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...
Deepika Padukone’s recent promotional gambit on TikTok where she asked a fan to recreate her ‘look’ of the acid-attack survivor in Chhapaak has provoked a severe backlash . The latest ...
Director Anil Ravipudi , currently basking in the success of his new Telugu film SarileruNeekevvaru says he has nothing to do with the Hindi remake of his last year’s blockbuster comedy F2...
The one baffling puzzle that follows us out of the hugely entertaining Telugu release Ala Vaikuntapurramloo is, what is the super-talented beautiful Tabu doing playing playing Allu Arjun’s mother in this out-and-out masala film? Allu is ...
The astonishing Vijayashanti who at one point in her long illustrious career was known as ‘Lady Amitabh’ is back on screen after a gap of 13 years ...
“Kab se janta hai ki tu yeh hai?” the inquisitive Uncle asks Ayushman Khurrana. “Yeh nahin bolte gay bolte hain… aur aapne kab jana ki aap gay nahin hain?”Khurrana retorts If every other line of dialogue in this quirky crazy love story is just as crisp and corny, then let’s not...
A stream visitors from the film fraternity who visited Shabana Azmi at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital had to return without meeting the injured actress. Explains her husband poet-writer-thinker Javed Akhtar, “She is in ...
If all had gone well, Ranveer Singh would be working with Meghna Gulzar next, now that she has completed her film with his wife Deepika Padukone. It is reliably learnt that Ranveer was Meghna’s first...
If Fate, that capricious mistress of Man’s future, had willed it, director Kabir Khan’s first feature film would have been on the Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army(INA). “I had made...
A day after the ghastly road accident which left her automobile smashed, Shabana Azmi was doing fine at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in Mumbai. On Sunday all essential medical tests were done on ...
At around 4 pm on Saturday someone sent me a message. “Shabana Azmi critically injured in a road accident. Really sad.” He sounded more excited for having broken...
What was probably meant to be a harmless gesture of fan-star bonding on the social media has turned into an occasion of savage trolling for Deepika Padukone. It...
The trailer of Remo D Souza’s Street Dancer 3D proves there is no substitute to the masala entertainer.And when it comes to films about dancers and dancing there is no substitute...
This Republic Day, while Varun Dhawan clashes with Shradha Kapoor on the dancefloor in Street Dancer and Kangana clashes with kabaddi players in the akhada in Panga, the two parent films are poised for a face-off at the boxoffice. However the Street Dancer director Remo d’Souza sees ...
After five years of courtship Abhishek Bachchan and Karisma Kapoor were all set to tie the knot in 2002. What went wrong? There are many theories on why the couple called it...
Among the many hats that Karan Johar wears here is one talent that would be unearthed in the months to come.Karan will be planning all the details of Varun Dhawan’s wedding with...
It is very difficult to decide the status of Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan’s relationship.Are they friends pretending to be hostile to one another for...
They haven’t really worked together since My Name Is Khan in 2010, although Shah Rukh Khan did make a guest appearance in Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil ...
1917 Starring George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman Directed by Sam Mendes Rating: *****(5 stars) At the end of Sam Mendes’ 1917 I heard someone sobbing. I realized it was me. After...
Imtiaz Ali’s latest work of fractured passion Love Aaj Kal features the very massy and commercial Kartik Aryan and Sara Ali Khan doing a realistic love story where every emotion, feeling and dialogue is taken...
Those sections of the film industry repeatedly accused by Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli of nepotism are having the last laugh as Kangana has appointed her brother Akshat as the legal adviser for ...
It was with considerable excitement that Priyanka Chopra had last year announced a bio-pic on Osho Rajneesh’s trusted lieutenant and right-hand woman Ma Sheela. Often known as the power behind...
With the National Commission For Women closing the case against Anu Malik for alleged sexual misconduct ,the curtain has fallen on allegations against one more weighty name mentioned in...
Actress-activist Tanushree Dutta who spearheded the MeToo movement in Bollywood is extremely upset at the National Commission For Women(NCW) for exonerating musician Anu Malik from charges of sexual misconduct. Says Tanushree, “The National Commission for women ...
The trailer of the Kartik Aryan-Sara Ali Khan helmed Love Aaj Kal left me confused. Is it a remake of the earlier film of the same title starring Sara’s pop Saif? Or is it...
Dolittle Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Harry Collette, Antonio Banderas. Directed by: Stephen Gaghan Rating: *(1 star) Two thoughts struck me as I sat wide-eyed and open-mouthed(for all the wrong...
Almost every fortnight there is a new “reliable report” on Varun Dhawan’s wedding , venue date and all.A new report tells us that Varun and his...
Today’s actors are very different from the Govindas and Akshay Kumars of yore who signed everything that came their way after their debut. Nowadays, they wait. Here are the ones who...
Ever wondered why the most sensitive poetic romantic filmmaker Gulzar never worked with the most sensitive poetic romantic star Rajesh Khanna? Although Gulzar wrote some really sensitive dialogues and songs for Rajesh Khanna in the clasic Anand, the director ...
Don’t get me wrong. I love Alia Bhatt. She is as beautiful inside as she is on the outside. And she’s a great learner on the sets....
There is no doubt that Kangana Ranaut will leave all competition far behind with Panga and will pick up all the awards at the end of the year. Wowing the critics...
Jai Mummy Di Starring Sunny Singh, Sonnalli Seygall, Poonam Dhillon, Supriya Pathak Written & Directed by Navjot Gulati Rating: **** The good newzz (excluse my sloppy spelling) is that there is a romcom far funnier than the recent overrated Good Newzz.In many ...
What really happened to the 19-year old sensation Divya Bharti on the night of April 5, 1993 when in the presence of dress designer Neeta Lulla and her husband, she plunged to her...
On his birthday on January 8 Kannada superstar Yash encountered the kind of adulation never seen before in this country. The mass of humanity which descended on Bengaluru from...
Mahesh Babu and his team of his superhit Telugu film Sarileru Neekevvaru are in the mood to party. With the collections touching 100 crores in the first three days the joyous team ...
Shah Rukh Khan’s fans may choose to get as impatient as they like. But the mega-star is not biting the bait.He will say yes only when he is...
