This doesn’t look like a very favourable year for the women heroes. While 2019 was a virtual celebration of woman power, with female actors dominating the boxoffice in Badlaa, ...
Panga Starring Kangna Ranaut. Jassi Gill, Richa Chadha,Neena Gupta Directed by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari Rating: *****(5 stars) Just when you thought you have had enough of these mofussil mellow dramas , you know those slowburn rom-coms and familiar family tales...
1. Disparate Genres, Parallel Strokes: Panga is a sports film directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari who excels in probing smalltown dreams and aspirations. Her debut and sophomore films Nil Batte Sannatta and Rai Bareilly Ki Barfi both worked within their given area ...
The trailer of Mohit Suri’s Malang is like a rollercoaster ride …on Speed. The images are deliberately done in distinctive blotchy colours to show minds on the brink.Producer Luv Ranjan says Malang is the most...
Sab Kushal Mangal Starring Akshaye Khanna, Pariyank Sharma, Riva Kishan Directed by Karan Vishwanath Kashyap Rating: ***(3 stars) Smalltown romances have flooded our movie-viewing bandwidth , so much so that it becomes difficult to tell Tanu Weds Manu apart from Bareilly Ki Barfi. The ...
Real-life characters are the flavour of the new decade. As everyone grabs every opportunity to play authentic characters, here is my pick of the lot. 1. Deepika Padukone as Laxmi Aggarwal ...
After a not-so-happy experience , Remo d’Souza, the super-talented choreographer turned actor is back with another dance film . Street Dancer 3D is looking like a film that would ...
The bickerings of an average middleclass home…they never cease to be special no matter how ordinary the circumstances. The specialness of an ordinary household is so strongly redolent in the...
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 ...
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...
Raj ,Judgementall Hai kya(JHK) has opened to rave reviews.Do you feel vindicated after all the unsavoury controversies that surrounded the film? Controversies don’t make a film, a good...
Prakash Javedekar,the lately appointed Minister of Information & Broadcasting, is keen to get a better understanding of the workings of the Mumbai film industry. On August 31 Mr Javedkarwho has...
Being Karan Johar has always meant something sinfully posh. His name is more than a brand. It is a symbol of the High Life in Bollywood. Little did Karan know that a...
Shabana , Renuka Speak To Subhash K Jha Bollywood’s predominantly insulated attitude to the world outside and its insurmountable problems, has come crashing down, what with eminent film...
Judgementall Hai Kya Starring Rajkummar Rao, Kangana Ranaut Directed by Prakash Kovelamudi Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) This is probably the darkest comedy you will see this year. Or any other year....
Do you remember that first time? …I wasn’t there when in 1949 the world heard Lata Mangeshkar sing Hawaamein udta jaye and Aayega aanewala…But I was here to hear Himani Kapoor sing Jab jab saiyan for composer Aadesh Shrivastava in Kalpana Lajmi’s tale of the ...