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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Tees Maark Khan

12:47 AM Posted by Gautam Chintamani , , , 1 comment
Forget plagiarizing the entire plot or an iconic scene every now and then, Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan has five minutes of screen time dedicated to a character first seen in the Happydent ‘Tere dil roshan, tere mann roshan’ chewing gum commercial. Really? The Czarina of non-sense cinema has left no...

Saturday, December 11, 2010

No Problem

10:47 PM Posted by Gautam Chintamani , No comments
In the past one could have been forgiven for sheepishly enjoying an Anees Bazmi film like No Entry and even Welcome to some extent on the pretext of being a guilty pleasure but there is nothing, absolutely nothing that can redeem the torture called No Problem. Centered around a diamond heist where...

Band Baaja Baaraat

10:38 PM Posted by Gautam Chintamani No comments
*This review contains spoilers. Continuing to explore the loves and the lives of the common folk of west Delhi, Band Baaja Baaraat succeeds to a great extent at repackaging a done to death tale. Even with a story that has really has nothing new to offer Band Baaja Baaraat is enjoyable largely thanks...