Subhash K Jha Selects The Legendary Chiranjeevi’s 5 Finest Some actors are great performers,others are big stars ,while some others are good human beings. Chiranjeeevi is a blend of all 3. Spanning...
Films were always meant to change the way we look at life. Alas,they seldom do that. Busy as they are trying to desperately entertain us,movies forget their original raison d’etre to raise our level of social consciousness...
The days of cine-superstars lording over audiences’ attention is over. The OTT platform ,a compulsion rather than a preference in 2020 to begin with, has now come to...
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak(1988): The (lover)Boy Next Door image which was created specifically for this film became the reference point for Aamir’s image in future. He is the dependable...
Rangbaaz Phirse(Zee5):Bullet-ridden biographic sketches of hardcore criminals in North Indian exploring the genesis of their outlawry…that seems to be the brief for the Rangbaaz series which is...
Madhubala: It was in her smile — the flirtatious half-smile that hinted at more stormy secrets within. Madhubala is still considered by many connoisseurs to be...
Slow and steady always wins the race. Nowhere is this truer than in showbiz where the ones who have endured are the ones who have made...
1. Sridevi started her career in Hindi cinema as a child actor in two films. She played the child version of actress actress Vijaylalitha in the stunt action film Rani Mera Naam ...
When we think of teachers and pupils we always think of idealized mentor-pupil relationships as seen in films like To Sir With Love and Taare Zameen Par. But relationships between the...
1. Barse ghan saari raat…sangg sow jao(Tarang): The immensely gifed composer Vanraj Bhatia created only one song for Lataji for Kumar Shahani’s experimental film Tarang…and what a song….a long narrative...
Katrina Kaif, The Star! here are some lesser known facts about her Katrina Kaif was born in Hong Kong, and then moved to different countries, and...
1. Every year Salman Khan’s birthday is brought in at his family farm in Panvel .Salman hates cutting cakes on his birthday. Since the family insists on the cake-cutting ceremony he...
Shashi Kapoor was Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s second choice for Anand.The first choice was Kishore Kumar. Shashi was finalized . But when the reigning superstar Rajesh Khanna showed...
Pareeksha(Zee5): The heart is completely in the right place. Pareeksha,director Prakash Jha’s best in years, is a heartwarming unabashed tearjerker.It reminded me of one my favourite Shabana Azmi starrers Bhavna (1984) where the mother...
2 OTT Webseries You May Have Missed OTT Webseries: 22 Yards(Amazon Prime) ”Normally I wouldn’t trust a hero named Ron Roy. It sounds like an alias for a scamster ...
1. Mann dole mera tann dole in Nagin: The original naag-anthem composed by Hemant Kumar and filmed on the beautiful Vyjanthimala had the been music performed by Kalyani , one-half of the Kalyanji-Anandji duo, on the clavioline. The song was such a hit ...