Latest movie reviews by divya--solgama:

Whenever we talk of Cop and Gangsters films, Ram Gopal Varma’s name instantly flashes in our mind. He has produced and directed innumerable films on these themes, some of which like Shiva, Satya, Company, Sarkar and Ab Tak Chappan are still considered as towering landmarks in this genre. ...more

There are some Writers/Directors who are connected to their roots, For E.g. Anuraag Kashyap, Vishal Bharadwaj, Tigmanshu Dhulia, etc. These directors try to emphasize more on the story, location, small characters, dialects and most important try to do something different than the usual ...more

Last summer, Vikram Bhatt came up with India’s first 3D Stereoscopic film – ‘Haunted’. The movie was an average horror flick, but thanks to its 3D-tag people liked and accepted it, even though the effects nowhere match with the international standards and had lots of technical errors. ...more

As they say sometimes best things comes in small package. We too believe it when it comes to Hindi Cinema, as many times we have witness small films making its mark and at times work even better than some biggies. But then there are few films where they start out with good idea and in ...more

There was a time when Mahesh Bhatt used to make hard-hitting realistic films on one side and frame –to-frame copy of Hollywood flicks on the other. As he stepped down from the director’s seat, he along with his brother Mukesh Bhatt started making small budget romantic dramas with good ...more

In 1980 B.R Chopra and his son Ravi Chopra gave us India’s first Train based thriller ‘The Burning Train’, with loads of stars and less of technical support. The movie dint meet the expected business at that time, but till date is one of highly watched film on television channels. Sadly ...more

With the rise of globalization we have witnessed many new themes entering in our Hindi cinemas. Few talked about the current happenings and then there were few others which spoke about the taboo subjects. Though out film industry is ruled by the Star power, but there are times when they ...more

In mid 70’s few film makers started making Middle of the road cinema based on the middle class or the simple working people belonging to urban and rural cities. Many times there use to be one simple story line, but brilliantly executed or well performed by the actors use to balance such ...more

Sajid Khan is known for his love for cinema, especially hard core Masala Hindi Cinema. Whenever he made a film people knew for sure one thing, that they will have time pass paisa vasool fun. Though the movies lacked logics and at many occasions survived only on slapstick humor, but still ...more

Being a Movie buff from childhood I always had craving for all sorts of genre. Besides typical Masala films and action films, my childhood witnessed loads of Murder Mysteries, Crime Thrillers and of course Spy Films. I remember watching Mithun as Gun master G9 in Suraksha which was one ...more

Before we start talking about ‘Kahaani’, let me share all of you that from my childhood I use to crave for Suspense Thrillers. Films like Jewel Thief, Gumnaam, Teesri Manzil, Khamosh, Khel Khel Mein, Khiladi, Khoj, Desh Drohi, Bees Saal Baad, Dhund, Dhuan,Who Main Nahin, Kaun Kaisey and ...more

In 90’s we saw loads of slap stick comedy films, most of them starring Govinda-David Dhawan and his team full of Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor & others. Few of these films had fantastic dialogs and script, but rest of them made its mark mostly due to the comic timing of the actor only. Then ...more

‘Pan Singh Tomar’ starts with a shot containing a poster of Amitabh Bachchan’s Super Hit Dacoit drama – ‘Ganga Ki Saugandh’. Those were the times when Dacoit films in India were in their top form. Almost all top actors were doing a Dacoit drama or wanted to do one. Sunil Dutt provided ...more

Almost a decade back Maharashtra’s Chief Ministers son Ritesh Deshmukh debuted with Genelia D’Souza a fresh face from Telugu cinema in a low budget film ‘Tujhe Meri Kasam’. The film failed to make its mark in big cities, but did reasonably well in some interior parts. They came back in ...more

“Ek Deewana Tha” is released with two version, one for mass audience and another directors cut. This whole trend of Directors cut started in Hollywood in the 80’s. We too had some films like Raj Kapoor’s “Aah” or Mani Ratnam’s “Dalapati” where an alternate ending was made, but they were ...more

There are two types of Romantic films, one which talks about pain, true love, drama, bonding, etc and another where its love which happens in fun way. Films made on the first theme mostly are classics or duds, but films made on the latter theme at least makes you get the worth of your ...more

There was a time when films use to portray the social issues around us. The “Aam Aadmi” or a commoner was shown as sufferer, lover, angry young man, naïve, revenge taker, depressed, misguided and many other forms. We had actors like Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Amol Palekar, ...more

First things first I don’t like to watch remakes, as most of them just try to cash in on the past glory. I believe if a less know film with great concept gets remade is proper definition of remake. Thus out here in case of Agneepath [2012], I decided to watch it as the makers claimed ...more

With the rise of Parallel Cinema’s in 70’s, We witnessed some fine actors like Naseerudin Shah, Om Puri, Smita Patil, Shabhana Azmi, Farooq Sheikh, Amol Palekar, Deepti Naval and many more. These Actors excelled the actor’s caliber to another level and became an institution in themselves. ...more

With almost 100 years of background, our filmmakers have been shamelessly coping films from Hollywood and various other sources. Few got inspired by those films and gave their unique touch, but rest made frame to frame clones. ‘It happened one night’, ‘The magnificent seven’, ‘Rambo’, ...more