When Shahrukh Khan sang, “chaand taare tod laoon, saari duniya par main chhaoon” the universe must have said Yes Boss! We can see those veritable stars shining and hooting inside every film…
Tag: John ABraham
Pathaan (2023) Movie Ending Explained: In an article for The Caravan, Eram Agha writes that Bollywood’s biggest superstar has been intimidated into silence through consistent abuse from the Hindu right-wing for his…
Pathaan (2023) Review Some wise person once said- ‘There are stars, and then there is Shahrukh Khan.’ When SRK returns to the big screen after a four-year, one-month, and four-day hiatus, the…
If variety is the spice of life then Shoojit Sircar is one of the spiciest filmmakers of India. With a career spanning over almost sixteen years, Sircar has directed films whose subjects…
Ever since Malayalam cinema underwent a renaissance in the past decade- with the influx of new-age filmmakers creating some groundbreaking work, it has been unarguably the foremost film industry in India when…
In a very over the top, Buddy-Cop way, Dishoom succeeds to an extent. It does manage to constantly engage the audience in the back and forth between its two lead characters J (Varun Dhawan) and K (John Abhraham). It also has audience pleasing masala ingredients that includes the likes of Bikini clad models, a dance number, an item number, an array of celebrity cameos, a cricket backdrop and to top it all off, some good old deshbhakti. The sad thing is, Rohit Dhawan & his writer friend go astray in the second half. The gags don’t hit the sweet spot and the already convoluted plot just goes on descending into something that is entirely erasable from the memory in T-minus 2 minutes.
