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The film went into cold storage soon after its promos aired two years back. But producers were right in releasing it now lest it becomes impossible to revive it ever again as this is the last week before new films start releasing post the producer-multiplex owners tiff over revenue-sharing.

Cast: Sanjay Suri, Gul Panag, Jackie Shroff, Anoop Menon, Shruti Seth, Meeta Vashisht, Kalpana Pandit and Raj Zutshi Director: Rajiv Nath Rating: * Directors like Sudhir Mishra and Zoya Akhtar have in the recent past tried to give an insider’s view of the workings of the entertainment industry through their films. Director Rajiv Nath has tried to [...]

“Heaven On Earth” is not a film that offers easily digestible solutions to the complex problem of domestic violence. It neither takes sides nor allows the bride to turn into a pitiable victim. Preity standing supremely dignified at the centre of the conflict furnishes the theme with amazing grace. She’s the only known face in the crowded Punjabi home of patriarchs, matriarchs, victims and perpetrators of bitter violence. But Preity never lets it known she’s a star.

Everything that can go wrong in a film does in "Ek: The Power Of One". Decades ago Raj Khosla had made "Bombai Ka Baboo" about a man who replaces the missing son of a simple rustic family and learns a few lessons on humanism. Many years later Manmohan Desai reworked the same theme in "Roti" and in that Rajesh Khanna played the impostor son who takes over an impoverished son's life.

"Aloo Chaat" is a Punjabi comedy that you've been seeing on television for years and is now being screened on a much larger screen and a far smaller intellectual level.

Here's a film that must be seen not because it tells a story that touches every life. But because it touches our lives with such persuasiveness without resorting to overstatement.

"Gulaal" sees an authentic set of actors playing characters who are completely at one with the director's dark vision. Outstanding in different ways are Abhimanyu Singh as the self-disinherited royalty, Pankaj Jha as the over-age college bully, Kay Kay Menon as the unscrupulous Rajput leader and Aditya Shivastava as the illegitimate heir of a subverted princedom who dotes on his kid sister (Ayesha Mohan).

Cast: Sushmita Sen, Randeep Hooda, Drena De Niro, Naomi Campbell, Suresh Oberoi, Rati Agnihotri, Suchitra Krishnamurthy Director: Manish Gupta Rating: * Let’s play a mind game. What was Sushmita Sen thinking when she decided to work in this tableau of titillating possibilities on man-woman relationships all gone to utter and irrevevocable waste? “Karma Aur Holi” with huge dollops of [...]