Bollywood superstar Katrina Kaif is the first female spy of the YRF Spy Universe. Katrina plays Zoya in the Tiger franchise and she matches Tiger Salman...
800 ( Hindi) Rating: *** ½ Enough! Let’s not waste time making or watching biopics on gangsters and criminals. Writer-director M.S Sripathy’s 800 tells us why. A...
Sridevi’s comeback film English Vinglish was released in Japan in May 2014 in Japanese.And we aren’t talking about the original film being subtitled in Japanese. So we got...
Thank You For Coming(Starring Bhumi Pednekar, Shehnaaz Gill, Dolly Singh, Kusha Kapila , Shibani Bedi Directed by Karan Boolani In my favourite moment in this amiably...
Mumbai Diaries Season 2(Prime Video) Starring Konkona Sen Sharma, Mohit Raina, Tina Desai, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Satyajeet Dubey, Natasha Bharadwaj, Mrunmayee Deshpande and Prakash Belawadi ,Parambrata Chattopadhyay...
Mission Raniganj: The Great Bharat Rescue Starring Akshay Kumar,Parineeti Chopra, Pavan Malhotra Directed by Tinu Suresh Desai Rating: **** At last, a biopic about a true...
Khufiya(Netflix) Starring Tabu, Ali Fazal, Wamiqa Gabbi, Atul Kulkarni , Azmeri Haque Badhon Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj Rating: **** Cutting through the acres of ambiguity and ...
In Kumari Srimathi, you play a 30-year-old unmarried woman with huge familial responsibilities. How did this dream role fall into your lap? I was told this...
Ravi Chopra’s Baghban released on October 3, 2003 is incontrovertibly the most influential film of Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini’s career. It changed the way Indian...
“Give me a harmonium and my ‘Lota’, and I will give you an outstanding composition,” S D Burman had once famously declared. True to his word,...
Tumse Na Ho Pyega (streaming on Disney+Hotstar) Starring Ishwak Singh, Mahima Makwana, Gaurav Pandey, Gurpreet Saini , Karan Jotwani Directed by Abhishek Sinha Rating: ** It...
The Vaccine War Directed by Vivek Agnihotri Rating: *** Apart from Raima Sen’s over-the-top villain’s act as a journalist who has sold out to the American...
Netflix’s latest spy thriller, Khufiya,streaming from 5 October, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and helmed by Tabu alongside Wamiqa Gabbi and Ali Fazal, is an intense combination of...
Lalit Pandit one-half of the Jatin-Lalit duo recalls his association with Lataji with tremendous warmth and gratitude. “Today is Maa Saraswati Lata Didi’s birth anniversary.Even though...
Charlie Chopra & The Mystery Of Solang Valley(SonyLIV, 6 Episodes) Starring Wamiqa Gabbi, Priyanshu Painyuli, Naseeruddin Shah, Lara Dutta, Neena Gupta, Ratna Pathak Shah,Gulshan Grover, Paoli...
Jaane Jaan, the atmospheric mystery thriller directed by Sujoy Ghosh, marks the streaming debut of Kareena Kapoor Khan, with Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma in pivotal...
Writer-director Prayag Raj who passed away on September 23 was a prolific artiste. He scripted a majority of Manmohan Desai’s films including Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Roti,...
Leave aside the 500-crore club , Anil Sharma, Sunny Deol and their producer Zee Studios are looking at Gadar 2: The Katha Continues becoming the most successful Hindi...
In Amit Masurkar’s Newton which was released on 22 September, 2017, Rajkummar Rao excels as the punctilious electoral babu trying so hard to do the right thing he...
Sukhee Starring Shilpa Shetty ,Chaitannya Choudhary, Amit Sadh, Dilnaz Irani, Kusha Kapila , Pavleen Gujral Directed by Sonal Joshi Rating: *** Zindagi itni acchi nahin toh itni buri bhi nahin…This bitter-sweet heartwarming at...
Prime Video today announced the global streaming premiere of the season’s biggest family blockbuster film, Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani. Presented by Viacom18 Studios & Dharma...
Jaane Jaan(Netflix) Rating: **** Kareena Kapoor, Kalimpong and Keigo Higashino are the three factors that make Jaane Jaan a whiplash-sharp,hefty whodunit. Subtle and supple, the crime thriller based...
In Mrinal Sen’s Khandhar desolation was defined and epitomized as much by Shabana Azmi’s face and physicality as it was by the architectural ruins where Sen...
The incredibly resourceful Mahesh Bhatt who turns 75 today , September 20, has been getting an incessant torrent of messages and calls from the morning. But...
Actor-philanthropist Sonu Sood is glowing with joy this Ganesh Chaturthi .“Bappa has guided me to do the right thing. If I’ve been able to help the needy during...
Ganesh Chaturthi is a big dead in Shabana Azmi’s home. “My sister-in-law Tanvi brings Ganpati home. It feels terrific because we celebrate Eid and Ganesh Chaturthi...
Reimagining the charm of old India and creating a visual spectacle on-screen Milan Luthria marks his OTT directorial debut with this larger than life mass entertainer ...
Applause Entertainment in partnership with yes Studios is all set for a second season of Tanaav. The first season of the Israeli serial Fauda was adapted by Applause Entertainment...
Maaveeran(Tamil,Streaming on Prime Video) Starring Sivakarthikeyan, Aditi Shankar, Mysskin Directed by Madonne Ashwin Rating: ** ½ (two and a half) Maaveeran has some strong writing going into...
Kaala(Streaming on Disney+Hotstar) Rating: * ½ Coming from one of my preferred directors Bejoy Nambiar,Kaala is especially disappointing. Its jumpcut style of storytelling whereby we the viewers...
Bambai Meri Jaan(Prime Video, 10 Episodes) Starring Kay Kay Menon, Avinash Tiwary, Kritika Kamra, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Amyra Dastur Directed by Shujaat Saudagar Rating: *** ½ One...
Tumse Na Ho Payega an upcoming film is a fun light-hearted take on the modern-day challenges faced by today’s youth, and their dilemma in standing up to...
Of late A R Rahman is not doing the kind of work he was most closely identified with. A sense of ennui, déjà vu, and dare...
Miss Shetty Mr Polishetty(Now Running In Selected Theatres) Starring Anushka Shetty, Naveen Polishetty Written & Directed by Mahesh Babu Pachigolla Rating: *** ½ (3 and a...
Hera Pheri released on 31 March, 2000 was a gamechanger for Akshay Kumar. Akshay thought so when it was released. “With Suneel Darshan’s Jaanwar I was recognized as an...
You can’t keep a good man down. This is not the best of birthdays for Akshay Kumar. Barring OMG2 which was more Pankaj Tripathi’s film ,Akshay’s last...
DO BOONDEIN SAWAN KI–Phir Subah Hogi (1958) :At a time when Lata reigned so prim, Khayyam made music of sobriety with Asha. While her title song...
Jawaan Rating: ** ½ The best thing about this maara-maari-thon is , no not Shah Rukh Khan(he’s beyond human evaluation of excellence) but Deepika Padukone. She...
Haddi(Zee5) Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anurag Kashyap, Ila Arun, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub Directed by Akshay Ajay Sharma Rating: ** There is no dearth of talent in Haddi,a restless...
While watching Neeraj Pandey’s A Wednesday again to revive memories of its impact as it turns 15 on September 5, one was struck by how amateurish the ...
Kushi Rating: ** Please note: this review was withheld over the weekend so as to not affect its boxoffice collections. If one had to describe Kushi in one word, it...
When we think of the best composer-actor partnerships of all times, the names that come to mind are Raj Kapoor-Shankar-Jaikishan,Shammi Kapoor-Shankar-Jaikishan, and Rajesh Khanna- RD Burman. ...
Scam 2003: The Telgi Story(5 episodes, SonyLIV) Rating: **** From the way the astonishing Gagan Dev Riar portrays him, Abdul Karim Telgi was not a charming ...
Prime Video announces the global streaming premiere of the recent blockbuster Jailer on September 7. The action entertainer has emerged as massive success at the box-office and...
Farhan Akhtar-Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On is 15-years old today. Its youngness, which it wears on its heart like a sleeve,is still intact. And yes, the first part released...
Lataji was not particularly fond of listening to her own songs, not even those that her fans consider classics. “Especially not those, because I’d find a...
King Of Kotha(Hindi, Opening On 1 September) Starring Dulquer Salmaan, Shabeer Kallarakkal, Prasanna, Gokul Suresh, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Nyla Usha, Chemban Vinod Jose, Shammi Thilakan, Saran, Shanthi Krishna Anikha Surendran...
Prakash Jha’s Satyagrah,released ten years ago on August 30, in which Amitabh Bachchan played a character based on Anna Hazare, was embroiled in a whirlpool of controversies ...
Shubha Khote remembers her brother Viju Khote who passed away on 30 September 2019. Contrary to popular belief Shubha and Viju were not twins. “No, we...
Each year, Shabana Azmi looks forward to Raksha Bandhan like a dutiful sister. Says Shabana,“Raksha Bandhan is the tyohaar my brother Baba and I are most sentimental about...