Without resorting to double meaning dialogues and any skin show, Taapsee Pannu in the trailer of Haseen Dillruba succeeds in portraying wantonness better than anything Bindu or Padma Khanna ever did in their hate-days....
He is already known for his acting chops, his comic timing , his onscreen romantic vibes with his co-stars and for being an outsider who stormed Bollywood....
Sharib Hashmi, Manoj Bajpai’s Bestfriend In The Family Man Just Can’t Stop Smiling. He Tells Subhash K Jha Why. The second season of The Family Man is an even bigger success than the first.How do you react...
One must congratulate the brave soul producer Ashwin Varde for doing a sequel to Umesh Shukla’s 2013 film Oh My God a mildly amusing debate on atheism versus religiosity . Since then the ...
Sunflower(Zee5, 8 Episodes) Starring Sunil Grover, Ranvir Shorey, Girish Kulkarni, Shonali Nagrani, Sonal Jha and Ashish Vidyarthi Directed Vikas Bahl, Rahul Sengupta Rating: ** ½ Sunflower gives the talented stand-up comic Sunil Grover a rare chance to captain the ship.Alas, a sinking one!Sunflower comes to us ...
Nawazuddin Siddiqui feels privileged to have worked with Buddhadeb Daspupta in one of his last films. “When he offered me Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa I accepted it without a second thought.It isn’t every day that...
Sameera Reddy had the privilege of working in two Bengali films Ami Yasin Ar Madhubala in 2007 and Kalpurush in 2008. “Kalpurush changed my attitude to my career and my self-esteem. Please remember I ...
Badlapur(2015): “The tree remembers, the axe forgets,” reads a proverb in the opening credits of a film that left me feeling like both the tree and the...
Would television star Pearl S Puri have to spend his birthday in jail? Pearl who turns 32 on 10 July is unlikely to get bail since he has...
Kutty Story(Tamil) Starring:Gautham Menon, Amala Paul, Vinoth Kishan, Amitash Pradhan, Megha Akash, Sunaina, Varun, Sakshi Agarwal, Vijay Sethupathi and Aditi Balan Directed by Gautham Menon, Vijay, Venkat Prabhu and Nalan Kumarasamy Rating: ** Inconsistent, unconvincing and worse, haphazard, this Tamil anthology of 4 stories left me cold. It is designed as virgin-fresh takes ...
The marketing gimmicks to keep stars in the news are now crossing all limits. Almost every other day we have one Bollywood actor or another in the news...
With Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta story making it into the IMDb’s list of most watched serials across the world, Pratik Gandhi who played Mehta has much to be proud about. Responding...
My first impression of Sonam Kapoor was that of a little girl trying to behave all grown up. She was assisting Sanjay Leela Bhansali on Black and trying to make herself useful on the sets....
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...
