Applause Entertainment, India’s leading content studio backed by the Aditya Birla Group, marks six years of storytelling that disrupts norms, dazzles imaginations, delights hearts, and stirs...
Ghoomer Rating: **** Ghoomer is a very odd title for a film about a one-handed female bowler who learns the hard way to beat the odds. ...
What are your birthday plans? While hiking in the Alps with school friends we celebrated my birthday on Independence Day. On my birthday I will be...
Taali: Bajaungi Nahin Bajwaungi(JioCinema; 6 Episodes) Rating: ** A brave bountiful central performance by Sushmita Sen cannot rescue this dull limpid bio-series from falling flat on...
Ae mere watan ke logon: Nothing to beat this ode to Bharat Mata sung to eternal fame by the Goddess Of All Melodious Things Lata Mangeshkar....
Gadar 2: The Katha Continues continues to create havoc at the boxoffice. Multiple multiplex sources say they haven’t seen anything like this in a long time. “Not even ...
Heart Of Stone(Netflix) Rating: * ½ You need nerves of steel to sit through the tortuous trashiness of Heart Of Stone. Fans of Gal and our own...
Gadar: The Katha Continues Rating: **** Never mind the 200 toffee-nosed critics who will tell you that this film is crass,outdated, loud, etc etc …Gadar is...
Rating: *** ½ Ohh that ‘M’ word. You know…what teenagers do in the bathroom.. Bolne bhi sharm aati hai…Lekin karne mein nahin… At one point in ...
Rating: ** Jailer is like a trailer of the hit films of the mighty Rajinikanth that you may or may not have seen. It matters little...
Made In Heaven , Season 2(Prime Video, 7 Episodes) Rating: **** First, the comfort of the familiar. Adil Khanna is still cheating on his wife.Jaspreet ‘Jazz’ Kaur...
Karan Johar seems to be flying high. Literally. On Wednesday he flew off to Melbourne, Australia for the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne where he will...
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s debut as a director Khamoshi: The Musical was a triumph of artistry. But a boxoffice disaster .Looking back at this sleeper classic one can see it was...
The Jengaburu Curse(SonyLIV,7 episodes) Rating: *** ½ Nila Madhab Panda’s OTT debut is quite an achievement. Panda’s cinema has always been extremely conscious of ecological imbalances...
Once again proving that all the real financial action in the movie business is on the digital platform, director Kabir Khan’s underproduction biopic Chandu Champion on the life ...
Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan is making his directorial debut with a webseries tentatively entitled Stardom. Everyone who is someone in the entertainment industry has expressed a desire...
Defying the advice of many friends well wishers and filmmakers, Kartik Aaryan has become associated with Manforce condoms, primarily because the ad that she shot is...
Lalit Pandit must be the only music composer in the universe who can claim to have been carried in Kishore Kumar’s arms. Says Lalit, “One can...
K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam featured one of composer Naushad’s most accomplished music scores of all times. The indomitable Lata Mangeshkar toplined the soundtrack with imperishable songs like Beqas pe karam...
Applause Entertainment’s Scam 2003: The Telgi Story takes the ‘Scam’ franchise further after the hugely successful Scam 1992 . The story of India’s biggest scam by Abdul Karim...
Vimanam(Telugu, Zee5) Rating: *** Do you remember Mehmood’s Kunwara Baap? In this highly melodramatic film Mehmood played a rickshaw puller who will do anything for his polio-afflicted son....
There are films on sports. Then there are films on the spirit of sportsmanship . R Balki’s Ghoomer seems to be both.The trailer,in one word, is empowering....
Father to the nation, but not to his own son. Great theme. Huge historic resonances as the father and son happen to be Mahatma Gandhi and...
“I feel for the first time I am validated as an artiste” …Karan Johar , Basking In The Success Of Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, Speaks On...
It is the done-thing to praise people after their death. But Nitin Chandrakant Desai was truly a child of God. His epic vision, as manifested in ...
July brought us some strange birds from the streaming platform, like Tarla on Zee5 which did to the culinary queen Tarla Dalaal what Shakuntala Devi had done to the mathematical...
As the date of release for director Amrit Rai’s OMG2 closes in, it is becoming progressively clear that the film won’t be able to make it on its release...
Mumtaz , the gorgeous diva of yesteryears, turns a year younger on July 31. For her fans the screen queen has this message: “I am thankful...
One Friday Night(Streaming on JioCinema) Rating: ** Manish Gupta’s One Friday Night could have been our own Fatal Attraction. Instead it ends up making the Other Woman more a...
David Dhawan’s smartest comedy to date, “Mujhse Shaadi Karogi” communicates the airy ambience of a beach party. A triangle with three absolutely non-intellectual protagonists, who do...
“When will I be free?” This used to be Sanjay Dutt’s refrain during the time he was being tried under TADA. Then it was tata to...
When Dhanush is good, he is so so very good he makes you forgive all the sins of his excesses which I suspect he indulges in...
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani Rating: ***** Wait! Do we see an upsurge in the number of men joining Kathak classes after Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani?Among the many...
Ever wondered why Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s resplendent musical Abhimaan (1973), the story of two singers who happened to be married to one another, has three voices singing for Amitabh...
Applause Entertainment announces collaboration with Andolan Films, spearheaded by Vikramaditya Motwane, to embark on an exciting journey of revolutionary storytelling. This collaboration will yield two ambitious...
The formidable Shabana Azmi has been invited by the Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne, to be hosted from 11 August 2023, to hoist the Indian flag....
Kaalkoot(8 episodes ;streaming on JioCinema) Rating: ** Watching this dark murky look at smalltown gender prejudices I got a nasty bout of déjà vu. Kaalkoot looks like the...
At 4 Hours 15 Minutes, J P Dutta’s LOC Kargil was the lengthiest Hindi film since Raj Kapoor’s Mera Naam Joker. “That’s because we wanted to tell the story...
Civilization, including Lata Mangeshkar herself ,considers Aayega aanewala from the film Mahal to be a turningpoint in Lataji’s career. 1949 is regarded as Lata’s breakthrough year. She had chartbusters in the films Barsaat,Andaz,...
There have been numerous interpretations of Romeo & Juliet the worldover.Nothing prepares you for this. The bludgeoning impact of director Manish Tiwary’s desi Varanasi must-see adaptation of Shakespeare’s...
1. It is Karan Johar’s zingiest brightest most splashy film to date. This time he doesn’t hold back letting loose on screen an armoury of colours, drama, music and...
The powerful bonding between Jaya Bachchan and Shabana Azmi during the making of Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani won’t end with the release of the film. The two screen ...
As Regal Cinema In Mumbai Gets Ready To Screen A Newly Mastered Version Of Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal On July 27, The Legendary Filmmaker’s Son Tajdar Amrohi Speaks...
Rating: *** ½ I came away from Sarmad Khoosat’s Kamli with mixed feelings…Okay, that’s a lie. In truth I was completely bowled over by this simple sublime fable of ...
Soorarai Pottru(2020) : Suriya’s most successful film to date has him playing a version of Gopinath the man who dreamt of making air travel affordable for the poor.This is...
Mukesh was a singer who never failed his songs. No matter what he sang he was always a winner with his fans.The Mukesh bhakts loved to...
Rating: *** There is an art-stopping moment in this mischievous merger of myth and reality where the beautiful Margot Robbie sobs that she is no longer ...
Oppenheimer Rating: ** ½ Barring the accessibly brilliant anti-war film Dunkirk ,Christopher Nolan’s iconized cinema has over the years become increasingly incomprehensible to the non-specialized viewer. To fully or even...
1.Geela geela pani(Satya): The one that got left behind. This haunting, poignant, evocative, seductive song was edited out of Ram Gopal Varma’s most celebrated gangster epic....
Such a long journey for you…I have watched you evolve and it is impressive…how do you assess your career so far? Thank you! Your messages after...