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'The Namesake', a mellow migratory drama
Film: "The Namesake"; Cast: Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Kal Penn, Jacinda Barrett; Director: Mira Nair; Rating: ****
'Hat Trick' - an endearing, wacky comedy
Film: "Hat Trick"; Cast: Nana Patekar, Danny Denzongpa, Paresh Rawal, Kunal Kapoor, Rimi Sen; Director: Milan Luthria; Rating: *** 1/2
'Just Married' - all about falling in love after marriage
Film: "Just Married"; Cast: Fardeen Khan, Esha Deol, Satish Shah, Kirron Kher, Raj Zutshi, Tarina Patel, Sadiya Siddiqui and Mukul Dev; Director: Meghna Gulzar; Rating: ** 1/2
'Red' - an unreal, bizarre thriller
Film: "Red"; Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Celina Jaitley, Amrita Arora, Sushant Singh; Director: Vikram Bhatt; Rating: *
'Water' qualifies as pure cinema
Film: "Water"; Cast: Seema Biswas, John Abraham, Lisa Ray, Vinay Pathak, Manorama, Sarala, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raghuvir Yadav; Director: Deepa Mehta; Rating: **** 1/2
'Nishabd', a tale of forbidden passion
Film: "Nishabd"; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jiah Khan, Revathy, Nasser, Shraddha; Director: Ram Gopal Varma; Rating: ****
'Honeymoon ..." a truly enjoyable film
Film: "Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd"; Director: Reema Kagti; Cast: Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Kay Kay Menon, Raima Sen, Abhay Deol, Minissha Lamba, Sandhya Mridul, Vikram Chatwal, Amisha Patel, Karan Khanna, Ranveer Shorey, Dia Mirza and Arjun Rampal; Rating: ***
'Eklavya' - a dark chronicle of defeat
Can form, no matter how glorious, be a substitute for content? In "Eklavya", lack of content isn't a problem. It's the tense and dark nature of the content that proves to be a dismaying impediment to enjoying the virility of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's storytelling.
'Black Friday' relives painful moments effectively
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - an observation by Mahatma Gandhi - is how Anurag Kashyap's masterpiece "Black Friday", based on S. Hussein Zaidi's book of the same name, starts.
'Traffic Signal' - a gritty tale of the fringe people
One has to hand it to Madhur Bhandarkar for directing "Traffic Signal". He has his own formula of creativity, which he applies generously and sensitively to specific sections of people from every walk of life.
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