Sound of ego

The acting is fine as are the dialogue and the mise-en-scene. Maybe in these frayed post-Trump times, America needed a movie as simple as this

J Jagannath 

J Jagannath

How did Bradley Cooper muster the courage to remake a Hollywood classic that has already been made thrice over the past 80 years (1937, 1954 and 1976), that too for his directorial debut? This question kept haunting me for hours after I watched A Star Is Born at a movie theatre in a Denver suburb.

To his credit, Cooper managed to give the story that is as old as the hills a decent, 21st-century twist. For the uninitiated, the story is about a louche rock star (Cooper as Jackson Maine, or Jack), who meets Ally (Lady Gaga) at a drag queen show and thinks she’s got enough vocal ...

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First Published: Fri, October 12 2018. 22:11 IST