Dithee(Marathi,SonyLIV)Starring: Kishore Kadam, Amruta Subhash, Shashank ShendeWritten & Directed by : Sumitra BhaveRating: *** Discursive dramas on death and life(in that order) are prevalent in cinema all across the world. In Hindi we...
Paan Singh Tomar(2012): Some films are meant to run that extra mile to go beyond being a mere cinematic experience.As we see names of real-life athletes who...
“For me cinema must be an escape route. I believe characters in my film must laugh and cry, fall in love, suffer heartbreak, go through an...
Raj Nidimoru, one-half of the Raj-DK directorial debut who is half-Tamilian, is baffled by the unfounded backlash against The Family Man Season 2. “A large number of the unit...
Among all the screen heroes , Sunil Dutt was the only true feminist. While several leadingmen pretend to believe in gender equality their actions prove otherwise . Not Sunil Dutt. In real...
You know Rajesh Roshan for Dil kaye kare and Bhool gayi sab kuch(Julie), Pardesia and Tauba tauba(Mr Natwarlal), Disco 82(Khuddar), Choo kar mere man ko(Yarana), Jab koi baat bigad jaaye(Jurm), Kaho na pyar hai(title song) and Jaati hoon main(Karan Arjun). But there is much more to Rajesh Roshan than these obvious chartbusters . I truly believe his best tunes came before he...
The torrential rains in Mumbai have caused havoc to property and humankind. The large football-stadium set of director Amit Sharma’s Maidaan where he was scheduled to shoot India playing against various international...
1. In a blockbuster year when the biggest Bollywood badshahs burst onto the big screen, this film with two new heroines and Akshay Kumar helds its own.Andaaz was one of the biggest grossers of 2003 ...
Music composer Raamlaxman was much-loved by all the singers who sang for him. Udit Narayan has the fondest words for the deceased composer. “He was a very talented man ....
Indian Idol host Aditya Narayan has been receiving a lot of flak for taking a dig at singer Amit Kumar for criticizing the contestants on the show. Aditya says he is unfazed by the ...
“I just heard Vijay is no more,” Lataji sighs. “The world knew him as Raamlaxman. But that was not his real name. His actual name was neither Ram nor Laxman, but Vijay, Vijay Patil. He ...
Raamlaxman who was actually Vijay Patil , was best known for his stupendous chartbusters in Sooraj Barjatya’s Maine Pyar Kiya , Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Hum…Saath Saath Hain had a long and chequered innings as a music composer. He started his musical partnership...
1. Dulhan banungi doli chadungi by Lata Mangeshkar & Manna Dey(Woh Jo Hasina): An impossibly high-pitched compositions and a marked departure from Raamlaxman’s style. Normally he preferred low-key low-octave tunes. But here he pulled out all stops,With...
Paint(Netflix) Starring Josh Cara, Olivia Luccardi,Paul Cooper Directed by Michael Walker Rating: *** Films set in the art world often strain for intellectual effect. Here is a...
There seems to be no end to the woes of Telugu star Nani’s period historical Shyama Singha Roy. It was to go on the floors n April 2020 . But...
I don’t really know Aditya Chopra, the scion of Yashraj Films personally. I only know him from what his father and some of his close friends have told me about...