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456Sooraj Barjatya’s Son To Make His Directorial Debut With Salman (Not Kartik Aryan)
There are reports in a section of the press suggesting that Sooraj Barjatya’s son Devansh will soon make his directorial debut with a film starring Kartik Aryan....
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396The Two Popes: This Christmas Dance With The Pope
The Two Popes(Netflix) Starring Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce Directed by Fernando Meirelles Rating; *** ½ (three and a half stars) Early on in...
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404Dabangg 3 Subdued Release, Will It Be A Salman Blockbuster?
All eyes are on the Salman Khan-Prabhudheva combination as they unleash Dabangg 3 this weekend. This hit franchise seems to have a hit a rough...
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394David Dhawan On Varun-Sara Recreating Govinda-Karisma Magic
Althought the everlasting director David Dhawan has made 44 films in the past, none has made him as nervous as his underproduction film Coolie No 1 which...
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395Mardaani 2 Disturbingly,Villain Steals Show From Rani
Mardaani 2 Starring Rani Mukherjee, Vishal Jethwa Written & Directed by Gopi Puthran Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) Something deeply disturbing happens in the course ...
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407The Life & Death Of John Donovan: Xavier Dolon’s Latest Film Knocks The Socks Off
Starring: Kit Harington, Natalie Portman, Ben Schnetzer, Jacob Trembley, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Thandie Newton Directed by Xavier Dolan Rating: ****(4 stars) For the gay Canadian director Xavier Dolan,filmmaking is a means...
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403Broken But Beautiful’s Second Helping Is Repetitive
Broken But Beautiful Season 2(AltBalaji-Zee5) Starring Harleen Sethi, Vikrant Massey Rating: **(2 stars) There is this friendly shrink whom Sameera is seeing. No no, not ‘seeing’ as in...
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383The Irishman Is A Rambling Masterpiece
The Irishman(Netflix) Starring Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Jo Pesci Directed by Martin Scorsese Rating: ****(4 stars) It is not easy to sit through 209 minutes ...
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402Marriage Story Is A Great Film
Marriage Story (Netflix) Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver Directed by Noah Baumbach Rating: *****(5 stars) Nothing in a marriage is more awful than its...
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419B R Chopra Would LOL At Pati Patni Woh
Pati Patni Aur Woh Starring Kartik Aryan, Bhumi Pednekar, Ananya Pandey Directed by Mudassar Aziz Rating: *** ½ (three and a half stars) First things first. Apart from a riff of Thande thande pani se nahana chahiye in the ...
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419Inside Edge 2 Is Every Bit As Engrossing As Season 1
Inside Edge 2 (Amazon Video) Starring Angad Bedi, Richa Chadha, Tanuj Virmani, Vivek Oberoi, Siddhant Chaturvedi Created by Karan Anshuman Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) The house of Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani excels in films and...
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458Panipat Is Gowariker At His Finest
Panipat Starring Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker Rating: *****(5 stars) Costume dramas in Indian cinema frequently mistake flamboyance and bombast for nostalgic entertainment. Panipat is the...
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405Out Of Love Fails To Recreate The Original’s Magic
Out Of Love(Hostar,5 Episodes) Starring Rasika Duggal, Purab Kohli Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, Aijaz Khan Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) For a large part of its playing...
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469Akshay Pilots The Housefull Franchise, Says Producer Nadiadwala
“There would no Housefull series without Akshay Kumar,” says ultra-successful producer Sajid Nadiadwala whose films have a way of turning into goldmines effortlessly. Housefull 4 was roundly condemned by many...
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438Sunday Musings: Bollywood Baatein
What’s it about women born on 19 November that makes them clutter-breakers of extraordinary dimensions? Zeenat Aman, Rehana Sultan and Sushmita Sen all 19th November-born scorpios. Fiercely independent , all...
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448Enai Noki Paayum Thota, Gautham Mennon’s Return To Form
Enai Noki Paayum Thota(Tamil) Starring Dhanush, Megha Akash Written & Directed by Gautham Menon Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars ) There is a stirring synthesis of dread...
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449Priyadarshan Signs Ajay Devgan’s Heroine
On Tuesday afternoon the indefatigable Priyadarshan selected his leading lady for Hungama 2 out of the many hopefuls who auditioned. It is none other than Pranitha Subhash, a prolific Bangaluru-born...
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437David Dhawan On Varun’s Stunt Gone Wrong
It literally became a cliff-hanger for Varun Dhawan when a car perched precariously on a cliff for a stunt in Coolie No 1 went horribly wrong....
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538Ajay Devgan To Team Up With Neeraj Pandey For Chanakya
The fall-out with Akshay Kumar has gravitated filmmaker Neeraj Pandey towards Ajay Devgan which is not a bad thing at all. Pandey...
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488Frozen Beats Pagalpanti At The Boxoffice
Here is one more warning for Bollywood to mend its ways before it’s too late . The Hollywood animation film Frozen has completely out-performed this week’s...
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490Legendary BBC Talk Show Host To Interview Shah Rukh Khan
First the iconic David Letterman , and now BBC America’s legendary Tom Brook , they both came to interview none other than ...
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533Rajinikanth To Quit Politics?
They may make a great photo-op. But Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan are certainly not coming together as political allies. In fact Rajinikanth, according to well-informed sources, may...
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Govinda Incensed Over Kartik’s Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare
Govinda is not amused with what Kartik Aryan has done to the iconic Ankhiyon se goli mare song from his 1998 hit Dulhe Raja. The remix version filmed on Kartik Aryan, Bhumi Pednekar and Ananya Pandey for the film Pati Patni Aur Woh has not ...
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497A Film Version Of Kaifi & I?
The very remarkable life of actor Shabana and and cinematographer Baba Azmi’s parents, the illustrious Kaifi and Shaukat Azmi is already a huge successful play Kaifi & I where Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi play her parents. We...
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588Bollywood A-listers To Include No-OTT Clause? Saif Denies Such Plans
With Karan Johar’s feature film Drive heralding the new era of straight-to-digital screening, there is a widespread apprehension among Bollywood’s A-listers that their feature films could...
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585House Arrest Is A Disgrace From Netflix
House Arrest (Netflix) Starring Ali Fazal, Shriya Palgaonkar, Jim Sarbh Directed by Shashanka Ghosh, Samit Basu Rating: * ½ (one and a half stars) Ali Fazal is an affable actor. He brings...
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600Jhalki Is For All Those Who Worry About India’s Children
Jhalki Starring Aarti Jha, Sanjay Suri, Divya Dutta Directed by Brahmanand S Siingh Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) Jhalki is not a great film.It is riddled with imperfections and ...
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670Marjaavan Is A Homage To the 1980s
Marjaavan Starring Siddharth Malhotra, Riteish Deshmukh, Tara Sutaria, Rakul Preet Singh Written & Directed by Milap Zaveri Rating: ****(4 stars) All right then, Marjaavan is a homage to the masala movies of the 1980s…Deewaar,Amar Akbar Anthony, Lawaaris , Muqaddar Ka Sikindar(Rakul Preet Singh reprises...
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Sanjay Dutt Copying Ranveer Singh!!! Afghans Offended
Sounds absurd. But that’s exactly what Dutt’s Ahmad Shah Abdali looks like in Ashutosh Gowariker’s Panipat. A straight copy of Ranveer Singh in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Allah-u-ddin Khilji in Padmaavat. Says a source ...
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653Amitabh Bachchan To Take A Sabbatical
Long-standing health issues have re-surfaced in mega-star Amitabh Bachchan’s life. Apparently the Bachchan has been advised a long layoff from acting by doctors.And this...
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562Brand Ayushmann Races Ahead Of The Competition
After seven consecutive hits Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017), Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, Andha Dhun (2018), Badhaai Ho(2018),Article 15, Dream Girl(2019) and now Bala which is poised to become another big success, Ayushmann Khurrana has unarguably consolidated his position as ...
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536Javed Ali Replaces Rahat Ali Khan
….“Yes We Have Replaced Rahat Ali Khan With Javed,” Dabangg’s Favourite Song A Casualty Of Pakistan’s Aggression One of the USPs of the Dabangg franchise is the song Tere mast...
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624Post Drive, Netflix To Do A Quality Check
It won’t be that easy for Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions to offload any and everything on the OTT platform any longer. After the vicious flak Netflix has faced for ...
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607Post Saaho, No Hindi Version For Prabhas’ Next
Telugu superstar Prabhas suffered a bit of a boxoffice blow with the multi-lingual action thriller Saaho. The actor has now moved on to his next ...
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598Isha Koppikar Poised For A Comeback In Ram Gopal Varma’s Webseries, Discusses Bollywood Post-MeToo
The talented Isha Koppikar who made her screen debut 21 years ago in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada cinema shot to fame in Bollywood with her ‘item’ song...
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394Torn Between Boney & Salman’s War, Anees Bazmi Cries For Truce
Director Anees Bazmi is caught in a peculiar deadlock. His 2005 hit comedy No Entry is all set to go into an encore. But the sequel...
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373The Great Eid 2020 Clash, Trade Analysts Speak
For Eid next year it is Salman Khan versus Akshay Kumar at the boxoffice.As Salman starts shooting for Prabhudheva’s Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai as his Eid 2020 release, Akshay Kumar also works his way through his horror thriller Laaxmi Bomb for the...
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373Kangana’s Sister Accuses Karan Johar Of Sexing Up Invaders
Takht , Karan Johar’s proposed take on the Mughal dynasty, has incensed none other than Kangana Ranaut’s sister Rangoli who has publicly accused Johar of making Moghul invaders look sexy. Calling Karan “dumb” Rangoli writes, “And now...
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360Swara Bhaskara Caught Abusing A Child On Video
A past trespass, if one can it that, has surfaced to bite Swara Bhaskara from behind. In a video, now going virulently viral she is...
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128On Asha Bhosle’s 86th Birthday, Her Badi Didi Lata Mangeshkar’s Fond Thoughts
(As Told To Subhash K Jha) “What my sister Asha has achieved is amazing. I’m very proud of her. It’s said that ...
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It is Amitabh Bachchan Versus Rani Mukherjee On December 13
After all the changes, delays and second thoughts Nagraj (Sairat) Manjule’s Hindi directorial debut Jhund is finally ready for release. Jhund which tells the story of the...
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Sujeeth Has Clammed Up, Here’s Why
Is it fair to attack the Saaho director Sujeeth Reddy alone for the way the film finally shaped up? From what one hears the ...
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Arjun Rampal takes New Born Baby To Mehr Jessia’s Ganapati Celebration
It can’t get more comfortable for Arjun Rampal’s life. It seems his estranged wife Mehr Jessiahas made pace with the new lady and baby in her...
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Shame! Sara Ali Khan GetsTrolled For Celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi
The young and bright Sara Ali Khan was as usual brimming with enthusiasm when she posted pictures on social media showing her...
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Saaho Producers Were Unaware Of Unoriginal Script
While pretending to be celebrating the so-called Saaho the producers of Saaho are laying all the blame for the film’s endless woes...
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Post Saaho, Shradha Kapoor Has Brightened Chhichhore
Suddenly Dangal director Nitesh Tiwary has a lot more to smile about. The sweeping spectacular success of Saaho has made Nitesh’s Chhichhore , releasing a week after Saaho, a winning proposition....
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Rakesh Roshan Turns 70 Without Celebrations
Except for the spectacular success of Hrithik Roshan on Super 30 it’s been a really tough year for the Roshans, what with the patriarch Rakesh Roshan detected with a life-threatening ...
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Chhichhore Movie Review: It Is As Close To Life As It Gets
Chhichhore Starring : Sushant Singh Rajput, Shraddha Kapoor,Varun Sharma, Prateik Babbar, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Naveen Polishetty, Tushar Pandey, Saharsh Shukla Directed by Nitesh Tiwary Rating : **** ½ (4 and a half stars) There is something ageless about college friendships. Quite ...
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Mahesh Babu’s Heavy-Challan Policy In Bharat Ane Nenu Triggers A Controversy!
Regarding Government New Traffic-Violation Policies In his 2018 blockbuster Bharat Ane Nenu, Mahesh Babu, espousing radical socio-political reforms , was shown propagating heavy fines for traffic violation. His ...
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It’s been quite a journey for me: Gautham Menon
From Minnale (2001) to his on-release new film Enai Noki Paayum Thota Gautham Menon is the visual voice of the radical progressive Tamil cinema in the post-Ratnam era. Clearheaded, softspoken , wry and sharp,...
