Year: 2016

Starring: Ranveer Singh, Vaani Kapoor Directed by: Aditya Chopra Rating: [wp-review id=""] Remember Neil & Nikki, the plotless story of a couple played by Aditya Chopra’s brother and Kajol’s sister, who...

Deepwater Horizon Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson Directed by Peter Berg Rating: **(2 Stars) At the very end when you thank God, Producer & Destiny for  liberty from...

How  has life been treating you during the past year? Very well. I’ve been busy travelling. I travel quite a bit.Renovation work has been on in mi our ancestral home...

A fitness coach Ranveer Allahbadia has released a video on the internet which clearly insinuates that Aamir Khan has used steroids to get that incredible physique in Dangal. Rahul Bhatt...

Time for some aslee glee in Alia Bhatt’s life. The Dear Zindagi scene stealer wants some genuine laughter in her life. Says Alia, “Yes, I want to do an  out-and-out...

Bollywood folklore has it that filmmaker Guru Dutt was keenly interested in marrying the beauteous Waheeda Rehman. But she had one precondition . He must convert to Islam to marry...

Hooch hooch hota hai???? In  his big new release Raaes Shah Rukh Khan as the bootleg seller in  Gujarat gets the boot on the other leg. This is his chance...

One of Indian cinema’s most beloved stars Dharmendra celebrates his 81st birthday on December 8. It’s a quiet birthday with only close family members around him. “I’ve never liked shor...

One  of Tamil and Telugu cinema’s most successful actresses Samantha Ruth Prabhu can’t stop raving about Alia Bhatt after seeing her in Dear Zindagi. “I suddenly felt like  a  newcomer...

Aditya Chopra Spills The Beans On His Leading Lady Shyra

Two of Hindi cinema’s most enduring and endearing star-actors celebrate their birthday on  December 8 .While he-man Dharmendra turns  a ripe 80, the very beautiful Sharmila Tagore is now 71!...

Shatrughan Sinha doesn’t get impressed easily. But Jayalalithaa was  a woman he admired deeply. “She conducted herself through the male-dominated world of Indian politics with such grace and dignity.And that hint of a smile...

Our very own Garam Dharam, aka Dharmendra had the singular honour of being the only Bollywood actor to have worked with Jayalalithaa. He speaks fondly of his erstwhile co-star. “When...

Nitish Tiwari’s  eagerly awaited film Dangal  with Aamir Khan in the lead is about wrestling. But  the director and his  producer Aamir Khan didn’t have to wrestle one bit with...

First things first.Why are we dancing to Pakistani singers’ numbers at  a time when Uri and Nagrota are  weeping tears of blood? This is a question that T Series needs...

For Pakistan’s singing-acting heart-throb Ali Zafar there was good news and bad news in Dear Zindagi.  The  good news was that his role as the flirty musician who woos Ali Bhatt with songs, remained intact in...

“Jayalalithaa ji & I Started Our  Career Together,” Hema Malini  “It’s hard to be Jayalalithaaji has gone so soon…she and I are the same age. In fact I started my career...

Tamil Nadu’s ailing chief minister Jayalalitha had a very successful innings in the 1950s, 60s and 70s as an actress. Surprisingly she did only one Hindi film as a leading...

Karan Johar’s Koffee With Karan suffered a speed breaker on Sunday night when he got Parineeti Chopra and Aditya Roy Kapoor to share the sofa. Why these two? What do...

  Bhai,mojo aa gaya. All we’ve seen in the songs and trailers are smooching sprees between a lead pair who seem to be constantly under the influence. But what  else...

The  good news for director Ram Madhvani is that he won the best director award at the Screen awrds for the richly applauded Neerja. The bad news is that he...

  The censor chief  Pahlaj Nihalani has a lot to gloat about. Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani 2 which was given an all-clear  ‘UA’ by the Indian censor board , has been...

It’s common knowledge in the entertainment business that Sujoy Ghosh can’t make  a film without Vidya Balan. Not after Kahaani which, Sujoy admits, changed the course of his career. After...

After two back-to-back lauded  performances in Rock On 2 and Kahaani 2  Arjun Rampal is all set to take time off  for a retreat from civilization. He now flies off...

2017 is going to be another family year for [tooltip id="88b6af99531f838ed90aed058b7d870a"][tooltip id="c1b465420d07c688942ed18eadfd9f92" keyword_color="#000000" background_color="#ffffff"][tooltip id="4db8f5608d45f5de7881d9bce162f4bf"]Salman Khan[/tooltip][/tooltip][/tooltip] , as he intends to divide his time between two films, both produced by...

It seems Imran Khan started a new trend  in the Hindi film industry  of expectant fathers taking time off for the arrival of their babies. After Imran it was Shahid Kapoor who put Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon on hold to be with...

Farhan Akhtar has moved on after Rock On. He will next be seen in a film produced by Nikhil Advani entitled Lucknow Central to be directed by debutant Ranjit Tiwari....

Animation film Directed by: John Musker & Ron Clements Rating: ** ½ There is much to be said about innocence in art, specially in this day and age when 4-year...

Ganesh Nallari, a sexually abused child, is now a well-settled artiste and painter, at peace with his traumatic past. In a documentary entitled  UnSpoken Ganesh speaks on what it means ...

There is much outrage and embarrassment in the ranks of the Central Board Of Flm Certification(CBFC) over the censor certification for the satellite telecast of Abhishek Choubey’s hugely controversial anti-drug film UdtaPunjab. It may be recalled...

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Rahul Bhatt whose life and travel plans were under a cloud after he unknowingly befriended the alleged 9/11 terror mastermind David Headley, is a much relieved  man. He has finally...

Kahaani 2 Starring: Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal, Jugal Hansaraj,Tota Roy Choudhury Directed by: Sujoy Ghosh [wp-review id=""] It’s just another ordinary humid laconic night in Chandanagar, a small dusty town...

From this month Sanjay Leela Bhansali shoots his ambitious historical drama Padmavati with Deepika Padukone and Shahid Kapoor on an elaborate set constructed at Mehboob studios in Mumbai. Ranveer Singh who...

Everybody’s favourite ‘Baba’ Sanjay Dutt is back to his old ways . And we don’t mean that in a bad way. Baba, says a very close friend , loves his...

Arjun Rampal who turned  44 on November 26, is worried about his next release. “Kahaani 2 is also bound to face the brunt of demonetization. It is another film I...

Recently Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan’s elder daughter Shaheen wrote about her battle with depression. Shaheen’s younger sister Alia Bhatt says family and close friends have always been aware of...

Shaandaar apart, Alia Bhatt continues her unbroken streak  of  success at the  boxoffice. Her new film  Gauri Shinde’s Dear Zindagi has amassed a total of  total of approximately Rs 38...

Amrita Singh at this juncture would rather focus on  her daughter Sara’s career than her own. This is the real reason she opted out of Anees Bazmi’s Mubaraka where she...

Not For A Moment Does The CM Devendra Fadnavis Interfere In His Wife’s Work,”  Says Choreographer Ahmed Khan Mrs Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, is shooting a  music video...

By: The Cinema Cynic In the wake of the unfortunate performance of Rock On 2 at the Box Office, I began re-reading many of the so-called critics reviews of the...

Deepika Padukone is going the Priyanka Chopra way. She has prioritized her career dividing her time equally between her Bollywood and Hollywood careers. Of course her future  in the West...

Of late there have been several reports stating that the  Arjun Kapoor-Ali Bhatt 2014 Hindi hit 2 States , will now have a Telugu remake, this one featuring Naga Chaitanya...

The Kahaani 2 team can breathe easy. They no longer need to fear competition—provided there was any in the  first place—from  Wajah Tum Ho, the erotic thriller with Gurmeet Choudhary and Sana Khan in the lead. Confirming...

Ranveer Singh is going places. Not all of them worth going to. His latest ugly run-in with protesters and feminist is for an ad for a garment brand where he...

Dear Zindagi, Gauri Shinde’s beautifully crafted tale of splintered heart on the mend, has a twist in the tale. Alia Bhatt’s character has been styled after the director Gauri Shinde....

The Karan Johar episode with Arjun Kapoor and  Varun Dhawan  included a skit on two gay men interacting in a bar.While the skit has been criticized on twitter, two gay Bollywood   writers-directors stand by Karan Johar’s right to have...

The  encomiums, impact and momentum of Annirudh Roy Choudhary’s Pink refuses to slacken. Now this momentous  work has been invited to be screened at the UN headquarters  in New York,...

Starring: Tisca Arora, Adil Hussain,  Rasika Duggal Directed by: Jyothi Kapoor Das Rating: *** ½(3 a half stars) The enormously talented actress Tisca Arora has turned producer with a short...

The Sunday episode of Comedy Nights With Kapil had Ranveer Singh sharing gags  and jokes with Kapil Sharma.Since Ranveer’s next film Befikre has a lot of kissing there were gags...