Amitabh Bachchan’s look of the Muslim Patriarch in Gulabo Sitabo is being talked about. While some would say the look is a stereotypical representation of a ghetto patriarch from...
In the Netflix film She , the Gully Boy actor Vijay Varma is cast as a low-level sleazy gangster who repeatedly abuses the female protagonist. How difficult was it for Vijay to play...
You have seen and laughed your way through Chotisi Baat, Chasme Buddoor ,Golmaal,Hera Pheri and Judwaa . But the directors of all 5 made other if...
Bamfaad(Zee5) Starring Aditya Rawal, Shalini Pandey, Vijay Verma Directed by Ranjan Chandel Rating: *** ½ Call it a withdrawal symptom. But I was sure as hell...
The Indian courts have sentenced well-known veteran producer Firoz Nadiadwala to three months of rigorous imprisonment for non-payment of his GST(goods and service tax). However the...
Actress Yami Gautam will be seen in an all new avatar playing the role of an Intelligence officer in the highly anticipated film URI: The Surgical Strike. The...
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...
There is a vast behind-the-scenes clamour to do a biopic on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Apparently, the actors shortlisted to play the Prime Minister are...
The two senior-most and most venerated leaders of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani, shared a common trait: their love for the arts and cinema. Atalji had many...
There is a fine thin line dividing liberalism from slander. Given an opportunity, our filmmakers easily cross that line. Raj Kumar Hirani’s Sanju has an extremely...
Sanju Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja,Vicky Kaushal, Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal, Dia Mirza Directed by Raj Kumar Hirani Rating: *** So it was all the...
Everything seems to be a joke in the eagerly-awaited trailer of Raj Kumar Hirani’s Sanju. A cruel joke, told in the form of a psychedelic fable...
Producer Firoz Nadiadwala made two very successful Hera Pheri films with superstar Akshay Kumar. Then, for some reasons best known to them, they had massive fall-out...
The casting of “creative director” Hansal Mehta’s The Accidental Prime Minister the bio-pic on Manmohan Singh, just got bigger. German actress Suzanne Bernert has been selected to play Sonia Gandhi. Interestingly Bernert has played Sonia Gandhi earlier in a television series for Zee TV entitled Pradhamanntri, a semi-fictionalized account of Indian politics helmed by Shekhar Kapoor....
Watching the antics of Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor as father and son in Umesh Shukla’s 102 Not Out I am reminded of how cruelly commercial cinema has written out the old from the demography India’s popular art. We...
Shocking as it may sound,2017’s most popular film Dangal missed out on the popular awards because of its powerful influential and autocratic leading man. Aamir Khan is one helluva...