1. In her directorial debut Kaashvie Nair, daughter of filmmaker Shashilal Nair(who made talked-about films like Angaar, Falak and Grahan in the 1980s) has accumulated an impressive cast , with Neena Gupta playing the matriarch again. Neena gets...
Nawazuddin Siddiqui is back home in his native town Budhana in Uttarakhand . He explains, “This is where I was during the lockdown last year. This...
Cinema Bandi(Telugu, Netflix) Produced by Raj –DK; Directed by Praveen Kandregula Rating: **** After I finished smiling and sobbing over this amazing work of pure genius, I wanted to ask...
1. Raazi was originally titled Sehmat.Harindar S Sikka’s book on which Raazi was supposed to be based was called Calling Sehmat. And yes, Sehmat seemed the right title for the film.That was Alia Bhatt’s name...
A Salman Khan starrer doesn’t come cheap. The going price is anything from Rs 150 crores to 200 crores.The Zee network , one hears, were supposed to pay close to Rs 215 crores for the exclusive...
Rifkin’s Festival Starring Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López, and Christoph Waltz. Written & Directed by Woody Allen Rating: *** ½ At 85 Woody Allen continues to...
1. Let’s be honest. Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai was designed for the big screen. From his grand entry to the fight in the climax, Salman Khan does his ceeteemaar act with a...
When the pandemic first hit us in March 2020 we never thought it would last more than a few months. It is no into its second...
Fashion(2008): The sum-total of Bhandarkar’s vision is far greater than the captivating components that characterize his protagonist’s journey to painful self realization. If we go right...
Nayattu(Netflix, Malalayam) Starring Kunchako Boban, Joju George and Nimisha Sajayan Directed by Martin Prakkat Rating: **** I am fully certain now that the renaissance in Indian cinema is coming to us through Kerala. Every month...
Roshan Mathew’s rise in the last five years has been swift and surefooted. With diverse powerful characters and performances in Viswasapoorvam Mansoor, Mothoon, Kappela, C U Soon and Annum Pennum, Roshan is rapidly acquiring the...
Singer Amit Kumar who came as a special judge for the special edition of Indian Idol on his father the legendary Kishore Kumar, was not happy with the performances by the young Idol singers.In an...
Nobody Starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Aleksei Serebryakov, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon Directed by Ilya Naishuller Rating: ** ½ Most reviewers have come down on this actioner with a ton of bricks condemning its...
Sonu Sood’s messianic fame is spreading across the world. The latest community of the distressed to reach out to India’s no.1 Covid saviour is the NRIs.Apparently this foreign persuasion for phoran(immediate)...
Here is something that Salman Khan has never done,but is finally about to do. Watch one of his own films to beginning to end. Salman is known to be ...
1. Shot to superstardom with Arjun Reddy in 2017, Vijay made his debut 6 years earlier on Nuvvila. This is the Telugu film that also introduced Yami Gautam. Vijay says he is proud of his debut film and...
Hum Bhi Akele Tum Bhi Akele(Disney-Hotstar) Starring Anshuman Jha, Zareen Khan, Directed by Harish Vyas Rating: ** He is gay.She is lesbian. And they are on a road trip of self-discovery. This sounds like a sturdy recipe...
Photo Prem(Amazon Prime, Marathi) Starring Neena Kulkarni, Directed by Aditya Rathi & Gayatri Patel Rating: ** ½ This is a brave film. Brave and slight. Or so it seems from the outside. A film...
With the prevalence of the pandemic, the digital platform continues to expand in various directions. We now have prominent regional platforms coming up to give competition...
One Of India’s Finest Actors, the Malayali Maverick Fahadh Faasil, a Modern-Day Dilip Kumar Is Back Again Giving Yet Another Layered & Luminous Performance In Joji. He Discusses His Preoccupations As An Actor...
A few years ago when Anil Kapoor was younger, he had announced a desi version of the 2003 Mark Waters directed Disney rom-com Freaky Friday where Mom Jamie Lee Curtis and daughter Lindsey Lohan swapped places. Anil wanted Sonam Kapoor ...
Sing Sena Supremo Lata Mangeshkar hero-worshipped her father. But not many people know that she was equally attached to her mother, if not more. Recalls Lataji, “Aaee, as all us...
Remembering her mother the formidable actress-activist Shaukat Azmi who was a matriarch to all she loved , Shabana says, “She was remarkable in many ways . She always ...
When in an interview with me, Nawazuddin Siddiqui spoke out against celebrities posting holiday pictures the last things I expected was his brother to slam him for it.The...
A report in a section of the press claims Telugu star Naveen Pollishetty met producer Sajid Nadiadwala with the offer to remake his superhit comedy Jathi Ratnalu....
Vitthal Teedi(Gujarati,Oho, 6 episodes) Rating: *** Starring Pratik Gandhi, Directed by Abhishek Jain There is a sequence in the second episode of this fairly engaging series where Pratik Gandhi,the Gujarati actor who shot...
More and more celebrities are coming forward to help and support daily wage-earners from the film industry during this period of unprecedented crisis. But that’s not...
Karnan(Tamil,Amazon Prime) Starring Dhanush, Lal, Yogi Babu, Azhagam Perumal, Natarajan Subramaniam, Rajisha Vijayan, Gouri G. Kishan and Lakshmi Priya Chandramouli. Directed by Mari Selvaraj Rating:**** This is not just a film. It is a movement. A wakeup call for all Indians who think all...
Ramyug (MX Player,10 Episodes) Directed by Kunal Kohli Rating: ** ½ First the good news. Kunal Kohli’s re-telling of the Ramayan doesn’t compare too unfavourably with Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan which has, for all practical purposes, become...
Telugu star Sundeep Kishan who turns 34 on May 7 is back with a new film Gully Rowdy. He tells Subhash K Jha about the film and its shooting during the pandemic....
Filmmakers in Bengal love Tagore, not just Sharmila but also the Grand Old Man of letters Rabindranath Tagore whose novels and short stories have been ternally adapted by Bengali filmmakers from Satyajit Ray(Teen...
Sulthan(Tamil, Disney-Hotstar) Starring Karthi ,Rashmika Mandanna, Napoleon, Lal, Yogi Babu Directed by Bakkiyaraj Kannan Rating: * ½ Someone somewhere must have thought this to be a...
1. Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd(2007): Reema Kagti’s debut film has enough chutzpah to keep you purring at the blend of parody and pathos . Once you get into...
Aparna Sen had the singular honour of being Satyajit Ray’s heroine when she was 16. She played one of the three protagonists in Ray’s omnibus Teen Kanya in 1961. Aparna , a...
The pride of Malayalam cinema Fahadh Faasil feels a special pride about his next project entitled Malayankunju. No, not because the actor par excellence injured himself during the shooting(an accident...
Long before Covid changed the world as we knew it, a new breed of stars changed Bollywood forever. Presenting the 5 best acting talent of the post Ranbir-Deepika era . 1. Alia Bhatt: Just...
Malayali Filmmaker Sajin Baabu’s new film Biriyaani has stunned shocked and regaled movie audiences all over the world. The young 35-year old director here speaks to Subhash K Jha on the genesis of...
A story doing the rounds claims Manoj Bajpai and Irrfan Khan were both being considered for the role of Paresh Rawal’s henchman in Ram Gopal Varma’s 1997 dud Daud. Manoj finally got the role. According to Manoj, Ramu agreed...
You heard it here first. While reports of the long-awaited Raj-DK’s webseries The Family Man being aired in July, have been making the rounds, the truth, all you Family Man enthusiasts,...
1. Dhoom 2(2006) Clever… very clever. That’s the impression you come away with from this sumptuous package of gloss glamour glitter and an oomph quotient that starts at the neck ...
Long before Nayanthara and Parvathy Thiruvothu, Trisha was among the first female hero’s of South Indian cinema grabbing attention and acclaim in one author-backed role after another in Tamil...
Last Moment Of Clarity(BookMyShow) Starring Samara Weaving, Carly Chaikin, Zach Avery, and Brian Cox. Directed by James Krusel,Colin Krisel Rating: * ½ I didn’t like the look of this ...
Does anyone remember Achala Sachdev, the eternal mom of filmdom, a bit playful, a bit sad, very sweet and a little lost…Achala Sachdev died a very lonely death in 2012...
Nargis Dutt was only 51 when we lost her to cancer in 1981. Her last wish was to see her darling son Sanjay Dutt on the big screen in Rocky. That...
One(Malayalam,Netflix) Starring Mammootty, Murali Gopy, Joju George, Siddique, Mathew Thomas, Ishaani Krishna, Gayatri Arun and Nimisha Sajayan Directed by Santosh Viswanath Rating: *** Hold your horses, all you Mammoothy devotees. The thundering thespian does not make his entry until half an hour ...
Anandi Gopal(Marathi, Zee5) Starring Bhagyashree Milind,Lalit Prabhakar Directed by Sameer Vidhwans Rating: **** On 11 March 1886 Anandbai Gopal Joshi held her degree as India’s first female doctor as her proud husband whistled with joy. I...
Lol- Hasse Toh Phasse(Amazon Series) Rating: * It is appalling to see such an impressive linup of comic performers– Sunil Grover, Mallika Dua, Kusha Kapila, Gaurav Gera, Cyrus Broacha, Suresh Menon, Aakash Gupta, Aadar Malik, Aditi Mittal, and Ankita Shrivastav—being given such woefully poor lines to mouth on a show...
“I remember him as an affectionate and caring father, though the onus of bringing me up , taking care of all my day-to-day requirements fell entirely on my mother. She looked...
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal was the kind of actor we saw and recognized , although we never knew his name. He was a retired army officer who had well-etched ...
1. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi(2008): In her very first film this natural-born scenestealer proved herself a formidable co-star to Shah Rukh Khan. In a homage to Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar, Anushka plays Taani a newly-married wife whose husband-to-be dies...
