On 9 August 1996, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s journey as a filmmaker began. Khamoshi: The Musical was released. Now as he completes 25 years of filmmaking he looks back on...
A 40-plus Shilpa Shetty looking hotter than the hotties half her age , singing and dancing and romancing with 20-plus Meezan Jaffrey in Hungama 2 is nothing new in cinema. It is known as...
Sanju: Some little known fact about the movie 1. Ranbir Kapoor is a big Sanjay Dutt fan. Long before Ranbir Kapoor played Dutt he told me he hero-worshipped Dutt and that the senior actor would often given him expensive...
Tanu Weds Manu(2011): Look at what Jab We Met started and Band Baaja Baaraat precipitated! It’s a virtual melee of weddings out there! The season of filmed—and filmy– shaadis replete with Punjabi songs,swirling ghagras and fragrant mogras,jostling mandaps and hectic rituals…Gee,Gurinder Chadha’s...
A few years ago when Anil Kapoor was younger, he had announced a desi version of the 2003 Mark Waters directed Disney rom-com Freaky Friday where Mom Jamie Lee Curtis and daughter Lindsey Lohan swapped places. Anil wanted Sonam Kapoor ...
Long before Covid changed the world as we knew it, a new breed of stars changed Bollywood forever. Presenting the 5 best acting talent of the post Ranbir-Deepika era . 1. Alia Bhatt: Just...
99 Songs Starring Ehan Bhat as Jay,Edilsy Vargas as Sophie Written & Directed by Vishwesh Krishnamurthy Rating: ** ½ Make no mistake. This is a highly ambitious film where the musical phenomenon...
Shabana Azmi: “India is country that lives in several centuries simultaneously. And so it is with the position of women in our society. On the one hand...
Like any possessive wife Asha Bhosle hated to see her husband work with any other woman. A hugely talented music composer R D Burman was allowed to work with only one...
In a year that is destined to dominated by the dudes , some strong women-oriented films will also make their way into theatres and the OTT platform 1. Kajol in Tribhanga: Kajol has ...
Bhai doesn’t have to do anything to get his fans’ attention. He just has to walk that languorous walk and talk that that devil-may-care drawl for the Salmaniacs go...
Fair & Lovely the long-in-use cosmetic cream for women claiming to lighten the skin complexion, has dropped ‘Fair’ from its brand name.Bollywood’s prominent actresses , many...
Swara Bhaskar: “I have a maha-needy and attention-seeking dog who is taking up all my energy and I’m trying hard to work on a long pending...
With Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak, about real-life acid-attack victim Laxmi Aggarwal, around the corner it’s time to look at some other hard-hitting films on the subject of violence against women. 1. Heaven ...
Prassthanam Starring Sanjay Dutt, Manisha Koirala, Ali Fazal, Satyajit Dubey, Jackie Shroff Directed by Deva Katta Rating: ****(4 stars) Midway through the stormy tale of politics, family feuds, sibling rivalry and other elements of simmering...
The young Ali Fazal is rapidly acquiring an international stature in Great Britain where he co-starred with, ahem, Dame Judi Dench in the well-received pseudo-historical Victoria & Abdul in 2017. Ali,...