Saibal Chatterjee

5 days 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.

6 days 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 week 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.

2 weeks ago | ndtv.com | Saibal Chatterjee

2 Sunny Deol in a still from the film Nearly 25 years after uprooting a handpump in a fit of rage in Gadar and over three decades since upselling the power of his dhai kilo ka haath, Sunny Deol, now 67 years old, revels in ripping out (or apart) ceiling fans, banisters, columns, statues and other voluminous objects from their perches and sockets and wielding them as handy and deadly weapons.

2 weeks ago | gulftoday.ae | Saibal Chatterjee

Manoj Kumar espoused causes that the nation and its builders held dear. His best-known films captured the minds and hearts of moviegoers in a nation making its way through the first few decades of its independence from British rule. He personified patriotism and it paid off. His career unfolded in an era in which a newly-free people struggled with poverty, unemployment and a lopsided system manipulated by the powerful.