Southern cinema’s most successful female actor Samantha Akkineni is all set to make her debut on the digital platform. The chosen one is Raj Nidimoru and ...
The new Jayalalitha webseries entitled Queen starts off with Shakthi Sheshadri(Ramya Krishnan) conversing with a television chatshow hostess. Everybody knows about Simi Garewal’s historic interview with Jayalalitha on Rendezvous With Simi Garewal where the supreme stateswoman opened up like never before. Simi claims that Gautham Menon’s webseries not only ...
Queen(MX Player, 11 Episodes) Starring: Ramya Krishnnan,Anikha Surendran, Anjana Jaiprakash, Sonia Aggarwal, Indrajit Sukhumaran Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon,Prasath Murugesan Rating: ***(a stars) Having washed their hands off all claims to being a Jayalalitha bio-pic, this webseries , with as many dips curves ...
In a shocking though not unexpected turn of events yesteryears’ boxoffice queen the ebullient Moushumi Chatterjee known for her dancing eyes and mischievous smile, lost her daughter Payal after a long battle...
It would be no exaggeration to call Sharmila Tagore and her daughter-in-law Kareena kapoor Khan the coolest Saas-Bahu pair in Bollywood. I’ve known both individually and I can say this much with certainty....
Katrina Kaif seems to be struggling with a mid-career crisis. While she started her career with Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan,she quickly scaled down her co-stars’...
Now that director Gautham Menon has very clearly stated that his web series Queen is not based on the life and politics of Jayalalitha, the honourable High Court in Chennai has cleared the stay ...
It was Deepika Padukone’s show all the way at the trailer launch of Chhapaak on Tuesday,and no two ways about it. A lot of people who love Deepika’s supremely sterling...
The Body Starring Rishi Kapoor, Emraan Hashmi, Sobhita Dhulipala Directed by Jeethu Joseph Rating: *(1 star) In what could be considered a significant step up in her career, Sobhita Dhulipala(so watchable in the webseries Made In Heaven) gets...
Mardaani 2 Starring Rani Mukherjee, Vishal Jethwa Written & Directed by Gopi Puthran Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) Something deeply disturbing happens in the course of this tactile thriller...
Line Of Descent(Zee5 Feature Film) Starring Brendan Fraser, Abhay Deol,Ronit Roy, Neeraj Kabi,Ali Haji, Prem Chopra Written & Directed by Rohit Karn Batra Rating: **(2 stars) Another soggy mafia saga set in and around a Delhi business...
The just-out trailer of Jai Mummy Di is fun , if for no other reason then for simply putting two senior actresses at the forefront.I can’t remember any Hindi rom-com ...
It would be no exaggeration to call Sharmila Tagore and her daughter-in-law Kareena kapoorKhan the coolest Saas-Bahu pair in Bollywood. I’ve known both individually and I can say this much with certainty....
It was Deepika Padukone’s show all the way at the trailer launch of Chhapaak on Tuesday,and no two ways about it. A lot of people who love Deepika’s supremely sterling...
That Sushant Singh Rajput is in a steady relationship with starlet Rhea Chakraborty is by now a well-known fact in the film industry. No matter how much Sushant dodges questions about her, giving...
There is more mystery behind the scenes of the on-release thriller The Body than on screen. The film claims to bring together Rishi Kapoor and Emraan Hashmi.But since Mr Kapoor has been ailing for the ...
Karan Oberoi who was lately incarcerated in an allegedly fake sexual harassment case ,is now being seen in the second season of the popular webseries Inside Edge which began streaming on...
Starring: Kit Harington, Natalie Portman, Ben Schnetzer, Jacob Trembley, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Thandie Newton Directed by Xavier Dolan Rating: ****(4 stars) For the gay Canadian director Xavier Dolan,filmmaking is a means of exorcizing his own demons, a...
The awards season this year has opened on the wrong note with controversies surrounding the Screen awards function. The other day it was alleged that Alia Bhatt had...
The shooting of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s new film Gangubai Kathiawadi which he claims would be a discernible departure from his recent samey costume dramas, has begun in Mumbaion a set ...
First things first. Prolific Tamil director Gautham Menon’s webseries The Queen on the iconic Jayalalitha which starts streaming on 14 December, is taking the cautious route by semi-fictionalizing the story. Says Gautham with a straight...
There is a disturbing story doing the rounds that Randeep Hooda has been sacked from his role in Mira Nair’s BBC adaptation of Vikram Seth’s epic novel A Suitable Boy. The story...
Actress Shweta Prasad who shot to fame as a child actor in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Makdee and who had a hit last year in Vivek Agnihotri’s The Tashkent Files, has said goodbye to her marriage barely...
1. Both DK and SRK are Muslim Pathans who hail from absolutely non-film backgrounds. Both went on to become superstars of legendary proportions. 2. Both married women younger than they. The very devoted Saira Banu is 19 years junior...
India’s most cherished singer Lata Mangeshkar and the country’s most accomplished actor Dilip Kumar dote on one another. Dilip Saab refers to his Choti Bahen Lata with the same affection that he would have for his biological sisters.And...
I already have my favourite film of 2020. Nothing else that will come during the year, absolutely nothing can surpass the sublimity and purity of intention...
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...
The 2018 Tamil-Telugu suspense thriller U Turn is all set to get a Hindi avatar. The film which starred the very saleable Samantha Akkineni was a moneyspinner. Understandably it has...
Kartik Aryan is quickly acquiring the reputation of being another Akshay Kumar, not only in terms of his career’s trajectory but also in the way his love life seems...
Like it or not Kartik Aryan is ruling the entertainment business. Equally popular on the large screen and on social media—he is now the first Bollywood actor to have his own Instagramfilter—this youngter’s...
After 28 days in hospital, India’s most beloved singer Lata Mangeshkar finally returned to her home in Prabhu Kunj , Peddar Road to a rousing welcome from her fans well-wishers and friends. But for...
India’s handsomest actor Dharmendra turned a young sprightly 84 on December 8. And his fans and well-wishers kept him busy throughout the day. I finally caught up with...
It is unlikely , if not impossible that director Ali Abbas Zafar, until recently Salman’s most favourite filmmaker, would return to direct the next instalment of Tiger Zinda Hai. Apparently Salman and ...
When Anil Kapoor conversed with Catherine Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael Douglas at the Hindustan Times Summit in New Delhi last week, the stunner from the epic musical Chicagoraised quite...
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...
