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'The grand Budapest hotel' does invoke nostalgia for the old times . Those times are long gone---trampled by nazi jackboots and later crushed by the dead hand of communism , for Budapest in this movie is a metaphor for central Europe ; Budapest being the capital of central European nation of...

This is one film with a massive DDLJ ( Dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge movie ) hangover . And it has no qualms about admitting that fact openly , but does not have the budget/money to reproduce ithe magic of DDLJ . While DDLJ showed us Switzerland , this film shuttles between Delhi and Ambala...

Hate story part 1 had delivered on both storyline , acting and above all on the oomph and sex scenes . The promos of part 2 promised the same . So off I went to the theater licking my lips in anticipation of some mouthwatering skin show and explicit sex scenes between the hero and heroine ...

This movie had already crossed the Rs 100 crore mark in money earned when I finally went to see it.....personal events had prevented me from seeing films for a month and a half , and the movie was already out of most theaters near my house . But since it had become such a hit , I was going to...

The modern Indian woman---the world is before her.... New career choices have opened up for her.... From being a lowly conductor in BEST bus in Mumbai to being a CEO of a corporation , she can try to become what she is capable of.... But not all women have got this choice---some are...

This is the first time I saw a Rajnikant film in the theater . Of course , I had seen his hindi films on TV/Video earlier and liked some of them like ' Andha Kanoon ' . But this film lacked the typical style of Rajnikant---the style of doing various tricks with the flick of a hand . What...

The jats of Haryana---stuck in the medieval age of caste and class and rules descended from ancient times..... And also stuck in archaic marriage laws---of not marrying a person descended from the same gotra ( linage ) calling such a marriage marrying ones own brother and sister... And the...

It's the swinging sixties and a producer originally from the south ( director of the film Ananth Mahadevan playing the role of Subba Rao ) decides to introduce India's first sex symbol as India has never had one before . Two babes are in the race for bagging the role . Interestingly both...

OH , The things that man has to do and can do for money and success.... Others cheat people , steal money , borrow and never return money---and still they lead respectable lives.... But when a man writes about everyone's ultimate fantasy---sex....then why does society look down upon him...

Ever since ' Hum aapke hai kaun ' became such a superhit 20 years ago , showing marriage in movies has become the staple for Bollywood entertainment . Endless number of movies are made showing scenes of marriage and the rituals and customs associated with it . Indian audiences simply love the...

Johnny Depp plays a researcher who wants to develop a machine that has human like feelings and intelligence , and has gone so far in his research that he is able to upload minds of living things onto computers so that the computers can think like living beings . But some extremists who oppose...

I had seen all that horror movies had to offer---creaking doors , eerie quiets and haunted underground cellars....or so I thought.... But as I sat down to see Oculus I realised that I had discovered a new vein of horror---without the same old tricks that had been done to death.... Of...

' Kutch nahi dekha to kuchh nahi dekha ' says the advertisement for Kutch tourism . But if you see this movie you might say ' Kutch mey kuchh nahi dekha ' especially from the tourism point of view. Because the movie shows Kutch as a godforsaken barren land without water where villagers are dying...

Kangana Ranaut's dreams of happy marriage and romance on honeymoon are rudely shattered when her fiance Rajkumar Yadav abruptly calls off the wedding . The simple and sweet Kangana breaks down into tears and closes her room for one day while relatives try to calm her down . When she emerges from...

Human trafficking---scourge of our time....scourge of all times since the beginning of history.... For human trafficking is what feeds what is reputedly the world's oldest profession---prostitution.... And some of these prostitutes are sex slaves---kidnapped and sold to feed the voracious...

Sunny Leone has come of age---finally !!....I mean , as a star.... Bodily she had come of age a long time ago ( he he )...and how !! But now she gets to showcase all her delicious curves and her alluring charms as a heroine in a film that comes in the decent-to-good category , unlike ' Jism...

The movie shows the Persian king Kashayarsha ( the Greeks called him Xerxes ) being instigated by his naval commander Artemisia to avenge the death of his father Darayavaush ( the Greeks called him Darius ) in battle with the Greeks by invading Greece again . The Artemisia is a Greek herself...

The setting is Paris , with the Eiffel tower making occasional appearances as backdrop . Kevin Costner plays a CIA agent who has got only a short time to live because of cancer . He decides to try to reconnect with his wife and daughter who he has neglected for many years as he gave those...

Gulab gang has something new in it---both the hero and villain are women , and that too not young but older women . Yeah , hero is the right word for Madhuri Dixit ; because heroine merely means ' love interest ' of the hero . The leader of the good people who fight against villainy is '...

Waiting to exhale---is Alia Bhatt's character ( Veera Tripathi ) in this film.... She is tired of the stuffy atmosphere of her household and of the malignant people she is supposed to call her own because they happen to be her relatives.... ....So much so that she is willing to take a...