Rating: ** ½ I just had a life-changing experience. It is called You Will Die At 20. It is Sudan’s first entry into the Oscars, and one...
Following the beguiling brouhaha over two of its major series Mirzapur and Tandav, Amazon Prime Video has decided to indefinitely postpone the release of their next Big Fat Indian...
Master(Tamil, Amazon) Starring Vijay, Vijay Sethupathi Directed by Lokesh Kanagraj Rating: *** It takes a Vijay to bring them back to the theatres. Covid be damned, Master has proven a monster blaster at the boxoffice in the South....
The Mangeshkar sisters Lata and Asha have ruled the ‘ear’waves for over 60 years.Apart, they are institutions in their own right. Together they constitute a force to reckon with. The two sisters...
Kamal Haasan whom I see as a Bollywoodian as much as any other influential actor in India has often held radical agnostic views on life and politics which he shared...
Two leading filmmakers are rushing to the streaming platform with bio-series on Dawood Ibrahim . While Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani Excel Entertainment ’s series is based on investigative journalist author Hussain’s Dongri To Dubai ,...
Breaking Fast Starring Haaz Sleiman, Michael Cassidy Directed by Mike Mosallam Rating: ** ½ To be gay and Muslim in Los Angeles…how much more culturally diasporic can we get?! Lamentably Breaking Fast is not...
There have been any number of screen adaptations of the Ramayan. But none to match the scale ,expanse and expense of producer Madhu Mantena’s interpretation of the...
At a time when the movie-theatre business is struggling for survival it comes as shock to know that S S Rajamouli has chosen September 13, 2021 as his ...
The awards, national or otherwise, have become a bit of a joke with names in the list of awardees that have to be googled to be recognized ,...
In 2018 when Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar of Excel Entertainment bought the Hindi rights of the Kannada hit KGF(Kolar Gold Fields) little did they know that the film will turn out to...
Sonu Sood may have been missing from the list of Padma awardees. But his reputation as the messiah of the masses grows with each passing day.Fans and admirers continue to...
Narendra Chanchal who quietly passed away on January 22 left behind a legacy of ‘Mata Rani’ Bhajans that will be chanted sung and celebrated as long as God and Music...
That Mahesh Bhatt’s Arth is being remade with Tamil actress Revathi stepping into the director’s seat, is well-known by now. The film’s producer Sharat Chandra recently spoke on how Shabana Azmi who gave one her...
Sanjay Leela Bhansali still recalls with shuddering smile the trauma that he went through while making Padmaawat when he and the film were attacked by a right-wing group. “It was crazy!Through...
“Kissko pataa tha yeh gaana logon ko itna pasand ayega?(who knew the song would be so much liked by people?).When Aemere watan ke logon was being created we never thought it would become such an imperishable patriotic anthem.I recall vividly...