Should you survive the first half of the film, pat yourself on the back and stay on till the end because hey, it can’t get any worse now. But whaddya know? The first scene post interval does start with the father ...
Nagesh Kukunoor was probably the pioneer of the wave of crossover cinema in "Bollywood", with his rather tacky but delightful Hyderabad Blues almost a decade ago (not sure if the same can be said about its sequel). He sure has survived ...
Recently, it has been the content-driven, smaller budget films that have made a bigger splash than their bigger budget counterparts. Critically also, Udaan and Tere Bin Laden both outshone Lamhaa while Peepli [Live] has reported far healthier box office receipts than ...
Lafangey Parindey is yet another superficial offering from the big, hollow world of Bollywood. A film, which had ample scope to be a touching and feel-good love story, ultimately fails to impress as it trudges along the predictable Hindi film road. ...
Peepli [Live] is a delightful, adeptly helmed satire the likes of which haven't been seen since Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and the innumerable attempts it has inspired. Yet these are films are in the realm of farce; Peepli [Live] however falls ...
Aarohan (Bengali)
Death as a subject is a morbid area and therefore, both challenging and depressing. If a film revolves around death in all its manifestations, and crops up at very juncture of the narrative, it can rarely have entertainment value and we ...
Naan Mahaan Alla (Tamil)
After Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu (2009), one looked forward to director Susindran's second film. But unfortunately, though he shows he is quite in control of his craft, and one has to commend the technical department of the film, one really wishes the ...
Antim Swash Sundar (Bengali)
Some films cannot hold together despite good production values even if there are cinematic possibilities in the storyline. The ideology of this film seems to have been inspired from WW Jacob's short story The Monkey's Paw written many years ago. ...
Inidhu Inidhu (Tamil)
Inidhiu Inidhu is a re-make of the Telugu film, Happy Days. However, it does not measure up to the original film, which was far more glossy and engrossing as well. It attempts to be a youthful, colourful and feel-good film. ...
Vamsam (Tamil)
After Pasanga last year, there was a great deal of expectation from Director Pandiraj. However, he seems to have fallen into the time-worn trap of formula, a revenge story, complete with the aruvals (scythes) and rural backdrop! The film seems to ...
When the Pakistan India cricket series resumed after a long hiatus, I thought it was a good idea to travel to Pakistan to make a film about cricket and how it affects as well as reflects the state of affairs between the people of India and Pakistan. I wanted to .......
Kajol is undoubtedly one of the best actresses we have at present in the Hindi film industry. She has an uncanny ability to almost always rise above the script, is able to switch moods with consummate ease and breathe life into every scene she does.
Set in Laalgurj, Uttar Pradesh, Dabangg is a story of Chulbul Pandey (Salman Khan), a totally fearless but corrupt police officer with unorthodox working methods. Chulbul's father passed away when he was very young after which his mother Naini (Dimpla Kapadia) m.......
Upperstall blogs features filmmakers expressing their thoughts on cinema... and everything else.
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New Theatres, a Kolkata based film studio, was one of the premier filmmaking institutions that promoted cinema as art and entertainment. The impact of New Theatres was a pan-Indian phenomenon. During the 1930s and the early 1940s, the company produced multi-lingual films which were popular all over the sub-continent. In fact, New Theatres nurtured 
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MG Ramachandran
Sahir Ludhianvi
Suchitra Sen
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