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Masterchef Kitchen Ke Superstar marries Chitrahaar and sob stories

Masterchef Kitchen Ke Superstar has everything - sad stories, filmi songs, a who's the most handsome judge poll, bright sets. Everything except enough cooking and food.

Oscar Awards: No more just an American film awards show

Hardly any of the films were straight-forward "American" this year at the Oscars.

Top ten nightmares from the Filmfare awards

From vanishing hosts to Michael Jackson noses to white tuxes, the Filmfare awards gave Rajyasree Sen plenty of reasons to be have nightmares galore. Here are her top ten.

Downton Abbey: Why the bonnets 'n waistcoats period works

Producers in the UK, and BBC in particular, have always been obliging and impeccable in their delivery of the Period drama duly injected with romance, intrigue, conspiracies, village politics and the oft-mandatory bloody murder.

Movie Review: Midnight's Children is a stunning mess

For the brave attempt and the fabulous ensemble cast, the movie warrants a singular visit to the theaters, but unlike the novel or the momentous date it is built on, the movie won’t be making it to the history books.

Emotional Atyachaar is trash TV at its best

If we suspect our partners, we should check their cars. That's what Rajyasree Sen learned from watching the new season of Emotional Atyachaar.

The SRK example: Why Indian Muslims can't criticise India

Like children who need a pacifier, the Muslim offering opinion on prejudice must hold out this lollipop to Indians whose natural view of him is coloured by his religion.

Mostly, we hardly meet: Kiron Kher is brutally frank about Anupam

In a 'marriage of opposites' Kiron Kher talks about her choices and life with Anupam Kher. She doesn't mince words and tells it like it is - the up and down of marriage, growing apart, rivalry, all of it.

Beware Inkaar: How NOT to do a film about sexual harassment

If ever there was a worse advertisement for women who’ve broken through the glass ceiling, it is Sudhir Mishra’s Inkaar. It's a sad day when Karan Johar and Abbas-Mustan depict women better than Sudhir Mishra.

Film Review: Gangster Squad is 2013's first big fat disappointment

Gangster Squad spells something between “OMGISTHISREALLYHAPPENING” and “OMGHOWCOULDTHEYDOTHIS”. It has so many things going for it, and yet, it somehow botches it all up.

The 20 best films you have NOT seen in 2012

Here's the "best of" list you must bookmark. Nikhil Taneja has seen all the films so you don't have to. And he's come up with the 20 best indie films, from India and beyond, that you've probably missed.

2012 in Indie cinema: Wayne Blair on 'The Sapphires'

Australian actor-director Wayne Blair’s first full length feature film, The Sapphires is about four talented indigenous Australian girls who form a music group and travel to Vietnam to sing for troops in the year 1968, when racism was still rampant in Australia.

Movie Review: Moonrise Kingdom's spell makes even Bruce Willis adorable

In his simplest film to date, Wes Anderson has let his heart take over his head and that makes his Moonrise Kingdom the rarest romantic comedy - romantic and a comedy. And Bruce Willis is adorable!

Movie Review: Dredd(3D) is just Dreddful

The only difference between Raid: Redemption and Dredd (3D) is that Dredd is about 45-times more expensive, and about a 100-times less interesting.

Movie Review: Too much commentary brings Killing Them Softly to a Pitt stop

Killing Them Softly has all the ingredients of a classic and the star power of Brad Pitt. But this heist thriller set in New Orleans just tries a little too hard with its in-your-face social commentary.

Movie review: Looper's true hero is its awesome script

You don’t need to be a sci-fi buff to love Looper, you just need to be a fan of great storytelling, although the sci-fi, action, comedy, suspense and horror can only help! And Bruce Willis kicks serious butt.

Movie Review: Argo is a stunning achievement

Affleck’s third feature film as a director, Argo, presents this unbelievable hostage rescue mission on screen as a taut, well-paced suspense thriller with so much palpable tension throughout that along with you and the entire audience, even the seats, the popcorn, the soft drinks and other inanimate objects are on edge.

Mumbai film festival: The writers of Tron: Legacy on their directing debut

Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal are an American writer-director duo. They wrote 2010’s Tron: Legacy and have recently written and directed their first movie, The Words, about a writer who has to deal with the consequences of plagiarising someone’s work

Movie Review: Skyfall is the very best and very worst of Bond

Skyfall has all the classic Bond ingredients - breath-taking beauties, dizzying action, crackling dialogue, a terrific villain, and a man’s man in Daniel Craig. But if that was enough Agent Vinod would be the best film ever.

Movie Review: Ang Lee infuses life into Life of Pi

Ang Lee infuses ‘life’ into Life of Pi, a novel largely about a young man in the sea with a tiger for company, and one that has largely been considered unfilmable. And for once, the 3D actually helps.

Discovery and Jab Tak Hai Jaan: A match made in heaven? Not!

What was Discovery thinking when it lent its name to Jab Tak Hai Jaan? Did it realise it was getting Anushka Sharma as the Discovery intern who steps on a bomb while listening to her iPod?

'Stolen' is stolen from 'Taken'

Stolen is such an uninteresting, uninspiring and unnecessary rehash of Taken that even the makers felt guilty enough to admit the truth about the movie’s origins in its name – the film is literally stolen from Taken.

Mumbai Film Festival: Director Marshall Lewy on 'California Solo'

The director of independent film 'California Solo' speaks about film making and making political statements through films.

Movie Review: 'Cloud Atlas' is long but exhilarating

Cloud Atlas does what so few movies can claim to do these days – it dares. It attempts to go beyond conventional techniques of storytelling and screenplay.

Mumbai Film Festival: Brazilian director Luciano Moura talks about 'Father’s Chair'

The director talks about his latest film which is about the tricky relationships between fathers and sons, working with Wagner Moura and the challenges the Brazilian film industry faces.

Movie Review: Premium Rush is the Fast and Furious of bikes

Our blogger Nikhil Taneja says if there were only one reason to watch Premium Rush, it would be Levitt, although the movie’s the Fast and Furious of bikes, so that’s a great hard sell.

Yash Chopra defined romance, drama in all its wonderful glory

Nothing has ever mesmerised the collective consciousness of Bollywood fans than a movie by Yash Chopra, says our blogger Nikhil Taneja.

Mumbai Film Festival: In conversation with writer-director, Kirsten Sheridan

Kirsten Sheridan is an Irish writer-director whose new film, Dollhouse, which screens at the Mumbai Film Festival, is an independent film about a night in the lives of a group of street teens from Dublin’s inner city, who break into a house in an upper class suburb.

Mumbai Film Festival: In conversation with Sundance winner James Ponsoldt

James Ponsoldt's new film, Smashed, won the US Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing at 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Smashed, which is premiering at the Mumbai Film Festival.

Mumbai Film Festival: In conversation with Oscar winner James Marsh

Academy Award-winnning British film director, James Marsh, best known for his documentary film, Man On Wire, is out with a new movie, Shadow Dancer, that will premiere in India at the 2012 Mumbai Film Festival this week.