Year: 2018

Director Shree Narayan Singh is grinning from  year to year. Last year he scored bull’s eye with Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. This year he has his eyes and eart  set on another  socially-relevant  film on power theft in ...

Like  most Indians, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been a LataMangeshkar fan most of her life. It is  with  much  pride and pleasure that she plays a singer and  huge fan of the Goddess Of all melodious...

It’s not a good time to be Shradha Kapoor. She had  two thundering flops in 2017 .While her attempts to play gangster Haseena Parkar in 2017 were  booed  out of the  theatres , earlier during...

 On Saturday evening a massive fire raged across Cinevista studios,  one  of the oldest television software  producers owned by former actor Prem Kishen and his filmmaker-son Siddharth PMalhotra(whose Rani Mukherjee starrer Hichki is  on  release). While Siddharth reassured me on Sunday  morning that the fire...

It’s all systems go for the beleaguered epic Padmavati. Yes,  a release  date has finally been locked in, and  it’s  January 25th the  coveted Republic Day weekend when  Akshay Kumar’s  R Balki starrer Pad Man , not to...

On Irrfan Khan’s 50​th Birthday Subhash K Jha Picks His 10 Most Memorable  Characters Very few Indian actors have had the privilege of playing such a wide variety of characters . Irrfan Khan’s versatility and his ability to assume...

It takes all sorts. We now have a ‘fan’(more like a too-fan) claiming he is  the  biological son of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Ah, the elder brother Aaradhyaa never knew about.Neither did her mother. For that matter....

R Balki’s eagerly awaited Pad Man has suddenly  got a  new release date. Instead  of  January  26 it will now release  on  January 25. So what happened?  According to a  source  very close to the...

There  is a strong buzz reverberating across the film trade that suggests Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati will release  on January 26 alongside R Balki’s eagerly-awaited  Akshay Kumar starrer Pad Man? However  Pad Man director  R Balki is far from daunted by the purported  battle...

When it comes  to  method acting, Hrithik Roshan has always been  a tough preparer . Now  for his role as the maths wizard Anand  Kumar in  Vikas Behl’s Super 30 Hrithik’s physical and emotional preparation is incomparably  meticulous. To begin...

How  times  change!  Till yesterday Jacqueline Fernandes was  all too eager to be cast with the  hot-and-happening Tiger Shroff. But  then their film together The Flying Jatt flopped. So now in all her professional wisdom, Jacqueline...

It looks  like we will have  to wait a bit  longer to see  Ranbir Kapoor playing Sanjay Dutt. The  eagerly awaited bio-pic  directed by Raj  Kumar Hirani which was to release  on March 30 has now  been pushed  forward. In ...

Pitch Perfect 3 Starring Anna Kedrick, Rebel Wilson Directed  by Trish Sie Rating: **(2 stars) Thankfully, this  franchise has run its course. Though I  enjoyed parts of it I really can’t take ...

Starring Lin Shaye, Directed  by Adam  Robitel Rating: * ½(one  a  half stars)  Really, now. The  American horror genre has run  out of ideas. The last really gripping horror movie from Hollywood’s...

Starring: Christopher Plummer,Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg Directed by: Ridley Scott Rating: ***(3 stars) A  breathlessness that has nothing to do with the film’s two chief architects being over 80, defines  the narrative momentum   of All...

What prompted you to return to twitter ? When I stopped tweeting I had got bored with being on twitter and got off and now I got bored of not being...

With speculation on  the release date  of Sanjay Bhansali’s beleaguered Padmavati—January 26 and February 9 -- going around, the producers  of the other films  lined up for release in the last week of January...

The change  in the film’s  title from Padmavati to Padmavat is not applicable to Deepika Padukone.  She will still be called ‘Padmavati’ in the film. Clearing the confusion over the  alterations ordered  by the CBFC a source  from...

Always known to be  extremely and embarrassingly  outspoken , Nargis Fakhri who is  currently shooting away from India ,Nargis replies to my  query about rumours linking her to music-video director...

Aditi Rao is   in seventh heaven. In 2017  she got  a chance to live out her dream. “I always dreamt what  it would be like to  sing with A R Rahman Sir. I got...

1.     Pad Man: On January 26 it’s Akshay Kumar,  and no one else. I will put my money on this heartwarming saga of Arunachalam Muruganantham, the Tamilian  who manufactured economical sanitary  napkins even at the risk of being...

So it’s going to be titled Zero. Aanand  Rai’s film with Shah RukhKhan playing a vertically challenged  man is  seen having the time of his life in the teaser. He dances to  the...

1.     The Amitabh-Aamir Face-Off In Thugs Of  Hindostan: It’s going to be the  biggest action sequence  ever filmed  for a Hindi film.Playing  characters inspired  by real life this is going to be the  mother  of...

Spoilers: Even I  overrated  some of these films when I reviewed  them initially.A second viewing cleared the  air and helped me expose the sham behind the claptrap. 1.     Rangoon:  Vishal Bhardwaj’s bombastic selfimportant ode...

In a year of appalling gawd-awful sequels and  repeatedly renewed franchise films when Priyanka Chopra made her Hollywood debut with what is arguably the worst film of her film career—and yes Baywatch Returns  was worse than...

1.     The Amitabh-Aamir Face-Off In Thugs Of  Hindostan: It’s going to be the  biggest action sequence  ever filmed  for a Hindi film.Playing  characters inspired  by real life this is going to be the  mother  of...

CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi  is aghast at members  of the Special Panel invited to view Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati, who are now expressing displeasure over the  film’s certification. Says Prasoon, “The role of Special Panel was only...

1.     Sunil Grover Carries Shah Rukh Khan In His Lap: At a recent popular awards function Shah  Rukh Khan who is known to be the consummate entertainer at every function, big or small, was put through...

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin  Hart,  Karen Gillan Directed  by Jake Kasdan Rating: 0 stars This has got to be the  most cretinous and  annoying film of 2017. That it is...