The ethos of the Mumbai underground is like compost - full of discarded peels and cracked eggshells, ripe-smelling and treacherous underfoot - but rich fodder for the imagination of talented directors. Vishal Bharadwaj is one such wunderkind, and he uses the steaming, stinking pile to fashion yet another cinematic gem.

In a sense, Imtiaz Ali is the true inheritor of the Yash Raj brand of entertainer, though this movie was produced by Saif's company. And like the better Yash Chopra movies, Love Aaj Kal leaves you in a good mood as you exit the theater.

99 is a treat for the discerning viewer even if there are moments when you wish the movie would hurry along and get to the point. Like Flavors, the first full length feature by the directing duo of Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, this is a sly, smart and witty ...

Deepa Mehta's latest is a classic example of what happens when a respected and capable director gets so famous and achieves such international recognition that nobody around is willing to speak the truth to him/her. The intentions of Heaven on Earth( ...

With Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, one is never quite sure what one is going to get. The former ad maker directed the successful and critically acclaimed Rang De Basanti in 2006 but it took a good five years before that for us to forget the wildly experimental Aks, a nightmarish movie ...

The President is Coming(TPIC) is a clever little movie made in the style of a "mockumentary", like NBC's The Office. W made a trip to India in 2006, badly in need of some TLC from one of the few countries in the world where he was still a Big Man ...

There is an axiom in the publishing industry that says " Write what you know." Certainly director Zoya Akhtar seems to have taken it to heart in her debut movie, Luck By Chance. Daughter of famous poet, composer and writer Javed ...

Lehkikaa offers a review of ‘Sunset’ and ‘Good-Bye’, two short films by Krea Creations. Screened to an invited-guests-only audience at the India Community Center (ICC) in Milpitas on January 4, 2009.

Loosely inspired by the convoluted Christopher Nolan film Memento, Ghajini deals with a man suffering from anterograde amnesia who is searching for the killer of his wife. His only clue is a dying whisper from her -"Ghajini".

Like other Yash Raj films, RNBDJ also seems to exist outside normal space/time and the reality of life in India. Shahrukh Khan plays Surinder Sahni, a Walter Mitty-like meek everyman who works for Punjab Light and Power in Amritsar. When circumstances( that only happen in the movies) force him to ...