Mayank Shekhar’s Review: Home Delivery
Hardly hits home Home Delivery Director: Sujoy Ghosh Actors: Vivek Oberoi, Ayesha Takia, Boman Irani By Mayank Shekhar You can instantly tell the larger brief this “season’s greetings” screenplay is...
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You could miss this! Mr Ya Miss Director: Antra Mali, Satchit Puranik Actors: Aftab Shivdasani, Ritesh Deshmukh, Antra Mali By Mayank Shekhar To make an honest confession, I have an uncanny love for...
View ArticleMayank Shekhar’s Review: Apaharan
Energetic expose Apaharan Director: Prakash Jha Actors: Ajay Devgan, Nana Patekar By Mayank Shekhar A few weeks before this film opened in the theatres, I was quite confused by a question posed by a...
View ArticleMayank Shekhar’s Review: Neil ‘N’ Nikki
Neil and titty Neil ‘N’ Nikki Director: Arjun Sablok Actors: Uday Chopra, Tanisha By Mayank Shekhar I think this film crashed right at the stage when the promotional package named Nikki ‘N’ Nikki, on...
View ArticleMayank Shekhar’s Review: Ek Ajnabee
Misfired! EK AJNABEE Director: Apoorva Lakhia Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Rucha Vaidya By Mayank Shekhar I had heard about a certain bizarre interview given by this film’s maker to Time Out, a city...
View ArticleMayank Shekhar’s Review: Bluff Master
Film-buff master Bluff Master Director: Rohan Sippy Actors: Abhishek Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Nana Patekar, Priyanka Chopra By Mayank Shekhar No relation to Manmohan Desai’s Bluff Master (1963), but...
View ArticleMayank Shekhar’s Review: Dosti
Gay-watch? Dosti Director: Suneel Darshan Actors: Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol By Mayank Shekhar A couple of years ago, researching for a column on how homosexual characters have traditionally been treated...
View ArticleMayank Shekhar’s Review: Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi
Life coy hai yahaan Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi Director: Mahesh Manjrekar Actors: Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Sanjay Dutt By Mayank Shekhar What to say about a ‘cattle in the sky’ flick that gets to the...
View ArticleMayank Shekhar’s Review: Shikhar
Not worth a Gekko! Shikhar Director: John Mathew Matthan Actors: Ajay Devgan, Shahid Kapoor By Mayank Shekhar Almost a decade and half ago, a close buddy of mine, very young then, had a huge plaque in...
View ArticleMayank Shekhar’s Review: Kisna
Beautifully designed bore Kisna Director: Subhash Ghai Actors: Vivek Oberoi, Isha Sharvani, Antonia Bernath By Mayank Shekhar Technically proficient, with a musically sound ear and extreme earthiness...
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