Tag: anurag kashyap

Bombay Velvet (Dir.: Anurag Kashyap; Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Karan Johar, Siddhartha Basu, Anushka Sharma et al.) Anurag Kashyap’s mainstream debut is a mixed bag for his admirers. I am an admirer of the director myself, but I suppose my high expectations played spoilsport with my experience of Bombay Velvet. Bombay Velvet lacks Anurag Kashyap’s trademark…

Ugly (Dir.: Anurag Kashyap; Cast: Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Vineet Singh et al.) Anurag Kashyap has done it again. With Ugly, Anurag Kashyap, without doubt one of the best active Indian directors, has woven another masterful work around the contemporary society. It is being marketed as “a dark psychological thriller on the surface and an…

Hasee Toh Phasee (Dir.: Vinil Mathew; Cast: Parineeti Chopra, Sidharth Malhotra) Nikhil (Sidharth Malhotra) is visiting a wedding when he falls in love with the bride’s sister, Karishma (Adah Sharma). Jump to seven years later: Nikhil and Karishma are engaged to be married in a week at the end of a seven-year courtship. Cue for…

Gangs of Wasseypur (Dir.: Anurag Kashyap; Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tigmanshu Dhulia et al.) It would suffice to say that Gangs of Wasseypur is a film which is in a class of its own by such a far distance from its peers from the same house, that, by the sheer fact of its existence,…