Haseen Dillruba Review: Wild, wicked but with warts
Nothing that goes on in this story actually prepares you for the end. If the test of a thriller lies in keeping its audience guessing, "Haseen Dillruba" would pass the test.
Nothing that goes on in this story actually prepares you for the end. If the test of a thriller lies in keeping its audience guessing, "Haseen Dillruba" would pass the test.
Mumbai Saga; Cast: John Abraham, Emraan Hashmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Amole Gupte, Suniel Shetty, Kajal Aggarwal, Rohit Roy, Anjana Sukhani, Prateik Babbar; Direction: Sanjay Gupta; Rating: * * (two stars)
It leaves you intrigued all the more because the man who gets it so right -- Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani -- has never lived in either India.
"Penguin" (film in Tamil and Telugu languages streaming on Amazon Prime); Cast: Keerthy Suresh, Lingaa, Advaith, Mathi; Direction: Eashvar Karthic; Rating: * * and 1/2 (two and a half stars)
A kind of a comedy that comes in once in a while with refreshing dialogue, new situational comedy elements and is just plain fun.
Sabyasachi Chakraborty plays the alcoholic, lonely, forever angry, self-destructive father and Kankana plays the daughter, equally self-destructive with her life in a shambles.
Taking forward Neeraj Pandey’s filmography, Raj Kumar Gupta does nothing new but paints nationalism blue or green.
De De Pyaar De ended on a hint of a sequel, and if the “Ranjanites” were to bring one, we hope it’s not as long and deliberate as the former.
Disjointed as the narrative may have been, it is visually stunning. For one, Bhatt is etched beautifully on screen forever.
The film feels like a story out of place, rendered in a society on a fantasmic island where innocence and to-do-only-good are the epithets of life as we know it.
