Uday Bhatia

1 week ago | livemint.com | Uday Bhatia

Khalid Rahman's ‘Alappuzha Gymkhana’ is a blissful boxing comedy Five skinny dudes turn up at the Alappuzha gym and announce that they want to learn boxing. The man at the desk says, that’ll be a thousand in advance, plus monthly fees. The boys murmur about not being able to afford it. Fine, the official says, how about 300? There’s a chorus of assent, but one of them hopefully asks, EMI? They say you shouldn’t put a hat on a hat, place a joke on top of another.

2 weeks ago | livemint.com | Uday Bhatia

One thing that separates the casual film watcher from the more obsessive sort is how quickly they realise they’re in a oner. For those whose life is cinema, the absence of cutting jumps out because they’re so attuned to where a cut would normally occur, where the camera would stop moving. Even before they register it as a one-take, they feel it in their bones. Adolescence is a four-episode series about a shocking tragedy involving students at an English high school.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Uday Bhatia

There are some hints of the pulpy excess and the massy appeal that you expect from a film like this but the undoing of Sikandar is that despite a few …

3 weeks ago | livemint.com | Uday Bhatia

Salman Khan can barely rouse himself to act anymore. Every director since Kabir Khan in Bajrangi Bhaijaan has had to work around the actor’s limitations, to coax brief flickers of star quality and hope the rest isn’t egregious. It can’t be easy for Khan’s fans to see him this way, complacent, over the hill, indulged and lied to. The paragraph you just read applies to Sikandar but wasn’t written with it in mind.

3 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Uday Bhatia

New Delhi, March 30 -- Salman Khan can barely rouse himself to act anymore. Every director since Kabir Khan in Bajrangi Bhaijaan has had to work around the actor's limitations, to coax brief flickers of star quality and hope the rest isn't egregious. It can't be easy for Khan's fans to see him this way, complacent, over the hill, indulged and lied to. The paragraph you just read applies to Sikandar but wasn't written with it in mind.