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This Friday it’s a battle of chicanery in the movie theaters. While Govinda plays a con-man and fake godman in Pahlaj Nihalani’s Rangeela Raja, Emraan Hashmi plays a professional hustler of the academic world...
Shame(Short Film) Swara Bhaskar, Ranveer Shorey, Sayani Gupta, Cyrus Sahukar Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) Any doubts that some of the best work in cinema is happening in the...
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After his flop pairing with Anushka Sharma in Imtiaz Ali’s super flop Jab Harry Met Sejal,Shah Rukh has delivered another devastating dud with the same leading lady. Which makes his close friends wonder, why...
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The Accidental Prime Minister Starring Anupam Kher,Akshaye Khanna Directed by Vijay Ratnakar Gutte Rating: ***(3 stars) If you enjoy political satires, The Accidental Prime Minister may not be the film that its makers would...
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That cricketer Hardik Pandya’s utterly crass and vulgar statements on women and womanizing on Karan Johar’s talkshow Koffee With Karan has snowballed into a major controversy is not surprising. Even the Bollywood fraternity’s silence over the...
The biopic on Bihar’s world-renowned mathematician just got bigger. The producers have decided to hold the film back to give it a more definitive and comprehensive ...
On Thursday morning a slew of topnotch actors,producers and directors flew to Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The delegation included actors Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Varun Dhawan,Alia Bhatt,Siddharth Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal,Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Rajkummar Rao,producers Ekta Kapoor, Karan Johar and Mahaveer Jain and directors Ashwini Iyer Tiwari and Rohit Shetty. The agenda...
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After elder daughter Sonam Kapoor tied the knot with her long –standing boyfriend AnandAhuja, it’s time for the younger born Rhea in Anil Kapoor’s family to make it official with her boyfriend Karan Boolani.Says a source close...
In what could be seen as a huge relief for rape-accused Alok Nath , a sessions court in Mumbai has suggested that writer-filmmaker Vinta Nanda might not be telling the truth. The court...
Uri Starring Vickey Kaushal, Mohit Raina, Paresh Rawal, Yami Gautam Written & Directed by Aditya Dhar Rating: **** ½(4 and a half stars) Wars often rage within the soldiers’ hearts, specially when they belong to army...
This month on Jan 10-11 three Bollywood personalities I’ve known closely over the years and one of whom I no longer know or want to know, turned a year older within 24...
Mahesh Manjrekar, Pradeep Sarkar, Priyadarshan and Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s film-The Invisible Masks to be released this year! It doesn’t happen every day that a team of...
Everyone knows all the acts at the awards functions are planned beforehand. But some of them do get out of hand, no matter how carefully they...
If advance reports of director Karthik Subbiraj’s Petta are to be believed, then Rajinikanth has another blockbuster on his hands just a month after the super-success of 2:0 And that really puts...
The belief within the film fraternity is, if Salman Khan is a blessing to his friends he’s a curse to his enemies, specially friends who betray him. After...
KGF superstar Yash brought in his 33rd birthday with minimum fanfare. He says he is no mood for partying and celebration, what with the death of Kannada’s veteran...
Ever since Hrithik Roshan announced on social media that his father Rakesh Roshan was afflicted with throat cancer the family’s well wishers and friends have been trying to glean more information on ...
Actor Alok Nath accused of rape by writer-director Vinta Nanda, has been given relief by the courts. He has been granted anticipatory bail. For the first time since the accusation snowballed ...
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After 2018,it looks like 2019 will be another golden year for Indian cinema. First Yuri which is on release and thenSonechiriya speak about a simmering war raging at the ...
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If it wasn’t for director Abhishek Kapoor’s insistence through legal redressal, Sara would have ended up with Simmba , where she has nothing to do except be a decorative doll, as her ...
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Beautiful Boy(Amazon) Starring Steve Carell, Timothy Chalamet Directed by Felix Van Groeningen Rating: ***(3 stars) There is so much that this heartshattering drama about a distraught father coping with his son’s...
Today Jan 6 the maverick composer A R Rahman, the repository of raga renown, turns 51. Interestingly Rahman’s son shares his father’s birth date. A few years ago on his birthday Rahmn had revealed,...
Lata Mangeshkar: “A R Rahman bahot talented insaan hain. I’ve sung very few songs for him. I love Jiya jale in Dil Se, Khamoshiyan gun-guna lagi (1 2 Ka 4) ,O paalan hare(Lagaan) and Luka chuppi(Rang De Basanti). A R Rahman and I came together for the first time for the evergreen Jiya jale in Mani...
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Mary Poppins Returns Starring Emily Blunt, Lin Manuel-Miranda, Ben Whinshaw, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep Directed by Rob Marshall Rating; ** A more destitute classic would be hard to find....
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One of Tamil cinema’s most accomplished actors Siddharth Suriya has expressed a keen interest in remaking the Ayushmann Khurrana thriller Adha Dhun. Ayushmann is game. But he has a huge misgiving about the tenability ...
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Shatrughan Sinha thinks his parent-party is practising the politics of vendetta on him. So he is joining hand with Laloo Yadav? Shatruji, what is this about the VIP treatment being withdrawn at airports for you? It...
Bollywood takes a backseat this week as Hollywood strikes big with its Transformers franchise in Bumblebee , a subsidiary of the Transformers franchise,that is is all set to storm the...
Pooja Bhatt’s production Cabaret, a film about the life of a cabaret dancer, is all set to make its much-delayed debut on the internet as a web feature...
The saga of the immoral cop who switches sides after his conscience awakens is likely to be continued into an ongoing franchise. In this case director Rohit Shetty ...
She is rightly regarded as the founding-mother of the MeToo movement in India.When Tanushree Dutta spoke on her experience of being harassed ten years ago , she opened up the...
What a year Rajkummar Rao had! From being an arthouse player he went into the 100-croreclub with Stree. Earlier during the year he stunned us playing the terror kingpin in Hansal Mehta’s Omerta. Raj...
Bumblebee Starring Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena Directed by Travis Knight Rating: ****(4 stars) The complex often ridiculous relationship between Man(or Woman) and an ExtraTerrestial Creature has been done in ...
Shakeela biopic has become one of the most anticipated biopics to look forward to this year. Based on the life of the south adult film actress,...
The death of Hindi mainstream cinema’s most prolific and versatile writer Kader Khan has left filmmaker David Dhawan bereft. “Bhaijaan—that’s what I called him—was the backbone of my cinema....
David Dhawan: Andha Dhun, Sanju, Badhaai Ho, Stree Ashwini Iyer Tiwari: Andha Dhun, Patakha, Stree, Badhaai Ho, Raazi. Ali Abbas Zafar: Raazi, Bhaddhai Ho, Sanju Milap Jhaveri: Padmaavat, Sonu Ke Tutu Ki Sweety,Badhaai Ho, Andha Dhun, Stree, Parmanu, KGF, Sanju, Baaghi2,Hichki, Raid, Sui Dhaaga and of course my own film Satyamev Jayate Hansal Mehta: Stree, Andha Dhun and A Star Is Born. I...
Where are the children of the lesser God? You may well ask, as Bollywood was filled with spunky confident bright star-children in 2019. Not one noteworthy debutant from outside the ...
That Kader Khan spent his last years in Canada troubles actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha deeply. “Why was he in Canada during the time of his death? Kader Khan has given so much to ...
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Engrossed in New Year celebrations, Bollywood’s prominent denizens had no time to speak on the death of Kader Khan. A prolific director with whom Kader Saab collaborated in many films...
BBird Box(Netflix) Starring Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Sara Paulson Directed by Sussane Bier Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) After an unprecedented 2018, this is a great way to begin...
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...
It looks like the prolonged cold war between Salman Khan is over…at least for now. Apparently Priyanka requested Salman repeatedly to attend her wedding reception in Mumbai after he refused ...
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He not only had four releases, he also branched into various directions. Telugu cinema’s fastest-rising star speaks to Subhash K Jha How would you describe the year that was?...
Mrinal Sen who passed away on Sunday was not only a brilliant auteur he was also very prolific until his health began to fail and his pace of filmmaking slackened....
On Sunday morning, as 2018 prepared to dissolve into the next year, Mrinal Sen passed away at the age of 95. His was a life well-lived,to put it ...
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