Tag: film review

Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013) (Dir.: Kamaleswar Mukherjee; Cast: Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee et al.) Meghe Dhaka Tara is a fitting tribute to the great Ritwik Ghatak from Kamaleswar Mukherjee. In style, in substance, in form and even in its stark duo-tone, this new Meghe Dhaka Tara is a throwback to the great director’s…

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Dir.: Zoya Akhtar; Cast: Abhay Deol, Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar et al.) Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara? is a heartwarming movie from Zoya Akhtar around a road trip of self-discovery of three friends. After Kabir (Abhay Deol) proposes to his fiancee Natasha (Kalki Koechlin), he goes off to Spain for a long-planned…

Subarnarekha (Dir.: Ritwik Ghatak) Ritwik Ghatak’s Subarnarekha is a tale of a refugee family in the aftermath of the partition of Bengal. Subarnarekha tracks the lives of a man, his child sister and a young boy whom the man provided shelter after the boy loses his mother in a melee. The film begins in a…

Life of Pi (Dir.: Ang Lee; Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Gerard Depardieu et al.) Life of Pi is the latest offering from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee. The film is based on the novel with an identical title by Yann Martel. Life of Pi is one terrific example of being a meaningful film which…

Swades (Dir.: Ashutosh Gowariker; Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi et al.; Music: A.R. Rahman) Swades marked Ashutosh Gowariker?s return as a director after a hugely successful Lagaan. Swades is about the return of an Indian scientist working at NASA to his childhood village in India and about the incidents that follow next. Shah Rukh…

Autumn Sonata (Dir.: Ingmar Bergman; Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann et al.) Autumn Sonata is a gem of a film from renowned Swedish director Ingmar Bergman which centres around the complicated and difficult relationship of a famous pianist, Charlotte and her eldest daughter, Eva, portrayed by stalwarts Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann respectively. Autumn Sonata…

Royal Bengal Rahasya (Dir.: Sandip Ray; Cast: Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Bibhu Bhattacharya, Saheb Bhattacharya et al.) The biggest praise one can shower on Royal Bengal Rahasya is that it reminds the viewer of the first two Feluda movies made by the master Satyajit Ray himself. In its tone and mood,?Royal Bengal Rahasya strikes the right chord…

Raajneeti (Dir.: Prakash Jha; Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Nana Patekar, Arjun Rampal, Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpayee et al.) Prakash Jha?s reputation of making films against a socio-political backdrop grows with Raajneeti. But here, his canvas is bigger as he seeks to combine the Indian political scenario with The Godfather whilst peppering the plot with…

The Dark Knight Rises (Dir.: Christopher Nolan; Cast: C. Bale, M. Caine, Marion Cotillard, Anne Hathaway, G. Oldman, M. Freeman, Tom Hardy et al.) Note: These being early days in the life of the film, this review attempts to steer clear of the plot and possible spoilers. With The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan took…

Saving Private Ryan (Dir.: Steven Spielberg; Cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon et al.) Steven Spielberg?s World War II drama, Saving Private Ryan is more of a drama than a war film. The war in?Saving Private Ryan is the stage, setting up a playground for a number of individuals caught in a singular situation, forced to…