Shubhra Gupta

Awarapan 2 movie review: Emraan Hashmi film sails along coasting on some eye-catching, snazzy sequences. We enjoy this outing with our brave anti-hero until the film falls into a long, dull third act.

Batwara 1947 review: The message is loud and clear: no religion is evil, only humans are; nafrat can be conquered through pyaar, siyasat se mazhab ko na milao; and above all, maanvata se bada koi dharam nahin. But they come as a listicle, instead of making you feel.

7 Dogs review: In a shack nestles Salman Khan as a small-time informer called Johar; in a bigger shack, Sanjay Dutt holds court as flamboyant goon Ranjit. They're both big draws in the Middle-East, Salman being the bigger one, but their parts are nothing but glorified cameos.

Toxic movie review: It may be Geetu Mohandas at the helm, but it is finally, and irrevocably, a Rocking Star Yash film, with eye-glazing, endless litany of violence.

Babita Singh Reporting review: A small town woman, and the small town cop, sometimes one playing the other, are in the danger of becoming tropes, if they haven't already.

Gandhari movie review: Taapsee Pannu-starrer is about a child sex trafficking ring (strike one for unoriginality), run by devilish characters (strike two for ditto), upended by, who else but the ultimate saviour, the mother.

Mirzapur The Movie review: I quite enjoyed Mirzapur The Movie because it knows how to stay in its lane, papering over its flabby bits with continual speedy spurts and an intriguing climax.

Last Man In Tower movie review: Manoj Bajpayee is the unbending moral centre of the film, a role he gravitates towards with practised ease. This is Divya Dutta's second stand-out role in 2026, after Chiraiyaa.

Haiwaan movie review: Akshay Kumar-Saif Ali Khan-starrer is the usual mix of genres Priyadarshan serves, the first half setting up the premise of an innocent man being imprisoned, and the second turning into an unintentional comic police procedural.

Ghamasaan movie review: Arshad Warsi as Maharaj didn't make me believe all the way that he could be a cruel man with zero compassion. And there's also Rajpal Yadav, in a striking supporting role, which leaves a mark.