Naz 8 Cinemas

5:00 PM, 8:00 PM, 11:00 PM

5:00 PM, 8:00 PM, 11:00 PM

Like an overzealous puppy that showers you with slobbery kisses before you can pry it off your face, Chashme Baddoor is simultaneously dopey and irrepressibly charming. The only difference between Baddoor, a new, precious Bollywood romantic... More »

Like an overzealous puppy that showers you with slobbery kisses before you can pry it off your face, Chashme Baddoor is simultaneously dopey and irrepressibly charming. The only difference between Baddoor, a new, precious Bollywood romantic comedy, and its 1981 predecessor of the same name is that the remake’s main characters are a trio of goofy dude-bro roommates who look suspiciously like Ed Hardy models. Likewise, the distinction between Sid the bookish student (Ali Zafar) and his friends—Jai the feckless actor (Siddharth) and Omi the self-aggrandizing poet (Divyendu Sharma)—is that Sid’s a virginal goody-goody while Omi and Jai are both immodestly horny. So while all three manboy protagonists want to date Seema (Taapsee Pannu), a modern girl who rejects an arranged marriage proposal set up by her father, Santru (Anupam Kher, who also plays Santru’s twin brother, Chikyu), Seema only has eyes for Sid. While Omi and Jai scheme to separate Sid from Seema, Chashme Baddoor’s creators suggest that true love is as pure-hearted and corny as a line like, “Would you like to hang out with me for the rest of your life?” The film is mostly winsome thanks to the bubbly cast. And despite song lyrics as saccharine as “Every time you get angry, it’s like bullets in my heart,” Zafar and Pannu’s chemistry is disarming enough to improve the otherwise unremarkable dance numbers. Chashme Baddoor’s modest charms dissipate quickly, but they’re certainly real. « Less

5:00 PM, 8:00 PM, 11:00 PM

5:00 PM, 8:00 PM, 11:00 PM

In Nautanki Saala, an Indian romantic comedy loosely based on the 2003 French film Après Vous, director Rohan Sippy (Dum Maaro Dum) and his two co-writers listlessly force lovesick stage-actor-cum-director RP (Ayushmann Khurrana) into a sleepy... More »

In Nautanki Saala, an Indian romantic comedy loosely based on the 2003 French film Après Vous, director Rohan Sippy (Dum Maaro Dum) and his two co-writers listlessly force lovesick stage-actor-cum-director RP (Ayushmann Khurrana) into a sleepy love triangle. After RP stops Mandar (Kunaal Roy Kapur), a lonely simpleton, from killing himself, he feels responsible for Mandar's life. RP tries to help the more slow-than-dumb Mandar regain his confidence by giving him the lead role in a new play. Meanwhile, RP also tries to reunite Mandar with Nandini (Pooja Salvi), a florist who broke up with Mandar and never explained why. Sippy and his co-writers take too much time to establish Nautanki Saala's central conflict: While RP spends so much time trying to get Nandini to dump her ditzy lover for Mandar, she inadvertently falls in love with RP-- a development that only occurs two-thirds of the way through the movie. Mandar ineffectively excuses his creators' failure to get to the point when he explains why he loves the theater: "Anything can happen to anyone, and at any time." Still, too much of Nautanki Saala is long-winded, disjointed setup to RP's romantic dilemma: should he dump Nandini or betray Mandar? Nautanki Saala's creators spend so much time disinterestedly transitioning from one plot point to the next that they only effectively establish the haphazard nature of RP and Nandini's romance. « Less

5:00 PM, 8:00 PM, 11:00 PM

5:00 PM, 8:00 PM, 11:00 PM