Set in the village of Rajapalli and revolving around the Vinayaka Chavithi festival, the crime comedy concerns a coveted Lord Ganesha idol, politicians, gangsters, and Anand, who are all vying to possess the idol. Written and directed by Uday Bommisetty, starring Anand Deverakonda, Pragati Srivastava, Nayan Sarika, Emmanuel, and Vennela …
In a dystopian future, Ganapath, a relentless and skilled vigilante, embarks on a mission to dismantle a powerful criminal empire that has gripped the city. Directed by Vikas Bahl, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Tiger Shroff, and Kriti Sanon.
The project that Richard Attenborough tried to bring to fruition for twenty years turns out to have gotten done in the style of twenty years earlier, the style of a David Lean roadshow: there are no reserved seats, actually, and no musical overture or souvenir program, but there's an intermission, …
In a sort of "What If" scenario, a fictional world where Mahatma Gandhi survives the attack enables him to later meet Nathuram Godse in prison. As the conversation leads to a fiery debate between them, deep truths are unearthed. Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, starring Deepak Antani, Chinmay Mandlekar, and Tanisha …
Busby Berkeley, gorging himself on candy colors, marshals several massive assaults against the human sense of proportion and propriety: an elaborate, disorienting crane shot to kick off the movie with an Ugly American nightclub salute to Brazil, land of coffee beans and the samba; a Carmen Miranda production number, "The …
Thugs and politics in set in the Eluru and Godavari coastal regions during the 1980s. Written and directed by Krishna Chaitanya, starring VishwakSen, Neha Shetty, and Anjali.
Martin Scorsese's long-delayed, and just plain long, survey of Irish gangs in lower Manhattan during the time of the Civil War, Boss Tweed, and all that, beginning and ending in major blood baths, with minor blood rinses and sloshes in between. (It's not hard to see why the internecine discord …
The classic story of the upwardly mobile mobster, retold in fish-and-chips British accents, fish-eye lenses, slow-motion, split screens, coarse and corroded color, flashbacks and flashforwards, not to mention Dahmer-esque or Ed Gein-ian peaks of gore. At the hard heart of the film is the scene (with thanks to Tarantino) in …
Gangster Squad may lack brains and heart, but it's got guts. You get to see 'em right at the outset, when a Chicago crook who dares to cross power-mad Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen (a guttural Sean Penn) gets ripped in half by a couple of sedans. (Then again, you …