Arguably Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s finest film, a bittersweet comedy about a doctor and his cancer patient starring Rajesh Khanna in a delightfully hilarious performance and Amitabh Bachchan in a breakthrough supporting role.
Continue reading →
Arguably Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s finest film, a bittersweet comedy about a doctor and his cancer patient starring Rajesh Khanna in a delightfully hilarious performance and Amitabh Bachchan in a breakthrough supporting role.
A teenage girl fantasises about her favourite Bollywood star at the expense of a potential suitor for marriage in this surprisingly weak and sappy effort by Mukherjee.
A young Steven Spielberg tries to master the art of suspense filmmaking in this highly thrilling telemovie.
This late career work by French comic master Jacques Tati has uncharacteristic pacing problems, though if you like automobiles, it is a charming snapshot of cars and trucks of the early 1970s.
Kubrick’s dystopian masterpiece frustrates, angers, provokes, and ultimately floors you in ways unlike that of other great films.
A ‘historical epic’ about a Swedish family emigrating to the States, told unhurriedly in the most intimate and natural of ways.