After an 8-year old stuggle with cancer, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s youngest sibling Syamalost the battle. She breathed her last on 7 December,liberating herself from unbearable pain and suffering. The thing about ...
Ashutosh Gowariker….classy well-researched aesthetic epics.Sure, some of them didn’t work at the boxofffice. But his commitment to telling a story that is honest decent and engaging is unflinching....
There’s been a huge roar of approval for actress Parvathy Thiruvothu for calling out the by-now mythical misogyny of the Telugu blockbuster Arjun Reddy and its Bollywood twin KabirSingh during a roundtable chat moderated by ...
Frantic attempts are on to avert an inevitable clash between Yash Raj Film’s prestigious franchise Mardaani2 which features the production company’s co-owner Rani Mukherjee, and the Dwayane Johnson global rage Jumanji. Jumanji The Next...
Katrina Kaif is slowly and steadily regaining her superstardom. If on one end she has signed a big-budget sureshot blockbuster like Sooryavansham with her old hit co-star Akshay Kumar , on the other end she...
Two of Hindi cinema’s most enduring and endearing star-actors celebrate their birthday on December 8 .While he-man Dharmendra turns a ripe 80, the very beautiful Sharmila Tagore is now 71!...
Broken But Beautiful Season 2(AltBalaji-Zee5) Starring Harleen Sethi, Vikrant Massey Rating: **(2 stars) There is this friendly shrink whom Sameera is seeing. No no, not ‘seeing’ as in dating but consulting. Apparently...
The Irishman(Netflix) Starring Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Jo Pesci Directed by Martin Scorsese Rating: ****(4 stars) It is not easy to sit through 209 minutes of this magnificent mobster-piece....
Marriage Story (Netflix) Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver Directed by Noah Baumbach Rating: *****(5 stars) Nothing in a marriage is more awful than its death. Watching two attractive ...
There is a rather amusing joke floating around in Bollywood on how Warina Hussain got the item song in Dabangg 3 with the newest item boy Salman Khan. Salman was sitting with director Prabhudheva , his brothers...
Shilpa Shetty may look like a million bucks at 44. But she seems to have accepted her age gracefully and moved on to character roles. In what would...
Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone are among Karan Johar’s closest friends in the film industry. While Ranveer has repeatedly worked with Karan Johar,Deepika did the successful Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani in 2013 with Karan’s Dharma Productions. Since then they have been trying...
Pinch me. Amitabh Bachchan playing his son Abhishek Bachchan’s son…It’s still hard to believe!!! Ten years after its release the director R Balki of Paa wonders at his own audacity. “I was...
Pati Patni Aur Woh Starring Kartik Aryan, Bhumi Pednekar, Ananya Pandey Directed by Mudassar Aziz Rating: *** ½ (three and a half stars) First things first. Apart from a riff of Thande thande pani se nahana chahiye in the background and the end-entrance ...
Inside Edge 2 (Amazon Video) Starring Angad Bedi, Richa Chadha, Tanuj Virmani, Vivek Oberoi, Siddhant Chaturvedi Created by Karan Anshuman Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) The house of Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani excels in films and now webseries populated by good-looking...
Panipat Starring Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker Rating: *****(5 stars) Costume dramas in Indian cinema frequently mistake flamboyance and bombast for nostalgic entertainment. Panipat is the first film of its...
1. Because everyone loved the naughty philandering husband which the late(and great)Sanjeev Kumar played in the original Pati Patni Aur Woh(PPAW) in 1978. Sanjeev was such a chameleon he could make the husband look ...
When Arjun Reddy director Sandeep Vanga decided to tweet against the heinous Hyderabad rape and murder , he probably thought all the allegations of misogyny leveled at him after ArjunReddy would magically ...
For now Luv Ranjan has dropped his plans of making his film with Ajay Devgan , DeepikaPadukone and Ranbir Kapoor. But hang on. There is good new for those waiting to see Deepika and Ranbir together again...
The Bollywood wedding of the year 2020 is happening. Yes, Ranbir and Alia will tie the knot “most definitely” next year, probably in the winter season . “By that time ...
After the crippling failure of his latest comedy Paagalpanti, the Bollywood entertainment industry is abuzz with rumours of a noisy fall-out between producer Kumar Mangat and the Paagalpanti director Anees Bazmi. Apparently Mangat blames Anees entirely for the disaster...
After Soorma , Mission Mangal and Sandh Ki Aankh Taaapsee Pannu has become quite the bio-pic favourite. Now Taapsee is all set to play Mithali Raj the captain of the Indian woman’s cricket team and she says she...
Your movement towards the West was actually started by Shashi Kapoor. Your thoughts on his passing away? Shashiji always had a special place in my heart .When I was...
Ashutosh Gowariker is back with a historical . Agreed, some of his recent films have not done well. But this one is looking kosher. Here is why....
The rapidest rising star of Bollywood is , incontestably, Kartik Aryan whose fortunes have been spiralling skywards since the release of Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety in 2018 . This young star is going from...
When recently Shilpa Shetty cribbed goodnaturedly about wearing cotton sarees in the chilly wintry weather of Lucknow while shooting for a film,we were reminded of all the lovely ladies who have shivered ...
Atlantics(Senegalese, Netflix) Starring Mame Bineta Sane as Ada,Amadou Mbow as Issa, Ibrahima Traoré as Souleiman Directed by Mati Diop Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) The whole Western civilization of cinephiles has gone ga-ga over this low-budget Senegalese film .The ...
Out Of Love(Hostar,5 Episodes) Starring Rasika Duggal, Purab Kohli Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, Aijaz Khan Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) For a large part of its playing time Out Of Love ...
Sajid Nadiadwala celebrated the spectacular success of Housefull 4 by announcing the fifth part of the Franchise. However the movie moghul Nadiadwala has rejected all overtures from director Sajid Khan to make a comeback...
The mega-star Amitabh Bachchan has triggered off a furious debate about his “retirement” plans after a blog which he ended with these words, “I must retire .. the head...
The last month of the year promise to deliver some solid hits for Bollywood.Beginning with Ashutosh Gowariker’s lavish historical Panipat and Mudassar Aziz’s lascivious comedy PatiPatni Aur Woh on December 6, the year closes with the Rani Mukerjee-driven ...
It is that time of the year when the entire entertainment industry heads out of the country. This year apart from the usual suspects—Kareena-Saif, Anushka-Virat, Deepika-Ranveer, Alia-Rabir—heading to ...
“There would no Housefull series without Akshay Kumar,” says ultra-successful producer Sajid Nadiadwala whose films have a way of turning into goldmines effortlessly. Housefull 4 was roundly condemned by many film critics. Nadiadwala kept quiet....
What’s it about women born on 19 November that makes them clutter-breakers of extraordinary dimensions? Zeenat Aman, Rehana Sultan and Sushmita Sen all 19th November-born scorpios. Fiercely independent , all there redefined the Hindi...
Enai Noki Paayum Thota(Tamil) Starring Dhanush, Megha Akash Written & Directed by Gautham Menon Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars ) There is a stirring synthesis of dread and exhilaration in the...
On Tuesday afternoon the indefatigable Priyadarshan selected his leading lady for Hungama 2 out of the many hopefuls who auditioned. It is none other than Pranitha Subhash, a prolific Bangaluru-born actress who has done...
It literally became a cliff-hanger for Varun Dhawan when a car perched precariously on a cliff for a stunt in Coolie No 1 went horribly wrong. Recounting the experience with...
Yeh Saali Aashiqui Starring Vardhan Puri, Shivaleeka Oberoi Directed by Cherag Ruparel Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) By the time the film’s protagonist gets down to chasing his primary target of...
That Salman Khan is a huge Chiranjeevi fan is a well-known fact . They don’t only share a mutual admiration for each other’s work, but also share family ties.When Chiranjeevi’s...
Though a large section of the media lost interest in Lataji’s health the minute they realized she wasn’t going anywhere, her genuinely concerned fans keep inquiring ...
Hotel Mumbai Starring: Anupam Kher, Dev Patel, Armie Hammer,Nazneen Boniadi Directed by Anthony Maras Rating: ** ½ (2 and a half stars) Like all cinema on terrorism, this partially-gripping recreation of 26/11 terror...
In the sequel to the hit franchise KGF , Raveena Tandon will be playing a politician whose look and ideology would be inspired by Mrs Indira Gandhi. This fact is...
Commando 3 Starring Vidyut Jammwal, Gulshan Devaiah, Adah Sharma, Angira Dhar Directed by Aditya Datt Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) The hero’s entry in this slick and taut anti-terror thriller is something...
Mudassar Aziz who has made some refined comedies in recent times including Happy BhaagJayegi is now facing a flurry of fury regarding a particular dialogue which was shown in the trailer of Pati Patni Aur Woh.The dialogue which...
Terror and terrorism are the crux of the evil in the two releases coming Friday. The verdict on debutant director Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai, which attempts to recreate the events ...
In spite of loud health warnings and the medical advice to slow down the pace of his work, the Big B Amitabh Bachchan continues to slog it out with...
The ultra-prolific Priyadarshan is working fast and furiously on his sequel to Hungama, the hit 2003 comedy which starred Akshay Khanna and Aftab Shivdasani in the male lead. Hungama 2 has found its leading man. It...
There’s been a huge roar of approval for actress Parvathy Thiruvothu for calling out the by-now mythical misogyny of the Telugu blockbuster Arjun Reddy and its Bollywood twin KabirSingh during a roundtable chat moderated by ...
The fall-out with Akshay Kumar has gravitated filmmaker Neeraj Pandey towards Ajay Devgan which is not a bad thing at all. Pandey who had a noisy...
Here is one more warning for Bollywood to mend its ways before it’s too late . The Hollywood animation film Frozen has completely out-performed this week’s big Bollywood release Pagalpanti.Frozen released in Hindi ,...
