Hansal Mehta

Hansal Mehta On Collaborating Again With Sameer Nair

Applause Entertainment’s  Scam 2003:  The Telgi Story  takes the ‘Scam’ franchise further after  the hugely successful Scam 1992 .  The story  of … Read More

7th August 2023

Hansal Mehta Directs Jigna Vora’s ‘Behind The Bars In Byculla: My Days in Prison’

Hard-hitting, real-life stories and multi-dimensional characters are what define Hansal Mehta’s filmography. The award-winning director has always presented the realities… Read More

9th February 2022

Bollywoodians Pick their Favourite Web Serials/OTT Films Of 2021

Manoj Bajpai:  “ I loved Tabbar directed by  Ajitpal Singh and produced by Ajay Rai. I just finished watching Aranyak which features my old… Read More

5th January 2022

Hansal Mehta On “Scam 1992 The Harshad Mehta Story”

As  Scam 1992 The Harshad Mehta Story Completes One Year,  Subhash  K Jha Speaks  To  Its Director Hansal Mehta On The … Read More

14th October 2021

Hansal Mehta: “Everything In Steven Soderbergh’s Film Has Come True”

In  2011 Steven Soderbergh’s film Contagion warned  us  of  a deadly global virus.Hansal Mehta who  is currently infected by  that virus says, “We were… Read More

26th April 2021

Taapse, Sonu Sood, Hansal Mehta On Sandeep Nahar’s Suicide

Taapsee Pannu:  “Life is not fair to any one of us. Unfortunately some of us don’t have enough support system… Read More

17th February 2021

Should There Be Censorship On Digital Platform? Major OTT Players Respond

Pritish Nandy:  “Not at all. It will be counter-productive. Anything censored goes underground as we have all seen over the years:… Read More

4th February 2021

The Scam Teaser Whets Our Appetite

 Hansal Mehta’s first webseries  promises  to be  a  game-changer. Scam, produced  by the  quality-conscious Applause Entertainment,  recreates that  whole  hysteria surrounding Harshad Mehta’s rise as … Read More

18th August 2020

Will Hansal Mehta Rescue The OTT Platform?

Of late,  the digital  domain is dishing out more drivel than we can  digest. One  after the  other the big… Read More

2nd June 2020

Corona Virus: In these times of enforced isolation what are Bollywood’s denizens up to?

Shabana Azmi:  “I came back from Budapest from shooting on 15 March and both (husband) Javed (Akhtar)and I have self-quarantined. We have been… Read More

24th March 2020

Should The Release Of Sooyavanshi & Other Biggies Be Postponed For Coronavirus, Film Fraternity Speaks

Hansal Mehta(filmmaker):  “I hope these films don’t have to postpone the release.But seeing the widespread and often justified fear of this… Read More

11th March 2020

Hansal Mehta: “I Am Worried For My Family’s Safety”

After Vivek Agnihotri’s frontal attack  on  fellow-filmmaker  Hansal Mehta   where the former has  accused  the latter of  being pro-Muslim  and (therefore) anti-Hindu, Hansal says he  is… Read More

4th February 2020

The Hansal Mehta-Vivek Agnihotri War Of Words Gets Ugly, Agnihotri Lashes Out At Mehta

They are poles apart. Vivek Agnihotri is a  diehard BJP supporter. Hence when  last week he came out with a scathing attack on  the political activities … Read More

3rd February 2020

Hansal Mehta’s New Film Drops Title

Hansal Mehta’s  next project with Rajkummar Rao was entitled Turram Khan which is how an unlikely hero is designated by people in Hyderabad, somewhat like Tees Maar Khan.  But if … Read More

28th January 2020

Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub Reading Rohith Vemula’s Suicide Note Is Chilling

 Hansal Mehta’s  short-film India Tomorrow in the series sponsored by the India Today group is far more evocative and far… Read More

14th April 2016