A Simple Murder(6 episodes, SonyLIV) Starring Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Sushant Singh, Amit Sial and Priya Anand Directed by Sachin Pathak Rating: ** ½ With no better option left, the couple in this fair-to-fine series Manish and Richa typify the can’t-do-without-can’t-do-with type of relationship...
One of India’s most accomplished cinematographers Baba Azmi’s directorial debut MeeRaqsam about a sprightly young Muslim girl’s determination to learn Bharat Natyam has won for Baba the Best Debut Director at the just-concluded Indian Film...
The tirade against “love jihad ” recently on a prominent news channels(where panelists were heard asking that cross-communal marriages be forbidden by law) provoked strong protests from...
Shekhar Suman , the baap of stand-up comedy in India has some wise words of rebuke for Bharati Singh, now in custody for alleged drug consumption. Says Shekhar, “Your talent should be your...
Kartik Aryan turned 30 on Sunday. But he strikes me as being 13 or maybe 15 , no more. He is childlike in his enthusiasm to win...
Mismatched(Netflix) Starring Prajakta Kohli, Rohit Saraf, Rannvijay Singh, Vidya Malvade Rating: ** What if Simran in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai were a lesbian? And what if she hung around Rahul as his best friend without ever lusting for him? Mismatched seems to take...
After stand-up comic Bharati Singh and her husband were arrested for drugs possession, one of India’s oldest and most respected stand-up artistes Raju Shrivastava condemned the culture of substance abuse. “I...
Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa(ErosNow) Starring Nawazzudin Siddiqui, Pankaj Tripathy, Niharika Singh Written & Directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta Rating: * ½ Pankaj Tripathy makes an appearance after 50 minutes of a tortuous this plodding surreal yatra, and that too for 5...
Nargis Fakhri who has disappeared from Bollywood , is nowhere to be seen in the trailer of Torbaaz, Sanjay Dutt’s long-awaited Torbaaz directed by one of Bollywood’s underrated names Girish Malik ,...
Bicchoo Ka Khel(Zee5) Starring Divyendu Sharma, Rajesh Sharma,Syed Zeeshan Qadri Rating: ** Some more mayhem and maha-mari in the land of bakchodi and maara-mari. The stinkiepoosmall-town formula which started on the big-screen with Anand Rai’s Tanu Weds Manu then went in Barelli Ki Barfi. That formula has...
Sanjay Dutt’s long-awaited Torbaaz directed by one of Bollywood’s underrated names GirishMalik , is going to be on Netflix on 11 December. Dutt’s fans, of whom there’s no dearth, can expect...
The announcement on Monday morning of Ahmed Khan collaborating with Zee Studios for an action film Om: The Battle Within starring Aditya Roy Kapoor came as a surprise . Isn’t Ahmed already directing two...
You would think playing a man on a wheelchair would make any normal actor wretchedly unhappy.Not Hrithik. Not in Guzaarish. Though he played a paraplegic in the film...
Manta Ray(Thailand,France) Starring Aphisit Hama, Wanlop Rungkamjad and Rasmee Wayrana Directed by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng. Rating: **** The Rohingya community of displaced refugees has earned the unflattering reputation of being the most persecuted people in the...
There are reports in a section of the press stating that Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan will be seen together with Aamir Khan in Laal Singh...
The cold war between Bollywood’s iconic dancing star Govinda and his nephew television’s prominent entertainer Krushna Abhishek, shows no sign of abating. In fact the feud just got worse with Krushna staying...
Akshay Kumar has slammed a Rs 500 crore defamation suit against YouTuber Rashid Siddiqui from Bihar who not only spread falsehoods related to Sushant Singh Rajput’s...
A special screening of the Abhishek Sharma-directed comedy Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari was organized at the PVR Juhu Mumbai on November 18 for the policemen of Mumbai , as a stressbuster. Speaking of screening , the Abhishek Sharma -directed film’s two leading...
Switzerland Starring Abir Chatterjee, Rukmini Maitra Written & Directed by Souvik Kundu Rating: *** In these turbulent traumatic times I wonder why American cinema is churning out so many horror films. They ...
Actress Tanushree Dutta spearheaded the MeToo Movement in Bollywood. Just a year after she accused Nana Patekar of harassment, triggering off a chain of similar accusations, ...
Bad Hair(Hulu) Starring Elle Lorraine, Jay Pharoah, Lena Waithe, Kelly Rowland, Laverne Cox, Chanté Adams, James Van DerBeek, Usher Raymond IV, Blair Underwood, and Vanessa Williams. Directed by Justin Simien Rating: *...
Twice recently Abhishek Bachchan landed in Kolkata to shoot for two different films. Each time he received a rousing welcome home-coming. “I admit Kolkata feels like...
The Crown Season 4(Netflix. 10 Episodes) Starring Olivia Colman ,Tobias Menzies, Helena BonhamCarter, Ben Daniels, Marion Bailey, Erin Doherty, Josh O’Connor, Emerald Fennell, Charles Dance, Gillian Anderson and Emma Corrin. Rating: ****...
Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been continuously shooting the latest and longest schedule of his underproduction film Gangubai Kathiawadi in Film City, Mumbai. The current schedule was meant to be over by the end ...
With the streaming platform now coming under the censorship guidelines of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting the free-for-all atmosphere that prevailed on the OTT platform is a...
In all modesty, Nawazuddin Siddqui, considered one the finest contemporary actors. Feels inadequate when he watches an actor like Soumitra Chatterjee on screen. “He could convey so much by saying and...
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari sees you donning several disguises.Was that a challenge? It was a challenge getting into all those disguises. When you have 4-5 people working on your looks,...
Shabana Azmi is currently in Budapest shooting for Steven Spielberg’s webseries. She was filled with a sense of unreality when news of Soumitra Chatterjee’s death reached her. “It was a rude...
Girl(French, Belgian. Available on Netflix) Starring Victor Polster as Lara Verhaeghen,Arieh Worthalter as Mathias Verhaeghen Directed by Lukas Dhont **** ½ Watching first-time actor Victor Polster nailing the role of a young transgender in the painful...
The mighty Satyajit Ray directed Soumitra Chatterjee in 14 films. Ray’s son Sandip grew up watching this great twosome at work, one of world cinema’s most accomplished collaborations…. “Comparable with Fellini and...
The Life Ahead(Italian, Netflix) Starring Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye and Abril Zamora. Directed Edoardo Ponti Rating: *** ½ Some experiences are forever. For those of us who grew up worshipping the ground on which...
Although Diljit Dosanjh is very happy that his comedy Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari is released in movie theatres, he wonders if the public will return to theatres with the pandemic still prevalent. “We are...
Back from his incarceration news-anchor Arnab Goswami has renewed his attack on Bollywoodand its actors. Calling out Arjun Rampal for being summoned by the Narcotics Control Bureau,Arnab ,looking lean and nursing a sore throat...
Kartik Aryan who has been very busy during the lockdown posting videos of his family activities, is all set to return to the his acting assignments.In December he will...
The film is Called Qutub Minar, and that’s the name given to the hero of the film KaranvirBohra who suffers from macro-phallus, a condition where the reproductive organ is unnaturally...
Arjun Rampal has always been a genial bloke, easy to get along with , much loved and respected by all his colleagues and filmland friends. But now when the net...
With Disney-Hotstar’s Laxmmi, earlier entitled Laxmmi Bomb(probably they knew it would bomb) getting the poorest response from the audience and an average vote of 2.4/10 with more than 12,000...
Just two days after veteran actor Jeetendra declared that he won’t be hosting a Diwali party this year in deference to his deceased best friend Rishi Kapoor’s memory, Jeetendra’s darling...
Soorarai Pottru(Tamil, Amazon Video With Hindi/English Subtitles) Starring Suriya, Paresh Rawal, and Aparna Balamurali Directed by Sudha Kongara Rating: **** Emotions run high when Maara(Suriya)runs out of money to pay for his business-class ticket to...
The New Mutants Starring Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, and Henry Zaga. Directed by Josh Boone Rating: ** There are just 7 characters in the Mutant...
Mindless entertainment is no longer an option for Indian audiences. The shocking response to the new AkshayKumar starrer Laxmii which was premiered on Disney-Hotstar on November 9 has put...
Diwali this year would not only lowkey in the film industry , but almost non-existent. Those film families known to have all-night Diwali parties in the film industry are Aamir Khan, the Bachchans,Sajid Nadiadwala and Ekta Kapoor....
It can now be told that producer Siddharth Roy Kapur was the brain behind the collective lawsuit that the film industry filed against the two news channels TimesNow and Republic...
“I don’t know of anyone as erudite as Soumitra. He could talk about any subject under the sun and with irrefutable knowledge.Soumitra and I started our careers together...
Abir Chatterjee: “The last of the Mohicans. Irreparable loss. He was an institution.He is part of our growing up… Not only as an actor.. but everything. I did...
It is very convenient to attribute intentions and words to a dead person, since he isn’t around to contradict you. We now have reports that Rishi Kapoor and his...
Arguably this is the worst Diwali in the history of our civilization. A virus has created worldwide havoc leaving us bereft and bewildered. Time to escape...
Just how many films is Akshay Kumar going to do every year? He has just completed and released Laxmii . Sooryavanshi is ready for release. Now comes the announcement on Diwali day of Ram Setu,...
In Imtiaz Ali’s Jab We Met he had only one sequence as a railway-platform lecher who harasses Kareena Kapoor Khan. But Asif Basra owned that sequence as he owned everything that the film industry ...
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari Starring: Manoj Bajpai,Diljit Dosanjh, Fatima Sana Sheikh, Sripiya Pilagoaonkar, Anu Kapoor Directed by: Abhishek Sharma Rating: *** Suppose Tom was a Sardarji and Jerry a Maharashtrian.And suppose, just for the heck of it, they were at war...
