Hellaro(Gujarati) Starring Shraddha Dangar, Jayesh More Directed by Abhishek Shah Rating: *****(5 stars) Once in a decade or maybe twice , if we are lucky, an Indian film makes us proud to...
With Karan Johar’s feature film Drive heralding the new era of straight-to-digital screening, there is a widespread apprehension among Bollywood’s A-listers that their feature films could find their release on...
House Arrest (Netflix) Starring Ali Fazal, Shriya Palgaonkar, Jim Sarbh Directed by Shashanka Ghosh, Samit Basu Rating: * ½ (one and a half stars) Ali Fazal is an affable actor. He brings a certain charm,reminiscent of Shashi Kapoor,...
The small but bustling town of Kota in Rajasthan is where students descend in droves for coaching in engineering examinations. You can call it the city of middleclass dreams. It is...
Jhalki Starring Aarti Jha, Sanjay Suri, Divya Dutta Directed by Brahmanand S Siingh Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) Jhalki is not a great film.It is riddled with imperfections and the plot careens dangerously ...
Akshay Kumar is one of the cleverest superstars of Hindi cinema. He gives out the vibes of a simple unassuming son of the soil. But under that...
What’s it about these South Indian divas opting for marriage with already-married men? Whether it was Vyjanthimala, Hema Malini or Sridevi, they all chose to tie the knot with men who...
Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu’s 7-year old daughter Sitara is well on the way to becoming a star.After shooting a ‘family ad’ where she was seen with her parents and brother, Sitara ...
For those who feel Mrs Ahuja, a.k.a Sonam Kapoor, may be slowing down to start a family, the answer is… not yet. The break will happen but not any...
Meri awaaz hi pehchan hai…The voice that has defined beauty, harmony,grace and humanism for millions of Indians for over seven decades almost got stilled . The year was 1961 ....
Marjaavan Starring Siddharth Malhotra, Riteish Deshmukh, Tara Sutaria, Rakul Preet Singh Written & Directed by Milap Zaveri Rating: ****(4 stars) All right then, Marjaavan is a homage to the masala movies of the 1980s…Deewaar,Amar Akbar Anthony, Lawaaris , Muqaddar Ka Sikindar(Rakul Preet Singh reprises Rekha’s Zohrabai) and one very ...
Sushant Singh Rajput: “My favourite child actor is Jugal Hansraj in Masoom. He just melted your heart with his performance. My favourite children’s song is Lukka chuppi from Rang De...
Amar Kaushik couldn’t be in a better place. His directorial debut Stree was the surprise success of 2018. And now Bala is hit-machine Ayushmann Khurrana’s career’s biggest opener...
A poem recited in a video by Ayushmann Khurrana on the occasion of International Men’s Day has gone viral. In the brilliant recitation Ayushmann is heard breaking the macho stereotypes of manliness,...
Every month there is a new report of producer-director Rakesh Roshan starting the new instalment of his Krissh franchise. The latest reports suggest that Krrish 4 will start in January 2020. Denying these reports...
Sara Ali Khan’s mother Amrita Singh is none too pleased with her daughter’s special friendship with Kartik Aryan. The two young people are said to be blindly in love and...
This is not an easy time for Siddharth Malhotra. Heart-throb of the Instagram generation, he may still be,but after the resounding failure of five films in a row Baar Baar Dekho, A Gentleman, Ittefaq, Aiyyari, Jabariya ...
After the execrable Drive, another film of Sushant Singh Rajput is apparently being denied a theatrical release. The film entitled Dil Bechara is the official remake of the Hollywood 2014 tearjerker The Fault In Out...
A poem recited in a video by Ayushmann Khurrana on the occasion of International Men’s Day has gone viral. In the brilliant recitation Ayushmann is heard breaking the macho stereotypes of manliness,...
The Nightingale of India is well on the way to recovery.She did give us all a scare, though, when a chest infection landed her in the...
Sounds absurd. But that’s exactly what Dutt’s Ahmad Shah Abdali looks like in Ashutosh Gowariker’s Panipat. A straight copy of Ranveer Singh in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Allah-u-ddin Khilji in Padmaavat. Says a source close to the Padmaavat team, “The...
Long-standing health issues have re-surfaced in mega-star Amitabh Bachchan’s life. Apparently the Bachchan has been advised a long layoff from acting by doctors.And this time, he has no...
After seven consecutive hits Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017), Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, Andha Dhun (2018), Badhaai Ho(2018),Article 15, Dream Girl(2019) and now Bala which is poised to become another big success, Ayushmann Khurrana has unarguably consolidated his position as the new superstar of...
Ayushmann Khurrana’s eighth consecutive hit Bala was hit by a roadblock on Saturday when , anticipating unrest after the Ayodhya decision , theatres in some cities in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, specially Bhopal, decided...
Raakhee Gulzar the legendary actress who ruled Hindi and Bengali cinema for more than 25 years with memorable performances in a slew of films in both the...
The suffocating smog that has shrouded Delhi for the past two weeks is taking its toll on Bollywood’s keenness to shoot films in the Capital. One...
….“Yes We Have Replaced Rahat Ali Khan With Javed,” Dabangg’s Favourite Song A Casualty Of Pakistan’s Aggression One of the USPs of the Dabangg franchise is the song Tere mast mast do nain and its ...
It won’t be that easy for Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions to offload any and everything on the OTT platform any longer. After the vicious flak Netflix has faced for premiere-streaming Karan Johar’s Drive , there is reliable...
Telugu superstar Prabhas suffered a bit of a boxoffice blow with the multi-lingual action thriller Saaho. The actor has now moved on to his next .Entitled Jaan , it would...
An unintentional slight to the great Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj has triggered off an outrage and protest on social media with ‘Boycott KBC’ trending on Twitter. The Kaun Banega Crorepati team , in...
The talented Isha Koppikar who made her screen debut 21 years ago in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada cinema shot to fame in Bollywood with her ‘item’ song in Ram Gopal Varma’s Company. After a...
Starring Neil Nitin Mukesh, Adah Sharma, Rajit Kapur, Gul Panag, Sudhanshu Pande Directed by Naman Nitin Mukesh Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) A suspense thriller set in the precincts of a rich and privileged family,...
There are reports in some sections of the press of Alia Bhatt looking westwards to expand her career. However if the truth be told , Alia is ...
Bala Starrring Ayushmann Khurrana, Yami Gautam, Bhumi Pedknekar Directed by Amar Kaushik Rating: *****(5 stars) Think. When was the last time you saw a film which didn’t have any superfluous moments? Not one single ...
Director Anees Bazmi is caught in a peculiar deadlock. His 2005 hit comedy No Entry is all set to go into an encore. But the sequel is caught in the...
For Eid next year it is Salman Khan versus Akshay Kumar at the boxoffice.As Salman starts shooting for Prabhudheva’s Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai as his Eid 2020 release, Akshay Kumar also works his way through his horror thriller Laaxmi Bomb for the same coveted date. The...
Takht , Karan Johar’s proposed take on the Mughal dynasty, has incensed none other than Kangana Ranaut’s sister Rangoli who has publicly accused Johar of making Moghul invaders look sexy. Calling Karan “dumb” Rangoli writes, “And now not surprisingly our dear Karan Johar is...
A past trespass, if one can it that, has surfaced to bite Swara Bhaskara from behind. In a video, now going virulently viral she is seen using Hindi abusive...
Bypass Road has been the most physically exhausting film of Neil Nitin Mukesh’s career. “Both emotionally and physically, this film and character was a killer.I play a character...
Gone are the days when she was elbowed out of projects. Tapsee Pannu’s career has never been in a better place now.And no pushing and shoving. Tapsee looks back...
The ill-fated beleaguered Karan Johar-Sushant Singh Rajput project Drive has finally found a release. After several false starts and postponed release dates Drive, directed by Tarun Mansukhani(who once upon a time directed Dostana for Karan Johar’s production house) is now ...
Whether it is Amitabh Bachchan or Prabhas, nobody says no to Chiranjeevi. As his ambitious pseudo-historical Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy readies for an October 2 release the information filtering out of the Telugu film industry...
Gully Boy, the Zoya Akhtar-directed film about street rappers in Mumbai , has been selected as India’s official entry to the Oscars. And Alia Bhatt who will soon be celebrating her boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor’s ...
Is Salman Khan all set to turn into a full-fledged director soon. Considering how deep his involvement with the making of the films that he stars in,it seems ...
Page 3 addicts—now converted to Rage Free addiction– always want to know how ‘normal’ the superstars are. “Does Shabana really scrub her own floor? Does Raakhee cook entire meals?...
After a vocal trans-gender avatar in Dream Girl it is time for Ayushmaan Khurrana to push the envelope even further with his next project Shubh Mangal Zyada Savdhan where he plays a gay character who not...
If I were a Britisher I’d take very strong exception to the way the ex-colonists are portrayed in Indian cinema. Barking caricatures, they look and behave...
The Zoya Factor Starring Sonam Kapoor, Dulquer Salman Directed by Abhishek Sharma Rating: **** A rom-com that’s intelligent enough to consider its audience intelligent enough to avoid spoonfeeding every morsel of emotion …that’s The Zoya Factor, a delightfully grownup comedy...
Sunny Deol admits he was never so nervous about his own debut as he is about his son Karan’s debut. “When my debut happened I was chilled out. ...
Ever since Salman Khan and Sanjay Leela Bhansali parted ways there has been many speculative articles as to why the creative separation occurred. One of the theories for the misadventure doing...
