Category: Year In Review
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The Ayushmann Khurrana interview
(Every year, I do one particularly special interview. Winning over audiences and critics with unusual films Andhadhun and Badhaai Ho, 2018 was the year of Ayushmann Khurana. Here’s my story from last year.) I walk down a clinically white corridor, looking for Room 114. The doors next to me are deceptively nondescript. Names of occupants…
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Oscars 2017: The 9 Best Picture nominees, ranked
The Oscar race has been run. The votes have been cast and the envelopes are sealed. I’ve speculated enough about each category — actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress and director — and made predictions, but let’s take a closer look at the biggest envelope of all. Regardless of who actually wins. The 89th annual Academy Awards…
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The worst Hindi films of 2016
As always, there were many contenders for this list. But these ten films — these ten monstrosities — are the absolute bottom of last year’s barrel. 10. Fitoor Grated expectations. What a pretty mess this was. In my review, I’d said: “People age oddly in Fitoor. A small Kashmiri boy with innocent eyes and a…
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The best Hindi films of 2016
This has been a year of makeshift marvel. My Best Actor and Best Actress selections showcase worthy performers, but this set of movies makes it clear that this year has been characterised by fundamentally flawed winners. Most selections on my top ten come with built-in caveats, and yet they are films I’d rather celebrate than…
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The best actors in Hindi cinema, 2016
Lists are made to be debated. To be obsessed over and taken apart and analysed, and while we critics bemoan the December ritual of rankings, those of us who love Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity will also confess to enjoying the absurd make-believe analysis of it all. On that note, I’d like to thank the ten…
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The best actresses in Hindi cinema, 2016
It is that time of year again, when lists are made and arbitrary rankings are passionately made and argued about. Actresses out-performed the actors in Hindi cinema this year, and keeping this list down to ten names was hard. The following names include a debutant and a veteran, obvious inclusions and unlikely suspects, and one…
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Oscar column: Why we should be glad Mad Max didn’t win Best Picture
Cinematic history and myths are, more often than not, shaped by the better loser. Best Picture may sound like it, but it isn’t the biggest prize a film can win on Oscar night.
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