The market was buzzing with this vital information since reports of Netflix acquiring Ram Madhvani’s thriller Dhamaka , based on the South Korean film The Terror Live where KartikAaryan stepped into the role originally...
The supremely talented Seema Pahwa who dazzled as the matriarch in Dum Lagake Haisha, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan and Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari , has changed tracks , and how! In Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubau Kathiawadi Seema plays a role she has never attempted before. Without revealing her...
With a partial lockdown and night curfew being re-introduced in Maharashtra the future of movie-theatre releases appears not only bleak but doomed. While all those films which had...
For all of us who were hoping to see Adarsh Gourav win the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for his stunning portrayal of an underdog’s...
Looking at the first teaser of SonyLiv’s forthcoming political drama Maharani it is clear as daylight that the series is based on Rabri Devi’s ascent to the Chief...
Vakeel Saab , Telugu superstar Pawan Kalyan’s first release in three years after the disappointing Agnyaathavaasi in 2018,is anything but an official remake of Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s 2016 cult hit Pink . As the trailer...
First rule of trumpet-blowing. Never blown your own. Second rule: before blowing make sure you have the facts right. Even basic research is lacking in the...
Jathi Ratnalu(Amazon Prime) Starring Naveen Polishetty, Priyadarshi, Rahul Ramakrishna, Faria Abdullah Written and directed by Anudeep KV Rating: *** When was the last time I had so much fun watching a film about a bunch...
Not many remember Satish Kaul as Rehana Sultan’s handsome lover in the 1973 drama Prem Parbat where he played the sexed-up forest ranger Rehana ran to for sex when her aged husband Nana Palsikar was asleep....
“Badhai Ho, you have tested Negative,” I pun-joked with filmmaker Amit Sharma whose new ambitious venture Maidaan promises to do for football what Lagaan did for cricket and ChakDe for hockey. Amit who has now...
Tamil-Hindi star-actor R Madhavan, quarantined at home with Covid, can’t wait to get back to work. “Just a few more days to go, then I can get back...
It is perhaps no coincidence that two of my favourite people from the Hindi film industry Jaya Bachchan and Swara Bhaskar are born on the same day. It is perhaps no coincidence...
The Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees (FWICE) has issued a fresh set of guidelines to be followed by members of the film industry in view...
At one point in her career(circa 1973-75) Jaya Bhaduri was a bigger star than Amitabh Bachchan.Her much-lauded performances in the obvious films Abhimaan, Uphaar, KoraKagaz, etc need no recommendation. But what about the Jaya Bhaduri ...
No no not what you think. They are not doing a film together. However from Friday when Telugu superstar Pawan Kalyan’s Vakeel Saab opens in movie theatres all across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the...
Singer-entertainer Aditya Narayan is back home after being hospitalized for Covid19. “I am feeling much better. My wife is also much better, though the virus has left her...