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Street Dancer Opens Far Ahead Of Panga

Subhash K . Jha27th January 202027th January 2020

This doesn’t look like a very favourable year for the women heroes. While 2019 was a virtual celebration of woman power, with female actors dominating the boxoffice in Badlaa, Mission Mangal and Manikarnika 2020 has opened ...

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The Forgotten Army Review: It Is Unforgettable

Subhash K . Jha27th January 2020

The Forgotten Army: Azaadi Ke Liye(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Sunny Kaushal, M K Raina, Sharvari Wagh Written & Directed by Kabir Singh Rating: ****(4 stars) The sheer volume of emotional and physical distance that Kabir Khan covers in the 5...

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Ayushmann & Aparshakti To Come Together

Subhash K . Jha27th January 202027th January 2020

Ayushmann is no doubt the star of the Khurrana family. But unlike Salman’s Arbaaz,Aparshaktiis no less talented. See him match strides with Varun Dhawan in Street Dancer 3D it is all the proof you need that...

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Karan Johar, Kangana Ranaut, Ekta Kapoor , Adnan Sami ,Suresh Wadekar get Padma Shris

Subhash K . Jha27th January 202027th January 2020

You really didn’r expect Deepika Padukone to be conferred with a Padma award, did you?Not after her JNU visit for sure. This Republic Day, the Governmemt, in all its time-tested wisdom has decided to honour a selfsconsciously motley...

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Attempts To Malign Naseeruddin Shah With ‘Catty’ Video Of His Daughter

Subhash K . Jha27th January 202027th January 2020

So okay, Naseeruddin Shah made uncharitable remarks about Anupam Kher which he shouldn’t have. But then, speaking his mind comes naturally to Naseer even at the risk of being savagely attacked. After Naseer’s remarks on Anupam, a video...

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Akshay Kumar’s 120-Crore Fee Story Is A Hoax

Vaibhav Choudhary27th January 202027th January 2020

To all those out there who consider the written word to be sacrosanct. Next time you read about star-fees, just laugh it off. Chances are, the numbers being quoted are ...

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Is Amitabh Bachchan Still A Part Of Shantaram?

Subhash K . Jha26th January 202026th January 2020

Gregory David Roberts’ bestselling novel Shantaram about an Australian fugitive making a new life for himself in the slums of Mumbai has now finally been acquired as a 10-part series by Apple Inc. The...

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Varun Dhawan Versus Kangana Ranaut

Subhash K . Jha25th January 202025th January 2020

This Friday the intrepid Kangana Ranaut locks horns with the affable Varun Dhawan at the boxoffice. Is there anything in common between the two? Apparently, yes.Read on for a collection of corny commonality. 1. The David Dhawan Connection: Well, yes....

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Vivek Agnihotri Takes On Vinod Chopra

Subhash K . Jha24th January 202024th January 2020

By suggesting that Kashmiri Pandits should forgive the local Muslim population of Jammu & Kashmir for driving them out of their homes in 1990, Vinod Chopra has incensed many who feel this gambit to promote his new...

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Saif Ali Khan Makes A Pertinent Point About Bollywood’s Pseudo-historicity

Subhash K . Jha24th January 2020

There is an alarming new formula for pseudo-historical potboilers on Hindi cinema. The brave indomitable: Hindu warrior versus the evil Islamic invader. …Recently in an interview with Anupama Chopra Saif Ali Khan speaking on...

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Varun’s Double Whammy In 2020

Vaibhav Choudhary24th January 202024th January 2020

Last year, Varun Dhawan featured in the first flop of his career , the doomed Kalank which if you ask any astrologer , is among the most negative titles you can give to a film.In...

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The Anupam-Naseer War Is Out In The Open(But Naseer Did Not Call Anupam A Psychopath)

Subhash K . Jha24th January 2020

Let’s get one thing straight. Naseeruddin Shh did not call Anupam Kher a “psychopath”. The word he used was ‘sycophant’ in an interview now gone viral which has gone viral. Anupam reacted with a dignified ...

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Taapsee Pannu’s Haseena Dilruba Will Pay a Tribute To Hindi Pulp Fiction, Taapsee reveals

Subhash K . Jha24th January 2020

Remember those lurid jasoosi kahaniyan in the 1970s by Hindi pulp writers like Surender Mohan Pathak,Ved Prakash Sharma and Colonel Ranjeet? These novels sold off the rack on railway stations like samosas. The look feel flavour and mood of those ...

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Panga Versus Street Dancer, Which One Would You Choose This Week?

Subhash K . Jha23rd January 202023rd January 2020

1. Disparate Genres, Parallel Strokes: Panga is a sports film directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari who excels in probing smalltown dreams and aspirations. Her debut and sophomore films Nil Batte Sannatta and Rai Bareilly Ki Barfi both worked within their given area of performance. On the...

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Ajay Devgan-Rajamouli To Collaborate For A Hindi Film

Subhash K . Jha23rd January 202023rd January 2020

Ajay Devgan has begun shooting for S S Rajamouli’s much-anticipated RRR in Telugu in a very special role. Sources say it’s an extended guest appearance where Devgan would be seen ...

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Anil Ravipudi: “We Haven’t Cut Anything From Neekevvaru, We’ve Added A Scene”

Subhash K . Jha23rd January 202023rd January 2020

Sarileru Neekevvaru director Anil Ravipudi woke up to reports on Saturday morning that an entire section of his film was being edited out of the film , as audiences didn’t ...

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5 Reasons Why Remo-Varun-Shradha-Prabhudheva Will Wow Us Again

Subhash K . Jha22nd January 202022nd January 2020

1. Street Dancer is Remo D’Souza’s genre-defining film. Remo is the master of dance movies. He proved it with ABCD(2013), ABCD 2(2015) and now there is the third film in the Franchise not called ABCD 3 but Street Dancer which returns to spin ...

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Scoop Sara Ali Khan To Play A Rustic Bihari Girl Opposite Dhanush

Subhash K . Jha22nd January 202022nd January 2020

For those of us who were wondering what happened to the great bromance between filmmaker Aanand Rai and Tamil star Dhanush after they collaborated on Ranjhaana 6 years ago, here comes the reason to rejoice in this festive...

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Confirmed: It’s Ananya Pandey With Vijay Deverakonda In Fighter

Subhash K . Jha22nd January 202022nd January 2020

A lot is being written, seen and shared about Telugu superstar Vijay Deverakonda’s Bollywooddebut in Fighter ,a Hindi-Telugu bi-lingual being directed by Puri Jagannath, co-produced by Karan Johar, Puri Jagannath and Charmee Kaur. Since it’s Vijay’s first full-on action film, he has been training...

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Saif Ali Khan Makes A Pertinent Point About Bollywood’s Pseudo-historicity

Subhash K . Jha22nd January 202022nd January 2020

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Kangana Wants Deepika To Apologize

Subhash K . Jha22nd January 202022nd January 2020

Deepika Padukone’s recent promotional gambit on TikTok where she asked a fan to recreate her ‘look’ of the acid-attack survivor in Chhapaak has provoked a severe backlash . The latest to join in the ...

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Anil Ravipudi Says He Has Nothing To Do With F2 Remake

Subhash K . Jha22nd January 202022nd January 2020

Director Anil Ravipudi , currently basking in the success of his new Telugu film SarileruNeekevvaru says he has nothing to do with the Hindi remake of his last year’s blockbuster comedy F2 Fun and Frustration which featured Venkatesh and Varun Tej as...

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Javed Akhtar: “Shabana Will Be Out Of ICU Today”

Subhash K . Jha21st January 202021st January 2020

A stream visitors from the film fraternity who visited Shabana Azmi at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital had to return without meeting the injured actress. Explains her husband poet-writer-thinker Javed Akhtar, “She is in the ICU and she’s...

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Ranveer Loses Chance To Work with Meghna Gulzar

Subhash K . Jha21st January 202021st January 2020

If all had gone well, Ranveer Singh would be working with Meghna Gulzar next, now that she has completed her film with his wife Deepika Padukone. It is reliably learnt that Ranveer was Meghna’s first and only choice to...

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Kabir Khan: “I’ve Lived With Forgotten Army For 20 Years.”

Subhash K . Jha20th January 202020th January 2020

If Fate, that capricious mistress of Man’s future, had willed it, director Kabir Khan’s first feature film would have been on the Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army(INA). “I had made a documentary on the...

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Shabana Is Doing Fine, Says Javed

Subhash K . Jha20th January 202020th January 2020

A day after the ghastly road accident which left her automobile smashed, Shabana Azmi was doing fine at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in Mumbai. On Sunday all essential medical tests were done on the injured actress and...

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Shameful Display Of Insensitivity After Shabana Accident

Subhash K . Jha20th January 202020th January 2020

At around 4 pm on Saturday someone sent me a message. “Shabana Azmi critically injured in a road accident. Really sad.” He sounded more excited for having broken the news to me,...

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Deepika Brutally Trolled For Her ‘Chhapaak’ Look On Social Media

Subhash K . Jha20th January 202020th January 2020

What was probably meant to be a harmless gesture of fan-star bonding on the social media has turned into an occasion of savage trolling for Deepika Padukone. It started with Deepika asking a fan...

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Street Dancer3D….All The Right Moves

Subhash K . Jha20th January 202020th January 2020

The trailer of Remo D Souza’s Street Dancer 3D proves there is no substitute to the masala entertainer.And when it comes to films about dancers and dancing there is no substitute to Remo d’Souza. Remo is to jiving feet...

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Remo: No Panga With Kangana Ranaut

Subhash K . Jha20th January 202020th January 2020

This Republic Day, while Varun Dhawan clashes with Shradha Kapoor on the dancefloor in Street Dancer and Kangana clashes with kabaddi players in the akhada in Panga, the two parent films are poised for a face-off at the boxoffice. However the Street Dancer director Remo d’Souza sees no conflict of interest ...

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David Dhawan On Varun’s Marriage Speculation

Subhash K . Jha17th January 202017th January 2020

Almost every fortnight there is a new “reliable report” on Varun Dhawan’s wedding , venue date and all.A new report tells us that Varun and his steady girlfriend Natasha Dalal...

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5 Brilliant Actors Waiting For Their Post-Debut Explosion.

Subhash K . Jha17th January 202017th January 2020

Today’s actors are very different from the Govindas and Akshay Kumars of yore who signed everything that came their way after their debut. Nowadays, they wait. Here are the ones who are willing to bide...

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Scandal POINT When Gulzar Was Made To Wait The Whole Night By Rajesh Khanna

Subhash K . Jha17th January 202017th January 2020

Ever wondered why the most sensitive poetic romantic filmmaker Gulzar never worked with the most sensitive poetic romantic star Rajesh Khanna? Although Gulzar wrote some really sensitive dialogues and songs for Rajesh Khanna in the clasic Anand, the director never directed the superstar,...

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Alia Bhatt’s First Look As A Gangster Is Disappointingly Unconvincing

Subhash K . Jha17th January 202017th January 2020

Don’t get me wrong. I love Alia Bhatt. She is as beautiful inside as she is on the outside. And she’s a great learner on the sets. But when I heard...

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Scandal Point: What Actually Happened to Divya Bharti

Subhash K . Jha16th January 202016th January 2020

What really happened to the 19-year old sensation Divya Bharti on the night of April 5, 1993 when in the presence of dress designer Neeta Lulla and her husband, she plunged to her death, reportedly in an...

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Kannada Superstar Yash’s Superstardom Goes Through The Roof

Subhash K . Jha16th January 202016th January 2020

On his birthday on January 8 Kannada superstar Yash encountered the kind of adulation never seen before in this country. The mass of humanity which descended on Bengaluru from all over Karnataka ,Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, consisted...

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Mahesh Babu’s Film Crosses 100 Crores In First Weekend , Impromptu Party Held

Subhash K . Jha15th January 202015th January 2020

Mahesh Babu and his team of his superhit Telugu film Sarileru Neekevvaru are in the mood to party. With the collections touching 100 crores in the first three days the joyous team decided to have a...

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Shah Rukh Khan Will Sign A Film In The Next Two Months(And We Know Whom It Is With)

Subhash K . Jha15th January 202015th January 2020

Shah Rukh Khan’s fans may choose to get as impatient as they like. But the mega-star is not biting the bait.He will say yes only when he is absolutely sure of what...

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TheVoices From Bollywood That Matter On Social Media

Subhash K . Jha15th January 202015th January 2020

Suddenly in recent years a handful of voices have emerged on social media with strong political ideas, thoughts and influences. These voices gathered a growing power and momentum in the...

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Will Akshay Kumar Replace Hrithik Roshan In Farah Khan’s Film?

Vaibhav Choudhary15th January 202015th January 2020

It is pretty much clear now that Hrithik Roshan is no more a part of Farah Khan’s remake of Raj N Sippy’s 1982 semi-hit Satte Pe Satta. Farah is not only ...

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No Wedding Plans For Farhan Akhtar

Subhash K . Jha15th January 202015th January 2020

There are reports in a section of the press on Farhan Akhtar and his girlfriend tying the knot in 2020. The imaginative though alas, grosly misleading story even sets a time limit for the wedding...

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Allu Arjun “Never Expected This Kind Of Success”

Subhash K . Jha14th January 2020

Telugu superstar Allu Arjun is on Cloud Nine. His latest film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo has opened to record crowds. “It is likely to be my career’s biggest hit so far. What can I say? I’m overwhelmed. It’s...

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Oscar Nominations: Women Excluded

Subhash K . Jha14th January 202014th January 2020

The Oscar nominations announced on Monday proved a blessing in disguise for Reliance Entertainment. 1917, the harrowing majestic World War 1 drama walked away with major nominations including Best Film and...

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Priyadarshan: “People Like Anurag Kashyap Should Just Shut Up”

Subhash K . Jha14th January 202014th January 2020

India’s most prolific filmmaker Priyadarshan is not happy with the voices of protest being raised in the film industry against the Government’s Citizens’ Amendment Act(CAA). “What have film people got to do...

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Pongal Thoughts From Telugu & Tamil Industry

Subhash K . Jha14th January 202014th January 2020

Mahesh Babu: “Pongal this year comes to us with mixed feelings. While we’re very happy about the opening of my new film Sarileru Neekevvaru, there has been a death of someone very close ...

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Marketing Team’s Ill Advised Move…Chhapaak Boxoffice Gets Affected By Deepika’s JNU Controversy

Subhash K . Jha14th January 202014th January 2020

Politics has finally and irrevocably entered our cinema. This is proven by the abysmally low boxoffice figures for Chhapaak Meghna Gulzar’s much talked-about tale of an acid-attack survivor’s fight for justice. The well-made, moving film...

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Kajol-Ajay Devgan: Their Movies Together Before Tanhaji

Subhash K . Jha11th January 202011th January 2020

In this business of brittle relationships and broken dreams it is easy to forget that Kajol and Ajay Devgan have been married for 20 years . They have co-starred in 9 films not counting ...

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Washing Powder Ad Dirties Akshay Kumar’s Image

Subhash K . Jha10th January 202010th January 2020

No Good Newzz in 2020 either for Akshay. In 2019 Akshay Kumar was brutally trolled for various reasons including his Canadian citizenship . It looks like 2020 too has begun on a sour note for Akshay,...

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Court Orders Chhapaak Makers To Acknowledge Laxmi Aggarwal’s Lawyer

Subhash K . Jha10th January 202010th January 2020

In India making films on real-life characters , specially those who are alive, is becoming almost impossible. Meghna Gulzar and her producers faced their share of legal hassles while trying to make...

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Dubbed Hindi Ruins Rajinikanth’s Punchlines In Darbar

Subhash K . Jha10th January 202010th January 2020

Darbar Starring Rajinikanth, Suneil Shetty, Nayanthara, Directed by A R Murugadoss Rating: **(2 stars) What do you expect from a Rajinikanth film? Well, you have all of it here, then some more. The A R Murugadoss touch of ...