What a Diwali release is to Bollywood, Makar Sankranti is to the Telugu film industry. Sadly the auspicious January 14 date went vacant in 2021 due to the pandemic....
Telugu cinema’s veteran superstar Chiranjeevi and Salman Khan have always been close. In fact when Ramcharan Teja was shooting in Mumbai for his Hindi debut Zanjeer...
Saira Banu known as the ‘Beauty Queen’ Of Bollywood began her career in 1961 opposite superstar Shammi Kapoor in Junglee.She was only 17. Six years later her life changed completely when she married...
If you don’t know this then you don’t know Indian cinema. Some of the best films in India are being made in Kerala. Don’t believe me? Watch...
Amazon Prime Video wins big at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2021, Manoj , Samantha, Suriya React Manoj Bajpayee gets “Best Performance in a web series” (Male) for his phenomenal performance as Srikant Tiwari in...
Prolific filmmaker Anees Bazmi who thinks laughter is the best medicine for Covid,is back to shooting with his leading man Kartik Aaryan for Bhool Bhulaiya 2, the sequel...
While speaking to Pankaj Tripathi the super-talented actor said to me, “ Manoj Bajpai is an example to all of us actors who came after him through the offbeat neo-realistic...
Chippa(Netflix) Director Safdar rahman Cast Sunny Pawar,Masood Akhtar Plot At midnight on his 10th birthday, a boy scours the lesser-known Kolkata streets in search of a...
#Home(Malayalam, Amazon Prime) Starring Indrans, Manu Pillai and Sreenath Bhasi Written & Directed by Rojin Thomas Rating:*** ½ #Home Review: There is so much that is wrong and yet so much that is strong,...
Rakshabandhan: The brother-sister affection so emphatically underlined in the Hindi film industry in Abhishek Bachchan’s profound and protective love for his sister Shweta Nanda and Sara Ali Khan’s doting...
Talented filmmaker Ajitpal Singh’s debut Hindi feature, Fire In The Mountains co-produced by Ajay Rai,which had its Australian premiere at the 12th Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) won the top...
Midnight In The Switchgrass Director Randall Emmett Writers Alan Horsnail Cast Emile Hirsch,Megan Fox,Lukas Haas Plot FBI Agent Karl Helter and his partner Rebecca Lombardo are very...
India’s most celebrated filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali feels movie theatres should be given another chance. “The lockdown has ended. Shops,restaurants,gyms, stadiums have re-opened. Why not movie theatres? Is it ...
Shabana Azmi is a pivotal part of the series The Moghuls, a webseries for Hotstar produced by Nikhil Advani. The internet is a fascinating web for Shabana Azmi . “This is the first web series(for Hotstar)...
1. Because it is a tightly-knit suspense thriller written by that master screenwriter Rumi Jaffrey who says he has never had more fun with the suspense genre before. The...
Beckett(Netflix) Starring John David Washington ,Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps, Alicia Vikander Directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino Rating: *** In the opening sequence we see the hero Beckett and beloved in bed. In...
200 Halla Ho Powerful Message , Emotionally Charged Performances In Mirch Masala Re-mixed 200 Halla Ho (Zee5) Director: Sarthak Dasgupta Cast: Amol Palekar,Rinku Rajguru,Barun Sobti Plot: Inspired by true events,...
By now everyone knows Danny Denzongpa was the first choice to play the villain Gabbar Singh in Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay. Then what happened? Danny Denzongpa clears the...
“I Don’t Know Where These Vijay Sethupathi Stories Are Coming From” Are the two great actors Manoj Bajpai and Vijay Sethupathi teaming up for The Family Man 3? Vijay says no. Now Manoj also denies it. Says Manoj, “I really...
Kuruthi takes us into the communal issue with a fearless ferocity.How and why did you decide to be a part of this project? It was too exciting...
Bell Bottom Director: Ranjit Tiwari Writers: Aseem Arora,Gurnazar,Seema Saini Cast: Akshay Kumar,Huma Qureshi,Adil Hussain Plot: Amongst multiple heinous airplane hijacks, India was made to face another...
Ayushman’s Wife Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s debut feature, “Sharmaji Ki Beti” To Star Sakshi Tanwar, Divya Dutta, Saiyami Kher Applause Entertainment continues to make rapid strides with its slate of movies, and partners with Ellipsis...
Amazon Prime Video To Release Eagerly Awaited Mumbai Diaries 26/11 Can Mumbai , India or civilization ever forget 26/11? To relive the trauma of that fateful day,Amazon now brings...
I have often wondered which is more dangerous: the horror genre which takes the supernatural seriously or the horror-comedy genre which mocks the supernatural genre. Bhoot Police tries...
Bet you didn’t know this. But Lata Mangeshkar who is legendary for her singing , is an outstanding photographer.In fact there were exhibitions of her photography when she...
After the critical and mass success of two war-hero bio-pics Gunjan Saxena in 2020 and Shershaah in 2021,which were both released during the Independence Day weekend,producer Karan Johar...
Bhool Bhulaiya 2 will be Kartik Aaryan’s last comedy for at least a year. Breaking the glass ceiling has become a career norm for Kartik Aaryan. In what can be...
Three significant contemporary directors Ashwini Tiwari, Abhishek Choubey and Saket Chudhary get together for Ankahi Kahaniya, three unheard and untold tales of love that will make you wonder ,what is love? Produced by...
In what could most likely be the OTT blockbuster of 2022, Zoya Akhtar is all set to do make a desi series based on the globally celebrated Archies comics for Netflix. While Zoya Akhtar is still to...
Amazon is pushing further into zones exploring human relationships. Their new anthology Kaali Peeli Tales in the ‘Mini TV’ series seems like a good way to re-acquaint ourselves with ...
Kho-Kho (Malayalam, Amazon Prime Video) Director Rahul Riji Nair WritersRahul Riji Nair,Vinayak Sasikumar,Arjun Ranjan CastRajisha Vijayan,Mamitha Baiju,Venkitesh V P Plot: In a state where we grew...
Subhash K Jha Selects His Favourite Gulzar Songs 1. Humne dekhi hai unn aankhon ki mehakti khushboo haath se chuke isse rishton ko ilzaam na do(Khamoshi): Pyar ...
It’s hard to believe that Gulzar Saab is 82. His wit and poetic perceptions still remain as sharp today as the time when he wrote his...
Pig Director: Michael Sarnoski Writers: Michael Sarnoski,Vanessa Block Cast: Nicolas Cage,Alex Wolff,Adam Arkin Plot: A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit...
Applause Entertainment, which has been going from strength to strength during the past four years,is now making a ferocious foray into animation kingdom. Applause Entertainment, the...
Class Of ‘83(Netflix): In how many films from Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer and Shimit Amin’s Ab Tak Chappan to Mahesh Manjrekar’s Kurukshetra and Prabhudheva’s Wanted have we seen the cop-hero battling the dreaded ‘System’ from the outside ? In...
Spin(Disney-Hotstar) Starring Abhay Deol, Meera Sial, Avantika Vandanapu Directed by Manjari Makijany Rating: * ½ Besides the food on the tables of the restaurant named ‘Spirit Of India’ where most of this vapid drama...
The astoundingly unpredictable R Balki’s career-graph is about to get another jolt. He is all set to direct his next film . His last directorial was ...
To be so prolific , yet so quality-conscious is not an easy task. The phenomenal Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi is managing that tricky balance, giving one...
Tamannaah Bhatia-Riteish Deshmukh-Shashanka Ghosh who directed Sonam Kapoor in her two dazzling romcoms Khubsoorat and Veere De Wedding is back , this time teasing a tantalizing theme out of the romcom . In Ghosh’s Plan A Plan B Tamannaah plays...
1. Saif Ali Khan was fired from his first film Bekhudi by director Rahul Rawail. It was meant to be the launch film for both Saif and Kajol. But Saif got his very first shot...
Modern Love Season 2(Amazon Prime Video,Anthology Of 8 Films) Written & Directed by John Carney Rating: *** ½ The second-most stupid comment I’ve read on this modernday ...
The anxiety to attract eyeballs has portals keeling over with enthusiastic fabrications, the latest being a report on Pinkvilla which says Salman Khan is all set to be directed...
Nayanthara, Tamil cinema’s ‘Lady Superstar’ is back at at again. Showing the boys what a girl is capable of . In her latest author-backed avatar Nayanthara is ...
On the day India celebrates 75 years of freedom, singer Adnan Sami turns 50.He flew out of Mumbai to a foreign destination with his wife Roya and little daughter Medina “Just...
Salman Khan was First Choice for the coach’s role in Chak De! India 1. Chak De! India: Salman Khan was the first and original choice for the...
The internet has virtually exploded with speculative deskjobs about the casting of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ornate and lavish Heeramandi. Every day the nation and its favourite gossip columnist wakes up to a new ...
Lata Mangeshkar: “In 70 years India has come a long way. Communication is now just a click . Ironically we were a much closer-knit people when communication...
When I first got to know Farhan he had just released his directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai. The nation and its biggest critics celebrated the birth of a striking director. We...
Insha(Neestream , Malayalam) Starring Prathana Sandeep, Directed by Siju Vijayan Rating: ** Sometimes the best of intentions can go to waste, specially if you have no backup hardware for your emotions. Insha ...
