Our entertainment industry excels in coming up with outrageous ideas. Of course while implementing them the brains behind the balderdash think they are being super-ingenuous. Only...
2020 proved a losing battle for movie theatres. They failed to lure back the audiences. But 2021 may turn the tide . There is a slew...
Bhojpuri star and and politician Manoj Tiwari and his wife were blessed with a baby girl on 31 December.The proud father could barely contain his joy, “I wanted a sister...
From Khanna to cinema to author, and now India’s only culture centre in the US, culinary wizard Vikas Khanna wears many hats. But the one he is proudest of is ...
Aravinda Adiga’s ambitious novel The White Tiger is about class conflict erupting into an individual’s civil war against his employers. It is a hardhitting futuristic novel…at least I hope...
The Covid pandemic spared none, not even theBachchans. When it stuck the First Family of Bollywoodwe finally knew it was serious, more serious than we had ever imagined. Presenting...
In her 30-year career as a leading lady, the legendary Asha Parekh says she has never seen stardom like Rajesh Khanna’s. “When we were shooting for Aan ...
Rajesh Khanna’s rich repertoire of melody-drenched performances in Aradhana, Amar Prem. Kati Patang,Dushman, Sachcha Jhutha, Roti, Premnagar, Aap Ki Kasam, etc etc have been rightly celebrated. But as a diehard Khanna fan I can tell you Khanna did better than what...
You were probably looking at the central performer when these scenestealers came along crept up on the plot and swept away the show right from under the...
Cinematographer Ishwar Bidri who passed away on 28 December was a celluloid magician. The kind of stunning visuals he created for the films of the mighty J P Dutta were ...
Shakeela Starring Richa Chadha,Pankaj Tripathi Written and Directed by Indrajit Lankesh Rating: * ½ Why a bio-pic on Shakeela, an impoverished man’s version of Silk Smitha ? And why a bio-pic which is so...
Wonder Woman 1984 Starring Gal Gadot ,Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen. Directed by Patty Jenkins Rating: ** Rejoice, all you Gal Gadot fans. The ...
….Or, I trolled you so! The five who were most brutally trolled in the year that the world went viral in more ways than one. 1. Karan ...
Everyone who has seen the Tamil movie-making maestro Vetrimaaran stunning new short film Ooor Iravu which is part of the new Netflix anthology Paava Kadhaigal, would agree that this half-hour masterpiece on honour killing is ...
In no living year have we seen so many go.And only two of these extraordinary talents died of Covid. 1. Irrfan Khan: We lost him to cancer on...
Eeb Allay Ooo Directed by Prateek Vats Rating: *** ½ You either have to be foolhardy or audacious or both to attempt something so unconventional and culturally specific. The very...