If dance and dancing are forbidden by religion, then consider making a film about a young girl’s desire to dance the BharatNatyam a dangerous pursuit, given today’s absurdly ...
Pareeksha(Zee5) Starring Adil Hussain, Priyanka Bose, Shubham Jha, Sanjay Suri Directed by Prakash Jha Rating: **** The heart is completely in the right place. Pareeksha,director Prakash Jha’s best in years, is a heartwarming unabashed tearjerker.It reminded me of one...
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...
Taapsee Pannu: “Not threatened but since everyone isn’t that used to having strong women around the fear of unknown n the resistance to change is there. It...
Films with female heroes are facing rough weather at the boxoffice this year.After the unexpected underperformance of Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak and Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga, both high-end calibre-conscious products featuring A-list heroines Deepika Padukone and Kangana Ranaut in the lead ,...
With two major films about female heroes Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak and Ashwiny IyerTiwari’s Panga, under-performing at the boxoffice, all eyes are on Anubhav Sinha’s Thappadwhich opens at the end of February. It features Tapsee Pannu playing the hero. She...
Don’t get me wrong. I love Alia Bhatt. She is as beautiful inside as she is on the outside. And she’s a great learner on the sets....
There is no doubt that Kangana Ranaut will leave all competition far behind with Panga and will pick up all the awards at the end of the year. Wowing the critics...
When recently Shilpa Shetty cribbed goodnaturedly about wearing cotton sarees in the chilly wintry weather of Lucknow while shooting for a film,we were reminded of all the lovely ladies who have shivered ...
What’s it about women born on 19 November that makes them clutter-breakers of extraordinary dimensions? Zeenat Aman, Rehana Sultan and Sushmita Sen all 19th November-born scorpios. Fiercely independent , all there redefined the Hindi...
The very remarkable life of actor Shabana and and cinematographer Baba Azmi’s parents, the illustrious Kaifi and Shaukat Azmi is already a huge successful play Kaifi & I where Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi play her parents. We now hear there are ...
Gully Boy, the Zoya Akhtar-directed film about street rappers in Mumbai , has been selected as India’s official entry to the Oscars. And Alia Bhatt who will soon be celebrating her boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor’s ...
Legends don’t die. But they sometimes fade away. And that’s worse than death especially when they’ve known the kind of super-stardom that Rajesh Khanna experienced between 1969 and 1974....
As Akshay Kumar turns 52 on September 9 ,and his new release Mission Mangal touches the all-important 100-crore mark, I find it hard to believe that his journey as an individual and an...
There was a time when the Sister was an important, integral almost mandatory part of Hindi commercial cinema. Blockbuster films like Choti Bahen(1959), Bhai Bahen(1959), Badi Didi (1969), Pyari Behna(1985) ,Anokha Bandhan(1982) and Bandhan(1988) were devoted entirely...
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...