Tandav Rakes Up JNU Issue
Tandav, the eagerly awaited webseries on Netflix , has dared to venture into dangerous territory. The violence on the Jawaharwal Nehru University in 2019 has been raked up, with actor...
Tribhanga Review: It Is A Spunky Sparkling Chic Chick Flick
Tribhanga(Netflix) Starring Kajol,Tanvi Azmi,Mithila Palkar,Kunaal Roy Kapur,Vaibhav Tatwawaadi Written & Directed by Renuka Shahane Rating: *** ½ Just like life, Tribhanga is somewhat off-kilter, a little askew, at times uneven and even patchy. But the story of three generations of ...
Pieces Of A Woman Review: It Will Shatter You
Pieces Of A Woman(Netflix) Starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger, Benny Safdie, Jimmie Fails Ellen Burstyn. Directed by Kornél MundruczóRating: *** After seeing this sobering film I was discussing it with my friend Sanjay Leela Bhansali.On hearing ...
“Yes,Varun Dhawan Is Really Getting Married On 24 January,” Close Friend Confirms
I was wondering were they again jumping the gun? Reports stated that Varun Dhawan will wed his girlfriend Natasha Dalal on 24 January. Turns out, the rumour is this time entirely true. A close friend...
5 Potential Stars Expected To Hit Bigtime In 2021
They are young and raring to go. In spite of proving their talent they are yet to find big success in Hindi cinema. That may change sooner rather than later....
Hrithik As Super-Hero & Super-Villain In Next Krissh Film
The frenzied excitement to see Hrithik Roshan in the next instalment of the Krissh franchise would have to wait for a while. The script is yet to fructify. But what we can tell...
Kesari Is Dangal With Karate Kid Thrown In
Kesari(Marathi, ErosNow) Starring Virat Madke, Rupa Borgaonkar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Vikram Gokhale, Mohan Joshi Directed by Sujay Dahake Rating: ** ½ An abusive father,a doting mother,a silently supportive grandfather and a bunch of encouraging rowdy friends…there we have the recipe for a successful sports...
Varun Dhawan Jugg Jugg Jiyo Is A Move In The Right Direction
After three flops in a row Varun Dhawan who until 2017 had an unbroken track record of hits from Student Of The Year in 2010 to Judwaa 2 in 2017 has lately...
Will Tandav Be the OTT’s First Blockbuster Of 2021?
Tandav the star-studded series designed and helmed by Ali Abbas Zafar is one of the most expensive shows to hit the digital space.Reportedly the main stars Saif Ali Khan and Dimple Kapadia have charged approximately 12 crores and 7 crores each,which is a...
Yash To Produce His Next Film
Kannada superstar Yash is all set to turn producer. The KGF superstar has so far stayed away from all suggestion of launching a production house. “Both KGF and its sequel are produced by close...
Katrina-Vijay Sethupathi Together, Director Sriram Raghavan Confirms
As far as unusual combinations go, this one takes the cake and the bakery. Bollywood’s most glamorous screen queen Katrina Kaif is about to be united on screen with Tamil cinema’s resident...
Gullak 2 Old Battle Filled With A New Wine
Gullak Season 2(SonyLIV,5Episode) Rating: *** Thank God for the Indian middleclass and its jugaadu optimism. There isn’t a problem that that can’t be “managed” with some amount of resourcefulness and a great deal of resilience....
Chun Chun Ke Badla Is Back
The trailer of The Power(yes that’s the name of the film) shows anything but the power of a trailer to draw audiences into movie theatres. Luckily for the makers of this...
Bloody Nose Empty Pockets Is Like Nothing You’ve Seen before
Bloody Nose Empty Pockets Directed by Bill Ross 1V , Turner Ross Rating: ** ½ Partly documentary, partly fiction Bloody Nose Empty Pockets is wholly confounding. To say that we haven’t...
5 Strong Women-Oriented Films Of 2021
In a year that is destined to dominated by the dudes , some strong women-oriented films will also make their way into theatres and the OTT platform 1. Kajol in Tribhanga: Kajol has done the maximum number ...
Sonu Sood, “I Started My Career With A Music Video”
Life for Sonu Sood seems to have come a full circle with the music video Paagal Nahin Honawhich was released this week. Sonu who shares the love vibes of the pretty...
6 Outstanding Performances That went Completely Unnoticed
At times the velocity and power of the central performances are so strong that the impact of the marginal performances gets diluted. Here are the 6 outstanding performances of 2020 that you...
Sonu Sood On The Fan Frenzy At Shirdi Temple
Sonu Sood’s popularity as the messiah of the masses remains undiminished this year. On Saturday he paid a visit to the Shirdi temple where there seemed to be a larger crowd of Sonuworshippers than ...
Madhavan’s Meditation On The Making Of Maara
Maddy, Maara does exactly what its heroine’s character does. Restoration. It restores our faith in love. This is exactly what we set out do. Thank God you got the point. When we...
Fresh Pairs 2021
The box office is always hungry for fresh jodis. Trade experts say a new screen pairing ensures a certain level of audience interest from the outset. Check out these dewdrop duos...
The Nest Is Deeply Cutting & Earnest
The Nest(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, Oona Roche, Adeel Akhtar Directed by Sean Durkin Rating: *** ½ Social climbers are normally a brunt of loud laughter in cinema, sometimes...
Abhimanyu Dasani Speaks On The Road He Has Chosen For Himself.
“Scam 1992 Is The Show I Binge-Watched,” After A 3-Year Hiatus The Talented Abhimanyu Dasani Has 3 Releases To Look Forward To In 2021. He Speaks To Subhash K Jha On The Road He Has Chosen For...
Amitabh Bachchan-Shoojit Sircar’s Shelved Film To Be Revived On Digital?
Post the astronomical amount that Amazon has paid for the premiere rights for the Amitabh Bacchan-Shoojit Sircar starrer Gulabo Sitabo,it is reliably learnt that their complete-but-unreleased film Shoebite about a...
Anupriya Goenka Tells why The OTT Is The New Normal.
Anupriya Goenka who had a tremendous 2020 on the digital platform with Asur, Aashram and specially Criminal Justice 2,tells Subhash K Jhawhy The OTT Is The New Normal A tough 2020, but you gad some good success? Yes,...
Gurmeet Choudhary Tells About The Year That Was, And What Lies Ahead.
2020 was arguably the worst year of our lives. How do you look back on the year? What is your takeaway from this year? I think for me 2020 was...
Gaurang Doshi: “No way Am I Selling My Rights Of Aankhen”
Producer Gaurang Doshi who moved to Dubai some years ago, is both exasperated and amused by a report that he may have to sell the rights of Aankhen to another producer. “No way!” Gaurang expostulates from...
Shilpa Shirodkar On Getting The Covid19 Vaccine
By now we all know actress Shilpa Shirodkar now settled in Dubai . ventured to get herself vaccinated against Covid 19. Little did she know that a simple health precaution would create a national...
Hrithik Roshan-Deepika Padukone Finally Together
It was due forever, and a day.Friday, to be precise. Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, both tall both goodlooking and a dream pair on celluloid. Why haven’t they done a film together yet? That’s about to change....
Yash To Produce His Next Film
Kannada superstar Yash is all set to turn producer. The KGF superstar has so far stayed away from all suggestion of launching a production house. “Both KGF and its sequel are produced by close...
January Is Crucial On OTT
Some of the biggest names from Bollywood are all set to descend on your computers, phones and television screens this month. Here are the biggies waiting their turn. 1. Tribhanga(Netflix; January 15): The...
Half Brothers Review: Unofficial Remake Of Kachche Dhaage?
Half Brothers(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Luis Gerardo Méndez, Connor Del Rio Directed by Luke Greenfield Rating: ** You know the plot…Two wildly contrasting stepbrothers who have never met, forced to come together after...
Wander Review: It Is A Wired-For-Weirdness Thriller
Wander(Video On Demand) Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Katheryn Winnick, Heather Graham\ Directed by April Mullen Rating: * ½ Canadian director April Mullen made a shallow shocker in 2016 Below Her Mouth, a...
Happy Birthday,Farhan
This month on Jan 10-11 three Bollywood personalities I’ve known closely over the years and one of whom I no longer know or want to know, turned a year older within 24 hours. Farha Khan and Farhan Akhtar share the same birthday which...
The Many Hats That Birthday Boy Farhan Akhtar Wears
Farhan Akhtar shares his birthday on January 9 with his cousin the choreographer and self-styled filmmaker Farah Khan. Except that they have similar-sounding first names and have skipped hopped and jumped into...
5 OTT Superstars Of 2021
The days of cine-superstars lording over audiences’ attention is over. The OTT platform ,a compulsion rather than a preference in 2020 to begin with, has now come to stay. As Sunny Leone...
“It is totally false. I am very much there working at YRF ,” Says Chandraprakash Dwivedi
A report on Monday stating that Chandraprakash Dwivedi who is directing Prithviraj Chauhan for YashRaj films has had a fall-out with the Yash Raj scion Aditya Chopra , had the film industry abuzz.The report also stated that Aditya has blocked the Prithviraj Chauhan director from editing his...
Happy Birthday, Yash…Stay Humble Stay Superstar
In my long career as a film writer I’ve had the privilege of being very close to some major superstars from down South. Some are born humble,others simply pretend to...
Naseeruddin Shah On Playing Dead
One of the many pleasures of watching Seema Pahwa’s directorial debut in Ramprasad Ka Tehrva is to see the great Naseeruddin Shah as the dead patriarch of the family. Naseer of course lives the part of the dead...
No Truth To Ranbir’s Price Hike Stories
Reports that Ranbir kapoor will charge extra for ever additional days of shooting has many topnotch producers in the film industry falling off their chairs with laughter. What is so...
Bobby Deol In an Interview Who Made a Comeback With Ashram
Bobby Deol who made a comeback in 2020 with Prakash Jha’s webseries Ashram looks affectionately at the year that was and the time to come.Interview with Subhash K Jha 2020 was arguably the worst year of our lives. How...
Arjun Rampal Tells Why 2020 Was a Learning curve for all Of Us
Would you agree 2020 was the worst year of our lives? Yes agreed, we saw too much pain, ugliness, hatred, uncertainty, helplessness. Yet on the other side we saw a...
Deepika In Dhoom 4 Is Fakenews
One doesn’t know from where this erupted just days before Deepika Padukone’s birthday . But the reports that she will play the main villain in the next Dhoom franchise film is, in the...
Satish Kaushik: “I Have Salman To Thank …Lived With Lal Bihari For 17 Years”
It was when veteran actor-director Satish Kaushik was travelling with Salman Khan that things fell into place for Satish’s dream project. Recounts Satish, “I got to know about Lal Bihari Mritak who was declared dead by the government and who...
6 Newcomers To Watch Out For
The thing about newcomers is, you never where they are coming from…unless they come from a film family. In which case we are informed well in advance of their arrival.Alarmingly ...
Salman’s Surprise Presence In Kaagaz
Salman Khan who is on board in Satish Kaushik’s Kaagaz as a “presenter” was so bowled over by the film’s theme that he insisted on being featured in the film as...
Kaagaz Pankaj Tripathi Shines As A Dead Man Walking(And Talking)
Kaagaz(Zee5 Directed by Satish Kaushik Rating: *** Kaagaz tells a very peculiar and poignant story of a man from Uttar Pradesh who spent 18 years of his life proving that...
Prakash Jha: “Matto Ki Saikal Must Be Released In Movie Theatres”
In its simplicity and charm and its deep connectivity with the grassroots Prakash Jha’s production Matto Ki Saikal takes us back to the the days of Pure Cinema when movies informed and entertained. Prakash is understandably proud ...
Family Man Goes International, To Be Dubbed Into 10 International Languages
If fans of Raj-DK’s The Family Man are wondering why they’ve to wait until so long—February 12 is the release date-- for Season 2, there is a reason for the delayed season....
Sriram Raghavan: “No Its Fakenews… I Am Not Making Kandahar”
An over-enthusiastic entertainment portal caused a flutter on the internet with the “news” that Sriram Raghavan is making a webseries based on the December 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines airbus to Kandahar. However when I ...
Tiger Shroff Looks Back With Astonishment At The Year That Was(and We Wish It Wasn’t)
Tiger Shroff in A Conversation With Subhash K Jha 2020 was arguably the worst year of our lives. How do you look back on the year? what is your takeaway from this...