Saibal Chatterjee

3 weeks ago | ndtv.com | Saibal Chatterjee

1.5 A still from the film. Quick Read Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. Housefull 5, the latest installment in the franchise, struggles with absurd humor. Housefull 5, written by producer Sajid Nadiadwala and co-scripted and directed by Tarun Mansukhani. Set on a luxury cruise ship, it runs into rough waters never to find a way out of the deep end.

3 weeks ago | ndtv.com | Saibal Chatterjee

2 A still from the film. New Delhi: Late in this sprawling and disappointingly inconsistent gangster saga, the male protagonist, badly wounded, asks a doctor about the exact nature of the injection that she is about to administer. She lets on that the fluid in the syringe is a sedative guaranteed to lull him to sleep. Mani Ratnam's Thug Life may not be as soporific as that but large swathes of it could certainly have done with targeted shots of stimulants.

1 month ago | ndtv.com | Saibal Chatterjee

2 A still from the film. New Delhi: Cobbling together rough and random elements from a mystifying mish-mash of genres, this Maddock Films dramedy seeks to achieve what the banner did in the recent past with a blend of horror and humour in Stree and its sequel, the biggest hit of actor Rajkummar Rao's career. As an absurd caper playing out in the realms of fantasy and in the bustling streets, ghats and marketplaces of Banaras, it isn't madcap enough.

1 month ago | ndtv.com | Saibal Chatterjee

2 A still from the film By the time Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning trudges its way to the end of its bag of tricks, a question looms and it is as large as the aura of Tom Cruise's Agent Ethan Hunt. Will the eighth and presumably final instalment of the popular action-adventure franchise leave the audience asking for more or have them wondering if they have had enough? The answer is likely to tilt more towards the latter.

1 month ago | gulftoday.ae | Saibal Chatterjee

After the unprecedented high of 2024, the ongoing 78th Cannes Film Festival might feel like a bit of a dampener for India. The world’s largest film-producing nation has no entry in the festival’s main Competition this year. Its presence is, however, strong enough in terms of both films and personalities not to be dismissed as insignificant.