What a year it has been for Hindi cinema! The hits and the critically acclaimed films kept rolling out. At the last count 10 films of ...
Is it a mere coincidence that in nearly all the films that Ranbir Kapoor has done so far from Saawariya to Jagga Jasoos, he loses the girl he loves to another man? In...
Rajma Chawal(Netflix) Starring Rishi Kapoor, Anirudh Tanwar, Amyra Dastur Directed by Leena Yadav Rating: ** *( 3 stars) The closing song of this sensible but scattered film goes, ‘Mujhe dosti karne ka shauq hai Mera dil chandni Chowk hai.’ What is it about Old...
I’ve known Zeenat Aman for many many years. She is well-read, articulate, warm but reserved. She doesn’t invite unnecessary closeness with any one. It takes years to win her...
Is there trouble in paradise already? Are Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt encountering some bad weather in their flight of love? Reports filtering in from the sets of Ayan Mukerjee’s lavish ...
How do they do it? The stars and the directors, answering the same mundane questions over and over again while promoting their film? It seems like an ordeal equivalent to having your tooth extracted without anesthesia....
Manto Starring: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Duggal, Tahir Raj Bhasin. Star **** ½ (4 and a half stars) Jaane woh kaise log the jinke pyar ko pyar mila… Echoing the disenchantment of a post-Nehruvian generation trapped between Partition and modernization, Guru Dutt in Pyaasa epitomized the poet’s disenchantment with a world...
The desperation to score a hit is making the team behind this week’s release the love story LailaMajnu featuring tow newcomers who are worlds apart from...
It is not for us to question why. But the fall of R K Studios is a collective failure of the Indian film industry to preserve...
After Barfi and Jagga Jasoos, Anurag Basu and Ranbir Kapoor are not getting together for a third film. There was much talk of the director and his favourite actor coming together for a third film in spite...
1. Jaag Utha Insaan (1983): Though it was Himmatwala that launched her into stardom in Bollywood it was this unsuccessful nugget of a film produced by Rakesh Roshan and directed...
Mulk Starring Rishi Kapoor, Tapsee Pannu, Manoj Pahwa, Prateik Babbar, Ashutosh Rana, Rajat Kapoor Directed by Anubhav Sinha Rating: *****(5 stars) Whose land is it anyway?...
Like it or not, we are a nation of superstitious people. We believe in luck and destiny as much as we do in hard work and determination, if not more. Ranbir Kapoor’s...
The Trailer of Anubhav Sinha’s Mulk is unlike anything he has done before. Its lack of ‘political correctness’(defending the Indian Muslim’s right to peaceful co-existence is...
Recently when veteran filmmaker Raj Kumar Kohli’s son Armaan Kohli got into trouble with the law the frail ailing father was seen plodding in and out...
Every time I’d speak to Sanjay Dutt during his years and years of trial and tribulation he would end the interview with one question. “Am I...