The split among the five partners in the production- house Phantom has been long in the offing. The process of disintegration began three years ago when...
If you think the irrepressible Shatrughan Sinha is fazed by rumours of his parent-party the BJP fielding another candidate from his long-standing constituency, the Patna Sahib...
Nandita Das’s splendid study of Saddat Hassan Manto’s life and times was tentatively released last Friday. According to sources Nandita was not happy with the way...
Kapil Sharma the comedy king in exile, is dead set on a comeback. He returns to his popular The Kapil Sharma Show this Diwali with a...
Village Rockstars Starring: Bhanita Das Written and directed by Rima Das Rating: ** 1/2 (two and a half stars) For long stretches, nothing happens in this...
Riding high on the success of her popular web series, Sacred Games, Kubbra Sait will be seen pulling off yet another influential character in her forthcoming...
If you’ve seen the pathbreaking Telugu film Arjun Reddy you would know that the film’s rudderless out-of-control drugged and the zonked-out protagonist who will no longer be called ‘Reddy’...
Shoojit Sircar’s October nearly made it as India’s official entry to the Oscars and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat “didn’t stand a chance in hell” reveals an...
11 years after Singh Is Kinng made Akshay Kumar the turbaned superstar of Bollywood the beleaguered franchise is all set for a sequel provided the legal...
Mahesh Bhatt’s Sadak 2 will be a litmus test for several careers. Not only is Mahesh Bhatt making a comeback to direction after 19 years his...
The scorching chemistry between veteran ghazal-bhajan singer Anup Jalota and Model Jasleen Matharu in Bigg Boss has stirred up quite a controversy and raised many conservative...
Mathematical maestro Anand Kumar from Bihar would not be present for the post-release of Super 30 the film based on his life and teachings. Says Anand, “The poster...
Peppermint Starring Jennifer Garner Directed by Pierre Morel Rating: ** (2 stars) The kindest thing I can say about this no-holds-barred vigilante drama is that it makes...
Producer Aanand Rai and director Anurag Kashyap have been forced to cut out scenes showing Abhishek Bachchan smoking in Manmarziyan and Abhishek is not happy about...
There are some disturbing rumours about differences of opinion and conflict of interest cropping up between Disha Patani and her very devoted boyfriend Tiger Shroff. However...
Bollywood films are normally woven around the lead actors. They are the ones who lead the entire film on their shoulders. But sometimes just casting the...
Richa’s friend who works with NGOs working towards rehabilitation of girls and women who are rescued, sent her a warm thank you note! Richa Chadha has...
After collaborating over several out-of-the-box films with Anurag Kashyap filmmaker Aanand Rai has decided to become production partners with Shah Rukh Khan. The two will be collaborating...
When it comes to producer Karan Johar, Alia Bhatt is irreplaceable . But is Alia Bhatt no more that blue-eyed girl of director Shashank Khaitan? If whispers doing the rounds in the corridors of...
Manto Starring: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Duggal, Tahir Raj Bhasin. Star **** ½ (4 and a half stars) Jaane woh kaise log the jinke pyar ko pyar mila… Echoing the disenchantment of a post-Nehruvian generation trapped between Partition and modernization, Guru Dutt in Pyaasa epitomized the poet’s disenchantment with a world...
It seems this is a great time to belong to small-town India .An slew of such films are expected to hit the theatres in the coming...
Nora Fatehi all set to debut as a singercollaborates with a renowned Morocco based band to re-create the official Arabic adaptation of Dilbar Nora Fatehi has...
Not content with just replicating Bihari Mathematician Anand Kumar’s life and work , Hrithik Roshan will now be attending Aanand’s maths classes in Patna An informed...
It is Mehta on Mehta now. Filmmaker Hansal Mehta who has made many memorable movies on real-life characters such as Shahid, Aligarh and Omerta, is all set to crack a bio-pic on the very...
They were inseparable friends during Vinod Khanna’s lifetime Movie Moghul J P Dutta made 3 films with the star-actor.J P Dutta also launched Vinod Khanna’s son Akshaye Khanna in Border. But...
The revived and renewed friendship between Karan Johar and Kajol who had fallen apart because apparently Karan said rude things about Kajol’s family, is not just a social obligation. Apparently Karan is all...
“Girlfriends may come girlfriends may go, Katrina goes on forever,” a very close friend of Salman Khan philosophises. And he isn’t off the mark.A majority of those close to Salman say Katrina...
2018 will be one of Varun Dhawan’s most creatively satisfying years since his arrival in Bollywood. Shoojit Sircar’s October fetched him the best reviews of his...
Is it just an uncanny coincidence that the rumours of the Ranveer-Deepika wedding have surfaced just when the Priyanka-Nick Jones alliance is gaining momentum? We suddenly...
In Radha Kyon Gori Main Kyun Kala the film directed by Prem Soni that Iulia Vantur is doing as her acting debut , she plays no...
Some epic experiences are never meant to be on the large screen. Jhansi Ki Rani has never yet made it to the large screen. And while the Ramayana has been rendered innumerable times on the large screen the Mahabharat has...
Every historic catastrophe, man made or otherwise, spawns its own cult of creative art. I am sure the Parisian attack will bring in its wake a slew...
Tapsee Pannu is on Cloud Nine. She has just returned from the Toronto Film Festival where her new film Manmarziyan was received with warm appreciation. “This was my first international film festival .And it was overwhelming. I guess...
One doesn’t know whom to congratulate more . Director Sajid Khan for his audacity in offering an item song to Jacqueline Fernandez in House Full 4 , or Jacqueline for...
Shabana Azmi who turns a year older on September 18, is currently in Karjat shooting for The Moghuls, a webseries for Hotstar produced by Nikhil Advani. The internet is a fascinating web for Shabana. “This is the first web series(for Hotstar) that I am doing. The reach...
Nepotism be damned, the Indian film industry is busy promoting its own kith and kin as prospective filmmakers and actors. Barely had we gotten over the the news...
The language used in Tabrez Noorani’s Love Sonia, a film that purports to blow the lid on child trafficking in India, is repellent to the point of rendering the rawness emasculated. It is meant to be the language of authenticity, But...
It is imperative for Shankar’s 3D monster-budgeted 2:O to click. The film has gone grossly over-budget and needs to earn back a large chunk of the investment to be considered a non-loser. Finally the first official teaser is...
If there is one Indian actor whose voice carries far beyond the screen, it is Akshay Kumar. The image of the truly dedicated Indian citizen who uses his...
Love Sonia Starring: Mrunal Thakur, Riya Sisodiya, Richa Chadha, Freida Pinto, Anupam Kher, Manoj Bajpai, Rajkummar Rao Directed by: Tabrez Noorani Rating:** (2 stars) This well-intended melodrama about human trafficking and child prostitution has its heart in...
Manmarziyan Starring Abhishek Bachchan, Tapsee Pannu, Vicky Kushal Directed by Anurag Kashyap Rating: **** ½(4 and a half stars) Imagine if Mani Ratnam had sex in his mind for Moun Ragam. Yes, the same story that Sanjay Leela Bhansali made into Hum… Dil Chuke Sanam about...
Manoj Bajpai is caught in web, though not of his own making. Raj & DK riding high on the success of the horror-comedy Stree which the duo has produced and written...
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is gearing up to direct his next venture.And it is most likely that he will be working with Deepika Padukone again for the fourth time. There was talk of Alia Bhatt stepping into Bhansali territory.And both the director and the...
Siddharth Malhotra seems to have gotten over Alia Bhatt at last.If rumours filtering out of Dharma Productions are to believed Dharma’s blue eyed boy Siddharth Malhotra...
Arjun Kapoor is currently shooting for India’s Most Wanted in Nepal with director Raj Kumar Gupta. Arjun plays the role of a dedicated RAW agent. Not many know that it was Ajay Devgan who recommended Arjun for the role. A source close to the development reveals, “When Raj Kumar Gupta was shooting...
Is the Ranveer Singh-Deeepika Padukone marriage really happening at Italy’s Lake Como ? Close friends of the couple say the venue is “undecided”. “I haven’t heard anything about Lake Como, though they are definitely getting...
The process of getting back into the groove has begun in right earnest for Kapil Sharma. A close friend reveals the comic virtuoso has gone on a strict diet to regain lost shape. Says the friend,...
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri who believes in speaking his mind on Twitter , has got himself into a serious jam with women activists and his colleagues in Bollywood for referring to the rape survivor in Kerala as a “prostitute nun.”...
I hate to say this. But I saw it coming. Film Producer Madhu Mantena a dear friend had been in pain for a while now. A week back he...
We’ve heard so much about how and why Priyanka Chopra walked out of the big Salman Khan starrer .And now Salman for the first time spoke out in an interview against Priyanka’s decision to walk out of the project, saying,...
