AK Vs AK(Netflix) Starring Anil Kapoor, Anurag Kashyap Directed by Vikramditya Motwane Rating: ** 1/2 Like the gimmick that one AK pulls on another in this interesting misfire script(whoever wrote it should...
If I say 2020 was not a good year for new acting talent in Bollywood, you will turn around to ask, what was the year good for? ...
By now everyone knows Vikramaditya Motwane’s AK Vs AK has Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap playing themselves. What is not known is that Nawazuddin Siddiqui has a very interesting cameo in the film. Like the two AKs, Nawaz plays himself ...
Abhishek Bachchan has done 8 films with his beautiful wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and he’s looking forward to his 9th film with her. That was going to be Anurag Kashyap’s Gulab Jamun. But that was not meant...
Bad Hair(Hulu) Starring Elle Lorraine, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Kelly Rowland, Laverne Cox, Chanté Adams, James Van DerBeek, Usher Raymond IV, Blair Underwood, and Vanessa Williams. Directed by Justin Simien Rating: *...
It is very convenient to attribute intentions and words to a dead person, since he isn’t around to contradict you. We now have reports that Rishi Kapoor and his...
Taish(Zee5) Starring Harshvardhan Rane, Jim Sarbh, Pulkit Samrat, Sanjdeeda Sheikh, Kriti Kharbanda, Directed by Bijoy Nambiar Rating: **** As I finished watching this lengthy masterpiece, indeed a masterclass in adroit storytelling with room for every character to...
The 1-crore defamation suit against the lady named Luviena Lodh who accused Mahesh Bhatt of being “the don of Bollywood”whose “nephew” her former husband, allegedly supplied drugs and girls to the movie industry,...
Nawazuddin Siddiqui who is one of Indian cinema’s most celebrated actors startled this writer by speaking forthrightly about the discrimination and oppression he faced in his community for...
In a startling twist to the Richa Chadha versus Payal Ghosh defamation case, Ms Ghosh has left her lawyer red-faced and helpless by refusing to apologize to Ms Chadha. Ms Ghosh has tweeted her refusal to ...
It looks like this season of Bigg Boss will mask none of its characteristic cretinous creepiness. Salman Khan is not known to be an intellectually developed homo sapien. Bigg Boss is the perfect fit for...
We always thought haraami was a forbidden word, as forbidden as, ahem, haraamkhor which incidentally is the title of a Nawaz Siddiqui film. The definition of what is societally permissible is changing. I ...
The 17 new films and series announced on July 16 by Netflix has nothing as grandly showy as the big-screen blockbusters to pose a threat to the...
That brilliant actor from Anurag Kashyap’s Mukkabaaz, last seen in the Amazon webseries Betaal, has a lot to learn from the lockdown. “We may have our plans. But the Almighty has...
The Central Board Of Film Certification(CBFC) is in an exceptionally liberal mood. They have cleared Anubhav Sinha’s stark and real film on domestic violence Thappad with a ‘U’ certificate. This...
Darbar Starring Rajinikanth, Suneil Shetty, Nayanthara, Directed by A R Murugadoss Rating: **(2 stars) What do you expect from a Rajinikanth film? Well, you have all of it here, then some more. ...