Although director R S Prasanna’s Shubh Mangal Savdhaan is based on the theme of a sexual dysfunction , the film’s co-producer Aanand Rai is determined to keep the proceedings sundar swach and susheel. Not a moment of...
Bowing out of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s production of the Sahir Ludhianvi bio-pic is a sure sign of Priyanka Chopra bidding a gradual adieu to Bollywood. Priyanka , whose career in Hollywood and on American...
Starring: Ajay Devgan, Emraan Hashmi, Sanjay Mishra, Ileana d’Cruz, Esha Gupta, Vidyut Jamwal Directed by: Milan Luthria Rating: * ½(one and a half stars) If you are looking for a film that is unintentionally funny because...
It took a Bhumi Pednekar to make us realize that more than 70 percent of India lives in rural, semi-rural areas and in the smaller cities. Her films so...
Pahlaj Nihalani’s Explosive Revelation: “Smriti Irani Got Vindictive And Sacked Me When I Refused To Certify Indu Sarkar” Former CBFC chairperson Pahlaj Nihlani is far from done with his tenure. In what could be considered his...
One of the clever lines in Siddharth Malhotra’s new film A Gentleman goes, “Yeh hai ittefaq or what the f…?” With his big plans for A Gentleman falling short of breath at the boxoffice, Siddharth Malhotra who started...
Who Has Just Won A Rare Copyright Battle Rajiv Rai who directed hit films like Tridevi, Mohra, Gupt and Vishwatma before migrating out of India after...
Starring: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar Directed by: R S Prasanna Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) It’s okay if you can’t get it up. There....
Post the latest twitter controversy involving a picture of a naked child, Rishi Kapoor has finally been given an ultimatum by his no-nonsense wife Neetu Kapoor. Either he behaves himself on...
There was a time when Jacqueline Fernandez saw Katrina Kaif as a kind of role-model. Both being outsiders with no gyaan of the rashtra bhasha .Both fair and sexy… A more critical commonality...
It seems gore and profanity are no longer taboo at the Indian censor board. On Tuesday the CBFC’s new chairperson Prasoon Joshi shocked many, surprised some when he upturned the Examining...
After playing a Bal Thackeray doppelganger in Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar series it is time for the indefatigable Amitabh Bachchan to play yet another real-life character in the Sairat director Nagaraj Manjule’s new film. His first in Hindi....
In The New Season Of Good Karma Hospital Why has Shabana Azmi flown off to Sri Lanka? No, she is not holidaying. She is gone off to do very special appearance in ...
If Amol Palekar, the workingclass hero of the 1970s who found an instant connectivity with audiences through his working class comedies directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee, addressed sexual problem he would be Ayushmann Khurrana. Laughs Ayushmann, “That’s a...
What is wrong with the Indian moviegoer? Why is he staying away from the new films? This week all the Hindi releasing , many of them...
Is Kapil Sharma seriously unwell? Rumours doing the rounds of the the television industry hint at “serious health problems” and not physical but psychological. Says a member of his...
First things first. Anil Kapoor doesn’t play a Muslim character in debutant director Atul Manjrekar’s Fanney Khan. “Fanney Khan is a metaphor for someone aggressive and over-reaching himself,” says Anil who plays a character from Mohammad Ali Road....
Alia Bhatt and the crew of Meghna Gulzar’ Raazi are in Patialia shooting a portion of the film. However this weekend all hell broke loose in many parts of Delhi and Punjab including...
There are doomsday reports in sections of the nosier media announcing that Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s opus won’t release on time because of the workers’ strike. “Wishful thinking on the part...
So tell us, why should we boys have all the fun? For decades now, Bollywood heroes have been paired with girls half their age or even less, to...
Ayushmann Khurrana who has now become the heroic face of bodily fluids—he played a sperm donor in Vicky Donor and now plays a victim of penile malfunction in Shubh Mangal Saavdhan—can heave a ...
Starring: Ajith Kumar, Vivek Oberoi, Kajal Aggarwal Directed by Siva Rating: **(2 stars) Don’t let the hi-tech outlook fool you. At heart, Vivegam is an traditional status quoist as any Rajinikanth starrer. Except that this time it not Rajini Sir...
Filmmaker Abhishek Kapoor whose last film Fitoor sank without a trace is in no mood to compromise. He now brings together Sushant Singh Rajput whose journey into big-screen stardom began with Kapoor’s Kai Po Che,...
I think of that moment in Hrishida’s Aashirwaad when the old and dying Ashok Kumar stumbles into his estranged daughter’s wedding to bless her before kicking...
Cinema,in case we’ve forgotten, is all about the suspension of disbelief. Not too long ago Sanjay Leela Bhansali took the plot of Hum…Dil Chuke Sanam to Prague and turned it into Italy....
A Gentleman Starring: Siddharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez Directed by: Raj-DK Rating:*** ½(3 and a half stars) It’s not easy to make a smart sassy film with two airheaded non-actors...
Starring: Aadar Jain, Anya Singh Written & Directed by: Habib Faisal Rating: ****(4 stars) Just days before I saw the very real and gripping Qaidi Band , a vegetable seller in my...
It’s not just Hollywood breathing down Bollywood’s neck. Now post-Baahubali, Telugu and Tamil cinema is also a huge threat to Bollywood, specially this week when two disparate Bollywood films...
Orders 39 Beeps & Mutes For The ‘F’ Word Even if you are Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson the censor board in India is not going to...
It isn’t for nothing that Taimur has become a star just some months after his birth. The adorable son of Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan was destined to be a star...
Amole Gupte loves to shoot on location with children. His new eagerly awaited film Sniff! was shot at the prestigious St Mary’s School in Mumbai. Not only did Amole choose this 153-year...
It looks like the Central Board Of Film Certification(CBFC) is finally on a mending spree. The slick-looking new Ajay Devgn starrer Badshaho has just come out completely unscathed with a ‘UA’...
Starring: Khushmeet Gill, Manmeet Singh, Surekha Sikri, SushmitaMukherjee Directed by: Amole Gupte Rating: *** ½ (3 and a half stars) The best thing about Sniff! are the wonderful children—God bless their untarnished souls—who play detectives to...
All the praise that Sikh superstar Diljit Dosanjh got for his Hindi debut in Udta Punjab seems to have evaporated. After the thundering flop that was Philauri ,Diljit seems to...
By right she should be in Race 3 with Salman Khan. After all Salman has shut down Remo D’Souza’s dance film and translocated the director to his project Race 3 with Ramesh Taurani. And since Jacqueline Fernandez was the leading...
First things first. Anil Kapoor doesn’t play a Muslim character in debutant director Atul Manjrekar’s Fanney Khan. “Fanney Khan is a metaphor for someone aggressive and...
The success of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha not withstanding, there is feeling of growing despair in the film industry regarding the falling ratio of boxoffice success. Even Karan...
Crowded Fridays are no longer an isolated occurrence.We frequently face a flurry of releases on Friday. But the coming Friday unleashes a seldom-witnessed fury, with four very interesting Hindi films and 2 ...
Together On Karan Johar’s Say-So These days the paparazzi in Mumbai gets to see a lot of the pretty Jahnvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khattar together . While the gossip mongers are having a field day may...
“The fight against triple talaq has been waged by very brave Muslim women such as Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan members. They have brought the issue centre stage. So when, in 2016, Shayara Banopetitioned the...
“Of course it’s a welcome decision.Any law, personal or otherwise, which victimizes women must be removed. Many of us have been shouting about getting rid of...
For all those who are worried about Alia Bhatt’s love life, here is some welcome respite from the tension. Alia is doing very well in her...
The entire Bollywood fraternity knows how eager Karan Johar is to get Salman Khan to do a film for him. Bizarrely , nothing between Karan and Salman seems to work out. They were supposed to collaborate on...
Ever since Karan Johar took over the English-language Bollywood chat-show space from Simi Garewal a feud has been simmering between the two. And now with this tweet from Simi Garewal, the feud is out in the...
If you have a potentially controversial film with a questionable quotient of sex and violence in your film recipe, this is the right time to get...
You have posted an aesthetic nude self-portrait on Instagram to “celebrate nakedness”. Could you explain what that means to you? I don’t really see anything taboo about nudity.The...
The one mistake that Pahlaj Nihalani made as the chairperson of the censor board which his successor refuses to make is to monitor the goings-on at the CBFC office too...
Ritesh Batra has come a long way since The Lunchbox. After the globally acclaimed film he has moved on to his next Our Souls At Night , a film...
What was so far only hearsay and hushed whispers is now a reality. The gorgeous Riya Sen is now a married woman .She tied the the knot with...
Hrithik Roshan and his father Rakesh Roshan are not the least pissed off with the joke in Hrithik’s extra thumb in this seasons’s hit Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. For those who came in late, the ...
