Okay, we know. The year 2020 has started on a terrible note for Bollywood Movies. In all of January and February there was only one superhit, and that ...
Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar and Aamir Khan are known to be the biggest pranksters of our film industry. When shooting outdoors they conceive elaborate plan to prank their co-stars. On occasions they...
Shabana Azmi: “I came back from Budapest from shooting on 15 March and both (husband) Javed (Akhtar)and I have self-quarantined. We have been counselling whomever we can to maintain...
Looking back , as Lagaan did with so much nostalgic grace, it seems providential that Javed Akhtar wrote all the strikingly unusual and vivid lyrics of Aamir Khan’s first home production. 15 years ago when Aamir was nursing seemingly impossible dreams...
Films with female heroes are facing rough weather at the boxoffice this year.After the unexpected underperformance of Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak and Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga, both high-end calibre-conscious products featuring A-list heroines Deepika Padukone and Kangana Ranaut in the lead ,...
Movie Review: Thappad Starring: Taapsee Pannu, Pavail Gulati, Maya Sarao, Geetika Vidya, Kumud Mishra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Tanve Azmi, Naila Grewal Directed by Anubhav Sinha Rating: *****(5 stars) Thappad Review: Let’s face it. Damaged humanism, fractured emotions and flawed relationships are the crux...
Sridevi once said “I would like to work with Yash Chopra and Shekhar Kapoo ragain and again” Let us relive the golden era of Sridevi and we brought you an...
Malang Starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Anil Kapoor, Disha Patani, Kunal Khemu Directed by Mohit Suri Rating: ****(4 stars) Not quite as noire-ish as Alfred Hitchcock would have liked it to be,and yet dark enough to qualify as a dishy...
Is 2020 an unfavourable year for female heroes? Two major films in January with leading ladies in author-backed roles has tanked at the boxoffice one after another. Chhapaak and Panga, ...
There is an alarming new formula for pseudo-historical potboilers on Hindi cinema. The brave indomitable: Hindu warrior versus the evil Islamic invader. …Recently in an interview...
There is an alarming new formula for pseudo-historical potboilers on Hindi cinema. The brave indomitable: Hindu warrior versus the evil Islamic invader. …Recently in an interview...
If at all, 2019 in Bollywood would be remembered for the workingclass hero,as represented by Ayushmann Khurrana giving us hits while the larger than life hero took a backseat.What does 2020 have in...
Actress Shweta Prasad who shot to fame as a child actor in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Makdee and who had a hit last year in Vivek Agnihotri’s The Tashkent Files, has said goodbye to her marriage barely...
Ashutosh Gowariker….classy well-researched aesthetic epics.Sure, some of them didn’t work at the boxofffice. But his commitment to telling a story that is honest decent and engaging is unflinching....
The last month of the year promise to deliver some solid hits for Bollywood.Beginning with Ashutosh Gowariker’s lavish historical Panipat and Mudassar Aziz’s lascivious comedy PatiPatni Aur Woh on December 6, the year closes with the Rani Mukerjee-driven ...
With Karan Johar’s feature film Drive heralding the new era of straight-to-digital screening, there is a widespread apprehension among Bollywood’s A-listers that their feature films could find their release on...