Vitthal Teedi(Gujarati,Oho, 6 episodes) Rating: *** Starring Pratik Gandhi, Directed by Abhishek Jain There is a sequence in the second episode of this fairly engaging series where Pratik Gandhi,the Gujarati actor who shot...
More and more celebrities are coming forward to help and support daily wage-earners from the film industry during this period of unprecedented crisis. But that’s not...
Karnan(Tamil,Amazon Prime) Starring Dhanush, Lal, Yogi Babu, Azhagam Perumal, Natarajan Subramaniam, Rajisha Vijayan, Gouri G. Kishan and Lakshmi Priya Chandramouli. Directed by Mari Selvaraj Rating:**** This is not just a film. It is a movement. A wakeup call for all Indians who think all...
Ramyug (MX Player,10 Episodes) Directed by Kunal Kohli Rating: ** ½ First the good news. Kunal Kohli’s re-telling of the Ramayan doesn’t compare too unfavourably with Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan which has, for all practical purposes, become...
Telugu star Sundeep Kishan who turns 34 on May 7 is back with a new film Gully Rowdy. He tells Subhash K Jha about the film and its shooting during the pandemic....
Filmmakers in Bengal love Tagore, not just Sharmila but also the Grand Old Man of letters Rabindranath Tagore whose novels and short stories have been ternally adapted by Bengali filmmakers from Satyajit Ray(Teen...
Sulthan(Tamil, Disney-Hotstar) Starring Karthi ,Rashmika Mandanna, Napoleon, Lal, Yogi Babu Directed by Bakkiyaraj Kannan Rating: * ½ Someone somewhere must have thought this to be a...
1. Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd(2007): Reema Kagti’s debut film has enough chutzpah to keep you purring at the blend of parody and pathos . Once you get into...
Aparna Sen had the singular honour of being Satyajit Ray’s heroine when she was 16. She played one of the three protagonists in Ray’s omnibus Teen Kanya in 1961. Aparna , a...
The pride of Malayalam cinema Fahadh Faasil feels a special pride about his next project entitled Malayankunju. No, not because the actor par excellence injured himself during the shooting(an accident...
Long before Covid changed the world as we knew it, a new breed of stars changed Bollywood forever. Presenting the 5 best acting talent of the post Ranbir-Deepika era . 1. Alia Bhatt: Just...
Malayali Filmmaker Sajin Baabu’s new film Biriyaani has stunned shocked and regaled movie audiences all over the world. The young 35-year old director here speaks to Subhash K Jha on the genesis of...
A story doing the rounds claims Manoj Bajpai and Irrfan Khan were both being considered for the role of Paresh Rawal’s henchman in Ram Gopal Varma’s 1997 dud Daud. Manoj finally got the role. According to Manoj, Ramu agreed...
You heard it here first. While reports of the long-awaited Raj-DK’s webseries The Family Man being aired in July, have been making the rounds, the truth, all you Family Man enthusiasts,...
1. Dhoom 2(2006) Clever… very clever. That’s the impression you come away with from this sumptuous package of gloss glamour glitter and an oomph quotient that starts at the neck ...
Long before Nayanthara and Parvathy Thiruvothu, Trisha was among the first female hero’s of South Indian cinema grabbing attention and acclaim in one author-backed role after another in Tamil...