Baradwaj Rangan Reviews The Hindu

Ishaqzaade works so well because it’s a love story where there’s something more at stake than the question of will-they-get-together

I went in with low expectations and the film surpassed them at every level – and this isn’t faint praise

Vicky Donor is as classy a "message movie" as can be imagined under the circumstances

You can’t pull the audience out of the narrative for meta-exercises and then hope to pull them back in for serious storytelling.

Kahaani isn’t what you’d call a major movie – it’s more a taut little genre exercise – but the highest compliment we can give Ghosh is that he takes a host of clichés and makes a film that looks compellingly one-of-a-kind, at least in an Indian context.

Paan Singh Tomar, at the end, is like Paan Singh Tomar. It may be impossible to fully know him, but it’s impossible not to like him

Agneepath is thunderously staged (quite literally; the background score is a force of nature) and it’s never boring, but the film never amounts to anything

The depressingly underwhelming (and numbingly long) Don 2 is less about Farhan Akhtar’s commitment to plot and character than hairstyling and haberdashery

The problem with The Dirty Picture isn’t that it speaks one language while telling a story in another, but that it isn’t able to make up its mind about where it belongs

Practically nothing in Rockstar is done the way its story synopsis would appear to demand, and this blithe abandonment of convention is what makes this love story sing