One would think that any film that calls itself Laal Rang would be compulsively attached to the colour red. Of course director Syed Ahmad Afzal who...
For Manoj Bajpai, Shool in which he played an honest cop wrestling with corruption in Bihar, would always be a special experience. “We shot the film as one...
When Ram Gopal Varma’s by far best-known work Satya completed 25 years on July 3,the film’s leading lady Urmila Matondkar preferred to maintain a distance from the euphoria,...
Anurag Kashyap and Karan Johar have a deep connection. They are not only very fond of one another , Karan had played the archvillain in Kashyap’s...
Filmmakers,Actors, Critics Answer Prosenjit Chatterjee(actor, producer): “Satyajit Ray is one of the best directors India has produced.But if you see he was a multi-talented person. Mrinal Sen and Ritwick Ghatak were also...
1. Roja: Mani Ratnam’s 1992 film was about a honeymooning couple Arvind Swamy and Madhoo’s bliss being rudely interrupted when the husband is taken hostage by a Kashmiri militant, played by Pankaj Kapoor. Fascinating fusion of...
Dulquer Salmaan has chosen a career path very different from his father the iconic Mammoothy I asked Dulquer Salmaan if that was deliberate. “It had to be different from his....
Revisiting Neeraj Ghaywan’s Magnificent Masaan As It Completes 6 Years Is Neeraj Ghaywan destined to be a one-film wonder? Like J D Salinger and his Catcher In The Rye. Or Margaret Mitchell in Gone...
I’ve known Pavan Malhotra personally and through his work for close to 30 years.Back then when I first knew him he was married to Aparajita Krishna who was from Bihar and Pavan would...
Bombay Talkies (2013): A girl on a railway station who croons Lata Mangeshkar songs with aching luminosity,a stoic gluttonous ostrich,a flirty cocky gay entertainment journalist, a closet actor, a little...
Tanu Weds Manu(2011): Look at what Jab We Met started and Band Baaja Baaraat precipitated! It’s a virtual melee of weddings out there! The season of filmed—and filmy– shaadis replete with Punjabi songs,swirling ghagras and fragrant mogras,jostling mandaps and hectic rituals…Gee,Gurinder Chadha’s...
1. The main lead in this mother of all disaster epics was offered to Ranveer Singh who was all set to start shooting when he was replaced, literally overnight ...
When he is not busy going overboard , as he did in that execrable bogus bio-pic Sanju, Vicky Kaushal is a portrait of controlled portrayals that bring out the ...
The very talented filmmaker Bhavna Talwar is all set to do what many of her peers and predecessors have failed to do. Make the consummate Guru Dutt bio-pic. Guru Dutt who allegedly...
1. Tilottama Shome in Sir: Straightway the best performance I saw this year in an Indian film was by this neglected underrated actress. Playing a househelp whose employer falls in love...
Since there are no formal awards functions this year, Subhash K Jha decided to give some of his own. 1.Best Silent Actor Of The Year: Alia Bhatt who didn’t utter...