Taish(Zee5) Starring Harshvardhan Rane, Jim Sarbh, Pulkit Samrat, Sanjdeeda Sheikh, Kriti Kharbanda, Directed by Bijoy Nambiar Rating: **** As I finished watching this lengthy masterpiece, indeed a masterclass in adroit storytelling with room for every character to...
It is confirmed. Shah Rukh Khan’s last screen appearance until he signs further films , is going to be in R Madhavan’s directorial debut Rocketry, a bio-pic...
In the trailer of director Sudha Kongra’s bio-pic Soorarai Pottru on economized air travel’s prime architect G R Gopinath, Suriya is not named Gopinath. He is Nedumaaran Rajangam. Shakespeare has warned us about a rose by by...
For a while, circa the time he wanted to be a movie star, Chirag Paswan was close to me. It started when his Bollywood debut Miley Na Miley Hum was released in 2011. Prakash Jha was supposed to...
It looks like the second season of ErosNow’s Modi Journey Of A Comman Man is willing to stick its head out to look at the controversial aspects of the Statesman’s...
Shradha(Disney-Hotstar) Starring Vikram Gokhale, Anushman Jha, Vinati Makijany Directed by Jasraj Padhye Rating: *** While Disney-Hotstar continues to promote films with A-listers in the cast, a little gem like Shradha gets submerged in the brouhaha.Sad , because ...
The anxiously-awaited screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel on class-conflict is ready. The trailer grabs your attention not because of the odd lead pair—Rajkummar Rao(who seems miscast) and Priyanka Chopra(who seems ...
Actor-activist Sonu Sood is unfazed by trolls who are questioning his commitment to providing a helping hand to the needy all across India.A troll recently tried to prove ...
V(Amazon Prime Starring Nani,Sudheer Babu,Nivetha Thomas,Aditi Rao Hydari Written & Directed by Mohana Krishna Indraganti, Rating: *** ½ It is appalling how the language of the Great Indian Masala Dossier is looked down upon...
A lot of the anxious bystanders who have been watching the drama between Anurag Kashyap and his accuser(accusing him of sexual misdemeanor) unfold are wondering why ...
There are no free meals , at least not in Bollywood. In his effort to aggrandize his viewership by wooing the transgender community as a marketing strategy...
Someone in heaven must be smiling at the announcement of Abhishek Kapoor’s next project which goes by the vapid title of Chandigarh Kare Ashiqui, whatever that means. The project was ...
Bihar was abuzz on Monday with rumours of BJP’s top crowdpuller Manoj Tiwari facing death threat at a rally in a mofussil town of Bihar.Security around the Bhojpuri actor was duly tightened, and Manoj was advised to skip...
The Glorias(Amazon Prime) Starring by Gloria Steinem Starring Julianne Moore,Alicia Vikander,Timothy Hutton,Lorraine Toussaint,Janelle Monáe,Bette Midler Directed by Julie Taymor Rating: ** If you have followed Gloria Steinem’s feminist philosophy—and I can’t claim...
For fans of Raj Mehta’s Good Newz, the 2019 comedy featuring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Diljit Dosanjh and Kiara Advani, there is good news.Raj heads to Chandigarh(the current favourite Indian city for Bollywood shootings), this time to shoot...
While Sushant Singh Rajput is a dead issue in the current Bihar elections, BJP’s actor-politician Manoj Tiwari thinks otherwise. “We musn’t think the matter is over....
Of late, there have been some conflicting reports on Saif Ali Khan moving out of Mumbai to live with his wife Kareena and son Taimur in his sprawling palace in Pataudi(Madhya Pradesh). However, in a...
The Broken Hearts Gallery Starring Geraldine Viswanathan,Dacre Montgomery,Utkarsh Ambudkar Directed by Natalie Krinsky Rating: ** ½ Though her overdone vivacity is not really my cup of tea, I cannot deny...
The 1-crore defamation suit against the lady named Luviena Lodh who accused Mahesh Bhatt of being “the don of Bollywood”whose “nephew” her former husband, allegedly supplied drugs and girls to the movie industry,...
Armie Hammer is an eminently likeable actor . For some strange reason he’s constantly assumed to be gay (which is fine , really) because of his star...
One would think that Kapil Sharma’s popular show would be an ideal landing place for the cast of Anurag Basu’s Ludo. Considering how desperately Basu needs a hit(after the thundering debacle of Jagga Jasoos ,Ludo...
Footfairy(& TV) Starring Gulshan Devaiah, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Sarika Ghatge Directed by Kaniskh Verma Rating: *** Why does the serial killer. nicknamed Footfairy , like to cut off his female victims’ feet after murdering them? Maybe...
Do we sense another star-director friendship coming to an end? Ajay Devgan and director Om Raut have delivered Tanhaji the only superhit of 2020 . It was only expected that Devgan would feature as the ...
Like Amitabh Bachchan’s grim joyless serious cop Vijay in Zanjeer, Salman’s khaki dressed Radhe in Radhe: India’s Most Wanted won’t sing songs on screen. At least that’s the plan for now.A source very close ...
It can now be told. Yes, there will be a third season of Mirzapur, the Amazon Prime series that has broken all records among the webseries of India by...
On October 19, 2019 Madhavan made his Bollywood debut with Rehnaa Hai Teree Dil Mein . It was a first in Bollywood for many including Madhavan, leading lady Dia Mirza, director Gautham Menon and music director Harris Jayaraj . Unfortunately the film was not a pleasant...
The Trial Of The Chicago 7(Netflix) Starring Eddie Redmayne , Noah Robbins,Mark Rylance,Alex Sharp,Jeremy Strong, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II,Sacha Baron Cohen,Daniel Flaherty,Joseph Gordon-Levitt,Michael Keaton,Frank Langella,John Carroll Lynch Directed by Aaron Sorkin Rating: *** ½ This remarkable testimony...
Evil Eye(Amazon Prime) Starring Sarita Choudhury ,Sunita Mani, Omar Maskati,Bernard White . Directed by Elan & Rajeev Dassani Rating: ** There is very little reason why we should sit through this blindly fallacious fear...
A Suitable Boy(6 episodes) Streaming on Netflix Starring Tabu as Saeeda Bai,Ishaan Khatter as Maan Kapoor,Tanya Maniktala as Lata Mehra Directed by Andrew Davies Rating; **** ½ How does a filmmaker, no matter how gloriously skillful , compress an epic novel ...
A heavy load had been removed from Sanjay Dutt’s devoted wife Manayata’s head. Her husband , no stranger to pain and suffering, is apparently cancer-free.The good news is...
Nawazuddin Siddiqui has gone back to his roots , and he couldn’t be any happier. Since the lockdown Nawaz is in his native village of Budhana...
Another television actor Akshat Utkarsh recently committed suicide. This is the latest in an alarming string of suicides of financially-emotionally depressed individuals in the Indian television industry. Big names...
Farah Khan’s ambitious plans of re-making Raj N Sippy’s Amitabh Bachchan blockbuster Satte Pe Satta has now been put to rest. She just couldn’t find the leading man for the job!!Farah first went...
Comedy Couple(Zee5) Starring Saqib Saleem,Shweta Basu Tripathi Directed by Nachiket Samant Rating: ** For a film about two stand-up comedians there is very little to laugh about in Comedy Couple. In one sequence...
In her hey-hey-ho-ho days Asha Parekh worked with all the top actors of the era. “But Shammi Kapoor was my favourite. He was everybody’s favourite. When he came into a project ...
Even as the Indian boxoffice limps back to restoration,normalcy seems like a distant dream. Even the American boxoffice has not shown any encouraging signs after the Covid19 lockdown with big-budgeted ...
Curious are the ways of the Indian entertainment industry. Yusuf Khan becomes DilipKumar.Rajkumar Yadav becomes Rajkummar Rao. Kareena Kapoor becomes Kareena Kapoor Khan. And a long-delayed film Tina & Lolo with Sunny Leone and Karishma Tanna in the titular roles becomes , errrr,...
Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha’s decision to contest election on a Congress ticket from Bihar has taken many political commentators by surprise. The star-kid made a ...
Tanya Maniktala who plays the heroine Lata in Mira Nair’s affectionate and adroit adaptation of Vikram Seth’s vast epic novel A Suitable Boy,talks To Subhash K...
Is singer Neha Kakkar really getting married to Rohanpreet Singh ?According to reports in a section of the press Ms Kakkar is all set to tie the knot with Singh at ...
From what I hear Gulzar is none too happy about his Angoor going into a remake.According to a source very close to the poet-filmmaker Gulzar Saab feels remakes are the road to...
I may be wrong. But then during these troubled times, hope is all we have to live by. AnuragBasu’s Ludo is looking like the best film of the year. ...
So what happened to freedom of expression? Apparently actors in India can no longer play controversial figures specially those with political leanings.One of Tamil cinema’s most...
Putham Pudhu Kaalai(Amazon Prime) Directed by Sudha Kongara,Gautham Vasudev Menon,Suhasini Mani Ratnam,RajivMenon,Karthik Subbaraj Rating: ** ½ We all know this is the time when we need to be kind.And if you don’t know why then...
Don’t get me wrong. I like Akshay Kumar’s work. He is versatile, charismatic, effortless and spontaneous most of the time. But not in the Burj khalifa song from Laxmmi ...
There are numerous proposals and feelers for actor-philanthropist and the migrants’ messiah Sonu Sood’s life to be turned into a film. But Sonu, too be busy being a doer ...
The Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar is a huge fan of Ma Durgaa. “I’ve always been an admirer of Her shakti,her determination to drive Evil out of the universe. Given the bleak situation,we ...
Matthias & Maxime(Mubi India) Starring Xavier Dolan as Maxime,Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas as Matthias Directed by Xaviar Dolan Rating: ** If you have followed the fascinating chequered and prolific cinema of the young Canadian actor-director Xaviar Dolan you would know two...
Tiger Shroff is all set to play the lead in director Vikas Behl’s action-oriented Ganpat,a film that goes into a territory never attempted before in mainstream cinema....
With question about semen stains being raised in the probe into Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, the issue has clearly veered into the distasteful zone with supposedly...