The Teachers’ Lounge is that bolt from the blue that shows up once every year or two claiming a place among the...
Burqa(streaming on A-ha) Rating: ** ½ Everything is a little too cute in director Sarjun KM’s Tamil film Burqa. Like several Covid-created films Burqa too depends on restricted space...
Homi Adajania who directs Hotstar Specials’ Saas, Bahu aur Flamingo, a story that redefines the saas – bahu relationship ,shares his thoughts on smashing patriarchy and how...
One doesn’t know if the two Ms in the two names have anything to do with it. But Madhurr Mittal, best known for playing the main antagonist in Danny...
Saif Ali Khan has started shooting with NTR Jr in a film being directed by Koratala Siva. Speaking exclusively to this writer on his entry into...
Nothing succeeds like success. Nothing fails like failure either. Kalank , said to be Karan Johar’s most expensive production to date, was slammed savagely from all ends. This...
Majid Majidi’s chronicles of humanism, whether it is Father (1996), Children Of Heaven (1997), The Color Of Paradise (1999), The Willow Tree (2005) or the Song Of...
llknoppklnThe plan was to quietly make a comeback.Sajid Khan who was forced to quit direction after multiple accusations of sexual harassment , had finally signed a...
Pranaye Vilasam(Malayam, Zee5) Rating: ** ½ Nikhil Muraly’s likeable but finally powerless Malayalam rom-com(for the want of a better term) is filled with ambitious emotions which...
Anurag Kashyap and Sunny Leone…how on earth did this collaboration happen? Anurag Sir(Kashyap) called me for an audition to see if I would play this character...
One more day , one more rumour about Siddharth Anand whose marketing team wants to build his image as the Rajamouli of Bollywood. And no harm...
Shaakuntalam(dubbed Hindi version) Rating:**** After watching the Shakunatala-Dushyant drama done up in dishy shades for two-and-a-half hours I cursed myself for not watching the Telugu original. The...
A notorious Twitter account-holder known to post highly improper comments on Bollywood celebrities, crossed the line of decency once again when he wrote that Celina Jaitly,...
Talented actor Shweta Basu Prasad turns director with the powerful short-film Retake, produced by Sameer Nair’s Applause Entertainment. A poignant, thought-provoking short-film Retake has been officially selected for...
Rating: ** Beef as a word to describe aggravated conflict came into popular desi lexicon very recently after Priyanka Chopra Jonas admitted she had been maltreated ...
Jio Studios, the media and content arm of Reliance Industries Limited, unveiled its content slate, which the studio claims to be the single largest slate ever...
Uttara Baokar passed away at the age of 79 in Pune on April 12. She leaves behind a luminous legacy of performances in Govind Nihalani’s Tamas and Rukmavati Ki...
Aparna Sen says she didn’t want to hide the fact that her forthcoming film The Rapist, co-produced by Applause Entertainment, is about a rape. “My film called The Rapist ....
Balagam(Prime Video) Rating: ** ½ A death in the family triggers off a chain of reactions, some genuine , largely artificial. Writer-director Venu Yeldandi tries to ...
What happens when a beautiful vampire falls in love with a shy, faint-hearted, yet a lousy dentist? Sparks fly! Their love is a forbidden one, the...
You may think it is elementary. That if it is Tiger Salman and Pathaan Shah Rukh, then it’s got to be Katrina and Deepika in Tiger Vs Pathaan ....
Homi Adajania and Dimple Kapadia go back a long way. She was the leading lady of his directorial debut Being Cyrus in 2006 and she subsequently starred in...
Living Starring Bill Nighy, directed by Oliver Hermanus Rating: **** Living is more about dying in peace. At least that’s what it seems like for our...
Gumrah Rating: *** ½ The trick of enjoying Gumrah is two-pronged: go with zero expectations, and if you haven’t seen the original Tamil film Thadam, you would be hooked to...
Mr Bachelor Rating: * ½ There is much more to Kannada cinema than Yash and KGF. If you really want to believe that Kannada cinema can be...
The Newcomers Initiative is a platform that offers opportunities to new talent such as actors, writers, directors, musicians, and technicians from all over India.Over 23 leading filmmakers...
Divya Bharti had a brief innings of superstardom before she died suddenly on 5 April 1993 at age 19.Coincidentally Shah Rukh’s first two films starred Divya...
Om Raut’s Adipurush, his ambitious take on the Ramayana, is all set for a June 16 release. The shoddy VFX in the trailer had caused a public...
The friendship between Salman Khan and Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi and his son Ramcharan seems far more cinematic than anything that they do together on screen. ...
Golden Globe winner composer M M Keeravani is back in Bollywood after a hiatus of five years. His music was last heard in Hindi cinema in...
Akshay Kumar says the entire credit for the success of Hera Pheri, which was released on March 31, 2000 must go to the director Priyadarshan. And he...
Dasara Rating: ** Nani is a very competent actor. But he is not an actor who can play a ruffian comfortably. He tries hard. With his...
Aditya Chopra is fully convinced that his protégée Vaani Kapoor is star material. Over the years he has showcased her ostensible talent since 2013 in Shuddh...
India’s wrestling champ and former Big Boss winner Sangram Singh is very upset with the double-suicide of an elderly couple 78-year-old Jagdish Chand and his 77-year-old...
To Leslie Rating: **** There is something downright ugly about a woman drinking herself to death in public. But then, somebody has to do the dirty...
Pan India is no longer enough for the South Indian superstars,at least not for Baahubali superstar Prabhas. Sources from Hyderabad state that Prabhas next release Salaar will have an international version...
Karan Johar is getting ready for the new season of his smash-hit talk show Koffee With Karan. Preparation are on to lock in the dates, probably August-September ,...
That was one hellraiser of a podcast entitled Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard that Priyanka Chopra Jonas participated in. It was not about her having a ...
Gaslight, More Gas Less Light Gaslight(Disney+Hotstar) Rating: * ½ Gaslight desperately needs a torchlight. A majority of the sequences are shot in the night, as most films...
Bholaa Rating: ** ½ There is nothing bhola(innocent) about Bholaa. A bloodthirsty shrieking yarn of a film . A mayhem-filled masala dossier of crime and adventure ...
Run Baby Run(Disney+Hotstar) Rating: ** Don’t get him wrong.Sathya means well. He is the damsel-in-distress type. A godfearing banker engaged to marry a nice wholesome ‘modern’ girl(the kind who...
Bakasuran (Prime Video) Rating: ** I so want to start this review by saying Bakasuran(Tamil) means well. The concerns regarding sexual harassment online seem genuine.But producer-writer-director Mohan G’s...
The overzealous marketing teams in the entertainment industry have become the bane of the movie business. They are paid hefty amounts by the stars who want...
Youngistaan had to go to court over the issue of its trendy title.An international beverage company had claimed legal rights over the title. But producer Vashu Bhagnani...
RRR director S.S. Rajamouli’s son Karthikeya who helped his father with the VFX of the mega-film , recently claimed in a press interview that the RRR team had...
Starting his career as a child actor playing his real-life father matinee-idol Biswajeet Chatterjee’s screen-son in Duti Pata in 1983, Prosenjit has carved a unique place for himself...
Following Prabhas’ Baahubali , Yash’s KFG and Allu Arjun’s Pushpa, NTR Jr-Ramcharan’s RRR , another South Indian, Tamil-Telugu , superstar Nani is all set to reach out to a pan-India audience with...
The process of healing after Amitabh Bachchan’s recent injury on the sets of Nag Ashwin’s Project K in Hyderabad, is taking longer than expected. “Even when...
There are many theories circulating in Hyderabad as to why NTR Jr and Ramcharan didn’t dance to Naatu naatu at the Oscars ceremony and had to be substituted by the amazing...
John Wick Chapter 4(in cinemas) Rating: ½ star There is something terribly trashy about the fourth chapter of the John Wick saga. Trashy and self-obsessed ,...
Entertainer par excellence Kapil Sharma couldn’t have hoped for a better breakthrough for his much talked-of feature film Zwigato than its tax exemption in Odisha. “What could be...