With two major films about female heroes Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak and Ashwiny IyerTiwari’s Panga, under-performing at the boxoffice, all eyes are on Anubhav Sinha’s Thappadwhich opens at the end of February. It features Tapsee Pannu playing the hero. She...
For those who feel Mrs Ahuja, a.k.a Sonam Kapoor, may be slowing down to start a family, the answer is… not yet. The break will happen but not any...
Even when Bollywood makes movies about powerful women they need the male presence to bolster the film’s boxoffice prospects. That’s a sad fact. Lately the supremely saleable Akshay Kumar has been promoting Mission Mangal ,...
While Article 15 continues to make waves, Anubhav Sinha has already moved on to his next. Reveals Sinha, “It’s a film called Thappad and it’s a subject based on women’s empowerment.I can’t...
Shabana Azmi: “At 89 Mashallah, Shaukat Kaifi is my mother, my child and my friend.Warm compassionate generous to a fault. But brutally frank. Her memory is failing. But she remembers lines from a...
Badla Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Tapsee Pannu, Amrita Singh Directed by: Sujoy Ghosh Rating: ****(4 stars) The phonetic distance between badla, the Hindi word for revenge that serves as the deliciously filmy title of this...
B1. Sujoy Ghosh is the master of seductive suspense. His film may(Kahaani) or may not(Kahaani 2) work at the boxoffice. But there’s no doubt he knows how to play Bollywood’s...
1. Sujoy Ghosh is the master of seductive suspense. His film may(Kahaani) or may not(Kahaani 2) work at the boxoffice. But there’s no doubt he knows how to play Bollywood’s...
1. Uri: Calling a spade a spade,declaring Pakistan a political enemy in a film about India’s surgical attack on Pakistan is not the kind of soft-focus approach...
It’s not just about delivering the hits. It’s also about using the power that those hits give you to generate a change in the the audiences’...
Several powerful Bollywood voices have spoken to this writer about sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. And it is very clear that silence is no more an option.It...
Bollywood has been bestowing the audience with talent and beauty every time. Every now and then people compare one celebrity’s look and achievement with another celebrity....
Spoilers: Even I overrated some of these films when I reviewed them initially.A second viewing cleared the air and helped me expose the sham behind the...
Here is what the veteran actress Raakhee Gulzar had to say: “When I was told I was getting the award for best actress in an awful film called Beimaan I said...
[wp-review id=”5484″] Flag-waving is very much in vogue these days. It seems anyone can make a film as long as it panders to the patriotic sentiment....
The controversial episode of Comedy Nights Bachao where Tannishtha Chatterjee was ridiculed for her skin tone was finally aired on Sunday. While the offensive deeply racist...