In this whole Shah Rukh Khan episode, two things really struck me. First: Why didn’t any big Bollywood stars come out in support of SRK? The only exception - or so I read in the Indian Express - was Salman Khan who apparently said that Shah Rukh had said nothing wrong, so why should he apologise. [Read more]

Are any of you horror movie fans? If you are, what are the scariest horror films you’ve ever seen? I did a random poll among friends and some of the names that emerged were The Ring, The Grudge, Children of the Corn and The Shining. (No, Paranormal Activity didn’t feature even though I believe Steven Spielberg has been quoted as saying that it is the scariest film he’s ever seen). [Read more]

Everybody I know has loved 3 Idiots. I did too. I thought it was solid mainstream commercial cinema at its best – a roller coaster of a film that delivers non-stop entertainment.

A few things that I was really struck by: [Read more]

So I finally saw Avatar (in 3D). Yes, I liked the film a lot. But did I loooove it? No.

Visually, I thought Avatar was absolutely stunning. The way James Cameron has created the alien world of Pandora — the jungles, the creatures, the landscape (the sacred tree, the hanging mountains etc) — it just took my breath away. [Read more]

Are our movies suddenly getting obsessed with rare diseases? Okay, there are only two such films so far, but that’s quite a lot within the span of just a few months.

Director R Balakrishnan’s Paa was about a boy suffering from progeria, a genetic disorder in which the afflicted person ages prematurely. [Read more]