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...
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...
Amitabh Bachchan: “My favourite romantic film is Guru Dutt’s Kagaz Ke Phool for no particular reason.” Rakeysh Mehra : “Raj Kapoor’s Bobby and Guru Dutt’s Pyasa are the two romantic films that shaped and moulded my view of love...
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 ...
I always say THEIR best is far superior to OUR best.In 2020 which performance-wise was quite mediocre in Bollywood, these actors in foreign films shone like the...
This year, the content from Hindi cinema was not even considered as contenders for India’s entry into the Oscars for Best International Film. A well-placed source...
Back from his incarceration news-anchor Arnab Goswami has renewed his attack on Bollywoodand its actors. Calling out Arjun Rampal for being summoned by the Narcotics Control Bureau,Arnab ,looking lean and nursing a sore throat...
In Imtiaz Ali’s Jab We Met he had only one sequence as a railway-platform lecher who harasses Kareena Kapoor Khan. But Asif Basra owned that sequence as he owned everything that the film industry ...
Prabhas is no longer interested in projecting himself as a Telugu actor. And why should he? After Baahubali—and never mind the underwhelming response to his last pan-India...
Saif Ali Khan’s elder son Ebrahim, for long desirous of getting into films, is all set to finally take the plunge. A fine cricketer like his grandfather the...
Pritish Nandy: “Everybody has the right to protect their reputation. And that is exactly what the film industry is trying to do. This continuous and unfounded...
Akshay Kumar has shown the way out of the Covid crisis for the movie business. His Diwali release Laxmmi Bomb which was supposed to release exclusively ...
Once I was talking to a major star who at that time was about to make his debut in a film directed by a very close...
While in America and the rest of the West films about homosexuality are being made with remarkable rampancy ,in Bollywood the theme of same-sex relationships has...
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan: “Lataji’s Ae mere watan ke logon is my favourite patriotic song.” Shabana Azmi: “Kar chale him fida jaan-o-tan saathiyon is the most definitive of all the...
Trance(Malayalam, Netflix) Starring Fahadh Faasil as Viju Prasad / Pastor Joshua Carlton,Dileesh Pothan as Avarachan, Nazriya Nazim as Esther Lopez,Gautham Menon as Solomon Davis, Soubin Shahir as Mathew Varghese,Chemban Vinod Jose as Issac Thomas Directed by Anwar Rasheed Rating: **** Given the current bleakness all around us, we have...