The Pits

Saawariya: Who'd have thought Sanjay Leela Bhansali could make you feel so blue? Too busy being a poet on screen, Bhansali forgot the storytelling idiom as a result.


No Smoking: Insisting it was his most personal work yet, Anurag Kashyap's film turned out to be too much self-indulgent rambling and a terrible waste of both film and talent.

Laaga Chunari Mein Daag: Can you imagine Parineeta's Pradeep Sarkar directing a story that made Ekta Kapoor's soaps look avant garde? Enough to say we'll never see Rani Mukherjee, Benares or escort girls the same way again!


Gandhi My Father A father and son in conflict, and history in the making. Sounds interesting, right? Well, theatre director Feroz Khan's debut film was that history lesson told in such a one-note drone that it made you long to rest your head on a pillow.

Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag What can we say about a debacle that has rewritten history? I'm still reliving this regurgitation of a classic and the horror of watching Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan and Mohanlal participating in it!

I really don't understand why people hate Saawariya with such a passion. Personally, I feel it's easily the best thing he's done in an ambitious-but-shaky career in directing.

I can't wait to write a proper defense of it after a second screening.