One of the many pleasures of watching Seema Pahwa’s directorial debut in Ramprasad Ka Tehrva is to see the great Naseeruddin Shah as the dead patriarch of the family. Naseer of course lives the...
Reports that Ranbir kapoor will charge extra for ever additional days of shooting has many topnotch producers in the film industry falling off their chairs with...
Bobby Deol who made a comeback in 2020 with Prakash Jha’s webseries Ashram looks affectionately at the year that was and the time to come.Interview with Subhash K Jha 2020 was arguably the worst year...
Would you agree 2020 was the worst year of our lives? Yes agreed, we saw too much pain, ugliness, hatred, uncertainty, helplessness. Yet on the other...
One doesn’t know from where this erupted just days before Deepika Padukone’s birthday . But the reports that she will play the main villain in the next Dhoom franchise...
It was when veteran actor-director Satish Kaushik was travelling with Salman Khan that things fell into place for Satish’s dream project. Recounts Satish, “I got to know about Lal Bihari Mritak who was declared dead by...
The thing about newcomers is, you never where they are coming from…unless they come from a film family. In which case we are informed well in...
Salman Khan who is on board in Satish Kaushik’s Kaagaz as a “presenter” was so bowled over by the film’s theme that he insisted on being featured...
The Assistant(Amazon Prime Video) Directed by Kitty Green Rating: **** Just days before I was left dazed by this sparkling gem—or maybe sparkling is not quite...
Kaagaz(Zee5 Directed by Satish Kaushik Rating: *** Kaagaz tells a very peculiar and poignant story of a man from Uttar Pradesh who spent 18 years of...
In its simplicity and charm and its deep connectivity with the grassroots Prakash Jha’s production Matto Ki Saikal takes us back to the the days of Pure Cinema when movies informed and...
All My Life(Video On Demand) Starring Jessica Rothe, Harry Shum Jr Directed by Marc Meyers Rating: *** If you are a sucker for romantic comedies with a tragic twist...
If fans of Raj-DK’s The Family Man are wondering why they’ve to wait until so long—February 12 is the release date– for Season 2, there is a reason...
An over-enthusiastic entertainment portal caused a flutter on the internet with the “news” that Sriram Raghavan is making a webseries based on the December 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines airbus to...
I always say THEIR best is far superior to OUR best.In 2020 which performance-wise was quite mediocre in Bollywood, these actors in foreign films shone like the...
Tiger Shroff in A Conversation With Subhash K Jha 2020 was arguably the worst year of our lives. How do you look back on the year? what is...
This is big news. Preity Zinta locked far away in Los Angeles with her dear husband,is turning producer with a webseries for Disney-Hotstar.The series to be produced by Preity will be directed ...
Written & Directed by Seema Pahwa Rating: **** What a wonderful way for Indian cinema to begin the year! Let me say straightaway that Ramprasad Ki Tehrviis a very fine film,...
London , in case you haven’t noticed, is under lockdownagain after the upsurge of a new strain of the Covid.Flights between India and UK stand cancelled.Shabana Azmi who was committed...
The Midnight Sky(Netflix) Starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demián Bichir, Kyle Chandler, and Caoilinn Springall Directed by George Clooney Rating: ** George Clooney is one of the most important voices of...
Masterchef Vikas Khanna who is now a feature-film director, feels the OTT platform in India is blooming. “When I’m in-between projects I have time to watch movies.What I’ve seen on the OTT platform...
Coolie No 1 reiterates the one golden rule of cinema. Never do a remake of a bad film. So which is the worst remake of all times? Is it Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag or SajidKhan’s Himmatwala or Satish Kaushik’s Karzzz(zzzzzzzz……)? Or how about...
We Can Be Heroes(Netflix) Starring YaYa Gosselin, Priyanka Chopra Directed by Robert Rodriguez Rating: * ½ After seeing this juvenile mishmash of the super-hero film about extra-cocky kids who ...
Manoj Tiwari couldn’t be in a happier place even if he tried. “My baby girl came on 30 December.I couldn’t have hoped for a better start to the...
Nail Polish(Zee5) Starring Arjun Rampal, Manav Kaul , Rajit Kapur, Anand Tiwari Written & Directed by Bugs Bhargava Krishna Rating: *** In a sudden midpoint-swerve the intriguingly titled Nail Polish sees its antagonist Veer Singh behaving like a woman...
For those who are wondering what Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are doing with the Kapoors, Ranbir and family, in anything-but-boring Rathanthambore, here is the inside story. It was a sheer coincidence!! Ek Ittefaq. Says a ...
Nomadland Starring Frances McDormand Written & Directed by Chloe Zao Rating: **** It is not easy to watch this film about a bleak barren desolate aging woman travelling...
Masterchef Vikas Khanna is now a film director too,among many other things. He talks to Subhash K Jha about the trauma and philanthropy of 2020 and how he survived the year to...
Our entertainment industry excels in coming up with outrageous ideas. Of course while implementing them the brains behind the balderdash think they are being super-ingenuous. Only...
2020 proved a losing battle for movie theatres. They failed to lure back the audiences. But 2021 may turn the tide . There is a slew...
Bhojpuri star and and politician Manoj Tiwari and his wife were blessed with a baby girl on 31 December.The proud father could barely contain his joy, “I wanted a sister...
Ours is the only corner of the earth where watching anyone work to better the society is seen with prejudiced suspicious eyes. So it is with Sonu Sood who ...
Television and OTT actor Aamir Ali is glad 2020 has ended. “It has been a very very tough year for all of us. I’ve tried to remain positive and...
Luxor Starring: Andrea Riseborough as Hana,Michael Landes as Carl Directed by: Zeina Durra Rating: *1/2 No power on earth would convince me that this film, a skimpy love story woven in and around...
From Khanna to cinema to author, and now India’s only culture centre in the US, culinary wizard Vikas Khanna wears many hats. But the one he is proudest of is ...
Let Them All Talk(Amazon Prime) Starring Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, Candice Bergen, Lucas Hedges, and Gemma Chan. Directed by Steven Soderberg Rating: ** ½ Two Meryl Streep releases within a month! What have...
Aravinda Adiga’s ambitious novel The White Tiger is about class conflict erupting into an individual’s civil war against his employers. It is a hardhitting futuristic novel…at least I hope...
The Covid pandemic spared none, not even theBachchans. When it stuck the First Family of Bollywoodwe finally knew it was serious, more serious than we had ever imagined. Presenting...
In her 30-year career as a leading lady, the legendary Asha Parekh says she has never seen stardom like Rajesh Khanna’s. “When we were shooting for Aan ...
Rajesh Khanna’s rich repertoire of melody-drenched performances in Aradhana, Amar Prem. Kati Patang,Dushman, Sachcha Jhutha, Roti, Premnagar, Aap Ki Kasam, etc etc have been rightly celebrated. But as a diehard Khanna fan I can tell you Khanna did better than what...
You were probably looking at the central performer when these scenestealers came along crept up on the plot and swept away the show right from under the...
Cinematographer Ishwar Bidri who passed away on 28 December was a celluloid magician. The kind of stunning visuals he created for the films of the mighty J P Dutta were ...
Shakeela Starring Richa Chadha,Pankaj Tripathi Written and Directed by Indrajit Lankesh Rating: * ½ Why a bio-pic on Shakeela, an impoverished man’s version of Silk Smitha ? And why a bio-pic which is so...
Wonder Woman 1984 Starring Gal Gadot ,Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen. Directed by Patty Jenkins Rating: ** Rejoice, all you Gal Gadot fans. The ...
….Or, I trolled you so! The five who were most brutally trolled in the year that the world went viral in more ways than one. 1. Karan ...
Everyone who has seen the Tamil movie-making maestro Vetrimaaran stunning new short film Ooor Iravu which is part of the new Netflix anthology Paava Kadhaigal, would agree that this half-hour masterpiece on honour killing is ...
In no living year have we seen so many go.And only two of these extraordinary talents died of Covid. 1. Irrfan Khan: We lost him to cancer on...
Eeb Allay Ooo Directed by Prateek Vats Rating: *** ½ You either have to be foolhardy or audacious or both to attempt something so unconventional and culturally specific. The very...
Since there are no formal awards functions this year, Subhash K Jha decided to give some of his own. 1.Best Silent Actor Of The Year: Alia Bhatt who didn’t utter...
Bhai doesn’t have to do anything to get his fans’ attention. He just has to walk that languorous walk and talk that that devil-may-care drawl for the Salmaniacs go...
