Rumours of the legendary team of director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and leading lady Aishwarya Rai Bachchan coming together again, abound. The lovely lady laughs pleasurably and says, “This is a measure of how much people...
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...
Karan Johar is all set to direct his first costume drama with a star cast that reads like the who’s who of Bollywood. The budget, we hear...
Brutal, gruesome, graphic, violent… are some of the terms that were used by the Central Board Of Film Certification to describe the content of Milap Jhaveri’s anti-corruption film Satyamev Jayate. For once...
To say that Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was gifted writer is to understate the brilliance of an irascible, irritating and often provocative author. Nor is it...
Even as Mulk faces the wrath and acceptance of polarized political wings in India, director Anubhav Sinha has moved on to his next political drama. “My next entitled Abhi Toh Party Shuroo Hui Hai is even more hard-hitting than Mulk. I can...
Yamla Pagal Deewana Phir Se is the third film to bring Dharmendra and his two sons Sunny and Bobby together. This time all three head for Gujarat and the senior most Deol is not happy. “Wahan ka climate achcha nahin hai,”...
By: The Cinema Cynic There is nothing like a good shark movie to deliver that most peculiarly satisfying package of gore, guts and glory. Unfortunately, The...
I’ve known the enterprising Mr. Kamal Haasan for 18 years now. We’ve faced some choppy weather in our relationship, brought on, I might add, by his unforeseen shift into a...
There are scenes of torture and brutality in Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam 2 including a shot of a hand being chopped off and a man with a punctured throat bleeding to...
It’s a sunkissed working holiday for Mahesh Babu in Goa. On his birthday on Thursday the entire unit of his new film Maharshi threw a party for him. “And for once Mahesh Babu just...
From what I gather the Toilet Ek Prem Katha director Shree Narayan Singh’s new film Batti Gul Meter Chalu is about power theft in themo fussil areas. No, not politics. But the vandalizing of electricity. The inflated bills that put consumers into...
Is the commitment-phobic Ranbir Kapoor actually planning to tie the knot with the new love of his life Alia Bhatt? Sources close to the Kapoor family reiterate that Ranbir’s parents...
It is a Goa birthday for Telugu cinema’s biggest superstar Mahesh Babu. On Thursday morning after releasing the first look of his new film entitled Maharshi, Mahesh Babu left for Goa with...
A Fantastic Woman (Spanish, with English Subtitles) Starring: Daniela Vega Directed by: Sebastian Lelio Rating: ** ½ (2 and a half stars) A Fantastic Woman could have been penetrating...
Vishwaroopam 2 Starring Kamal Haasan, Waheeda Rehman, Shekhar Kapoor, Anand Mahadevan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah Directed by Kamal Haasan Rating: *** ½ (3 a half stars)...
The biggest singing sensation of Bollywood, Arijit Singh had a heart filled message for Imtiaz Ali the moment he heard ‘Aahista’, the new song out today...
A lot of the scenes in the new Mission Impossible film were edited out even before the film reached the censor board. This was to avoid accusations of political disinformation. A...
If rumors within the Hindi film industry are to be believed then the Tamil-Hindi actor Madhavan has said a firm no to the Hindi remake of his Tamil blockbuster Vikram Veda....
Now that Dulquer Salman’s Hindi debut in Karwaan is out of the way it is time for the actor to plunge into his sophomore stint in Bollywood. Dulquer now starts prepping for the big-screen adaptation of Anuja Chauhan’s The Zoya Factor which...
Is the suddenly in-demand Ishan Khattar going to be seen with Bade Bhai Shahid Kapoor ? Talk at Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions suggests that Karan is “seriously working” on a project that would bring the two brothers together. Shahid, it must be mentioned, has never been...
It’s not official as yet. But if sources are to be believed the news that Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter’s Suhana will make her large-screen debut would soon be out. While the obvious...
“Does she even want to work in India?” Salman Khan asked in Hindi at the media interaction in Delhi to release the trailer of his home production Loveratri . Salman’s outburst where he very clearly accused Priyanka of unprofessional behaviour by opting...
The tragic passing away of entrepreneur Rajan Nanda in Delhi left many saddened and at a loss. Mr Nanda was the father-in-law of Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter Shweta. Naturally the entire Bachchan parivar flew to Delhi to be with the bereaved family. While Abhishek and Aishwarya flew in from Mumbai, Jaya Bachchan was already in Mumbaifor the monsoon...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s iconic status never comes in the way of her duties as a mother, a wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law in that order. Just how she manages...
Mimicry is a dangerous art , specially in a politically sensitive country like ours. One needs to be very careful of whom one impersonates and in what context. This, poor Balbir Singh who is...
Some ideas just can’t go wrong. Take a spunky Mom, put her in the same educational institution and in fact the same class as her child , and the rest just...
Saala, yeh to actor ban gaya! Thanks to brother-in-law Salman Khan, his sister’s husband Ayush Sharma is now an actor in a film which goes by...
It’s been a very poor week at the boxoffice even for Hollywood , what with the lavish lush sumptuous musical Mamma Mia Here We Go Again...
If you are part of the entertainment business you know stories nowadays are made , and made up , on the basis of pictures randomly snapped...
Goodachari Starring Adivi Shesh, Prakash Raj, Jagpathi Babu, Sobhita Dhulipala Directed by Shashi Kiran Tikka Rating:****(4 Stars) In the flash of a moment, the world changes...
In Shonali Bose’s new film where Priyanka Chopra has been cast as Zaira Wasim’s mother, there is a practical compatibility problem: Priyanka doesn’t look old enough...
Bio-pics are the flavour of season.And what better true-life story than the glamorous tennis player Sania Mirza ? Her story has it all…. panache, drama,politics and...
Kareena and Saif are often heard expressing their concern over their little son Tamiur’s over-exposure in the media. So how come Saif’s other children from his...
Lata Mangeshkar: Yeh jeevan hai iss jeevan ka yehi hai rang-roop(Piya Ka Ghar), Koi lauta demere beete huey din(Door Gagan Ki Chaon Mein) , Dukhi man mere sun mera kehna(Funtoosh) and many more.” Asha Bhosle: “Chingari koi bhadke(Amar Prem), Zindagi ek safar hai suhana(Andaz), Oh mere dil ke chayan(Mere Jeevan Saathi).” Varun Grover: “Apart from the hundreds of Kishore Kumar’s celebrated songs there are gems that don’t get that much love.Among these my...
Was it money or was it creative? Why did Akshay Kumar suddenly decide to not do the Gulshan Kumar bio-pic that the music moghul’s son Bhushan Kumar is so keen to make? There are many theories...
The aftershocks of the fiasco that is Sahib Bibi Aur Gangster 3 can be felt all the way to the film’s collapse a week after its release. And while most critics have commented on...
Anubhav Sinha can’t understand why Mulk, his new powerful political drama that shows the isolation and persecution of the Indian Muslim, has been banned in Pakistan. “This is such...
Paltan , as J P Dutta’s new war movie is called , suggests a large array of soldiers all dressed to kill. Aggression at the war-front...
Is Sanjay Dutt miffed with the director of Sahib Bibi Aur Gangster 3? Apparently a lot of Dutt’s scenes were either edited or never shot at...
There have been dedicated pockets of protest against a sequence showing the holy event of Moharram allegedly in a “poor light” in Milap Jhaveri’s Satyamev Jayate....
Fanney Khan Starring Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Divya Dutta, Pihu sand,Girish Kulkarni Directed by Atul Manjrekar Rating: *** ½(3 and half stars) Tucked away somewhere in this father-daughter heartwarmer is a story about Baby Singh, a lonely exploited pop singer played by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan whose manager(played...
It is said that the best journey is one which takes you back home and well looks like Kartik Aaryan can explain this best. The actor...
Priyanka Chopra is not getting married. Not in the near future any way. After having walked out of a Salman Khan starrer(no less) she has gone...
Tapsee Pannu who was last seen as a hockey player in Soorma will next play an activist-lawyer in Anubhav Sinha’s hardhitting Mulk, an indictment of the...
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?...
Movie Review: Karwaan Starring Irrfan, Dulquer Salman, Introducing Mithila Palkar Directed by Akarsh Khurana Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) Life’s like that. It...
While ‘Kashmir’ never came on the map of Mission Impossible Fallout and action scenes pertaining to the Kashmir Valley were shot in New Zealand and Norway,...
With Priyanka Chopra’s hasty exit from Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bharat, Katrina Kaif has joined in. But hang on. It won’t be that easy for the half-British...
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...
