Beauty resided in the eye of Yash Chopra. His women are enigmatic, in pure white ensembles or in bridal gold red, and are presented in flawless close-ups.

If mindless, rumble-tumble entertainment is your cup of tea, then you just might be curious about Son of Sardaar. Just for the record, it’s a remake of S.S.

H is parties were casual. No cloaked agenda. No celebrity guests pix featured in the day after’s newspapers. Just abundant food, choice spirits and crackling conversation.

Original stories seem to be ignored like the plague in movieland. It’s always nice to have a Hollywood inspiration
Normally, I don’t dip into quotations and proverbs. Except while ticking off badly behaved children. But something was bugging me of late. And a chance discovery of a series of articles by a heavy-duty American screenwriter sorted out my bugaboo.

Chalo Punjab — again. And why not? Acres and acres of farmfields, a brick haveli, puttering scooters and delectable dhabas, are eminently camera-friendly. Indeed, the soft, brown-shaded backdrop is so inviting that you want to hop over there instantaneously.

Here are examples of scenes and scripts lacking logic in the movies
While watching the movies, I’ve been zapped by certain baffling, puzzling, brain-busting elements. Here’s sharing some of the brain bogglers:

Apply some balm for instant calm. So, an upright cop marches straight up to a villager, looks at his gangrenous leg and applies soothing cream. And hey, as if in a dream, the cop wins over an entire hostile hamlet to his side. Woe betide, if life were that simple there would be no unrest in the nation. Really.

Night-clubs, songs with catchy hooklines, confounding situations and jazzy Janes are a must for an Emraan Hashmi movie, most often belted out by the Mahesh-Mukesh Bhatt Brothers, who first discovered that the actor is also blessed with lucky lips.

Michael Haneke’s Amour, the Palme D’Or winner at the Cannes festival, attracted a humongous crowd at the Jamshed Bhabha theatre at the NCPA complex on Tuesday afternoon.