After Devdas ,Bajirao Mastani is my most favourite costume drama of the post Mughal-e-Azam era. It is opulent but restrained, lavish but lucid and the epic vision never overpowers the characters.Looking...
Superstar Salman Khan turns a year older on December 27. This time for the first time in living memory, Salman won’t be taking off for his ...
Raj-DK , as the duo likes to be called , have now made a short film entitled Glitch which will be part of the omnibus Unpaused to be released...
At a time when several A-listers are jobless, Alia Bhatt’s date diaries is as scrambled as the eggs she cooks up every morning in her swanky new...
Unpaused(Amazon Prime Video) Directed by Raj-DK, Nikkhil Advani, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Avinash Arun Dhaware, Nitya Mehra Rating: ****There is an awkward moment between the classy Lilette Dubey and her young unlikely Covid companion when the former….there’s no polite way of putting...
Ammomite(Video On Demand) Starring Kate Winslet, Soirse Rohhnan Directed by Francis Lee Rating: *** To see two of Europe’s most u and beautiful actreses together I’d sell my soul to the ...
Your film Vaanmagal for the Paava Kadhaigal anthology shows the parents of a child rape victim contemplating the child’s murder. Isn’t that far-fetched? Well there are fathers and mothers who...
The encomiums for Sonu Sood’s charitable work continue to pour in. The latest is that he has been designated the No.1 Asian celebrity of the year by a...
The Prom(Netflix) Starring : Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Keegan-Michael Key, Andrew Rannells, Ariana DeBose, Tracey Ullman, Kevin Chamberlin, Mary Kay Place, Kerry Washington, Jo Ellen Pellman. Directed by Ryan Murphy Rating: *** ½...
2020 was no doubt the worst year we’ve seen. How did the year treat you? No doubt 2020 was one of the worst years we’ve seen...
Sridhar Raghavan wrote the very fine Season 1 of that excellent webseries Criminal Justice.Now you have written Season 2 . How do you compare Season 2 of Criminal Justice...
2020 was no doubt the worst year we’ve seen. How did the year treat you? No doubt 2020 was one of the worst years we’ve seen...
After Dabangg 3 and Radhe India’s Most Wanted Bhai, Salman Khan returns to his most beloved colour khaki in Mahesh Manjrekar’s Antim, the Hindi remake of the Marathi hit Mulshi Pattern. How different can this cop’s film be...
I’m Your Woman(Amazon Prime) Starring Rachel Brosnahan,Arinzé Kene,Marsha Stephanie Blake,Bill Heck,Frankie Faison Directed by Julia Hart Rating: *** ½ The last sentence of dialogue in this superbly crafted thriller with...
Mank(Netflix) Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann, Charles Dance. Directed by David Fincher...
Not that they were taking any chances earlier. But with cast member Neetu Kapoor, Maniesh Paul, Varun Dhawan and director Raj Mehta testing positive for Covid19 the cast and crew of the ...
Sonu Sood’s latest Telugu film on the floors Alludu Adhurs directed by Santosh Srinivas has undergone a ‘see’ change. We’ll be seeing a lot more of Sonu Sood in this film than originally planned. ...
We have had so many cases of women coming forward with phone messages sometimes going back to 10-15 years,as proof of being harassed by men.Men from ...
Stardust(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Johnny Flynn , Jena Malone and Marc Maron Directed by Gabriel Range Rating: * ½ The worst disservice to a celebrity figure is...
The Answer(Amazon Prime) Starring Victor Bannerjee, Leonidas Gulaptis Directed by Pavan Kaul Rating: *** ½(3 and a half stars) “There is true kinship only with God,” says the film’s young protagonist...
By now everyone knows Vikramaditya Motwane’s AK Vs AK has Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap playing themselves. What is not known is that Nawazuddin Siddiqui has a very interesting cameo in the film. Like the two AKs, Nawaz plays himself ...
The ever-beautiful MP Hema Malini had to skip the last parliamentary session. “I wanted to go . But my daughters (Esha and Ahana) would hear none of it. They...
How was 2020 for you? 2020 has been a tough year for all of us .But it also gave us time to introspect and taught us...
1. At the age of 24, Raj Kapoor became the youngest film director India in 1948 to make Aag ,a blistering film way ahead of its time about a man whose ...
Actor Tanuj Virwani has his hands full with four forthcoming digital serials. Prominent among them is Tandoor on Ullu . The serial is a chilling chronicle of killer Sushil Sharma’s pre-planned slaying of his wife...
Driveways(Amazon Prime) Starring Hong Chau, Lucas Jaye, and Brian Dennehy. Directed by Andrew Ahn Rating: **** ½ This understated masterpiece about reaching out and touching your neighbour’s hand is so...
There have been numerous attempts to make the authoritative bio-pic on the late Smita Patil who died at the age of 31 in 1986 after giving birth to...
Abhishek Bachchan loves kabbaddi far more than in his capacity of a team owner. The documentary Sons Of The Soil: Jaipur Pink Panthers has brought Abhishek’s passion for the game to...
Falling(Video On Demand) · Starring Viggo Mortensen,Lance Henriksen · Directed by Viggo Mortensen Rating *** ½ If I have to choose one grossly underrated actor in Hollywood it would have to be ViggoMortensen. His ...
Plans to move Indian film shootings to foreign shores now seem to be reaching unexpected roadblocks. It seems the second wave of the Coronavirus is pushing ...
Torbaaz(Neflix) Starring Sanjay Dutt, Rahul Dev, Nargis Fakhri Directed by Girish Malik Rating: ** Torbaaz is one of those well-intended films that you feel bad in criticizing, It is made with a noble purpose,...
It’s now Katrina Kaif’s turn to head out of India to shoot for Ali Abbas Zafr’s Super Soldier one of India’s most expensive films . The untitled...
After Badlapur we were eager to see the brilliant Sriram Raghavan tap Varun Dhawan’s acting skills in Ekkis , a war film produced by Dinesh Vijan, Ekkis is a bio-pic on the Paramvir Chakra winner Arun Khetarpal. When I touch base with Sriram(after a long...
We are not close friends. But I’ve known Remo d’Souza for many many years. He is cordial , gentle warm and polite. The heart attack at the age...
Durgamati The Myth (Amazon) Starring: Bhumi Pednekar, Arshad Warsi, Jisshu Sengupta, Mahie Gill Directed by: Ashok Rating: ** While cinema the worldover has made gigantic leaps in theme and execution, we seem to be trapped in a time warp....
2020 has been a specially rewarding year for Pankaj Tripathi . During the year the versatile actor got a chance to prove his rocksolid mettle in characters and films as varied...
Mosul(Netflix) Starring Suhail Dabbach as Major Jasem,Adam Bessa as Kawa Directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan. Rating: ** Lensing some violent encounters on the ruined streets of Iraq, Mosul pertains to be one of those war and...
Filmmaker Rahul Rawail’s biography on Raj Kapoor is ready for publishing. “It was actually writer-director Apurva Asrani who planted the idea in my head, It took three years of my life....
While his Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari Director Abhishek Sharma feels feature films made for cinema should only be released in theatres, Manoj Bajpai disagrees. He says, “Film...
Freaky(Video On Demand) Starring Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Katie Finneran, Celeste O’Connor, and Alan Ruck. Directed by Christopher Landon Rating: * No amount of shiver-coating can hide ...
With the re-opening of theatres proving to be a damp squib, movie producers are now looking at ways to minimize losses even as the theatre revenues...
Uncle Frank(Amazon Prime Video) Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi Directed by Alan Ball Rating: *** ½ I can tell you that Uncle Frank is a road movie about ...
It is amusing to see how far film projects are willing to go juss to get the audiences’ attention and how gullible the media pretends to be while ...
Fardeeen Khan who was spotted in Mumbai at casting director Mukesh Chhabra’s office, is all set to make a comeback to the Indian entertainment industry. He was last seen in...
The iconic star actor Dharmendra who turned 85 on December 8, says there is no reason to celebrate his birthday this year. “Our country and civilization at large ...
The iconic star actor Dharmendra who turned 85 on December 8, says there is no reason to celebrate his birthday this year. “Our country and civilization at large ...
Fardeeen Khan who was spotted in Mumbai at casting director Mukesh Chhabra’s office, is all set to make a comeback to the Indian entertainment industry. He was last seen in...
It is amusing to see how far film projects are willing to go juss to get the audiences’ attention and how gullible the media pretends to be while ...
I’ve nothing against retro songs, as long as they remember whom they are paying a homage to. In the track Disco deewane in Karan Johar’s Student Of The Year, the ...
The Sound Of Metal(Amazon Prime) Starring Riz Ahmed as Ruben Stone,Olivia Cooke as Lou,Paul Raci as Joe,Lauren Ridloff as Diane,MathieuAmalric as Richard Berger Directed by Darius Marder Rating: ** ½ First things first. Riz Ahmed is ...
