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Why Trinny and Susannah's Makeover Mission India scores

Unlike Band Baaja Bride, Trinny and Susannah's Makeover Mission India isn't all about making your husband love you more. Neither the show nor the participants take themselves too seriously.

OUATIMD review: Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan fail the gangster test

The film takes a bunch of familiar modules, coats them with some fresh paint and hopes paying audiences won’t notice how old and tired the clichés are.

No paparazzi in India, so why is Kat sending media pouty letters?

As aam aadmi, I don’t understand Kat’s reaction at all. The paparazzi culture, which is so rampant in the West, is as active in India as Manmohan Singh’s speechwriter.

Hollywood Bowl: Of The Iceman, beer movies, and casting coups

A round-up of upcoming Hollywood flicks.

SRK salutes Rajini: you can't miss the 'lungi dance'

I may have to go swallow some Kafka and Faulkner after this column to feel smart again, but at least I know that I have done my Patient Zero duty in spreading the Lungi Dance virus.

Hollywood bowl: American Hustle, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and more

Here is a list of new releases, trailers of upcoming films from Hollywood.

Movie review: Chor Chor Superchor is a super letdown

At its best moments Chor Chor Superchor is a vehicle for Deepak Dobriyal to showcase his severely underrated acting range. Sadly, there are only two such moments in director K Rajesh’s well-meaning though ultimately superfluous debut film.

Was Salman just 'Being Human' when he hugged SRK?

Shah Rukh Khan tweeted about the incident saying that it felt good to finally turn the page. (Or maybe he was reading a book. Who knows?) Now all I’m waiting for is Salman’s reaction where he tweets something insightful and heartfelt like “Ye dekho makkhi. Mazza aaya? Kbye.”

What Bollywood could learn from Cory Monteith's drug overdose

I can’t help but wonder what would happen in a similar situation involving a local celebrity. In India, drug addiction in celebs is kept under such wraps it’s practically a mummy.

Movie review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureishi steal the show in 'Shorts'

While all the films didn’t work for me, it’s nice to see people actually trying to make films that are different, to see actors who can act and don’t tom-tom the fact that they didn’t wear makeup.

Movie Review: Cancel the apocalypse, 'Pacific Rim' is here

Pacific Rim is one of the few movies this year that delivers exactly what it has promised – chills, frills and loads of thrills.

It's time for the Annual Bollywood Circle Jerk, aka the IIFAs

When Bollywood wants to find out what people-they-usually-don’t-give-much-of-a-crap about are doing with their lives, they ask some poor sponsor to spend millions on an award show.

Movie Review: Man of Steel has the best Superman ever, but is no fun

Man of Steel thrives on the philosophy of self-serious popcorn flicks: ‘Weee! Who cares about character development when we get to DESTROY THINGS!’

Movie Review: 'After Earth' is not as bad as they’re all saying it is

Go with no expectations, and you may even come out liking the film.

Mothers and sisters, rejoice: Rice to Riches is here

Indians cooking homestyle Indian food instead of struggling with pizza- now that's a radical concept for a cooking show. Rice to Riches promises to be a different kind of cooking show. Except it seems only women can be home cooks in India.

DID Supermoms shows you the real Indian bahu

Out of all the trash programmes that you see on Indian reality television and entertainment TV which show women in the most regressive manner possible, this is the one show which stands apart.

Movie Review: The Hangover III is best watched when drunk

The problem with Hangover III is there’s not enough action in the film for an action flick, and for a comedy, there’s not enough comedy.

Movie Review: The Great Gatsby is the most Bollywood of Baz Luhrmann's films

The great American dream is an integral part of America. It’s ‘great’ in that it symbolises not truth, but hope when the truth is disillusioning; it symbolises not facts, but ideals when facts are unnerving; it symbolises not likelihood, but promise when likelihood is all but bleak.

Star Trek Into Darkness is a perfectly adequate popcorn film

Star Trek Into Darkness is a perfectly adequate summer blockbuster film. It is impeccably tailored to please both the Trekkies and the non-geeks, genre lovers as well as the average moviegoer.

Movie Review: Why Shootout at Wadala is a new low in Hindi cinema

While Indian cinema celebrates its 100th year with a cinematic offering in the best traditions of Indian movies with Bombay Talkies, the same weekend saw the release of another film — the Sanjay Gupta-directed Shootout at Wadala – which amply demonstrates the depths which our cinema can also sink to.

Movie review: Mud is a film with heart, a hunk and a lovable teenager

Here are five reasons why you should watch Mud.

Movie Review: Iron Man 3 is both a hit and a miss

Iron Man 3 is a fun but bumpy ride, and having come after The Avengers, which is possibly the most perfect summer blockbuster film ever, you can’t help but feel slightly dissatisfied.

Witches have every reason to be upset about Ek thi Daayan

What Wiccan priestess Ipsita Roy Chakravarti should have put her foot down about is how her ilk could be done in by someone as charmless and psychologically troubled as Bobo the Baffler.

Movie review: The Croods is fun in a family pack

It's like a mash-up of Journey to the Center of the Earth and Ice Age, and you'll love the joyride that The Croods take. Who'd have thought Nicholas Cage as a Neanderthal daddy could be so much fun?

Movie Review: Oblivion digs a black hole for itself

Despite an impressive cast, Tom Cruise's latest attempt to squash bad guys is confused and soulless.

Movie review: Watch Nautanki Saala for the gags, not the script

An excellent soundtrack and solid performances by Ayushmann Khurrana and Kunaal Roy Kapoor make the film worth a watch.

The six no-balls of the IPL Opening Ceremony

When the IPL opening ceremony began the young woman flying over the crowds on helium balloons looked like she had got the hardship posting. By the end you realised she had the best gig - she could make a quick escape.

Movie Review: Nobody can save G.I. Joe Retaliation from itself

It's got big stars and it's a Hollywood action movie. How bad could G.I. Joe: Redemption be? Let's put it this way. If you gave a pencil to a monkey, it probably would have written a better script.

Movie Review: Django Unchained is an out-and-out masala potboiler

Django Unchained is as close as Tarantino’s ever going to come to Bollywood, unless he casts Salman Khan himself in his next. But it is unlike any Tarantino film before and yet it’s classic Tarantino.

Manto's review of PC Barua's Zindagi

this is the only film review Manto ever wrote. The film is called Zindagi and it stars Saigal singing some of his biggest hits, 'So ja rajkumari' and 'Main kya janu kya jadu hai'.