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April Departs

April kicked off on a good note. A really good note. The plot vagaries of Detective ByomkeshBakshy! aside, Dibakar Banerjee’s edgy adaptation at least got the look right...

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

Critic’s Rating : 3.5 Star. Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, James Spader, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, E...

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Jai Ho! Democracy

Critic’s Rating : 0.5 Star. Cast: Om Puri, Annu Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Satish Kaushik, Adil Hussain, Aamir Bashir Direction: Ranjit Kapoor, Bikramjit Singh Bhullar F...

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REPORTERS: WHERE’S THE STORY?

I don?t feel at home with Reporters. The look is too glossy, too unreal. The channel head sports a muffler. The editor Kabir is usually in a jacket (wonder why the tie is miss...

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Margarita With A Straw

Critic’s Rating : 3.5 Star. Cast: Kalki Koechlin, Revathi, Sayani Gupta, Kuljeet Singh, Hussain Dalal, Malhar Khushu, Jacob Berger, Tenzin Dalha, Shuchi Dwivedi Directio...

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Mr. X

Critic’s Rating : 1. Star. Cast: Emraan Hashmi as Mr. X, Amyra Dastur as ‘Milli Arora’ Arunoday Singh Direction: Vikram Bhatt Producer: Mukesh Bhatt, Mahesh ...

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WHEN MOVIES CAME HOME

It was in April 1995, that Indian television viewers experienced the thrill of their first 24 hour Hindi movie channel ? Zee Cinema. The channel indulged the viewers, who till...

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SAAS BAHU AND TRADITION

??India lives in her villages,? is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. ?This isn't the exact quote, though. Gandhiji actually wrote, ?India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India...

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Dharam Sankat Mein

Critic’s Rating : 2 Star. Cast: Paresh Rawal, Naseeruddin Shah, Annu Kapoor, Auritra Ghosh Direction: Fuwad Khan Producer: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Sajjad Chunawala, S...

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Broken Horses

Critic’s Rating : 1.5 Star. Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Anton Yelchin , Chris Marquette María Valverde , Thomas Jane Direction: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Producer: Vi...

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ART IS BORN FREE: TEJAS SONI’S JOURNEY

Ahmedabad-based artist Tejas Soni reflects on five decades of living artfully—acro...

February 5 2026

TRIS FEBRUARY 2026 EXPLORES CINEMA ART CONSCIENCE

TRIS February 2026 presents exhibitions, film screenings, and conversations in Delhi, hi...

February 4 2026

BOLLYWOOD FAME, FORGOTTEN STARS, CAUTIONARY TALES

Today Mumbai’s film actors have wised up to the fact that fame and fortune don&rsq...

February 3 2026