One Of India’s Finest Actors, the Malayali Maverick Fahadh Faasil, a Modern-Day Dilip Kumar Is Back Again Giving Yet Another Layered & Luminous Performance In Joji. He Discusses His Preoccupations As An Actor...
A few years ago when Anil Kapoor was younger, he had announced a desi version of the 2003 Mark Waters directed Disney rom-com Freaky Friday where Mom Jamie Lee Curtis and daughter Lindsey Lohan swapped places. Anil wanted Sonam Kapoor ...
Sing Sena Supremo Lata Mangeshkar hero-worshipped her father. But not many people know that she was equally attached to her mother, if not more. Recalls Lataji, “Aaee, as all us...
Remembering her mother the formidable actress-activist Shaukat Azmi who was a matriarch to all she loved , Shabana says, “She was remarkable in many ways . She always ...
When in an interview with me, Nawazuddin Siddiqui spoke out against celebrities posting holiday pictures the last things I expected was his brother to slam him for it.The...
A report in a section of the press claims Telugu star Naveen Pollishetty met producer Sajid Nadiadwala with the offer to remake his superhit comedy Jathi Ratnalu....
Vitthal Teedi(Gujarati,Oho, 6 episodes) Rating: *** Starring Pratik Gandhi, Directed by Abhishek Jain There is a sequence in the second episode of this fairly engaging series where Pratik Gandhi,the Gujarati actor who shot...
More and more celebrities are coming forward to help and support daily wage-earners from the film industry during this period of unprecedented crisis. But that’s not...
Karnan(Tamil,Amazon Prime) Starring Dhanush, Lal, Yogi Babu, Azhagam Perumal, Natarajan Subramaniam, Rajisha Vijayan, Gouri G. Kishan and Lakshmi Priya Chandramouli. Directed by Mari Selvaraj Rating:**** This is not just a film. It is a movement. A wakeup call for all Indians who think all...
Ramyug (MX Player,10 Episodes) Directed by Kunal Kohli Rating: ** ½ First the good news. Kunal Kohli’s re-telling of the Ramayan doesn’t compare too unfavourably with Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan which has, for all practical purposes, become...
Telugu star Sundeep Kishan who turns 34 on May 7 is back with a new film Gully Rowdy. He tells Subhash K Jha about the film and its shooting during the pandemic....
Filmmakers in Bengal love Tagore, not just Sharmila but also the Grand Old Man of letters Rabindranath Tagore whose novels and short stories have been ternally adapted by Bengali filmmakers from Satyajit Ray(Teen...
Sulthan(Tamil, Disney-Hotstar) Starring Karthi ,Rashmika Mandanna, Napoleon, Lal, Yogi Babu Directed by Bakkiyaraj Kannan Rating: * ½ Someone somewhere must have thought this to be a...
1. Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd(2007): Reema Kagti’s debut film has enough chutzpah to keep you purring at the blend of parody and pathos . Once you get into...
Aparna Sen had the singular honour of being Satyajit Ray’s heroine when she was 16. She played one of the three protagonists in Ray’s omnibus Teen Kanya in 1961. Aparna , a...
The pride of Malayalam cinema Fahadh Faasil feels a special pride about his next project entitled Malayankunju. No, not because the actor par excellence injured himself during the shooting(an accident...