So, after last week’s anger parade, I suppose that I needed a little bit of catharsis. And what better catharsis than a movie that I enjoyed for the wrong reasons? And I don’t mean “so bad that it’s good” reason; I mean the wrong reasons. This is The Legend of Bhagat Singh, a movie that did not do so well in India…perhaps due to the reasons why I ( Read more... )

Tonight, millions will supposedly be watching a three-hour event full of Hollywood stars doing whatever ridiculous thing that they do. There may be musical numbers and fancy outfits and lots of filler material and people sitting around. If that appeals to you, but you think that it could use a little more awkward basketball with Bollywood stars ( Read more... )

Before I talk about this week’s movie, I just want to list a few movies released during the past year that were longer than this one: Titanic 3d, Cloud Atlas, The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Zero Dark Thirty. Okay, that was not a very long list, but it stands that if you can sit through any of those films, then ( Read more... )

There have been many Indian movies about the country’s fraught relationship with Pakistan. It is only natural, given their history. Shaurya hinted at the enmity between the two nations, but this week’s movie, Lahore, addresses the relationship more directly, and hints at the possibility of reconciliation. It is also a story about sports and how ( Read more... )