For those who have seen Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Hum…Dil De Chuke Sanam—and who hasn’t? —at the climax of the plot it’s ‘husband’ Ajay Devgn who walks away...
When Shabana Azmi speaks of her legendary father Kaifi Azmi her entire being is bathed in sunshine. “My earliest memory of Abba(father Kaifi Azmi)… sitting on a writing table in his kurta-pyjama smoking incessantly...
The one component of Thug Life which stood out was its cinematography,what was your brief from Mani Ratnam? He said we will go classic style and...
When her father fell ill, Priyanka recalled her earliest memories of her father. “My Dad is really tall. And I was just 2 or 3. I’d...
Rating: **** I may be wrong , but MX Player is perceived as a platform for casual viewing. It was only by chance that I...
Sunil Dutt didn’t pretend to be a feminist. It came naturally to him. He would pick up his wife the great Nargis’s trailing gown from the floor as...
Rating: **** Every frame of Thug Life, director Mani Ratnam and actor Kamal Hassan’s sophomore collaboration after Nayakan,has a story to tell. And I don’t mean that in any...
I still remember waking up on June 3 in 2013 to a message sent in the night from an editor. “Apparently Jiah Khan is dead. Can you check?”...
KK left us too early? It’s still hard to believe KK is no longer with us. His voice continues to echo in our hearts, in every...
Rating: *****(5 stars) Writer-Director Mehran Amrohi, who has struggled for ten years to finally get his directorial debut into movie theatres, deserves a standing ovation for...
Fond memories of your maiden film? It was my first job , you can say, so I looked at it that way and I was thrilled...
The love triangle about a jealous husband(Shah Rukh Khan) , his devoted wife(Madhuri Dixit) and a supportive friend (Salman Khan) who’s mistaken for the wife’s lover...
Suddenly two of India’s most celebrated filmmakers are keen on making a bio-pic on the founding father of Indian cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke. Raj Kumar Hirani is all...
Director Mohit Suri known to make cinema on compulsive love (Aashiqui 2, Ek Adhuri Kahaani) takes the theme of self-annihilation in a romantic association to the extreme,...
The aged but agile doctor swoops up the dying child in his arms and runs through the jungle to the hospital. In the process he loses...
Last night , I came back from my private screening of Raj Kumar Santoshi’s Andaz Apna Apna. The chuckles never stop. They never did. Over the years...