Here’s the thing.Anubhav Sinha’s two previous works Mulk and Article 15 dealt with heavyweight issues, namely the communal divide and the caste system. Thappad , as shown in the trailer, is about a ...
Anupam Kher is in Los Angeles for three months now ,shooting for the hit American serial New Amsterdam. The series which kick-started airing in September 2018 is now successful...
This is not the first time that Akshay Kumar has rushed forward to help a colleague/associate/friend with medical care. No matter how many times it happens, it still warms ...
Bad Boys For Life Starring Will Smith, Martin Lawrence Directed by Adill & Billal Rating: ** 17 years after their last outing,the newly reunited Will Smith and Martin Lawrence,...
Jawani Jaaneman Starring Saif Ali Khan, Alaya F, Tabu,Kubra Sait Directed by Nitin Kakkar Rating: ****(4 stars) Going into it , expecting one more film showcasing Saif Ali Khan’s roguish charms, you come away surprised at the...
Has Aamir Khan really shelved his plans of making a webseries based on the Mahabharat, or is the ambitious plan on the backburner for now? Sources in...
Is 2020 an unfavourable year for female heroes? Two major films in January with leading ladies in author-backed roles has tanked at the boxoffice one after another. Chhapaak and Panga, ...
Good news for the Akhtar-Azmi family. Shabana Azmi who had a miraculous escape from grievous injury after a road accident on January 18, is all set to return home. Speaking to ...
Parasite(Korean) Directed by Bong Joon-Ho Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) With a wealth of Oscar nominations and other prominent awards, normally denied to third-world films...
With Sarileru Neekevvaru doing extremely well, Mahesh Babu is now looking at his next film. “It will be with my Maharshi director Vamshi Paidipally,” Mahesh Babu tells me in an exclusive conversation. “It will again be in the commercial...
Imtiaz Ali’s Kartik Aryan-Sara Ali Khan starrer Love Aaj Kal has unexpected competition this Valentine’s Day. Philip Todd’s worldwide blockbuster Joker re-opens in cinemas across India on February 14. According sources the film’s producers ...
The Windmere Children(BBC 2) Written by Simon Block and directed by Michael Samuels. Rating: ****(4 stars) On 27 January 1945 the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp was liberated by the ...
No one, and no force no matter how brutal. can take away from the joy singer-musian AdnanSami feels at receiving the Padma Shri from the Indian government. “It came to me...
Busy times for the Superstar. When you are Akshay Kumar, you can move your releases around as you like. But the double release shift that Akshay pulled off on Monday...
Since his last film as a leading man bombed badly Saif Ali Khan desperately needs a hit. But would Jawani Jaaneman which releases coming Friday do the trick?...
Now that Saaho has clearly and incontestably under-performed at the boxoffice, superstar Prabhas is moving ahead very cautiously. He has just completed an out-and-out romantic film entitled Jaan directed by ...
When Kangana Ranaut received the Padma Shri on January 26 from the Government Of India one of the first colleagues from the entertainment industry to congratulate...
On and off Salman Khan is known to get physically violent with fans. Some time ago he had snatched a journalist’s phone in Mumbai for clicking him while cycling. This...
By now it is crystal-clear that Deepika Padukone and Hrithik Roshan—two of the best-looking actors we have—are all set to come together for a film in the very near future. There...
Hansal Mehta’s next project with Rajkummar Rao was entitled Turram Khan which is how an unlikely hero is designated by people in Hyderabad, somewhat like Tees Maar Khan. But if Farah Khan were to make Tees Maar Khan today...
Canada-based Punjabi singer-actor Jassi Gill is now tasting success belatedly in Bollywood. Playing Kangana Ranaut’s supremely supportive spouse in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s aspirational masterpiece Panga Jassi is getting a whole lot of positive attention. It’s been a...
This doesn’t look like a very favourable year for the women heroes. While 2019 was a virtual celebration of woman power, with female actors dominating the boxoffice in Badlaa, ...
The Forgotten Army: Azaadi Ke Liye(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Sunny Kaushal, M K Raina, Sharvari Wagh Written & Directed by Kabir Singh Rating: ****(4 stars) The sheer volume of emotional and physical distance that Kabir Khan...
Ayushmann is no doubt the star of the Khurrana family. But unlike Salman’s Arbaaz,Aparshaktiis no less talented. See him match strides with Varun Dhawan in Street Dancer 3D it is all the...
You really didn’r expect Deepika Padukone to be conferred with a Padma award, did you?Not after her JNU visit for sure. This Republic Day, the Governmemt, in all its time-tested wisdom has decided...
So okay, Naseeruddin Shah made uncharitable remarks about Anupam Kher which he shouldn’t have. But then, speaking his mind comes naturally to Naseer even at the risk of being savagely attacked. After Naseer’s...
To all those out there who consider the written word to be sacrosanct. Next time you read about star-fees, just laugh it off. Chances are, the ...
Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak has turned out to be disappointment for all concerned, none more so than the subject of the film Laxmi Aggarwal , the brave acid-attack victim who we are...
Gregory David Roberts’ bestselling novel Shantaram about an Australian fugitive making a new life for himself in the slums of Mumbai has now finally been acquired as a 10-part series ...
You really didn’r expect Deepika Padukone to be conferred with a Padma award, did you?Not after her JNU visit for sure. This Republic Day, the Governmemt, in all its time-tested wisdom has decided...
This Friday the intrepid Kangana Ranaut locks horns with the affable Varun Dhawan at the boxoffice. Is there anything in common between the two? Apparently, yes.Read on for a collection of corny commonality....
Judy Starring Rene Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Directed by Rupert Goold Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) Judy Garland lives again. The legendary live performer and screen ...
Telugu cinema had two reasons to celebrate this Pongal. Both the Mahesh Babu starrer Sarileru Neekevvaru and the Allu Arjun starrer Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo have both turned out to be big successes. But the way the leading lady...
As the blockbuster-bound Street Dancer prepares to open all across India, Ajay Devgan has decided to step on the promotion and screens of his pseudo-historicals. Tanhaji a chronicle of the the ...
Both the Mahesh Babu starrer Sarileru Neekevvaru and the Allu Arjun starrer Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo have turned out to be big successes. However the way the two films have been pitched against one another with negative stories being ...
Panga Starring Kangna Ranaut. Jassi Gill, Richa Chadha,Neena Gupta Directed by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari Rating: *****(5 stars) Just when you thought you have had enough of these mofussil mellow dramas , you know those slowburn rom-coms and familiar family tales...
Street Dancer 3D Starring Prabhudheva, Varun Dhawan, Shradha Kapoor, Aparshakti Directed by Remo d’Souza Rating: **** ½(4 and a half stars) Impressively, Prabhudheva gets top billing in this zany political parable about how India and Pakistan...
By suggesting that Kashmiri Pandits should forgive the local Muslim population of Jammu & Kashmir for driving them out of their homes in 1990, Vinod Chopra has incensed many who feel this gambit...
There is an alarming new formula for pseudo-historical potboilers on Hindi cinema. The brave indomitable: Hindu warrior versus the evil Islamic invader. …Recently in an interview...
Last year, Varun Dhawan featured in the first flop of his career , the doomed Kalank which if you ask any astrologer , is among the most negative titles you can...
Let’s get one thing straight. Naseeruddin Shh did not call Anupam Kher a “psychopath”. The word he used was ‘sycophant’ in an interview now gone viral which has gone viral. Anupam ...
Remember those lurid jasoosi kahaniyan in the 1970s by Hindi pulp writers like Surender Mohan Pathak,Ved Prakash Sharma and Colonel Ranjeet? These novels sold off the rack on railway stations like samosas. The look feel flavour...
1. Disparate Genres, Parallel Strokes: Panga is a sports film directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari who excels in probing smalltown dreams and aspirations. Her debut and sophomore films Nil Batte Sannatta and Rai Bareilly Ki Barfi both worked within their given area ...
Ajay Devgan has begun shooting for S S Rajamouli’s much-anticipated RRR in Telugu in a very special role. Sources say it’s an extended guest appearance where...
Sarileru Neekevvaru director Anil Ravipudi woke up to reports on Saturday morning that an entire section of his film was being edited out of the film...
Just Mercy Starring Michael B Jordon, Jamie Fox, Brie Larson Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton Rating: ** * (three stars) Just Mercy is a film that cares about human...
1. Street Dancer is Remo D’Souza’s genre-defining film. Remo is the master of dance movies. He proved it with ABCD(2013), ABCD 2(2015) and now there is the third film in the Franchise not called ABCD 3 but Street...
For those of us who were wondering what happened to the great bromance between filmmaker Aanand Rai and Tamil star Dhanush after they collaborated on Ranjhaana 6 years ago, here comes the reason to ...
A lot is being written, seen and shared about Telugu superstar Vijay Deverakonda’s Bollywooddebut in Fighter ,a Hindi-Telugu bi-lingual being directed by Puri Jagannath, co-produced by Karan Johar, Puri Jagannath and Charmee Kaur. Since it’s Vijay’s first full-on action film,...
There is an alarming new formula for pseudo-historical potboilers on Hindi cinema. The brave indomitable: Hindu warrior versus the evil Islamic invader. …Recently in an interview...