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147Is Amitabh Bachchan Still A Part Of Shantaram?
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...
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150Karan Johar, Kangana Ranaut, Ekta Kapoor, Adnan Sami ,Suresh Wadekar get Padma Shris
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...
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169Varun Dhawan Versus Kangana Ranaut
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...
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190Judy Movie Review: A Garland For Rene Zellweger
Judy Starring Rene Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Directed by Rupert Goold Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) Judy Garland lives again. The legendary ...
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177The Portrayal Of The Heroine In Both Pongal Blockbusters Is Disturbing
Telugu cinema had two reasons to celebrate this Pongal. Both the Mahesh Babu starrer Sarileru Neekevvaru and the Allu Arjun starrer Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo have both turned out to be big successes. But the...
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1763D Versus 3D, Tanhaji To Give Serious Competition To Street Dancer
As the blockbuster-bound Street Dancer prepares to open all across India, Ajay Devgan has decided to step on the promotion and screens of his pseudo-historicals. Tanhaji a ...
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179Mahesh Babu:“We Don’t Believe In Underhand Tactics”
Both the Mahesh Babu starrer Sarileru Neekevvaru and the Allu Arjun starrer Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo have turned out to be big successes. However the way the two films have been pitched against one another ...
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Street Dancer 3D Movie Review: Is A Whole Lot Of Fun
Street Dancer 3D Starring Prabhudheva, Varun Dhawan, Shradha Kapoor, Aparshakti Directed by Remo d’Souza Rating: **** ½(4 and a half stars) Impressively, Prabhudheva gets top billing in this zany political parable about...
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333What Is Tabu Doing In Allu Arjun’s One-Man Show?
The one baffling puzzle that follows us out of the hugely entertaining Telugu release Ala Vaikuntapurramloo is, what is the super-talented beautiful Tabu doing playing playing Allu Arjun’s mother...
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317Vijayashanti: “I Never Thought I’d Come Back To Cinema”
The astonishing Vijayashanti who at one point in her long illustrious career was known as ‘Lady Amitabh’ is back on screen after a ...
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333Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, the Trailer Is Trailblazer
“Kab se janta hai ki tu yeh hai?” the inquisitive Uncle asks Ayushman Khurrana. “Yeh nahin bolte gay bolte hain… aur aapne kab jana ki aap gay nahin hain?”Khurrana retorts If every other line of dialogue in this quirky crazy love story is just as crisp and...
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386Scandal Point: When Abhishek Walked Out On Karisma Kapoor
After five years of courtship Abhishek Bachchan and Karisma Kapoor were all set to tie the knot in 2002. What went wrong? There are many theories on why...
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389Karan Johar To Plan Varun Dhawan’s Wedding
Among the many hats that Karan Johar wears here is one talent that would be unearthed in the months to come.Karan will be planning all the...
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409Shah Rukh-Salman Khan, Friend Or Foe?
It is very difficult to decide the status of Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan’s relationship.Are they friends pretending to be hostile...
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378Is Karan Johar Bringing Shah Rukh & Ranbir Together?
They haven’t really worked together since My Name Is Khan in 2010, although Shah Rukh Khan did make a guest appearance in Karan ...
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4141917 Is Much More Than A War Epic
1917 Starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman Directed by Sam Mendes Rating: *****(5 stars) At the end of Sam Mendes’ 1917 I heard someone sobbing. I realized...
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399As Kartik-Sara Move Away From Their Comfort Level, Here’s A Bizarre Bond They Share With Shahid-Kareena In Jab We Met
Imtiaz Ali’s latest work of fractured passion Love Aaj Kal features the very massy and commercial Kartik Aryan and Sara Ali Khan doing a realistic love story where every emotion,...
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408Kangana The CEO Of Anti-Nepotism Appoints Brother As Legal Head Of Her Company
Those sections of the film industry repeatedly accused by Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli of nepotism are having the last laugh as Kangana has appointed her brother Akshat as ...
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388Rajneesh Related Films Doomed, Priyanka’s Ma Sheela On Backburner
It was with considerable excitement that Priyanka Chopra had last year announced a bio-pic on Osho Rajneesh’s trusted lieutenant and right-hand woman Ma Sheela. Often known...
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392Anu Malik Case Closed In MeToo Harassment
With the National Commission For Women closing the case against Anu Malik for alleged sexual misconduct ,the curtain has fallen on allegations against one more ...
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359Tanushree Dutta Lashes Out At NCW For Exonerating Anu Malik
Actress-activist Tanushree Dutta who spearheded the MeToo movement in Bollywood is extremely upset at the National Commission For Women(NCW) for exonerating musician Anu Malik from charges of sexual misconduct. Says Tanushree, “The...
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Love Aaj Kal Trailer Review: It Looks Like A Step Up For Kartik & A Step Down For Imtiaz Ali
The trailer of the Kartik Aryan-Sara Ali Khan helmed Love Aaj Kal left me confused. Is it a remake of the earlier film of the same title starring Sara’s...
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410Dolittle Does Little For The Classic Original
Dolittle Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Harry Collette, Antonio Banderas. Directed by: Stephen Gaghan Rating: *(1 star) Two thoughts struck me as I sat wide-eyed and...
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5 Times When Kangana Wowed Before Panga
There is no doubt that Kangana Ranaut will leave all competition far behind with Panga and will pick up all the awards at the end of the...
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444Raakhee Gulzar Teary Eyed After Watching Her daughter’s Chhapaak
Veteran actress Raakhee Gulzar is her super-talented daughter Meghna Gulzar’s biggest critic. This is one parent who won’t indulge in futile flattery. Raakheeji refused to watch the film...
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428Ajay Devgan-Anubhav Sinha’s war Out In The Open Again
It is common knowledge in the film industry that Ajay Devgan and director Anubhav Sinha can’t stand one another since they worked together in a flop...
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435Shahid Kapoor Injured Shooting Jersey!
History has again ,repeated itself when on Saturday .Shahid Kapoor while shooting for Gowtam Tinnanuri’s Jersey, the Hindi remake of the director’s Tamil hit of the same...
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432Bollywood Goes Metro-Sexual With A Vengeance
Ranveer Singh, known for his outlandish fashion sense, has worn a skirt more than once in public. Now it’s the more conservative dresser Varun Dhawan’s...
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435Is Rhea Chakraborty Managing Sushant’s Career?
By now it is common knowledge in the Mumbai film industry that Sushant Singh Rajput is “very serious’ about starlet Rhea Chakraborty....
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423Alia Bhatt Shooting For Bhansali
Alia Bhatt is in the midst of the most challenging role of her career in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangaubai Kathiawadi. And here are...
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428Gul Makai, Malala’s Song Of Life & Death
The very fact that a film on Malala Yousafzai is being brought to the screen is reason to rejoice. Director H. E Amjad Khan’s ambitious bio-pic Gul Makai takes ...
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443Saif , Sharad Kelkar Steal The Show In Tanhaji
Tanhaji(3D) Starring Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan, Kajol, Neha Sharma,Sharad Kelkar Directed by Om Raut Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) There is a pall of déjà vu shrouding this...
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426Washing Powder Ad Dirties Akshay Kumar’s Image
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...
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413Court Orders Chhapaak Makers To Acknowledge Laxmi Aggarwal’s Lawyer
In India making films on real-life characters , specially those who are alive, is becoming almost impossible. Meghna Gulzar and her producers faced their...
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414Dubbed Hindi Ruins Rajinikanth’s Punchlines In Darbar
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...
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468Happy B’day Farhan Akhtar: The Importance Of Being Farhan Akhtar
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...
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470Disha Patani: What Happened To The No-Smooch Agreement?
It has been a while since Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani have been a couple, though they are yet come in the ope.Mutual friends say the ...
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455A R Murugadoss: “Directing Rajnikanthji Was A Long-Cherished Dream”
When the iconic Rajnikanth roars into a film directed by one of Tamil cinema’s most formidable names, there is bound to be an...
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471“My Parents Are Safe,” Says Swara….Dream Girl Director’s Sastaa Tweet Against Swara Bhaskara
It look like the process of polarization on ideological, if not religious grounds, has started in our film industru. Director Raaj Shaandilyaa who directed the hit Ayushman Khurrana ...
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Friday’s boxoffice Clash…Or Crash, Trade Analysts Speak
Friday January 10 is a red-letter day for the Hindi film industry. Three major Hindi films –Meghna Gulzar’s eagerly awaited real-life biopic Chhapaak,...
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475Deepika Padukone’s JNU Visit, Courageous Or Publicity Gimmick? Exclusive Reactions From Shabana Azmi, Dia Mirza, Vivek Agnihotri
While many in the film fraternity like Anurag Kashyap and Dia Mirza are openly praising Deepika Padukone for her visit to the lately-vandalized Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) in Delhi, others are not so happy...
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417Vijay Deverekonda Flies To Mumbai For Fighter Looks Test
Vijay Deverakonda is going places. Mumbai, to be exact. He is currently in the city as Karan Johar’s guest of honour, trying out his new look for...
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Deepika Padukone Her Top 7 Performances
As the undisputed diva of Bollywood prepares to wow us with her acid survivor’s role in Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak it’s time to look at Deepika Padukone’s most acclaimed performances...
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446Trailer Review: Shikara : When Love Is All That’s Left
Vidhu Vinod Chopra returns as director , this time to tell his own story. Like him, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were overnight rendered homeless when on 19...
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481Scoop: Aishwarya, Vikram, Karthi, Nayanthara, Shooting For Mani Ratnam In Thailand
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is currently shooting in Thailand for Mani Ratnam’s Tamil period-historical drama Ponniyin Selvan. This is Aishwarya’s fourth collaboration with the remarkable Ratnam, and unarguably the...
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458Karan Johar Selects Avinash Tiwary For Dharma
If you’ve seen Netflix’s horror omnibus Ghost Stories you can’t help but notice the young striking actor who plays the lead in the...
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439Malang A Trailer That Is Disturbingly Surreal
The trailer of Mohit Suri’s Malang is like a rollercoaster ride …on Speed. The images are deliberately done in distinctive blotchy colours to show minds on the...
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Karan Johar Rethink For 2020
Barring Good Newzz at the end of 2019, all the other productions of Karan Johar during the last year were failures, putting Johar’s company Dharma Productions on its backfoot. One...
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472Alia Bhatt Learning Words She Had Never Heard Before
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s under-production Gangubai Kathiawadi is turning out to be a learning experience for Alia Bhatt in ways that she had never imagined. Not only did...
