Lata Mangeshkar: “Har dil aur ghar mein roshni yehi meri Diwali kishubhkamnayen hain(light in ever heart and every home that’s my wish for this Diwali). Ishwar Kare Bhartiya logon ke dil se nafrat,krodh, ahankaar aur vaasna baahar ho jaye(God willing. Indians would eliminate hatred, anger, pride and lust from their hearts)....
One of Bollywood’s most underrated director passed away quietly at the age of 88. Lekh Tandon gave us a slim slew of scintillating cinema starting with the blockbuster Professor in 1962....
She is all of 15, and already knows her mind. “Actually I knew what I wanted to do with my life from the time I was...
She is back smiling laughing enjoying life. Last year when reports of Manisha Koirala’s ill-health filtered in, I prayed they are not true. One of the...
Filmmakers,Actors, Critics Answer Prosenjit Chatterjee(actor, producer): “Satyajit Ray is one of the best directors India has produced.But if you see he was a multi-talented person. Mrinal Sen and Ritwick Ghatak were also...
* “Jaag Utha Insan” (1984): 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 by the...
Rape is a social evil that needs to be spotlighted . But the depiction must not be exploitative . Here are Bollywood films that showed graphic gratuitous rape sequences:...
Amrish Puri died 16 years ago, leaving a legacy of 200 films in a 30-year career, during which he worked with avant-garde directors like ShyamBenegal and Govind Nihalani and also did outright kitsch.In his early...
1. Sujata(1959): Inspired directly by Dr Ambedkar’s treatise on the abolishment of the caste system Sujata is a haunting ever-renewable ever-relevant meditation on blood ties and social inequality. Nutan won her ...
The last time when they worked together , Taapsee Pannu and Anurag Kashyap created Manmarziyan.A complete departure for Kashyap from his dark and brooding cinema, it was his mellowest movie to date. Now Kashyap is again on to...
With Covid raging across the universe , is this really the right time to open theatres? No, says ‘James Bond’ Daniel Craig who very clearly states, ‘This is ...
For the Indian film industry reeling under the impact of the Covid 19, the hope that movie theatres will be re-opened in September had been dashed to the...
Manoj Bajpai Speaks To Subhash K Jha On His ‘Isolation Trilogy’, and Life Beyond The Lockdown I see Bhonsle as the third of your trilogy on isolation. how do you evaluate your work in Aligarh, Gali Guleiyan and...
In an interview to Arnab Goswami on Friday evening Kangana Ranaut has questioned the competence of the Mumbai police in investigating Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. She questioned the cops’ line of questioning and cast serious...
On September 8 ,1995 at 12.05 noon, a star was born.It was like a war chant.The minute Urmila Matondkar screamed Yaeee re yaeee re zor nagake...
Aarya(Hotstar, 9 Episodes) Starring Sushmita Sen, Chandrachur Singh, Ankur Bhatia, Namit Das, Sikander Kher Directed by Ram Madhvani,Sandeep Modi, Vinod Rawat Rating: *** ½ (three and a half stars) As a bereaved wife and a protective mother who would go...