Director Kiran Rao’s debut film Dhobi Ghat is a lyrical and tender short story about four lives, one city and love, loss and longing.

Normally, one would not dwell much on a film like Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji, a middling romantic-comedy that is as passable as it is avoidable.

Imagine a psychedelic, pulsating circus-mela packed beyond capacity: Nymphets are dancing on a stage, and a bike is whirring around maut ka kuan.

Raj Kumar Gupta’s No One Killed Jessica arrived at our theatres yesterday, all earnest and purposeful.

Aapko life mein many things ki kami feel hoti hogi, jaise ki nalke mein pani, bulb mein batti, bus mein seat... But I am sure there is one thing you never found missing — another television channel that churns out the same stories about the same syappas. And yet, of all the things that life could have given us, it had to give us exactly that. Aur irony yeh hai, that it’s called Life OK.

Band Baaja Baaraat is a Delhi ki bhenji. It talks like one, walks like one, and even conducts its love and business affairs like one. And just like all bhenjis, it is real, spunky, self-assured and, once you get to know it, endearing.

Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Se is the true story of a band of 64 revolutionaries — five leaders and their fervent teenage soldiers — who set out with 14 revolvers, a dozen rifles and some chloroform to challenge the British raj in Chittagong.

The International Film Festival of India (Iffi), which had a slow, sarkari start, is now into day five and picking up momentum.

Rakht Charitra-I could have been great, acquired cult status even, but that was a possibility only in the realm of Satya where Ram Gopal Varma once dwelled.

Priyadarshan’s Aakrosh is a serious and often grim and gruesome film that sets out to tackle caste atrocities.