Hera Pheri released on 31 March, 2000 was a gamechanger for Akshay Kumar. Akshay thought so when it was released. “With Suneel Darshan’s Jaanwar I was recognized as an...
You can’t keep a good man down. This is not the best of birthdays for Akshay Kumar. Barring OMG2 which was more Pankaj Tripathi’s film ,Akshay’s last...
DO BOONDEIN SAWAN KI–Phir Subah Hogi (1958) :At a time when Lata reigned so prim, Khayyam made music of sobriety with Asha. While her title song...
Jawaan Rating: ** ½ The best thing about this maara-maari-thon is , no not Shah Rukh Khan(he’s beyond human evaluation of excellence) but Deepika Padukone. She...
Haddi(Zee5) Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anurag Kashyap, Ila Arun, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub Directed by Akshay Ajay Sharma Rating: ** There is no dearth of talent in Haddi,a restless...
While watching Neeraj Pandey’s A Wednesday again to revive memories of its impact as it turns 15 on September 5, one was struck by how amateurish the ...
Kushi Rating: ** Please note: this review was withheld over the weekend so as to not affect its boxoffice collections. If one had to describe Kushi in one word, it...
When we think of the best composer-actor partnerships of all times, the names that come to mind are Raj Kapoor-Shankar-Jaikishan,Shammi Kapoor-Shankar-Jaikishan, and Rajesh Khanna- RD Burman. ...
Scam 2003: The Telgi Story(5 episodes, SonyLIV) Rating: **** From the way the astonishing Gagan Dev Riar portrays him, Abdul Karim Telgi was not a charming ...
Prime Video announces the global streaming premiere of the recent blockbuster Jailer on September 7. The action entertainer has emerged as massive success at the box-office and...
Farhan Akhtar-Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On is 15-years old today. Its youngness, which it wears on its heart like a sleeve,is still intact. And yes, the first part released...
Lataji was not particularly fond of listening to her own songs, not even those that her fans consider classics. “Especially not those, because I’d find a...
King Of Kotha(Hindi, Opening On 1 September) Starring Dulquer Salmaan, Shabeer Kallarakkal, Prasanna, Gokul Suresh, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Nyla Usha, Chemban Vinod Jose, Shammi Thilakan, Saran, Shanthi Krishna Anikha Surendran...
Prakash Jha’s Satyagrah,released ten years ago on August 30, in which Amitabh Bachchan played a character based on Anna Hazare, was embroiled in a whirlpool of controversies ...
Shubha Khote remembers her brother Viju Khote who passed away on 30 September 2019. Contrary to popular belief Shubha and Viju were not twins. “No, we...
Each year, Shabana Azmi looks forward to Raksha Bandhan like a dutiful sister. Says Shabana,“Raksha Bandhan is the tyohaar my brother Baba and I are most sentimental about...
Sunny Deol is on an unprecedented high. Gadar 2 is poised to become not only the biggest hit of his career, but also one of the five biggest...
Shah Rukh Khan’s eagerly awaited release Jawaan which apparently features him in a double role, is less than a month away from release. While the film’s blockbuster status...
Congratulations on the massive impact of your episode ‘The Heart Skipped A Beat’ in Made In Heaven2. It wouldn’t be wrong to say this episode is very close to...
Rating: *** ½ Not since Chachi 420 have I seen an actor so immersed in the doing the drag act. Ayushmann Khurrana juices the part of his cross-dressed ...
After the hardhitting message of OMG2 on reforms required in sex education for teenagers, the Ulhasnagar Education Society has introduced sex education in their syllabus OMG2’s director Amit...
All is well that ends well. Akshay Kumar Bhatia , known as Akshay Kumar among fans, is now an Indian citizen again. The Prodigal Returns, in...
Dalit writer Yashica Dutt who accused director Neeraj Ghaywan of appropriating her life and experience in a segment of Prime Video’s Made In Heaven2 is accused of a...
1001 Nunakal(Malayalam,SonyLIV) ;Rating: ** ½ What can we say about a film that plays truth-or-dare with a bunch of married couples, some of whom just had their home...
Rating: *** ½ Debutant director Pranay Meshram’s Akelli is quite a pleasant surprise. Eschewing the crudity of The Kerala Story, it tells a gripping tale of a young Indian woman in...
Subhash K Jha Selects The Legendary Chiranvjeevi’s 5 Finest Some actors are great performers,others are big stars ,while some others are good human beings. Chiranjeeevi is a blend of all 3. ...
Guns & Gulaabs(Netflix, 8 Episodes) Rating: **** Can violence ever be humorous? It can, if you are Quentin Tarantino or Guy Ritchie, or nearer home Sriram Raghavan...
Medal(Punjabi, Prime Video) Rating: *** Director Maneesh Bhatt’s Medal is not interested in aesthetic niceties. Straightaway it plunges into its energetic, some would say, crude domain of mass...
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....
