1.     Kuch Bheege Alfaaz:  Onir’s elegiac  ode to a time when  love was  felt in the heart, and not in  the social media. In his latest ...

He not only had  four releases, he also branched into various directions. Telugu cinema’s fastest-rising star speaks to  Subhash K Jha How would you describe the ...

Mrinal Sen who passed away  on  Sunday was  not only a brilliant  auteur  he was also very prolific until his health began  to fail and ...

On  Sunday  morning, as  2018  prepared  to dissolve into the  next year, Mrinal Sen passed away at the age of 95. His was a life ...

Ashwini Iyer Tiwari: Andha Dhun, Patakha,  Stree, Badhaai Ho, Raazi. Ali Abbas  Zafar: Raazi, Bhaddhai Ho, Sanju Milap Jhaveri: Padmaavat,  Sonu Ke Tutu Ki Sweety,Badhaai Ho, Andha Dhun, Stree,Parmanu, KGF, Sanju, Baaghi 2,Hichki, Raid, Sui Dhaaga and of course my own  filmSatyamev Jayate Hansal Mehta:  Stree, Andha Dhun and A Star Is Born. I am  also very proud of ...

B 1.     Ishaan Khattar: He was seen  in Majid Majidi’s  Beyond The Clouds and then inShashank Khaitan’s Dhadak ,a rather lame remake of the Marathi masterpieceSairat.In both his debut films  Ishaan was a complete  ...

The  Malaika Arora-Arjun Kapoor relationship  is  the  most open secret  in  tinsel town . The  couple is seen together at every important Bollywood event. The final seal of approval ...

It’s not just about delivering the  hits. It’s also about using the power that those hits give you to generate a change  in ...

1.     Patakha:  It’s been downhill all the way for Vishal Bhardwaj who for some strange reason continues to hold a messianic moviemaker’s reputation in spite  of  churning ...

1.     Gajraj Rao in  Badhaai Ho:  A special award  for the one who thought of signing this  relatively unknown ‘invisible actor’ for the  role of a smalltime ticket collector in ...

Simmba Starring Ranveer Singh,Ajay Devgan, Sara Ali Khan. Ashutosh  Rana Directed by Rohit Shetty Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) As far as  getting a kick out of  ...

Anil Kapoor has waited patiently to  play his daughter’s father on  screen. The process took time. One can’t grab every  offer that comes  your way ...

This Christmas  Katrina Kaif  decided to wash away her  prevalent phobia of  celebration  and parties  which dates  back to her birthday in  July 2008 ...

What  a year it has been for  Hindi cinema! The hits and the  critically  acclaimed films  kept rolling out. At the last count ...

Each year  the venue and  invitees at  Salman Khan’s birthday bash  remains   so  unchanged that the pictures from any birthday of Salman’s look interchangeable. The ...

Though he hates it  Salman Khan never ceases to be in  the news. He is a simmering bundle of contradictions. There’s the Salman who kept me awake ...

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  ...

Newly married couple Deepika Padukone and  Ranveer Singh  have something in common to share  in  2018.  It is directorMeghna Gulzar who  will be  directing both Ranveer and Deepika,  though not in the same  ...

The dubbed Hindi  version of  the Kannada film KGF  starring Yash and directed  by Prashanth Neel, is doing better business than the new Shah Rukh Khan starrer  Zero. This should be  a ...

There were widespread  reports on Wednesday afternoon of  Thackeray  the  bio-pic of Balasaheb Thackeray  being censored hours before the trailer launch. As  per these  reports the ...

After    her author-backed  role in Kedarnath,the  much in-demand Sara Ali Khan will be  seen  in a not-so-pivotal  role  in Rohit Shett’s Simmba this week And Sara  is ...

Telugu star-actor Adivi Shesh who shot to  superstardom with the thriller Kshanam  had a favourable  year with Goodachari doing impressive boxoffice numbers. Adivi  looks back and looks ahead It was your birthday on 16 ...

Gone are  the days when Tamil, Telugu  and even Malayalam actors ran after  success in Bollywood, only to be  signed sealed and snubbed  in Bollywood.  ...

Bollywood would remember 2018 for  the awakening of  the MeToo movement. It first shook the  foundation of  the  American  film industry. MeToo didn’t quite have  the same  effect ...

1.     Gajaraj Rao In Badhaai Ho: As Ayushmann Khurrana’s shy selfmade railway booking-clerk father  in Badhaai Howho willy-nilly impregnates  his wife at an  unthinkable age, Gajaraj Rao  brought  so  much  empathy and  warmth to his character, we ...

With Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Kartik Aryan has  suddenly discovered stardom in 2018 .With it comes  the  burden  of sustaining and  furthering  his stardom. Hence we  have  stories at  ...

In episode  after episode of  the  otherwise-enjoyable  Koffee With Karan we  can feel the host’s ineluctable desire to enter his celebrity guests’ bedrooms for a  peep into ...

1.      Mr India: He was invisible on screen most of the time. But when he did show up  it was to either squabble with Sridevi , ...

Mrs Nick Jonas, a.k.a Priyanka Chopra has made many influential friends in Hollywood.  And they will all be  a part  of her grand wedding reception ...

If in Aanand Rai’s  Zero  Katrina Kaif has pulled  out all stops to play the heartbroken alcoholic superstar Babita Kumari  it is with reason.Katrina has channeled  her inner heartbreak ...

Has Shoojit Sircar and John Abraham’s  great friendship come to an end? The two  of them not only  created a sterling magic in Madras ...

 The reach  of Indian cinema  is growing.And  who would agree with this more than  SanjayLeela Bhansali whose 2015 costume drama  Bajirao Mastani has now been  praised  by  American  billionaire Elon Musk ...

Both  professionally and  personally , Alia  Bhatt is in  a very happy space  this year. While her  relationship with Ranbir Kapoor shows  every sign of fructifying into permanency, ...

With  due apologies to Aamir, Shah Rukh and Salman, the  biggest Khan superstar  of India  is Taimur Ali Khan. As he turns  all of 2 on December 20 his ...

 Though this  is  not official yet and  won’t be for a  while now, a sequel to  the eagerly waited Zero is already  in the  pipeline. ...

 Not many  former boyfriends  would do what Harman  Baweja did on Thursday evening when he headed  for Priyanka Chopra’s wedding  reception to wish her the  very best.B ...

 Rahul Gandhi’s triumph  in  the Assembly Elections would have  a  “deep and serious” impact on  the  bio-pic on  ManmohanSingh –The  Accidental  Prime  Minister— that is ...

KGF, Chapter 1(dubbed  Hindi Version) Starring Yash,  Srinidhi Shetty Directed  by Prashanth Neel Rating: *(1 star) “If you bad, I am your dad.”  I swear I heard the ...

Starring Swara Bhaskar, Purab Kohli,Sumeet Vyas, Vivan Bhatena Directed  by Danish Aslam Rating: *** Some sharp writing  and plotting curves, not to mention  a certain maturity in the level of  some ...

Composer Mithoon suddenly discovered  a leading riff from his beloved tune Tum hi ho in the film Ashiqui 2 being ripped off by  American rapper  T-Pain  in a  song called  ...

Zero Starring:  Shah  Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma Directed by Aanand L Rai Rating: **** ½(4 and a  half stars) When this achingly irreverent ode to misfits was over,I thought, ...

After  a break of more than  a year Deepika Padukone  will  be back  before the camera to play a character  as far removed  from  Padmaavaat as  Ranbir Kapoor from Ranveer Singh. Deepika  plays Laxmi Aggarwal , ...

I really don’t know  who thinks up these casting marvels.  Every other  day we hear of one incredible casting feat or  the  other. ...

There were reports yesterday  that Telugu star-actor Vijay Deverakonda  was injured and that his shooting had to be cancelled. Though the news was  not untrue Vijay says  ...

f you go through Sanjay Khan’s autobiography ‘The Best Mistakes Of My Life’, one comes across a very interesting photograph which has the ...

 Days and  hours ahead  of  the release  of one  of this year’s films, Aanand Rai and Shah Rukh’s Zero finds itself confronted  by  attempts to malign the  film ...

one more attempt to spread false rumours about your health? I don’t undertand why there’s  the need to report  so negatively about my health.It’s almost ...