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...
Shiva Baby Starring Rachel Sennott as Danielle,Molly Gordon as Maya,Danny Deferrari as Max,Polly Draper as Debbie,Fred Melamed as Joel Directed by Emma Seligman Rating: ** Every critic abroad seems to love this film...
Vakeel Saab(Amazon, Telugu) Starring Pawan Kalyan, Nivetha Thomas, Anjali, Ananya Nagalla, Prakash Raj, and Shruthi Haasan. Directed by Venu Sriram Rating:*** Closer in spirit to the Tamil version Nerkonda Paarvai than the original Hindi film Pink, Vakeel Saab has its heart in the right place, even...
The Covid has played havoc with human contact even between individuals who are so close to one another as to be considered inseparable. Legendary real-life couple...
As per plans , the gay couple in the new series His Storyy played by Satyadeep Mishra and Mrinal Dutt were supposed to get married at the end of Season 1 which started streaming...
1. Jhankar Beats(2003) : As cool as Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai, with an added sizzle that won’t fizzle even when the film’s room -temperature gets so tepid, it smells like life’s ennui.That’s...
Parliamentarian-singer Baabul Supriyo is now quarantined in Kolkata after contracting the Covid virus for a second time.The first time Baabul tested positive was in August 2020...
Celina who now resides in the Alpine solitude of Austria with her husband and children, was launched by Feroz Khan opposite his son Fardeen in Janasheen in 2003. Celina still remembers Feroz Khan...
The Violent Heart Starring Jovan Adepo, Grace Van Patten, Lukas Haas, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Cress Williams, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, and Mary J. Blige Directed by Karem Sanga Rating: ** The Violent Heart is a film that ...
Concrete Cowboy(Netflix) Starring Idris Elba, Caleb McLaughlin, Jharrel Jerome, Byron Bowers, Lorraine Toussaint Directed by Ricky Staub Rating: ** Some films mean well. But good intentions don’t always make good cinema. Concrete Cowboy ,that...
Self-censorship has finally arrived in our entertainment industry. Ekta Kapoor whose serials have repeatedly been in the vortex of virulent protests for their prurient content has decided to clamp...
Sonu Sood’s newly-started endeavour to connect the distressed with the correct source of help is going great guns. He takes time off from his hectic schedule to...
There are reports of the eagerly-awaited series The Family Man Season 2 finally getting a streaming date on Amazon .However this is all wishful thinking by...
Hello Mini Season 3(MX Player,10 Episodes) Starring Anuja Joshi, Mrinal Dutt, Directed by Faruk Kabir Rating: *** The stalkers’ franchise is now 3 seasons old and...
