Hindi movies do a lot of things very well, but frank investigations of mature sexual relationships aren't usually considered to be one of those things. It's a difficult subject for any movie - in any language - to handle well, with the right mixture of humor, sensitivity, and sexiness. Rajat ...

धोबी घाट Aamir Khan productions come with a lot of baggage, given his reputation for being self-consciously highbrow, condescending toward the cinema traditions that made him famous, and caring too much about what the West thinks of his movies. Whether that's deserved or not - I don't follow h...

चोरी चोरी Like another Ajay Devgan vehicle, Pyar to hona hi tha, Chori chori ("stealthily, secretly") serves up a pretend romance that blossoms into a real one. Also like Pyar to honi hi tha, Chori chori is based upon a mid-rate Hollywood rom-com that I never saw (in this case, Housesitter). F...

पीपली लाइव The best political satires, like Jaane bhi do yaaro, handle challenging subjects with wry humor, and yet manage to leave the audience feeling sad and aware. Anusha Rizvi's debut film Peepli Live treads a similar delicate ground, offering a successful farce that nevertheless packs a ...

चक दे इंडिया It's not a deep insight to observe that Yash Raj films are full of heavy-handed delivery and emotional manipulation. And my judgments of them sometimes turn on whether I'm in the zone when I watch them - whether I happen at that moment to be in the right frame of mind. I was squa...