A vaccinated and unmasked America has returned to movie theatres, A slew of post-lockdown hits in May –A Quiet Place 2, Cruella, Fast& Furious 9 , The Conjuring—have put a...
Safety(Disney-Hotstar) Starring Jay Reeves,Thaddeus J. Mixson,Corinne Foxx Directed by Reginald Hudson Rating: *** ½ There is not one bad character in the entire length and breadth of Safety.And...
Recalled(Korean) Starring Seo Yea-ji, Kim Kang-woo Directed by Seo Yoo-min Rating: *** There is a shot at the end of this breathtaking thriller where we see the two protagonists,a man and...
“Who will be accountable for his aborted career if and when he is proven not guilty?” actress-filmmaker Divya Khosla wonders aloud when we speak about the fate of tv star Pearl...
Season 2 comes to us after months of suspense … how has the response been so far? Oh yes, it was delayed by a few months....
Netflix’s most prestigious Indian product of 2021 is getting ready for release. We are of course talking about director Ram Madhvani’s Dhamaka featuring Kartik Aryan. There were some(misguided) reports recently...
Children Of War (2014): In one of the many mind-numbing images in this exceptionally vivid work on the wages of war, the back of a truck is ...
Have you wondered where rumours about international casting come from? Certainly not from the star who is supposed to be cast. Lately there is a rumour...
First filmmaker Anubhav Sinha, now writer Apurva Agnihotri has spoken on Kartik Aaryan’s bullying with baseless stories of his ouster from prestigious projects doing the round. When I contacted him Apurva was still seething at ...
Four Good Days Starring Glenn Close, Mila Kunis and Stephen Root. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia Rating: ** I so wanted to love this film. A mother-daughter trauma drama about...
Producer-director Pahlaj Nihalani has returned home from hospital after 28 days of hanging on a thread between life and death. And it wasn’t Covid. “I didn’t tell anyone about it....
Another health scare for India’s greatest living actor. Dilip Kumar who is now 98, has been in and out hospital for the past few years. He was back a...
It is time to applaud Applause Entertainment. Take a bow, you Scamsters! The team of 2020’s Harshad Mehta bio-series Scam 1992 now have even more reason to be proud. They have ...
After Mother India when Sunil Dutt married Nargis, she was seen with him on screen only once, and that too in a one-shot appearance in Yaadein, the 1964 film that Sunil Dutt directed. With his son Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Dutt ...
Subhash K Jha Picks Nutan’s 5 Finest Many of her fans consider Nutan to be the finest dramatic actress of Hindi cinema. The films below prove her weight in gold. 1. Seema(1955): Nutan played a juvenile...
Friends: The Reunion (Zee5) Directed by Ben Winston Rating: ** ½ The eagerly awaited Friends: The Reunion on Zee 5 created quite a Friends-Zee .In the pipeline for months,it left...
Underrated, understated, gentle and affable, in spite of being a part of the entertainment industry for 19 years, Amit Sadh has not been a part of any camp in...
After Maine Pyar Kiya made Salman Khan an overnight star he insisted on SPB as his voice, although in Mumbai they said SPB sounded too South Indian to be Khan’s voice. Salman didn’t care. He insisted on SPB for some ...
The Dry Starring Eric Bana,Genevieve O’Reilly, Keir O’Donnell and John Polson Directed by Robert Connolly Rating: ** This highly-acclaimed Australian film falls short of its own expectations. It constructs ...
This week reports claiming that Karan Johar is all set to direct a new film entitled Prem Kahani featuring Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh turned out to be as bogus as KRK’s artificial bravado. I...
Actress Huma Qureshi wants Sonu Sood to be the prime minister of India. And Sonu just can’t stop blushing. “Yeh thoda zyada ho gaya(this is a bit too much). It’s very kind of her to say this....
Initially recognized by the United Nations in the year 1972, World Environment Day pays emphasis on the need to protect the environment and the living beings...
Silvat(2018): If you haven’t seen this 2018 digital film which you can easily locate on Zee5, you haven’t seen what Kartik Aaryan is capable of. We can safely ...
Former glamour model and singer Katie Price has shared that she is undergoing fat dissolving treatment to make her derriere smaller. Price shared the news in...
Bollywood actor Aparshakti Khurana and his wife Aakriti are expecting their first child. Aparshakti made the announcement on Instagram, with a black and white picture where the...
Singer Neeti Mohan and her husband actor Nihar Pandya have been blessed with a baby boy. And Nihar just can’t stop preening. When I contacted him Nihar could barely contain his joy. “All these years we...
The FIR against Tiger Shroff and his friend Disha Patani for driving out during the lockdown feels a little excessive considering we are all guilty of going out during the lockdown at some point or...
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...
The Family Man Season 2(Amazon Prime; 10 Episodes) Starring Manoj Bajpai, Samantha Akkineni, Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi Directed by Raj-DK, Suparn Varma Rating: **** Good to grow! The new season of Family Man escapes The Curse Of...
Mare Of Easttown(HBO, 7 Episodes) Starring: Kate Winslet, Jean Smart, Guy Pearce, Julianne Nicholson, Angourie Rice, David Denman, Evan Peters, Sosie Bacon, and John Douglas Thompson Directed by Craig Zobel Rating: **** At around mid-point,...
For all those who raved over Adarsh Gourav’s exceptional globally-applauded performance in The White Tiger the question, ‘What next for the young actor?’ has been answered. Gourav has been...
Correct me if I am wrong. But I feel of late, a note of complacency has crept into Vidya Balan’s performances, a know-it-all overconfidence which is the ...
Gnanathesikan, known to the entire world as Ilaiyaraaja has composed more than 7,000 songs in nearly 200 films in Tamil Telugu and other languages. R Balki who is the only...
Mani Ratnam and I started on the wrong note. I had just seen my friend Madhavan in Mani’s Alai Payuthe and I asked Maddy to introduce me to Mani.Mani responded with a terse, ...
The Killing Of Two Lovers Starring Clayne Crawford ,Sepideh Moafi ,Chris Coy ,Avery Pizzuto ,Bruce Graham Written & Directed by Robert Machoian Rating: *** This powerful sparse unsparing marital drama unfolds in a small...
“Stay indoors, sleep, watch films, eat what you like, though in the right proportions”…. This is the survival mantra that veteran actress Asha Parekh offers her fans during these...
Together Together Starring Ed Helms, Patti Harrison, Tig Notaro Directed by Nikole Beckwith Rating: ** ½ Far less aggressive in tone than the other new film on surrogate motherhood Milkwater, this one...
The dreaded Karni Sena known to make impractical demands on films that have a connection with the Rajput community , like Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat, is back in business. Known to jump into...
Is Indian Idol making a fool of all of us? Could all this tamasha about guest judges being asked to make only favourable comments about the contestants be a ruse...
Tamil-Hindi heartthrob R Madhavan turns 51 today on June 1. He has flown to Dubai for the special day to be with his wife Sarita and son Vedant ....
Actress Vidya Balan released the teaser of her upcoming film “Sherni” on her social media accounts on Monday. “A tigress always knows the way! Ready to...
The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minster Uddhav Thackeray on Monday evening, requesting the resumption of work in...
The most famous Asha Bhosle song composed by the great Madan Mohan is Jhumka gira re bareilly ke bazaar mein from Raj Khosla’s Mera Saaya 1966.For decades now, music listeners...
Your stunning performance in Moothon seemed a hard act to follow up. But you seem to have managed it in Thuramukham. What was your motivation for accepting this project...
Percy Versus Goliath Starring Christopher Walken, Christina Ricci, Zach Braff, Luke Kirby, Adam Beach, Martin Donovan, Roberta Maxwell and Peter Stebbings Directed by Clark Johnson Rating: ** ½ Walken walks into ...
Things Heard & Seen(Netflix) Starring Amanda Seyfried and James Norton Directed by Shari Springer Berman,Robert Pulcini Rating: ** The victim, the cad and the victim card…In how many films would...
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag(2013): History is created in several ways. One of them is cinema. And if Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag seems like a befitting homage to the flying spirit of India’s greatest runner...
Come praise or flak, Sonu Sood continues to work relentlessly for the Covi- affected. Sonu’s restless attention has now shifted to those children whose parents have ...
Will it won’t it? The pendulum-like fate of Akshay Kumar’s big-ticket potential blockbuster Sooryavanshi will finally be decided this month. It is reliably learnt that Reliance Entertainment will take a final...
Veteran actor and filmmaker par excellence Manoj Kumar in a prolific career of over 50 years has directed iconic films like Upkar , Shor and Roti Kapada Aur Makaan and acted in superhits like Pathhar Ke Sanam, Sanyasi and WohKaun Thi. Recalling the experience of shooting for WohKaun Thi Manoj Kumar says, “Do you know, one of...
