Saibal Chatterjee

1 month ago | ndtv.com | Saibal Chatterjee

1.5 Movie Poster A red diamond brings the worst out of two men—a criminal kingpin and a globetrotting con artist—in Jewel Thief - The Heist Begins. The trouble is, it does not spare the film either.  Jewel Thief - The Heist Begins, all style and no substance, is an abomination of monumental proportions. Beyond trite, it rests on a premise that should have been snuffed out on paper itself.    The precious object that two combatants are ready to die for is of African provenance.

1 month ago | ndtv.com | Saibal Chatterjee

3.5 Pratik Gandhi and Patralekhaa in a still from the film A pitch-perfect Pratik Gandhi performance underwires the intrinsic authenticity of Ananth Narayan Mahadevan's Phule. But more than anything else, it is the abiding pertinence of the film's theme that sets it apart from anything that Bollywood has delivered, or is likely to produce, this year.

1 month ago | fcgreviews.com | Aditya Shrikrishna |Saibal Chatterjee |Gopinath Rajendran

Guild ReviewsA haunting memoir of Tamil brothers, steeped in childhood traumaIn Avinash Prakash’s Tamil feature film Naangal which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this week, time is stretched by a limited set of events as if perched on a non-stop Ferris wheel. They are the same moments with their ups and downs, same life-altering triggers that repeat in a cyclical fashion.

1 month ago | ndtv.com | Saibal Chatterjee

2.5 Akshay Kumar in a still from the film The strong points of Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh - it does have a few - are most surface level. The intense and occasionally blustery dramatization of the legal battle waged by one brave man to bring mass murderer General Reginald Dyer to justice is mounted and filmed with impressive flair. But in its deeper, defining folds, there is much that would have benefitted had more thought and rigour gone into the project.

1 month ago | cinemaonthego.wordpress.com | Saibal Chatterjee

Saibal ChatterjeeThere is nary a frame in Logout that does not have Babil Khan in it. That’s a huge deal for an actor who is only three films old. He proves equal to the task. It is the film that struggles to match strides. The performance Khan delivers is strikingly self-assured and superlatives are inevitable. He was pretty solid in Qala and Friday Night Plan, too, but the account he gives of himself here is in a league apart.