Remember the good ol’ days when the only way a filmgoer would see any kind of sexual undercurrent in a movie was during the Holi song?...
Sanjay Mishra is an actor who never fails to surprise. His gallery of performances ranges from buffoonery (Golmaal) to sheer brilliance(Ankhen Dekhi) . There is nothing this maverick performer ...
Street Dancer 3D Starring Prabhudheva, Varun Dhawan, Shradha Kapoor, Aparshakti Directed by Remo d’Souza Rating: **** ½(4 and a half stars) Impressively, Prabhudheva gets top billing in this zany political parable about how India and Pakistan...
Marjaavan Starring Siddharth Malhotra, Riteish Deshmukh, Tara Sutaria, Rakul Preet Singh Written & Directed by Milap Zaveri Rating: ****(4 stars) All right then, Marjaavan is a homage to the masala movies of the 1980s…Deewaar,Amar Akbar Anthony, Lawaaris , Muqaddar Ka Sikindar(Rakul Preet Singh reprises Rekha’s Zohrabai) and one very ...
Sushant Singh Rajput: “My favourite child actor is Jugal Hansraj in Masoom. He just melted your heart with his performance. My favourite children’s song is Lukka chuppi from Rang De...
Director Amit Sharma found fame with his second feature film Badhaai Ho in 2018. But he actually made his directorial debut with Tevar in 2015. The forgotten film was special on only one...
Mission Mangal Starring Vidya Balan, Tapsee Pannu, Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha,Nithya Manen, Kriti Kulhari Directed by Jagat Shakti Rating: ** ½ (two and a half stars) Inspiring,yes. But in an uncomfortably perspiring way. Mission Mangal, based on a true and truly commendable...
Jabariya Jodi: Movie Review Starring Siddharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra Directed by Prashant Singh Rating: ****(4 stars) For a film that has not been shot Bihar/Patna at all, Jabariya Jodi gets the details right, including place names and...
Do you remember that first time? …I wasn’t there when in 1949 the world heard Lata Mangeshkar sing Hawaamein udta jaye and Aayega aanewala…But I was here to hear Himani Kapoor sing Jab jab saiyan for composer Aadesh Shrivastava in Kalpana Lajmi’s tale of the ...
Akshay Kumar has stepped in to boost his wife Twinkle Khanna’s cousin Karan Kapadia debutant’s energy in a music video for the film Blank which opens...
1. Uri: Calling a spade a spade,declaring Pakistan a political enemy in a film about India’s surgical attack on Pakistan is not the kind of soft-focus approach...
What a year it has been for Hindi cinema! The hits and the critically acclaimed films kept rolling out. At the last count 10 films of ...
Rajma Chawal(Netflix) Starring Rishi Kapoor, Anirudh Tanwar, Amyra Dastur Directed by Leena Yadav Rating: ** *( 3 stars) The closing song of this sensible but scattered film goes, ‘Mujhe dosti karne ka shauq hai Mera dil chandni Chowk hai.’ What is it about Old...
Movie: Stree Starring: Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurrana Directed by: Amar Kaushik Rating: ****(4 stars) A new language in the horror genre burgeons as we watch this quirky cocktail—or shall we call it...
Shree Narayan Singh, the director of the 2017 hit Toilet Ek PremKatha can’t stop marvelling at the impact his film has made. From Prime Minister Narendra Modi and now Bill Gates, the film has been...
Interviewing Sharmila Tagore is always a dream come true.A favourite ,she ruled my heart with her glamour and talent in the films of Satyajit Ray specially Apur Sansar, then Shakti Samanta’a Aradhana and Amar Prem and Basu Bhattacharya’s Aavishkar and Grihapravesh. No actress combines the best of the East and the West so fluently in her personality.As Sharmila turns 73 on December 8, we caught up for another revealing...