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REVIEW 319: QISSA: THE TALE OF A LONELY GHOST
Release date (India):February 20, 2015Director:Anup SinghCast:Language:Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome, Rasika DugalPunjabi (with English subtitles)Qissa is a film of simmering intensity...
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REVIEW 320: AB TAK CHHAPPAN 2
Release date (India):February 27, 2015Director:Aejaz GulabCast:Language:Nana Patekar, Ashutosh Rana, Gul Panag, Govind Namdeo, Vikram Gokhale, Mohan Agashe, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Raj ZutshiHindiSadhu...
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REVIEW 321: DUM LAGA KE HAISHA
Release date (India):February 27, 2015Director:Sharat KatariyaCast:Language:Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Sanjay Mishra, Seema Pahwa, Alka Amin, Sheeba ChaddhaHindiI spent most of Yashraj Films’...
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MALE-DOMINATED HOLLYWOOD / FILM FATALE: COLUMN PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU...
DESPERATELY SEEKING BIRDWOMAN AND GIRLHOODThis week’s Oscars exemplified the male domination of Hollywood, an industry where actresses still get lower pay, less meaty roles and fewer big-budget films...
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REVIEW 322: COFFEE BLOOM
Release date:March 6, 2015Director:Manu WarrierCast:Language:Arjun Mathur, Sugandha Garg, Mohan KapurHindi and EnglishCoffee Bloom is a small, charming even if inconsistent film about a young man...
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REVIEW 323: NH10
Release date:March 13, 2015Director:Navdeep SinghCast:Language:Anushka Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam, Darshan Kumaar, Deepti NavalHindiNH10 is eerie, scary andfrighteningly realistic.It is the kind of film...
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RISHI KAPOOR ON TWITTER / FILM FATALE: COLUMN PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU...
FEISTY, FEARLESS CHINTUJIRishi Kapoor is taking the social media by storm, commenting on contentious issues and refusing to be silenced by trolls, in a manner uncharacteristic of mainstream BollywoodBy...
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STARS WHO ENDORSE FAIRNESS PRODUCTS / ARTICLE PULISHED IN THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
(This article by Anna M.M. Vetticad first appeared in The New Indian Express in June 2011)VANITY FAIRFairness cream brand ambassadors strive to balance the opposing pulls of lucrative brand...
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REVIEW 324: BROKEN HORSES
Release date:April 10, 2015Director:Vidhu Vinod ChopraCast:Language:Chris Marquette, Anton Yelchin, Vincent D’Onofrio, Maria Valverde, Sean Patrick FlaneryEnglishTwenty six years after the release of...
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REVIEW 325: COURT
Release date:April 17, 2015Director:Chaitanya TamhaneCast:Language:Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Vira Sathidar, Pradeep JoshiMarathi with Hindi, English, Gujarati It’s the simplest of films, yet...
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REVIEW 326: MARGARITA WITH A STRAW
Release date:April 17, 2015Director:Shonali Bose (Co-director: Nilesh Maniyar)Cast:Language:Kalki Koechlin, Revathy, Sayani Gupta, Kuljeet Singh, Hussain Dalal, William Moseley, Tenzin DalhaHindi and...
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REVIEW 327: NANAK SHAH FAKIR
Release date:April 17, 2015Director:The credits name Harinder Sikka, but Sartaj Singh Pannu has reportedly gone to court claiming that he is the film’s directorCast:Language:Glowing computer-generated...
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REVIEW 328: AVENGERS - AGE OF ULTRON (3D)
Release date:April 24, 2015Director:Joss WhedonCast:Language:Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron...
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PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES & OTHER MARGINALISED SECTIONS IN FILMS / FILM...
FROM IQBAL TO MARGARITA: NO ‘THEM’, ONLY ‘US’Physically challenged, mentally challenged,Muslim, Christian, Sikh, gay,woman… it is possible for a character to be all or any of these, yet be a source of...
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REVIEW 329: GABBAR IS BACK
Release date:May 1, 2015Director:KrishCast:Language:Akshay Kumar, Shruti Haasan, Jaideep Ahlawat, Suman Talwar, Sunil GroverHindiIt's the loudest Hindi film to come to theatres in a while. That’s...
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THE annavetticadgoes2themovies AWARDS: BEST BOLLYWOOD FILMS & ACTING...
Four years since The annavetticadgoes2themovies Awards kicked off, the one thing that has remained a constant in the Mumbai film industry is evolution. Cynics may not agree, but the truth is we’ve been...
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REVIEW 330: PIKU
Release date:May 8, 2015Director:Shoojit SircarCast:Language:Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, Irrfan, Moushumi Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Raghuvir YadavHindiA cantankerous old man obsessed with...
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REVIEW 331: BOMBAY VELVET
Release date:May 15, 2015Director:Anurag KashyapCast:Language:Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Karan Johar, Satyadeep Misra, Kay Kay Menon, Manish Chaudhary, Siddhartha Basu, Remo Fernandes, Vivaan Shah,...
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KARAN JOHAR INTERVIEW / PUBLISHED IN MAXIM INDIA
“I’M APPROACHING A MID-LIFE CRISIS”Karan Johar is convinced he will soon have a mid-life crisis. That’s an unusual admission, coming as it does from one of India’s most successful...
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REVIEW 332: TANU WEDS MANU RETURNS
Release date:May 22, 2015Director:Aanand L. RaiCast:Language:R. Madhavan, Kangna Ranaut, Swara Bhaskar, Jimmy Sheirgill, Deepak Dobriyal, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Eijaz Khan, Rajendra GuptaHindiTanu...
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