That was one hellraiser of a podcast entitled Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard that Priyanka Chopra Jonas participated in. It was not about her having a ...
Gaslight, More Gas Less Light Gaslight(Disney+Hotstar) Rating: * ½ Gaslight desperately needs a torchlight. A majority of the sequences are shot in the night, as most films...
Bholaa Rating: ** ½ There is nothing bhola(innocent) about Bholaa. A bloodthirsty shrieking yarn of a film . A mayhem-filled masala dossier of crime and adventure ...
Run Baby Run(Disney+Hotstar) Rating: ** Don’t get him wrong.Sathya means well. He is the damsel-in-distress type. A godfearing banker engaged to marry a nice wholesome ‘modern’ girl(the kind who...
Bakasuran (Prime Video) Rating: ** I so want to start this review by saying Bakasuran(Tamil) means well. The concerns regarding sexual harassment online seem genuine.But producer-writer-director Mohan G’s...
The overzealous marketing teams in the entertainment industry have become the bane of the movie business. They are paid hefty amounts by the stars who want...
Youngistaan had to go to court over the issue of its trendy title.An international beverage company had claimed legal rights over the title. But producer Vashu Bhagnani...
RRR director S.S. Rajamouli’s son Karthikeya who helped his father with the VFX of the mega-film , recently claimed in a press interview that the RRR team had...
Starting his career as a child actor playing his real-life father matinee-idol Biswajeet Chatterjee’s screen-son in Duti Pata in 1983, Prosenjit has carved a unique place for himself...
Following Prabhas’ Baahubali , Yash’s KFG and Allu Arjun’s Pushpa, NTR Jr-Ramcharan’s RRR , another South Indian, Tamil-Telugu , superstar Nani is all set to reach out to a pan-India audience with...
The process of healing after Amitabh Bachchan’s recent injury on the sets of Nag Ashwin’s Project K in Hyderabad, is taking longer than expected. “Even when...
There are many theories circulating in Hyderabad as to why NTR Jr and Ramcharan didn’t dance to Naatu naatu at the Oscars ceremony and had to be substituted by the amazing...
John Wick Chapter 4(in cinemas) Rating: ½ star There is something terribly trashy about the fourth chapter of the John Wick saga. Trashy and self-obsessed ,...
Entertainer par excellence Kapil Sharma couldn’t have hoped for a better breakthrough for his much talked-of feature film Zwigato than its tax exemption in Odisha. “What could be...
Saif Ali Khan got one of his first major breaks as a leading man of substance in Pradeep Sarkar’s Parineeta , an ambrosial adaptation of Sarat Chandra’s classic...
Sai Paranjpye: “I was very fortunate to have worked in two films Chashme Buddoor and Katha with Farooque. And I cannot tell you how wonderful he was to work with.During Katha the banter and the playful one-upmanship between ...
Your Place Or Mine(Netflix) Rating: ** When charismatic stars like Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher get together for a romcom, you are within your rights to...
Thalaikoothal(Netflix) Rating: *****(5 stars) Thalaikoothal is the traditional ritual in Tamil Nadu whereby the unwanted elderly in the family are killed . The practice apparently has some...
Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga(Netflix) Rating: ** Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga is like one extended gag gone too far. The writers(Siraj Ahmed, Amar Kaushik and Raj Kumar Gupta)...
After 75 films as music-makers across 25 years the Maharashtrian du Avinash-Vishwajeet have scored the Great Indian Wedding song for Murder Mystery2, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston for Netflix...
Waltar Veerayya(Telugu ,Netflix) Rating: 0 stars In Walter Veerayya Chiranjeevi, age 67, acts as though he is Chiranjeevi’s son Ramcharan. He performs very strange dance movements with chorus dancers ...
Bheed Directed by Anubhav Sinha Rating:***** (5 stars) For my time and attention, Anubhav Sinha is the finest contemporary filmmaker of Hindi cinema. He makes the...
Raj Kummar Rao is more excited about Bheed than most of his earlier films. “It is certainly one of my most special films. The reason is the subject...
Om Raut’s much beleaguered take on Ramayan , Adipurush which got a lot of flak for its shoddy VFX in the first trailer that came out some months ...
The newly delivered threat to Salman Khan by Lawrence Bishnoi has Salman’s family, friends and fans insanely worried about his safety. But the one who is...
The aam junta has responded well to Kapil Sharma’s common man’s tale Zwigato.Kapil is happy. “This is our story .We have gone to various parts of the country...
Zwigato Directed by Nandita Das Rating: ****(4 stars) How does one deal with life when it serves you juiceless lemons? You won’t find Nandita Das and her co-writer...
Rocket Boys 2 , It’s not Just Rocket Science Rocket Boys 2(SonyLiv, 10 Episodes) Rating: ** That old Majrooh Sultanpuri lyrics came to mind with a minor alteration...
Adrishyam(Malayalam-Tamil Bilingual) Rating: * ½ Surrogate parenthood is given the sledgehammer treatment in this awful Malayalam-Tamil bilingual about a bunch of ill-conceived characters who suffer and...
During her fecund phase in those glorious days in the 1980s Alisha Chinai sang some terrific chartbusters: Kate nahin kart-te in Mr India and Kajra re in Bunty Aur Babli being...
Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway Directed by Ashima Chibber Rating: **** Why wait for the end of the year? Just give all the awards to Rani Mukerji ...
NTR Jr Reacts To Oscar RRR’s Naatu Victory At The Oscars NTR Jr who performed the Oscar-winning Naatu naatu song in the film RRR is over the moon at the...
India has just scored a big victory at the Oscars. Netflix’s The Elephant Whisperers directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga has won Best Documentary Short...
The RRR global rage Naatu naatu has done it. It has won an Oscar for Best Original Song defeating such formidable challengers as Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” from the film...
Rama Naidu(Netflix, 10 Episodes) Rating: * There is a widespread fascination in Rama Naidu for oral sex and for using the crude Hindi word for the male genitals,shared...
My Name Is Otto Rating: **** ½ In how many ways will Tom Hanks continue to surprise us with his acumen of excellence? It’s not so...
Prime Video unveiled the highly awaited trailer for Citadel earlier this week, a global spy-series from Amazon Studios and the Russo Brothers’ production company AGBO. While shooting...
Happy Family, Conditions Apply(Prime) Directed by Aatish Kapadia, Jamnadas Majethia Rating: *** ½ Dysfunctional families are the new functional .Coincidentally the feature film Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar and the...
YouTube has become one of the most popular online platforms for people to share their content with the world. It has become a place where people...
“For some time now I was being shunned by the film industry. They thought I was too old now and useless,” Satish Kaushik who left us...
It is interesting to note that the group of teenage boys who indulge in a porn session, reaching their pants in shared excitement, at one point...
Runi Jaffrey is shaken by his friend Satish Kaushik’s death. “I was informed about his death early in the morning. He passed away past midnight. I rushed to...
Deepa Mehta’ s Water , which was released on 9 March ,2007, belongs to that rare category of films that has the power to re-define the parameters...
How does one say goodbye to a friend who left so suddenly? Just two days ago we caught up with one another for Holi, promising to...
Playback singing in Hindi cinema can be divided into two neat halves: before and after Lata Mangeshkar . Before Lataji, the vinyl records carried the name...
There is a strong buzz in Hyderabad that the casting of producer Madhu Mantena’s Ramayan has just become far more interesting. It is being whispered that one...
Hands-down, this must be the worst phase in poor Jacqueline Fernandez’s life. Reeling under the impact of the rigorous scrutiny of her accounts by the Enforcement...
Tu Jhoothi Main Makkar Directed by Luv Ranjan Rating: **** Let’s get this straight. Tu Jhoothi Main Makkar(TJMM) is one of the most entertaining romcoms in recent times.And why just recent?...
Sushmita Sen and a heart attack?! My first response was that of disbelief. Nah, couldn’t be. She leads such a healthy life. Of course she was...
Do yourself a favour: let’s NOT play Holi to the same handful of Holi songs each year. Holi ke din dil khil gaaate hain(Sholay), Holi re holi...
