Time did finally run out on Dilip Kumar. Farewell, Maestro. You are the greatest actor, ever. Every time I met India’s greatest actor, Dilip Kumar , I...
Rape is a social evil that needs to be spotlighted . But the depiction must not be exploitative . Here are Bollywood films that showed graphic gratuitous rape sequences:...
I first saw Disha Patani playing Priyanka Jha to Sushant Singh Rajput’s Dhoni in the bio-pic on the cricketer. I couldn’t remember a single heroine surnamed Jha in Hindi cinema before Disha.She left her mark. But not strong enough....
There was only one heroine, opined a leading filmmaker, who looked equally fetching in a ghagra-choli and a bathing suit – Sharmila Tagore. Boldly breaking free from the image of...
In SonyLIV’s new webseries Maharani, Huma Qureshi plays a role inspired by Lalu Yadav’s wife Rabri Devi The act has won her more fangs than fans.A lot of Bihar’s junta feels this whitewashed version Rabri Devi is a...
Singer-entertainer Aditya Narayan is back home after being hospitalized for Covid19. “I am feeling much better. My wife is also much better, though the virus has left her...
The last time when they worked together , Taapsee Pannu and Anurag Kashyap created Manmarziyan.A complete departure for Kashyap from his dark and brooding cinema, it was his mellowest movie to date. Now Kashyap is again on to...
We all know about Meena Kumari’s Pakeezah and Rekha’s Umrao Jaan. These two films epitomize the cinematic tawaif, a combination of poetess and seductress, steeped in the tragic metaphor of the candle that...
The fakenews industry continues to thrive in the entertainment world. The latest “sensational story” to be doing the rounds is that Sanjay Leela Bhansali has signed Kartik Aryan for his webseries Heera Mandi. Dismissing the reports...
The Mangeshkar sisters Lata and Asha have ruled the ‘ear’waves for over 60 years.Apart, they are institutions in their own right. Together they constitute a force to reckon with. The two sisters...
After stand-up comic Bharati Singh and her husband were arrested for drugs possession, one of India’s oldest and most respected stand-up artistes Raju Shrivastava condemned the culture of substance abuse. “I...
Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha’s decision to contest election on a Congress ticket from Bihar has taken many political commentators by surprise. The star-kid made a ...
Lies, damned lies! How Hrishikesh Mukherjee loved telling the truth about people who lied. In Anand Rajesh Khana makes up a friendship with strangers on the road pretending to have met them in...
When asked to say what special plans Abhishek Bachchan had for his sister Shweta Bachchan Nanda for Raksha Bandhan, Abhishek Bachchan said, “We don’t need a...
365 Days(Netflix) Starring Michele Morrone as Don Massimo Torricelli,Anna-Maria Sieklucka as Laura Biel Directed by Barbara Białowąs,Tomasz Mandes Rating: * Every once in a while there comes a film in that kinky...
The problem with films starring female heroes in Bollywood is that that A-list heroes refuse to be part of them , unless they are as sporting...