Anupriya Goenka who had a tremendous 2020 on the digital platform with Asur, Aashram and specially Criminal Justice 2,tells Subhash K Jhawhy The OTT Is The New Normal A tough 2020, but you gad ...
2020 was arguably the worst year of our lives. How do you look back on the year? What is your takeaway from this year? I think...
Producer Gaurang Doshi who moved to Dubai some years ago, is both exasperated and amused by a report that he may have to sell the rights of Aankhen to another...
By now we all know actress Shilpa Shirodkar now settled in Dubai . ventured to get herself vaccinated against Covid 19. Little did she know that a simple health precaution ...
It was due forever, and a day.Friday, to be precise. Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, both tall both goodlooking and a dream pair on celluloid. Why haven’t they done a film together yet? ...
Kannada superstar Yash is all set to turn producer. The KGF superstar has so far stayed away from all suggestion of launching a production house. “Both KGF and its sequel...
Some of the biggest names from Bollywood are all set to descend on your computers, phones and television screens this month. Here are the biggies waiting their turn....
Half Brothers(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Luis Gerardo Méndez, Connor Del Rio Directed by Luke Greenfield Rating: ** You know the plot…Two wildly contrasting stepbrothers who have never met, forced ...
Wander(Video On Demand) Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Katheryn Winnick, Heather Graham\ Directed by April Mullen Rating: * ½ Canadian director April Mullen made a shallow shocker...
This month on Jan 10-11 three Bollywood personalities I’ve known closely over the years and one of whom I no longer know or want to know, turned a year older within 24...
Farhan Akhtar shares his birthday on January 9 with his cousin the choreographer and self-styled filmmaker Farah Khan. Except that they have similar-sounding first names and have skipped...
A report on Monday stating that Chandraprakash Dwivedi who is directing Prithviraj Chauhan for YashRaj films has had a fall-out with the Yash Raj scion Aditya Chopra , had the film industry abuzz.The report also stated that Aditya has blocked ...
In my long career as a film writer I’ve had the privilege of being very close to some major superstars from down South. Some are born ...
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...
