Swara Bhaskar: “I have a maha-needy and attention-seeking dog who is taking up all my energy and I’m trying hard to work on a long pending...
Never Rarely Sometime Always Starring Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Theodore Pallerin Directed by Eliza Hittman Rating: **** ½ (four and a half stars) If we all must die, this...
This month, as director Dharmesh Darshan’s Raja Hindustani turns 23 years old, it would be apt to recall its primary claim to fame: Aamir Khan’s kiss with his co-star Karisma Kapoor which qualifies as the...
Star Chef Vikas Khanna Speaks To Subhash K Jha From New York On Coping With Corona How are you coping? I am in New York in my home.Many of my friends stay...
Panchayat(Amazon Prime Video, 8 Episodes) Starring Jitendra Kumar, Chandan Roy, Neena Gupta, Raghuvir Yadav Directed by Deepak Kumar Mishra Rating: *** ½ This one knows.Just knows. Panchayat is an insider’s job. Its director(Deepak Kumar Mishra), writer(Chandan Kumar) and the actors,...
Disco Deewane and Aap jaisa koi meri zindagi mein aaye changed the face of Indi-pop in the 1970s.And the pretty 17-year old girl ushering in the...
Is the bio-pic on poet-lyricist-thinker-activist Sahir Ludhianvi jinxed? The project has gone from hand to hand without any progress for three years now. It was originally...
“Akshay Kumar has donated so generously for those affected by the current pandemic crisis. So have the Ambanis, the Tatas and so many others. But where...
Ram Gopal Varma, what made you pull such a tasteless prank? To start with it was April Fools day and I made the joke on myself...
Banana Split Starring Hannah Marks, Liano Liberato, Dylan Sprouse Directed by Benjmin Kasulke Rating: * ½ (one and a half stars) Barring an Eighth Grade American teen comedies are like instant noodles.Eat digest ...
Okay, we know. The year 2020 has started on a terrible note for Bollywood Movies. In all of January and February there was only one superhit, and that ...
Celina Jaitley, how are you and your family dealing with the crisis in Austria? WHO have made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a...
Daily wage-earners who have lost their jobs in the cities and are trying to head back to their native homes, find themselves facing starvation because of...
“Taimur runs around the house, and paints and plants trees and reads and dances” Saif Ali Khan, his Beghum Kareena and child Taimur are making the best of this...
As reported by this writer, Karan Johar’s collaboration with Fox-Star studios over Takht ,his most expensive project to date , came to a deadend . The...
Every actor, big or small from Dilip Kumar to Anil Dhawan has done his share of duds and super-duds. But Ajay’s turkeys are painfully memorable. Here’s a grimacing look at his worst...
How have you been coping with the lockdown? The immediate reaction to the reports of the spread of the virus is a certain amount of anxiety...
Urmila Matondkar has always been a bit of a recluse. Even when she was shooting round-the-clock she made sure she rushed home immediately after pack-up. Now with the...
ShahRukh Khan’s sabbatical is going to turn out longer than expected. Not having seen him on screen since Aanand L Rai’s ill-fated Zero in December 2018, ShahRukh Khan ’s fans have been ...
Sudhir Mishra Breaks Down During A Conversation With Subhash K Jha Celebrated filmmaker Sudhir Mishra is inconsolably upset over a viral video which shows a man apparently resembling Sudhir , being manhandled by the ...
Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar and Aamir Khan are known to be the biggest pranksters of our film industry. When shooting outdoors they conceive elaborate plan to prank their co-stars. On occasions they...
I wonder if Madhuri Dixit wished Sanjay Dutt on his 60th birthday on July 29. I sincerely doubt it. The way she dropped Sanjay Dutt like a garam aloo when he got into serious trouble with the...
Actor Deepak Dobriyal Tells Subhash K Jha How & Where He’s Coping With The Corona Lockdown Deepak Dobriyal, How is the lockdown treating you? I am close to the Himalayas in Uttarakhand. Log keh rahe hain hame bhi aisa lockdown chahiye, itna freedom aur beauty wala. Mere saare dost(All my friends are saying...
Is Ekta Kapoor miffed with Kartik Aryan? Apparently the Queen Of Soaps offered him a feature film. Yes, Ekta does produce films as well. But Kartik...
Not for a role or a film. We are talking about real life. Is our most celebrated desi girl, Priyanka Chopra, in the family way? Sources in ...
When recently there were stories of Bollywood’s ‘it’ pair Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt breaking up she had called these rumours “rubbish” in a chat with me. And now, as though...
For months now we have all been wondering what RRR , the title of S S Rajamouli’s film meant . It turns out that the maverick director was ...
Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar Speaks To Subhash K Jha On Being Corona Confined Didi,namaaskar, aap kaisi hain? Main theek hoon. Sab ki terah ghar mein hoon(I am at home like everyone). You were recently hospitalized for a a severe lung infection, so you must be doubly...
Uncorked(Netflix) Starring Mamoudou Athie as Elijah,Niecy Nash as Sylvia,Courtney B. Vance as Louis Directed by Prentice Penny Rating: **(2 stars) In this season of a home-viewing boom, another American feature...
Aditya Roy Kapur Speaks To Subhash K Jha Malang seems to have given you a completely new image a fresh career phase.do you agree?I think the most exciting thing for...
Call it a bizarre coincidence. But most , if not all, the young actors and actresses whom Salman Khan has introduced on screen have flopped. In 2019 Salman launched Zahir Iqbal and Pranutan Bahl his home...
Nihar Pandya and his wife Neeti Mohan had a providential escape from the Corona-hit Australia just before all the airports were shut and travel back to India was impossible. Nihar Pandya who...
Maska(Netflix) Starring Manisha Koirala, Prit Kamani, Nikita Dutta, Javed Jaffrey, Shirley Setia Directed by Neeraj Udhwani Rating: ***(3 stars) If we disregard Manisha Koirala Manisha Koirala’s overdone Parsi accent and the rather embarrassing plunge into excessive maudlinism in the second-half, Maska is quite the ...
Blame games are the most popular activity in the entertainment industry post-failures. Varun Dhawan is at it. Sources say he had a massive showdown with director Remo d’Souza after...
Television and OTT superstar actor Barun Sobti Speaks To Subhash K Jha Your new web series Asur casts you as a haunted forensic officer investigating a serial-ki lling,how was that experience? I accepted Asura because it gave me ...
The MeToo movement gained momentum in these parts during the last two years, and it’s often alleged that women in the Indian entertainment industry are not inclined to come forward with...
It is unlikely that we will see Amitabh Bachchan in any film this year. While three of them were scheduled for release in 2020, all three...
Katrina Kaif was all but finalized for the female lead in Vikas Bahl’s next. But then a day after the announcement she apparently denied saying yes...
Ramayan the beloved serial on Indian national television Doordarshan, which ruled the charts for a one-and-a-half-years from January 1987, is being brought back from Saturday, March 28.Two episodes...
Salman Khan is on a role-shopping spree. Barely had he completed and released Dabangg 3 than he began work on another film with the same director Prabhudheva. With Radhe ...
Blow The Man Down(Amazon Studios) Starring Morgan Saylor ,Sophie Lowe ,Margo Martindale June Squibb,Annette O’Toole,Ebon Moss-Bachrach,Gayle Rankin. Directed by Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy Rating: ** ½ (two and a half...
Sara Ali Khan, who has rapidly risen to the ranks of the top entertainers in Bollywood , now faces the formidable challenge of encoring her mother’s most...
With Rishi Kapoor indisposed again, the prestigious remake of the Hollywood film The Intern where Rishi Kapoor was to play Deepika Padukone’s mentor, is now a project in...
One of Bollywood’s most prestigious film production companies Fox-Star India has been facing financial setbacks in 2020. First Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak and then Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga have both underperformed severely at the boxoffice. And now ...
So far he was the darling of the social media. Now Taimur Ali Khan, by far the most popular 2-year old in Asia, has made his television debut...
Impish, flirtatious, pouty and perky….somehow Nimmi was the original Mumtaz and Aruna Irani,if that makes any sense. Vivacity came naturally to Nimmi . It wasn’t a trait she cultivated. It was part of her...
Sanjay Dutt has not had a favourable run at the boxoffice since his incarceration ended in February 2016. All his films post-incarceration Bhoomi, Saheb Bibi Aur Gangster 3, Kalank , Prasthannam and Panipat have sunk without a trace. Dutt now has all...
It is unlikely that Salman Khan’s Kick sequel will happen in the near future. Sources in the know say the sequel is far from being realized. “There is ...
It is arguably the most challenging role of his career. Akshay Kumar is currently playing the 12th century warrior-king Prithviraj Chauhan in a film being directed by scholar-filmaker Chandraprakash Dwiwedi A stickler for authentic historic...
In a twist of fate, if you like, Hrithik Roshan’s estranged and divorced wife Sussanne has moved back into her husband’s home for parenting purposes during the current Corona lockdown....
