B.A. Pass is a bleak, noir-ish and sexually charged parable of life in contemporary Delhi. Shadab Kamal plays Mukesh, a first year college student who, after the sudden death of his parents is sent to live under the reluctant care of his aunt and uncle. There he meets the wealthy and fashionable Sarika (Shilpa Shukla) […] Read more »
Indian director Anurag Kashyap’s follow up to the epic crime saga, Gangs of Wasseypur, is a contemporary kidnapping thriller that more than lives up to its title. When a wannabe actor with a failed marriage loses his young daughter to the bustling city streets he is pitted against the corrupt police captain who is now […] Read more »
Two office-bound slackers entice their workaholic friend to a resort, where they party hard, meet some beautiful women, stumble upon seedy underworld types before, inevitably, trying to fight off the zombie apocalypse. Sound familiar? What makes Go Goa Gone different is the Bollywood production values. This is the first mainstream Indian Zombie film and it’s […] Read more »
How does one even begin to describe Anurag Kashyap’s incredible crime epic that spans three generations of a gangster family in the Eastern state of Bihar. The film essentially charts the feud between two rival families, as the children of the Khan family battle to avenge the death of their patriarch by a rival gangster […] Read more »
The final film from acclaimed director Yash Chopra, Jab Tak Hai Jaan is a ambitious and beautifully filmed romantic adventure. Set in London and Northern India (Ladakh & Kashmir), the film tells the story of a soldier who lives largely in isolation as a way to cope with heartbreaking unrequited love. Read more »
Jab Tak Hai Jaan was legendary director Yash Chopra’s final film. Starring long-time collaborator and box-office superstar Shah Rukh Khan, whose career Chopra launched in Darr (1993), Jab Tak Hai Jaan is sprawling and ambitious romantic adventure. Khan plays Major Samar Anand, a fearless bomb disposal expert and mysterious lone wolf. In a memorable opening […] Read more »
In the wake of Zack Snyder’s 300 and Louis Le Terrier’s Clash of the Titans comes Immortals, Tarsem Singh’s fast and loose reinterpretation of Theseus and the Minotaur. While there is little onscreen to reassure classicists that the filmmakers know their Greek mythology, more forgiving or ambivalent audiences should find something to enjoy in this […] Read more »