Written and Directed by Rishab Shetty, starring Rishab Shetty, Kishore, Achuth Kumar, Sapthami Gowda, Pramod Shetty, and Vinay Biddappa.
Shakun Batra directs this romantic dramedy. In Hindi.
Or: I Was a Teenage Rocky. John G. Avildsen, the director of the original Rocky, tries to whip up some of the same emotions, and again enlists Bill Conti to supply the music, in the story of a nice, gentle, olive-skinned kid from New Jersey who has sand kicked in …
The remake moves the action and the fatherless undersized hero to Beijing (“It’s not karate, Mom!” “Okay, kung fu, karate, whatever”), where it seems less wonderful that the apartment-house handyman is a martial-arts master. Especially when the handyman is played by Jackie Chan, lying low. The underdog regimen, on a …
The resemblance of Part I to the original Rocky is sharpened by there being a Part II. (And this time, John G. Avildsen gets to direct the sequel himself, instead of being replaced by, say, Ralph Macchio or Pat Morita as he was by Sylvester Stallone.) The most attractive parts …
After ten years of marriage, Karen leaves her macho husband to start an independent life in Bogota in this film exploring “contemporary social issues in Colombia in a fresh light.” In Spanish with English subtitles.