Once upon a time Deepika Chikhalia inscribed her name into history by playing Sita Maiyya in Ramanand Sagar’s long-running serial Ramayan. Now another Deepika, Padukone, may step into the same role ...
It’s always a pleasure to catch up with Telugu superstar Nagarjuna .He has just returned to Hyderabad after completing a Hindi film Brahmastra with producer Karan Johar and director Ayan Mukerjee, and...
We all know about Meena Kumari’s Pakeezah and Rekha’s Umrao Jaan. These two films epitomize the cinematic tawaif, a combination of poetess and seductress, steeped in the tragic metaphor of the candle that burns itself out while...
The first time that I met Preity Zinta, I was accompanied by Karan Johar to lunch where she joined at us at the Olive. I remember I was a wearing a hideous yellow teeshirt and Karan couldn’t stop...
As D-Day approaches, more details on the ever-expanding guest list emerge at Varun Dhawan’s wedding. Apparently Karan Johar will organize the sangeet ceremony where Varun’s filmy friends are expected to...
1. Vijay Deverakonda’s Hindi debut film is called Fighter. Vijay shot most of it before Covid with director Puri Jaganannath a big name in Telugu cinema, but a flop in Hindi, unless you would like to recall his Hindi films Shart The...
….Or, I trolled you so! The five who were most brutally trolled in the year that the world went viral in more ways than one. 1. Karan Johar: Easily the most ...
I’ve nothing against retro songs, as long as they remember whom they are paying a homage to. In the track Disco deewane in Karan Johar’s Student Of The Year, the ethos and the aura...
I know Diljit Dosanjh well. He is even-tempered, soft-spoken, always affable and never negative. If he could be provoked so hard by Kangana Ranaut think of what effect she has...
In June 2021, Kartik Aryan will start shooting for director Ajay Bahl’s social comedy. The film to be produced by Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies would feature Kartik in a never-before avatar.Kartik who has a jampacked year ahead agreed...
“They haven’t even finished shooting. They’ve a long way to go. How can Fox-Star ask for the length of Brahmastra to be cut when the film is yet to be completed?” asks...
As Anupam Kher chose to remain aloof from the lawsuit that the Bollywood film industry collectively filed against two news channel for slander and misinformation, the actor seems to have alienated himself from...
Amidst assurances from the Narcotics Control Bureau that the 2019 video shot from a party at Karan Johar’s residence which was being seen as incriminating evidence of Bollywood’s drug habits...
Karan Johar had promised to launch Telugu superstar Vijay Deverakonda in style in Bollywood. And no matter how deeply Johar is affected by the current controversies slamming him for...
Karan Johar’s most expensive film to date is likely to take a huge budget cut. The question is, how much? A source in the know informs, “Post the Coronova crisis and the...
One night in 2016 my dear friend and one of my favourite actors Rishi Kapoor sent me three stills of a 90-plus old man. I confess I was puzzled. Was the actor sending the wrong pictures...
Why did Mahesh Bhatt return to direction after 22 years to make film as deplorable as Sadak 2, and that to direct his superstar-daughter Alia Bhatt for the first time? We will never know. Everyone in Sadak 2 is suicidal,...
In the two months that Sushant Singh Rajput has been missing from our lives, a whole cottage industry of superstar-haters powered by the anti-nepotism industry has come into existence. The ...
The lately beleaguered Karan Johar has been advised by experts to lie very very low until the end of the year . The hounding trolling and abuse he has gone through as the ...
It is very strange that the Indian Air Force has taken umbrage to certain episodes in the film Gunjan Sexena The Kargil Girl. While the film was in the making the real Gunjan Saxena who was taken...
While in America and the rest of the West films about homosexuality are being made with remarkable rampancy ,in Bollywood the theme of same-sex relationships has become “largely unacceptable” to...
One doesn’t know where these rumours come from .Maybe just idle minds slouching over blank computer screens . The latest one doing the rounds, in these times of coronova, nepotism and ...
It is not very clear why Janhvi Kapoor is being trolled for her presence in the forthcoming bio-pic Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl. Is it because she is the legendary Sridevi’s daughter and therefore, according to the twisted ...
Actress Meera Chopra is happy about Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar asking for a CBI probe into Sushant Singh Rajput’s mysterious death. “I so shaken by Sushant’s death that I’ve somewhere begun to fear for my own wellbeing.”confesses Meera. She ...
Is it right to blame Karan Johar for Sushant Singh Rajput's death? It is unfair and futile to blame Karan Johar for Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.First of all, who is Karan...
While filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Aditya Chopra and now Mahesh Bhatt who had no direct connection with Sushant Singh Rajput have been summoned for questioning by the Maharashtra police , the one filmmaker whose name has been repeatedly brought up...
In an interview to Arnab Goswami on Friday evening Kangana Ranaut has questioned the competence of the Mumbai police in investigating Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. She questioned the cops’ line of questioning and cast serious aspersions on the choice ...
It’s been a month since we lost the bright talent .I wonder what Sushant Singh Rajput would have to say about the hysteria that has grown around his personality after his death. There...
Karan Johar, the reluctant party guest at Neetu Kapoor’s birthday on 8 Juky was actually coaxed into stepping out because of Ranbir Kapoor and his girlfriend Alia Bhatt. “Both are very precious to Karan.And they insisted that he join...
Stop this mob-lynching at once! Just because Karan Johar is going through some rough times in the social media it doesn’t follow that the industry is turning its back on him. This...
If sources in the know are to believed Karan Johar’s controversial celebrity talk show Koffee With Karan has come to an inglorious end. The channel Star World which was hosting the show would no...
Have Karan Johar’s twins Roohi and Yash replaced Taimur Ali Khan as the most successful star-kids in tinsel town? It looks like the twins, thanks to a huge helping hand from their ‘Dadda’ Karan Johar have raced forward as the ...
Dear Karan Johar, Why are you subjecting your adorable twins to the Taimur yardstick of unseasonable stardom ? Why are you bombarding the public domain with videos where they are tutored to say...
As reported by this writer, Karan Johar’s collaboration with Fox-Star studios over Takht ,his most expensive project to date , came to a deadend . The enterprising Karan Johar has...
One of Bollywood’s most prestigious film production companies Fox-Star India has been facing financial setbacks in 2020. First Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak and then Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga have both underperformed severely at the boxoffice. And now with Coronova playing havoc with schedules...
Kareena Kapoor Khan’s best friend in the entertainment industry and her go-to person for all the gossip she wants and all the heartaches she gets, is indisputably Karan Johar. They are inseparably close. But...
The Corona Virus is bound to have far-reaching repercussions on the entire Indian film industry. One hears from very reliable sources that Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions may drop two of their most prestigious ...
We all know that Karan Johar has taken a shine to Telugu superstar Vijay Deverakonda. The Dharma helmer purchased the remake rights of Vijay’s previous release Dear Comrade but decided to ...
Here’s something no one knows about Karan Johar’s ambitious Takht. It’s Johar’s most expensive , lavish, ambitious and epic film to date. The budget, we hear, leaves Karan’s earlier opuses like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, KabhiAlvida Na Kehna and Agneepath far behind.I...
Unlike other star-children Alaya Furniturewalla did not bag a debut role in a Dharma Production or Yashraj Films. Instead Alaya has made her maiden appearance in a relatively small(but sweet) romcom Jawani Jaaneman produced by Jay Shewakramani, Deepshikha Deshmukh and Saif Ali Khan. But Alaya has made a strong...
You really didn’r expect Deepika Padukone to be conferred with a Padma award, did you?Not after her JNU visit for sure. This Republic Day, the Governmemt, in all its time-tested wisdom has decided to honour a selfsconsciously motley...
You really didn’r expect Deepika Padukone to be conferred with a Padma award, did you?Not after her JNU visit for sure. This Republic Day, the Governmemt, in all its time-tested wisdom has decided to honour a selfsconsciously motley...
Among the many hats that Karan Johar wears here is one talent that would be unearthed in the months to come.Karan will be planning all the details of Varun Dhawan’s wedding with his girlfriend Natasha Dalal which...
If you’ve seen Netflix’s horror omnibus Ghost Stories you can’t help but notice the young striking actor who plays the lead in the Karan Johar-directed segment. Avinash Tiwary is no stranger...
It seems the always-controversial Central Board Of Film Certification(CBFC) has a whole lot of explaining to do about how the new Karan Johar production Good Newzz about two couples desperately copulating for procreation, was given...
If you are Karan Johar and Akshay Kumar, you can get away with anything. Or so it seems after watching Good Newzz, the posh year-end comedy from Johar’s Dharma Production which casts Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor Khan as a couple desperate to have...
While the nation goes up in flames with students protesting all across the country against the Government’s new migration policy, the entertainment business is badly hit. With a big Salman Khan starrer Dabangg 3 opening much...
Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone are among Karan Johar’s closest friends in the film industry. While Ranveer has repeatedly worked with Karan Johar,Deepika did the successful Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani in 2013 with Karan’s Dharma Productions. Since then they have been trying to find the right ...
The last month of the year promise to deliver some solid hits for Bollywood.Beginning with Ashutosh Gowariker’s lavish historical Panipat and Mudassar Aziz’s lascivious comedy PatiPatni Aur Woh on December 6, the year closes with the Rani Mukerjee-driven action drama Mardaani 2 and the Rishi Kapoor(his first...
‘Sperm’ ceased to be a dirty word in Hindi cinema after Vicky Donor. Now in Karan Johar’s full-on sex comedy Good Newwz the word is given constant currency. Except that it’s pronounced ‘spam’ by ...