Recently Delhi Belly director Abhinay Deo went on- record to state that Ranbir Kapoor was “also considered” for Delhi Belly. This is not quite the way it actually happened. In fact Ranbir Kapoor was producer Aamir Khan’s...
Cold Case (Malayalam, Amazon Prime) Starring: Prithviraj Sukurmaran, Aditi Balan Directed by: Tanu Balak Rating: * ½ Prithviraj Sukurmaran , an actor I reasonably admire , has issued a video after the ...
Haseen Dilruba (Netflix) Taapsee Pannu, Vikrant Massey, Hashvardhan Rane Directed by Vinil Mathew Rating: *** Haseen Dilruba (Netflix)It’s interesting to see how an avant-garde writer like Kanika Dhillon is pushing the Hindi Film Heroine over the edge. She can ...
I’ve known Pavan Malhotra personally and through his work for close to 30 years.Back then when I first knew him he was married to Aparajita Krishna who was from Bihar and Pavan would...
An innocuous tweet in defence of PM Modi’s government had tongues wagging in the power corridors. A friend from the ruling party ribbed me, “Your friend Shatrughan...
Sadly, two national treasures from the Indian film industry Dilip Kumar and Naseeruddin Shah found themselves in hospital simultaneously this week. This is Dilip Saab’s second visit to the hospital in a...
The trailer of Rakeysh OmPrakash Mehra’s long-awaited Toofaan (oh,the agony of riding the pandemic!) offers no surprises. And that’s not a bad thing. Sports films about underdogs overcoming all odds...
Gone are the days when OTT platforms fell over one another in pursuit of big-budgeted Bollywood big-screen projects. Disney-Hotstar apparently cut a very hard deal with producer Ratan Jain before purchasing his new...
The streaming platform in India is getting progressively powerful. With power comes responsibility. This week Netflix’s original Taapsee Pannu feature film Haseen Dilruba will compete in the digital space with...
My friend Aanand Rai whom I’ve known from the time he made a little-seen crime thriller Strangers, was Ravi Rai’s kid brother to begin with. Today he has grown ...
Somehow we always think of Bollywood Films adaptations as inferior copycat versions of the originals. But what about the desi remakes that got it better than the original? 1. Sholay: ...
Actress Alia Bhatt has wrapped up shooting for filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming directorial “Gangubai Kathiawadi“. She says working with the director had been a dream...
“I was R D Burman’s blue-eyed boy. My professional association with Pancham started in 1975 with the song Badeachche lagte hain in Balika Badhu. At that time I was a novice. I had sung...
If Rahul Dev Burman was alive today you can bet your last rupee he would be hyper-active as a composer…provided the film industry would have let him go on...
“I was very closer to Pancham(R D Burman) than his father(Sachin dev Burman).When he married my sister(Asha Bhosle) he told me to write him a letter as...
MX Original Series Samantar lasted 9 intense episodes starring Swwapnil Joshi, Nitish Bharadwaj and Tejaswini Pandit. The highly anticipated thriller is back with another season that...