ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘Laal Kaptaan’ movie review: Saif Ali Khan-starrer is nasty, brutish and too longscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath In Navdeep Singh’s Laal Kaptaan, eighteenth-century India isn’t the nicest place to be. The Battle of Buxar of 1764 has been fought and lost, and …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘P Se Pyaar F Se Farraar’ movie review: The adults in the room eclipse the lovers on the runscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath This latest saga of young star-crossed lovers benefits considerably from the presence of older talent. Manoj Tiwari’s P Se Pyaar F Se Farraar is about …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ movie review: Lots of dazzle with a drizzle of tearsscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath Maleficent, the mostly magnificent and occasionally malevolent witch, remains the star of her latest adventure. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil continues …
ScrollEntertainment (India) An old man and his dog have something to say about coal mining in Chhattisgarhscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath What is that big machine for, wonders the man with the snow-coloured beard. He gets his answer when the mechanical digger demolishes an abandoned …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘Kastoori’ preview: A bright Dalit student struggles against taunts that he ‘smells like the gutter’scroll.in - Nandini Ramnath There is simply no dodging the horrors of caste in Vinod Kamble’s Kastoori (Musk). The Marathi film lays it out straight, without any feints or …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Rooms with a view: In Bihar-set film ‘Gamak Ghar’, documentary and fiction are inseparablescroll.in - Nandini Ramnath Is Gamak Ghar a fictional film that borrows heavily from documentary or a documentary pretending to be fiction? It’s hard to tell – and that is …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘Laal Kaptaan’ music review: Tune in to ‘Lahu Ka Rang Kara’ and rapper Dino Jamesscroll.in - Devarsi Ghosh The Laal Kaptaan soundtrack has just four songs. The songs in Navdeep Singh’s 18th century-set drama are meant to be used as background score, the …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Shillong’s Iewduh market is the setting for a heartwarming film about love and dreamsscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath “Life is more complex and powerful than it appears on the outside,” a female voice notes in the opening scenes of Iewduh. Pradip Kurbah’s film is …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Saif Ali Khan interview: ‘The only image is that of an actor who likes to mix things up’scroll.in - Udita Jhunjhunwala From playing brooding police officer Sartaj Singh in Sacred Games to a Naga sadhu in Laal Kaptaan and then trading in his wigs and bristles for a …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘The Sky is Pink’ movie review: No schlocky moments – but that isn’t necessarily a good thingscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath Yes, the sky can be pink too, and it is, at times, when the retreating sun is in a good mood. But could the sky in Shonali Bose’s latest movie have …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Ayushmann Khurrana comedy ‘Bala’ to clash with ‘Ujda Chaman’, new trailer outscroll.in - Scroll Staff Amar Kaushik’s Bala, about a man with receding hairline, will take on Abhishek Pathak’s Ujda Chaman, also about a man with a receding hairline, in the …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Finally, a film about Annapurna Devi that unpacks the legend behind the Hindustani musicianscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath A Request Please Ring The Bell Only Three Times If Nobody Answers, Please Leave Your Card/Letter Thank You For Being Considerate Smt Annapurna Devi This …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Sayani Gupta interview: ‘A huge dearth of quality female roles in mainstream cinema and shows’scroll.in - Sruthi Ganapathy Raman Sayani Gupta has her hands full. Among the actor’s upcoming projects are the single-character film Where The Winds Blow, Nicholas Kharkongor’s satire …
ScrollFrozen 2 ‘Frozen 2’: Expect ‘more magic and mystery but also a deep emotional core’, promises key animatorscroll.in - Scroll Staff Disney’s Frozen (2013) was the highest-earning animated film of all time, and won widespread acclaim for its unusual plotline about the bond between …
ScrollEntertainment (India) North Eastern food ingredient axone plays a starring role in a film about racism and friendshipscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath Nicholas Kharkongor’s Axone is part of a small but growing list of films about what culinary habits tell us about Indian society. In 2019 alone, …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Sanal Kumar Sasidharan is back in nightmare town for his new movie ‘Chola’scroll.in - Nandini Ramnath The night is dark and full of terrors – this oft-quoted line from George RR Martin’s A Game of Thrones novels applies aptly to Malayalam director …
ScrollMaradona In documentary on football legend Diego Maradona, a portrait of a ‘rebel, hero, hustler, god’scroll.in - Udita Jhunjhunwala Academy Award-winning British filmmaker Asif Kapadia has been travelling the world promoting his latest biographical documentary Diego Maradona. …
ScrollEntertainment (India) In Navdeep Singh’s Saif Ali Khan-starrer ‘Laal Kaptaan’, a story of ‘man versus nature’scroll.in - Devarsi Ghosh Naveep Singh’s neo-Western Laal Kaptaan is set 25 years after the Battle of Buxar in the late 18th century. The movie follows a militant Naga sadhu, …
ScrollEntertainment (India) The movie that made Irrfan Khan an international starscroll.in - Scroll Staff Irrfan Khan’s Hollywood career is going swimmingly. After starring in Jurassic World, one of the biggest hits of 2015 as well as one of the highest …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Govind Nihalani interview: ‘The difficult way is often the best way’scroll.in - Aditya Sharma A few months before the Partition in 1947, a seven-year old boy was baffled to see his otherwise quiet neighbourhood in Karachi bearing strains of …
ScrollEntertainment (India) Had enough of swaggering Simmba and Singham? Watch Om Puri’s Anant Velankar in ‘Ardh Satya’ insteadscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath Rohit Shetty’s box-office hit Simmba is the latest movie to celebrate the rowdy cop. This manliest of men breaks the law while claiming to uphold it …
ScrollEntertainment (India) In film ‘Aise Hee’, an elderly woman spreads her wings and causes a flutterscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath Why did you buy roses for yourself? Just like that. Why are you learning embroidery? Just like that. It should be simple enough to follow your heart’s …
ScrollEntertainment (India) How ‘Bard of Blood’ brought Balochistan to India: ‘Created a madrasa in two days flat’scroll.in - Devarsi Ghosh The latest Indian Netflix series Bard of Blood follows Indian intelligence agent Kabir (Emraan Hashmi), who goes deep inside Pakistan to rescue Indian …
ScrollEntertainment (India) In Sri Lankan film ‘Gaadi’, a searing exposition of the caste system across the Palk Straitsscroll.in - Nandini Ramnath Although acclaimed director Prasanna Vithanage’s searing new movie Gaadi (Children of the Sun) is set in Sri Lanka a few centuries ago, its themes of …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘War’ movie review: You had us at the casting stagescroll.in - Nandini Ramnath Nothing much to see here, really, other than two of Bollywood’s most photogenic hunks going mano a mano. Vaani Kapoor? She is on the screen for less …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy’ movie review: Freedom struggle epic works best when in battle modescroll.in - Nandini Ramnath The biopic Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy is possibly the longest flashback in the history of the movies. It’s 1857, and British troops are threatening to …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘Joker’ movie review: A one-man show led brilliantly by Joaquin Phoenixscroll.in - Sanjukta Sharma The Joker is a comic-book humdinger. No supervillain comes close to his disruptive articulation in the DC Universe, and no pain is more explosive …
ScrollEntertainment (India) ‘Ujda Chaman’ trailer: Another balding hero’s saga of finding lovescroll.in - Scroll Staff Chaman is a 30-year-old Hindi lecturer who is prematurely balding. Chaman is the target of ridicule by his students and a flop show in the love …
ScrollEntertainment (India) In Goutam Ghose’s ‘Raahgir’, humanity thrives in a remote Indian villagescroll.in - Devarsi Ghosh In Goutam Ghose’s Raahgir (The Wayfarers), a destitute man and woman are travelling to a distant town in Jharkhand to earn some wages. The man (Adil …
