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War Movie Review: An Unabashed Hrithik Roshan Show Where Tiger Shroff Emerges The Real Victor

War does more for Bollywood’s action genre in its first 10 minutes than most mainstream attempts at action have managed with their entire run times over the last few years. From an explosive opening scene with a fun little twist, right down...

Oct 06 / 2019

The Zoya Factor Movie Review: A Passable Rom-Com In Which Packaging Trumps Plot

The Zoya Factor is exaggerated, overexcited, silly and cheesy. And we deserve a lot more films like it. Mostly because we’re so deprived of breezy romcoms in Hindi cinema. Where the film loses on plot it wins on packaging. Its light charm,...

Sep 23 / 2019

Batla House Movie Review Suchin Mehrotra

Batla House Movie Review: A Sincere Misfire

What do we do with director Nikkhil Advani? The filmmaker’s oddly varied filmmaker consists of some of the most significant, defining and forgettable films of the last 15 years. From Kal Ho Naa Ho to the clutter-breaking D-Day (which remains one of...

Aug 17 / 2019

Bharat Movie Review: Bhai Is Bland

Bharat is a strange, confused, inconsistent mess of a movie. The latest Ali Abbas Zafar-Salman Khan team-up after the memorable Sultan and unremarkable Tiger Zinda Hai, is the duo’s laziest film together. It’s essentially a few great scenes buried in 2 hours...

Jun 25 / 2019

De De Pyaar De Review – An Unexpectedly Mature, Surprisingly Affecting Rom Com

De De Pyaar De is Luv Ranjan’s most mature film. Ranjan is a filmmaker who’s often criticised for the misogynistic themes in his films like both Pyaar Ka Punchnaama’s and more recently Sonu Ki Titu Ki Sweety. Controversial gender politics aside, Ranjan...

Jun 08 / 2019

Student Of The Year 2 Movie Review Tiger Shroff

Student Of The Year 2 Movie Review: A Successful Distraction

Expectations are a funny thing. And the expectations attached to a film like Student Of The Year 2 couldn’t be lower. On face value SOTY2 represents the worst of many things coming together. The worst of the Dharma stable – soulless gloss...

May 22 / 2019

Bollywood 2017 Music Round-Up

Every year among the onslaught of movies releases, we are presented with album after album which often go unappreciated. Too often the fate of the movie tends to leave its soundtrack forgotten as words like ‘hit’ or ‘flop’ take precedence over all...

Feb 15 / 2018

Monthly Music Roundup – December and January

Tired of poring through album after album searching for new music? Put off by repetitive soundtracks which are essentially more of the same? Magic Of Bollywood brings you our Monthly Music Roundup, where we bring you a whistle-stop tour of the best of...

Feb 02 / 2018

The Most Anticipated Tamil Movies of 2018

With a new year comes renewed hope and expectations. With a fresh cascade of exciting new releases set to hit theatres in 2018, we thought it best to compile our list of the upcoming movies, stars and directors which we’re looking forward to...

Jan 23 / 2018

Bollywood In 2017: The Year’s Best Films

While ‘underwhelming’ seems to be the resounding legacy of 2017 at the movies with many condemning it as Bollywood in crisis, this writer maintains that it has also been one of the most game-changing years in recent times. 2017 will be remembered...

Dec 27 / 2017

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