What a birthday present Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s wife has given him. As the celebrated actor turned 46 on May 19 his wife sent him a legal notice ...
Bull(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Rob Morgan , Amber Havard , Yolonda Ross , Steven Boyd Directed by Annie Silverstein Rating: *** ½ The untold pleasure of watching a film as luminously...
One night in 2017 my dear friend and one of my favourite actors Rishi Kapoor sent me three stills of a 90-plus old man. I confess I was...
A report on an entertainment portal stating that the prolific Tamil-Telugu-Hindi music composer M M Keeravani is planning to retire, has caused distress among some of his...
Have Karan Johar’s twins Roohi and Yash replaced Taimur Ali Khan as the most successful star-kids in tinsel town? It looks like the twins, thanks to a huge helping hand from their ‘Dadda’ Karan Johar have...
Reports that actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has headed to his home town in Budhana for Eid are only partially true. Nawaz has indeed travelled to his native place ...
Everything Is Fine Starring Seema Bhargava Pahwa, Paloma Ghosh Directed by Mansi Nirmal Jain Rating: *** ½ Sometimes a performance towers so above the parent-product that it tends to blur the other assets ...
The Mighty Naseeruddin Shah In A Rare Interview With Subhash K Jha Tells It Like It Is On the Pandemic, Politics and the Pedestrianism Of A Placid Populace Naseer Saab, 2020 will probably...
When Salman Khan’s Significant Other the Romanian Iulia Vantur ventured to make it in Bollywood all on her own we saluted her spirit. But now her...
‘Lord Krishna’ Nitish Bhardwaj is pleasantly surprised to know that one of his old films Naache Nagin Gali Gali is a craze online with over 60 million views .And still counting. The ...
Salman Khan who is safely ensconced in his farmhouse outside Mumbai is likely to start editing his postponed Eid release Radhe : India’s Most Wanted Bhai...
The stern rebuke and threats of “retributive measures” issued by the INOX chain of multiplex theatres against producers going straight to the digital platform with their ready-for-release films,...
Singer Anupa Jalota is keeping himself very busy during the lockdown. While his Bhajans are being played across Hindu homes in India and abroad,Anup, has joined hands with 210 other singers for...
Shabana Azmi joins other international stars to collaborate with Erri de Luca, a major Italian author, some would even say the greatest Italian writing today. Luca has launched a new...
Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions has seen better days . The last two years have not been kind to the films released by Johar’s posh production House Dharma. And now ...
If all had gone well Rishi Kapoor would have played his son Ranbir’s father on screen in a bio-pic on the life of sharpshooter Abhinav Bindra. Ranbir was offered the role of Bindra and Rishi Kapoor was...
Trolls and other self appointed custodians of celebrities’ morals have expressed a collective outrage at seeing Ranbir Kapoor staying in his own apartment after his father...
Reports in a section of the media claiming Salman Khan has returned to his Mumbai /Bandra apartment “because he wanted to meet his parents” are false. Salman won’t budge from...
When the ‘confirmed bachelor’ Gulzar decided to marry the very beautiful actress Raakhee Gulzar he laid down only one pre-condition. That she wouldn’t return to acting.Ever. This was a time when Raakhee’s...
Tigmanshu Dhulia who directed Irrfan Khan in one of his best film Paan Singh Tomar was all set to collaborate with his favourite actor all over again when death made other...
With the announcement of the new Shoojit Sircar film Gulabo Sitabo going digital the entertainment industry is sharply polarized about the dos and donts of digital releases for big-screen projects....
How did Sunny Leone and her family reach Los Angeles? Last we checked in mid-April Sunny and her husband Daniel Weber were in their highrise apartment in Mumbai ...
After Shoojit Sircar’s katha of crankiness Gulabo Sitabo it is the turn of another cross-generation drama to premier on Amazon Prime Video . While the first announcement was made on Thursday ...
Pataal Lok (9 Episodes, Amazon Prime Video) Starring: Neeraj Kabi as Sanjeev Mehra,Jaideep Ahlawat as Hathiram Chaudhary,Abhishek Banerjee as Hathoda Tyagi,Swastika Mukherjee as Dolly Mehra,Ishwak Singh as Imran Ansari Directed by Prosit Roy & Avinsh Arun Dhaware Rating: ****(4 stars) This one just blows you away, no two ways...
We are going through times of severe recession. This Eid we therefore get no Salman Khan. But we get Nawazuddin instead . While Salman’s scheduled Eid release Radhe: India’s Most...
This week Celina Jaitley who lives in Austria with her husband and children, woke up to a rude shock when her followers on Twitter began to drop off...
5 Films Where Sridevi Proved Her Comic Aptitudes When it came to range, Sridevi was in league of her own. She could play anything, from a martyr in Nazrana to the super-bitch...
Actor Akshay Oberoi last seen in the successful webseries The Inside Edge and currently wooing the waves with the web series Ilegal is happy to get time at home ....
An interview on a gossipy website meant to spotlight Taapsee Pannu’s rapport with her mother, has ended up making headlines for reasons other than a Mother’s Day...
Actor Freddy Daruwala who made a striking debut as the main villain in the Akshay Kumar starrer Holiday, has just been to hell and back. Reliving ...
Sunny Leone who turned 39 on May 13, has vvid memories of celebrating her birthday in Canada with her parents. “My mother would always bake me a cake...
Hearts & Bones(iTunes, YouTube) Starring Hugo Weaving – Dan Fisher, Andrew Luri – Sebastian Ahmed,Hayley McElhinney – Josie Avril,Bolude Watson – Anishka Ahmed Directed by Ben...
Director Shoojit Sircar has been hinting about it for some time. Now his latest film Gulabo-Sitabo which features Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana as a squabbling landlord and tenant is said to be going straight to...
Vir Das as we know him, is an exceptional stand-up comedian, fearless funny and scathing. In his new feature-film for Netflix entitled Hasmukh Vir plays a bad stand comedian. I wonder how...
While the new normal is yet to be decided , the Indian entertainment industry is limping back to a tentative normalcy. Doing the work that could...
One wonders why Anurag Basu is bragging about offering Irrfan Khan a role in Jagga Jasoos. By offering him the role of Ranbir Kapoor’s foster-father in Jagga Jasoos, Anurag Basu insulted the extraordinary actor on several levels. Firstly...
Legendary Pakistani Ghazal singer, Mehdi Hassan and India’s most famous playback singer Lata mangeshkar’s long-standing dream of working together finally came true in 2011.Much as the...
With Rishi Kapoor’s passing the much-touted remake of the Hollywood rom-com the The Intern where the actor was to play the role originally done by Robert de...
Former actress Sameera Reddy has been trying to keep two very young children aged 5 years and 9 month, respectively, entertained indoors for more than a...
While Rishi Kapoor had many pet peeves and partiality. the one superstition that he never got over was to do with watching his own films in advance. Rishi never...
Ranbir Kapoor and his father, the late Rishi Kapoor shared a turbulent relationship…Or maybe turbulent is too animated a word to describe their frozen relationship. During the making of Ranbir’s first...
What is the way forward for the film and television industry of India once the lockdown ends ? Last week the Producers’ Guild Of India issued a lengthy ...
Rishi Kapoor’s father Raj Kapoor and singer Nitin Mukesh’s father the great Mukesh were best friends, so close as to be considered brothers. “And the tradition continued with our generation. I ...
How are you coping with the lockdown? Is Sappho keeping you busy round the clock? I have sappho and my twelve-year old brother Oriel staying with me, so between...
The entire team of Salman Khan’s Eid 2020 release Radhe: India’s Most Wanted Bhai is holding its collective breath to see when the lockdown will end. Radhe ...
In his memoirs, Rishi Kapoor has grumbled about Bhansali being tightlipped about the content of Saawariya. I don’t know about Rishiji, but I was allowed to see...
Oh ma teri soorat se alag bhagwan ki soorat kya hogi: Dadi Maa(1966)—It’s not easy to sing in praise of the Mother Figure without tripping into...
Everybody knows Sushant Singh Rajput is in a relationship with starlet Rhea Chakraborty. In which case we wonder why she has given a long interview denying they are anything more than ...
As the film industry stares into the abyss of an unprecedented economic slump experts say the only out of the mess is for the leading men...
Leave those kids alone. This should be the trending hashtag on Twitter. The latest and most ridiculous manifestation of juvenile stalking via the paparazzi involves Sunny...
Bollywood Actress-Filmmaker-Activist Nandita Das Speaks To Subhash K Jha On Her Short Film On Domestic Violence During Lockdown What is ...
A police complaint filed by former Bigg Boss contestant calling himself Hindustani Bhau could land the tv czarina and her mother Shobhaa Kapoor in serious trouble. In the...
Nowadays Mr B is completely taken up with Ranbir Kapoor. I remember he’s been praising Ranbir since his debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya when he had ...
Lata Mangeshkar has always been known as a one-woman industry . I remember the wonderful Dev Anand telling me how ...
Of late, the digital domain is dishing out more drivel than we can digest. One after the other the big...
There isn’t a chance in hell for Kannada superstar Yash’s KGF follow-up to release on the OTT platform. A source...
Wajid Khan ,better known as the genial affable gentle and polite one-half of the Sajid-Wajid duo, passed away . This is the...
New York-based Master-chef Vikas Khanna has so far distributed 7 million dry ration meals across 79 cities in India dring these last two months ...
This is a love triangle so bizarre and its outcome so unexpected , the one angle from the triangle most...
In 1977 Movie Moghul Manmohan Desai had two blockbuster releases Amar Akbar Anthony and Parvarish. Both starred Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh and Shabana Azmi. How did Desai manage to shoot two multi-starrers with...
Shooting is expected to resume in the Mumbai studios from the first week of June. Maharashtra government on Sunday announced film and...
On his father the legendary Krishna(Siva Rama Krishna Ghattamaneni)’s 77th birthday on 31 May, Mahesh Babu has announced his next Telugu film. It is...
The Nightingale hates playing favourites.When I urge her to do so she reminds me that she never listens to her...
When it came to calling a spade , a spade no one could do with better than Rishi Kapoor. I’ve been...
We would probably not have known about the death of poet-lyricist Yogesh Gaur had the Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar not tweeted...
The Invincible Amitabh Bachchan Speaks To Subhash K Jha On His Forthcoming Film Gulabo Sitabo Amitji, Gulabo Sitabo is your first release on the OTT platform. Does it feel any different from your earlier...
Sidharth Shukla couldn’t enjoy the new lease of stardom after his Bigg Boss win, because of the lockdown. But he is not...
The one member of the Indian entertainment industry who has proved himself a messiah for stranded migrant workers is Sonu...
Salman Khan’s next film to go on the floors would be a film with a very strong message on communal ...
While the actor to play the crazily talented singer Baiju in the love story Baiju Bawra is yet to be decided, Sanjay Leela Bhansali who is remaking the musical...