Bollywood

Saif , Sharad Kelkar Steal The Show In Tanhaji

Tanhaji(3D) Starring Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan,  Kajol, Neha Sharma,Sharad Kelkar Directed  by Om Raut Rating: *** ½ (3 and a  half stars) There is  a pall of  déjà  vu … Read More

10th January 2020

Happy B’day Farhan Akhtar: The Importance Of Being Farhan Akhtar

This month  on Jan 10-11  three Bollywood  personalities I’ve known closely over the years and one  of whom I no longer know or want to… Read More

9th January 2020

Disha Patani: What Happened To The No-Smooch Agreement?

It  has been a while since  Tiger Shroff and  Disha Patani  have been a couple, though they are  yet come in the ope.Mutual friends… Read More

9th January 2020

A R Murugadoss: “Directing Rajnikanthji Was A Long-Cherished Dream”

When   the  iconic Rajnikanth  roars into  a film directed by one of Tamil cinema’s  most formidable  names, there is  bound to… Read More

8th January 2020

“My Parents Are Safe,” Says Swara….Dream Girl Director’s Sastaa Tweet Against Swara Bhaskara

It look like  the process  of polarization  on ideological, if not religious grounds, has started in our film industru. Director Raaj Shaandilyaa who  directed … Read More

8th January 2020

Friday’s boxoffice Clash…Or Crash, Trade Analysts Speak

Friday January 10 is a red-letter day for the Hindi film industry. Three major Hindi films –Meghna Gulzar’s   eagerly awaited … Read More

8th January 2020

Deepika Padukone’s JNU Visit, Courageous Or Publicity Gimmick? Exclusive Reactions From Shabana Azmi, Dia Mirza, Vivek Agnihotri

While  many in  the film fraternity  like Anurag Kashyap and Dia Mirza are openly praising  Deepika Padukone for her  visit to the lately-vandalized Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) in  Delhi, others are not… Read More

8th January 2020

Vijay Deverekonda Flies To Mumbai For Fighter Looks Test

Vijay Deverakonda is  going  places. Mumbai, to be exact. He  is  currently  in  the city as  Karan Johar’s  guest of honour, trying out his  new… Read More

8th January 2020

Trailer Review: Shikara : When Love Is All That’s Left

 Vidhu Vinod Chopra returns as  director ,  this  time to tell his own story. Like him,  thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were overnight  rendered  homeless when… Read More

8th January 2020

The Golden Globe Honours One Of The Worst Films Of The Year

Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against  Quentin Tarantino’s cinema. They have invented a brutal  bloodied  toxic language of… Read More

7th January 2020

Scoop: Aishwarya, Vikram, Karthi, Nayanthara, Shooting For Mani Ratnam In Thailand

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is  currently shooting in Thailand for Mani Ratnam’s  Tamil period-historical drama Ponniyin Selvan. This is  Aishwarya’s  fourth  collaboration with the  remarkable Ratnam, and … Read More

7th January 2020

Malang A Trailer That Is Disturbingly Surreal

The  trailer  of Mohit Suri’s Malang  is  like a  rollercoaster ride …on Speed. The images are deliberately done in distinctive blotchy colours to show  minds… Read More

7th January 2020

Karan Johar Rethink For 2020

Barring Good Newzz at the end  of  2019,  all the  other  productions  of Karan  Johar during the last year were failures, putting Johar’s company Dharma  Productions on … Read More

6th January 2020

Alia Bhatt Learning Words She Had Never Heard Before

 Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s under-production  Gangubai Kathiawadi is turning   out to be  a  learning  experience  for  Alia Bhatt  in ways that she had never imagined. Not … Read More

6th January 2020

What’s Janhvi Kapoor Doing In Ghost Stories?

Ghost Stories  is the third in a franchise series  that started  in 2013 when  Bombay Talkies  featuring the  Fab Four Filmmakers Karan  Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap who… Read More

6th January 2020

Sunny Kaushal: “My Brother Vicky & I Have Our Own Journey”

Sunny Kaushal Bhangra dancing in the dance extravaganza   Bhanga Paa Le is  in one word, extraordinary. The  young actor who happens to be Vicky Kaushal’s sibling,  dances … Read More

5th January 2020