During his lifetime Basu Chatterjee directed 39 feature films and 7 television serials including the immensely popular Rajni. He received immense love from the audience. His films such...
The late Basu Chatterjee’s music sense was to die for. It is no co-incidence that he chose Rajesh Roshan to do the music and songs in...
Shiva Sena politician Ranjay Raut has taken digs at Sonu Sood’s astonishing work in transporting thousands of migrants home. Sarcastically calling him ‘Mahatma Sood’ Raut states in the Shiv...
Javed Akhtar has won the the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award 2020 for critical thinking ,holding religious dogma up to scrutiny , advancing human progress and humanist values .He is the...
Hurt Locker Meets Dr Zhivago In Sergio Sergio(Netflix) Starring Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas Directed by Greg Barker Rating: ** ½ This is a film with the body of Kathryn Bigelow and the...
Arjun Rampal Speaks To Subhash K Jha On Spending Time With His Baby Boy During Lockdown Did you get bored staying indoors for over two months?...
The death of Basu Chatterjee at 94 has liberated the prolific and influential filmmaker from almost 5 years of prolonged pain and suffering when he had absolutely...
Producer Ekta Kapoor is in no mood buckle under the pressure being put on her by Bigg Boss contestant and self-styled nationalist Hindustani Bhau(real name Vikas Jairam Pathak) . It all started when the Bigg Boss contestant pulled...
Choked Paisa Bolta Hai Starring: Saiyami Kher, Roshan Matthew, Amruta Subhash,Rajshree Deshpande Directed by : Anurag Kashyap Rating: *** Our prime minister Narendra Modi makes a guest appearance in Choked, Anurag Kashyap’s latest homage to the spirit of quirkiness where ...
The reclusive outspoken Moushumi Chatterjee remembers the good times she had while shooting with Basu Chatterjee. “We did three films together. Uss Paar was the first one . We...
As business in movie theatres across India came to a grinding halt in March , I recalled only one incident in the past when movie theatres ...
Extroardinarily talented musician-singer Hariharan couldn’t be happier. His recording of the Hanuman Chalisa on T Series’ YouTube channel has recorded over a billion hits Though partly explicable by the rise in spiritual...
“I loved the lines he wrote for his characters. They were so close to real life I didn’t have the audacity to change even a word...
The late Basu Chatterjee’s music sense was to die for. It is no co-incidence that he chose Rajesh Roshan to do the music and songs in...
Chintu Ka Birthday Starring Vinay Pathak, Tilottama Shome Directed by Devanshu Kumar,Satyanshu Singh Rating: ** ½ Chintu is 6. And his birthday turns out to be more adventurous than the little boy expected it...
Natkhat( A Short Film Produced by RSVP) Starring Vidya Balan, Sanika Patel Directed by Shaan Vyas Rating: *** ½ It’s not so much about what men do to women, as ...
Lyricist poet Manoj Muntashir was one of the last people from the film industry to meet Wajid Khan, And it seems Wajid had a premonition of his impending death. Says Mantashir, “We ...
Meera Chopra didn’t know what hit her when, during a chat on social media with the public she happened to mention that she liked the Telugu...
Director Amit Sharma and his leading man Ayushmann Khurrana both said no to the Badhaai Ho sequel. Apparently the Badhaai Ho producers Junglee Pictures offered the sequel to the original ...
Sooraj Barjatya owes Basu Chatterjee an apology for what he did to his Chit Chor. Remember Barjatya’s atrocious remake Main Prem Hi Deewani Hoon?Basuda had a great sense of humour. But he wasn’t amused with what Barjatya had done to...
It looks like 2020 is not just an awful year for civilization on the whole but specially for Nawazuddin Siddiqui. His life and reputation has come under a ...
Lyricist poet Manoj Muntashir was one of the last people from the film industry to meet Wajid Khan, And it seems Wajid had a premonition of his impending death. Says Mantashir, “We ...
Sundeep Kishan, the affable actor from Next Enti, Tenali Ramakrishna BA BL brought in his birthday on 7 May in quarantine. “It was like any other day.I tried to think of...
Director Vivek Agnihotri Hits Out At Post Lockdown Shooting Guidelines According to guidelines issued by the Maharashtra Government actors above the age of 65 are advised to stay home once...
Tamil-Hindi superstar Madhavan thought he would quietly turn 50 on June 1 during the lockdown when everything was shut down. Little did he know! “I thought...
When the lockdown began actor Amit Sadh was quarantined far away in the Himalayas , away from the madding crowd. “I guess that explains why I’m...
Ever since Madhuri Dixit walked out unceremoniously from Ayushmann Khurrana’s wife Tahira Kashyap’s proposed feature film, the project has been in a state of suspension. While...
Betaal , Marzi and Lipstick Under The Burqa actress Aahan Kumra brought in her birthday on May 1 with cakes from friends. “We didn’t want to bake anything since Rishi Kapoorji and Irrfan Khanji had passed away just before ...
With director Ali Abbas Zafar confirming that he will start a superhero film with Katrina Kaif in the lead after the lockdown, audiences can prepare for ...
Bollywood Actress-Filmmaker-Activist Nandita Das Speaks To Subhash K Jha On Her Short Film On Domestic Violence During Lockdown What is your short film Listen To Her about? It...
A police complaint filed by former Bigg Boss contestant calling himself Hindustani Bhau could land the tv czarina and her mother Shobhaa Kapoor in serious trouble. In the complaint the gentleman pulls up Ekta and her...
Nowadays Mr B is completely taken up with Ranbir Kapoor. I remember he’s been praising Ranbir since his debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya when he had exulted about the debutant, “Ranbir is the...
Lata Mangeshkar has always been known as a one-woman industry . I remember the wonderful Dev Anand telling me how erected sets had to be dismantled...
Of late, the digital domain is dishing out more drivel than we can digest. One after the other the big OTT players like Netflix , Amazon,...
There isn’t a chance in hell for Kannada superstar Yash’s KGF follow-up to release on the OTT platform. A source very close to the project dismisses ...
Wajid Khan ,better known as the genial affable gentle and polite one-half of the Sajid-Wajid duo, passed away . This is the first Corona death of a person...
New York-based Master-chef Vikas Khanna has so far distributed 7 million dry ration meals across 79 cities in India dring these last two months of a lockdown. “And those meals includes...
This is a love triangle so bizarre and its outcome so unexpected , the one angle from the triangle most affected had vowed to make a...
In 1977 Movie Moghul Manmohan Desai had two blockbuster releases Amar Akbar Anthony and Parvarish. Both starred Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh and Shabana Azmi. How did Desai manage to shoot two multi-starrers with the same cast simultaneously? Shabana sheds ...
Shooting is expected to resume in the Mumbai studios from the first week of June. Maharashtra government on Sunday announced film and television shooting could resume in non-containment...
On his father the legendary Krishna(Siva Rama Krishna Ghattamaneni)’s 77th birthday on 31 May, Mahesh Babu has announced his next Telugu film. It is entitled Sarkaaru Vaari Paata and will be directed by Parashuram who last...
The Nightingale hates playing favourites.When I urge her to do so she reminds me that she never listens to her own songs. “I never do that...
When it came to calling a spade , a spade no one could do with better than Rishi Kapoor. I’ve been at the receiving end of some...
We would probably not have known about the death of poet-lyricist Yogesh Gaur had the Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar not tweeted about it. Among the most articulate ...
The Invincible Amitabh Bachchan Speaks To Subhash K Jha On His Forthcoming Film Gulabo Sitabo Amitji, Gulabo Sitabo is your first release on the OTT platform. Does it feel any different from your earlier in-theatre releases? First of all I...
Sidharth Shukla couldn’t enjoy the new lease of stardom after his Bigg Boss win, because of the lockdown. But he is not complaining about the lockdown. “We are ...
The one member of the Indian entertainment industry who has proved himself a messiah for stranded migrant workers is Sonu Sood. It all started in a...
Salman Khan’s next film to go on the floors would be a film with a very strong message on communal amity. The title itself Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali says it all....
While the actor to play the crazily talented singer Baiju in the love story Baiju Bawra is yet to be decided, Sanjay Leela Bhansali who is remaking the musical classic Baiju Bawra has zeroed in on his second-favourite...
Long Shot(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen Directed by Jonathan Levine Rating: *** ½ (three and a half stars) This enjoyable but uneven rom-com, no pushover for...
