A full 700 years after his creation, WALL•E (Ben Burtt) is still cleaning up humanity’s mess on Earth, sorting and organising towers of garbage that stand alongside the skyscrapers of the long-abandoned planet. The humans themselves have become sloth-like in their dependance on technology, vegetating away on a spacecraft waiting for that time to come when a return to Earth is possible.

It was easy for Sir Richard Attenborough to make Gandhi (1982)-he was merely narrating a story of a great individual who walked on this planet not so long ago. Comparatively, it must have been a lot tougher for director Feroz Abbas Khan making his debut as a filmmaker to make Gandhi, my father, pitting a shriveled anti-hero against an international hero, both of whom were historically real individuals, and ironically father and son.

Mumbai Meri Jaan is an attempt to depict the lives of five different souls and how the July 11 blasts affect them. Director Nishikant Kamat has already proved his mettle with Dombivli Fast. Yet again he comes up with a poignant storyline which has a realist touch in its portrayal. And call it a coincidence, his second film also moves around the trains of Mumbai.

As the saying goes, its difficult to make an effective comedy. Its even more difficult to make a effective horror film. Ram Gopal Verma has certainly achieved the latter in past with spine tingling efforts like Raat and Bhoot. In Phoonk however he displays a wholly unintentional flair for the comic. And the prepostero

What do you expect from a film which has the following names in its credit roll-

Paresh Rawal, Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon and Mallika Sherawat ? I know you will say the film has to be at least a good ‘timepass flick’ because not even a trainee filmmaker can completely waste such talented actors and make a terrible film. I thought the same before entering the theatre to watch the first day first show of Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam.

Tom Elce reviews director Bharat Nalluri’s film that’s releasing this Friday in India.

Upon being being dismissed from her job, destitute ex-governess Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) goes on the hunt for new employment. Penniless and desperately needing work, she comes into contact with aspiring actress/lounge singer Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams), a young woman juggling her ambitions alongside a trio of different men.

This has to be the best film of the year 2007. That it wasn’t nominated at the Academy Awards is their loss. Just a reflection of the fact that award shows are at best, only indicators of good cinema; they cannot sit in judgment over what is or what is not the best.

They got a large mixer cum grinder and filled it with the following ingredients-

DVD’s of Dev Anand’s superhit “Teen Deviyan” and their very own DDLJ, Audio CDs of “Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahi”, “Dhoom” and “Jhoom Barabar Jhoom”. Mixed it for few months in the ‘mixer cum grinder’ and then took the printout of the resultant product. What came out became the script called “Bachna Ae Haseeno”.