint who lived in the 18th century. This is the story of a simpleton from an Indian village in the region of Bengal and…
Review: Minority Report
Minority Report (Dir.: Steven Spielberg) Minority Report from the maestro, Steven Spielberg, is a sci-fi film which deals with a number of complicated themes intertwined with each other. Tom Cruise stars in the role of a crime prevention official in a futuristic world ridden free of crime through pre-emptive measures taken to thwart potential criminals….
Review: Children of Heaven
Children of Heaven (Bacheha-ye Aseman; Dir.: Majid Majidi) Children of Heaven (or Bacheha-ye Aseman) is a poignant human drama by the acclaimed Iranian director Majid Majidi. Majid Majidi?s films are defined by their quiet flow, in the course of which tender human feelings, emotions and relationships are explored in an equally tender manner which rarely…
Review: Meghe Dhaka Tara
Meghe Dhaka Tara (Cloud-Capped Star, Dir.: Ritwik Ghatak) Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star) by the respected Indian director Ritwik Ghatak is an intense human drama starring renowned Bengali actors Anil Chatterjee and Supriya Choudhury in the lead roles. Meghe Dhaka Tara is an experience too enormous and deep to be described in words. This…
Review: Satyajit Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy
Satyajit Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy (Pratidwandi, Seemabaddha and Jana Aranya) Pratidwandi (The Adversary) is the earliest part of Satyajit Ray?s Calcutta Trilogy, the other two being Seemabaddha and Jana Aranya. Pratidwandi?s plot is derived from a Sunil Gangopadhyay novel. The film portrays the trials and tribulations of a young man in Kolkata (then Calcutta) in the…