OTT Clash On Women’s Day
There are two big ladies’ specials lined for streaming this Women’s Day.So which one will you watch first, Netflix’s Bombay Begums or Alt-Balajee’s A Married Woman? Though the two share a couple of ...
Sushmita Hikes Fee After Aarya,Back Bigger Than Before
It would be no exaggeration to say that the sensational Sushmita Sen’s digital debut in Aarya has been most propitious. So much so that Disney-Hotstar has signed the actress and director Ram Madhvani for an encore and...
Covidrama Flourishes In Netflix’s Homemade Quickies
Homemade(Netflix, Anthology of 17 ShortFilms) Rating: ** ½ The pandemic has given rise to lockdown films all over the world. In India we’ve seen films as diverse in mood and language as C...
After Harshad Mehta It Is Abdul Karim Telgi In Applause Entertainment’s Scam Series
Applause Entertainment’s Scam 1992 The Harshad Mehta Story proved popular beyond all expectations. Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story which is currently streaming on SonyLIV, witnessed immense love and fanfare unlike any other show has till date. It left...
Applause Entertainment & MXPlayer’s Hello Mini 2 Is Fun For The Young
Hello Mini 2(MX Player) Rating: *** Targeted at a particular audience Hello Mini in 2019 was a stalker’s best fantasy and city girl’s worst nightmare come true .When it came in 2019, it ...
Girls Hostel 2,Mildly Engaging, Sharply Written But Inconsistent
Girls Hostel 2(SonyLiv, 5 Episodes) Directed by Chaitanya Kumbhakonum Rating: ** * There is something valuable, something worthwhile waiting to come out of this series. That core of worthiness doesn’t quite ...
Vadham : Applause Entertainment & MX Player’s New Series Salutes Girl Power
Vadham(MX Player , 10 Episodes in original Tamil,also dubbed in Hindi and Telugu) Starring Shruthi Hariharan, Ashwathy Ravikumar, K. Semmalar Annam, Haritha Badavagopi Directed byVenkatesh Babu Rating: *** ½ stars At the climax of this well-crafted commercial entertainer about a female...
The New Modern Love Omnibus Is A Dud
Modern Love(Amazon Prime) Directed by Simon Aitken Rating: * ½ Why???? Why, oh why, did we need this new anthology of short films on modern love as defined by a director...
Live Telecast(Disney-Hotstar, Tamil, 7 Episodes)
Directed by Venkat Prabhu Rating: * Honestly, spooks shivers and scares were never funnier than this. Live Telecast is neither horror nor spoof. It is plain hogwash,with no redeeming qualities. Except that we get...
Vijay’s Deleted Scene From Master Is An Internet Sensation
While Bollywood and its digital counterpart has vowed to stay away from politics, the Southern cinema and its audience just can’t get enough of it. No clue why this hardhitting monologue was edited of...
Raj-DK Quietly Begin Shooting For Shahid-Vijay Sethupati Webseries
With the indefinite postponement of the eagerly awaited Season 2 of The Family Man, the show’s helmers Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK have quietly moved on to their next series, a quirky thriller about two strangers whose...
Our Friend Review:Will Wrench Your Heart Into Smithereens
Our Friend(Amazon) Starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, Jason Segel Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite Rating: **** Our parents taught us how to live. But no one told us anything about how to die. When ...
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: alcohol, drugs, gutka, pornography. The only thing that works is clearly...
Retaliation Review: Orlando Bloom Dazzles In A Dark Punishing Underrated Film
Retaliation Starring Orlando Bloom, Janet Montgomery, Charlie Creed-Miles, Anne Reid, Alex Ferns and Josh Myers. Directed by Ludwig Shammasian and Paul Shammasian Rating: **** “I rape myself,” Orlando Bloom in his career’s most challenging...
Another Round In Praise Of Alcoholism
Another Round(Danish,Amazon Prime Video) Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Rating: ** This very rumbustious film is described as a “celebration of alcohol”. I don’t know what...
Amit Sadh: The Bruises Are For Breathe 2
After suffering painful bruises during the training for stunts in the forthcoming third season of series Breathe in Dubai, Amit Sadh has sworn to do no more health hazardous stunts for the camera....
Pratik Gandhi: Not Signed Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Series Yet
Scam star Pratik Gandhi says it is premature yet to talk about signing a new series to be produced and directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. Reports this week suggested that Pratik will be starring in a series based...
“I Loved Scam 1992”, Manoj Bajpai
Manoj Bajpai watched a lot of serials and films on the OTT platform last year during the lockdown. Now he has a list of directors he wants to work with. Says Manoj, “I concentrated on...
5 Potential Stars Expected To Hit Bigtime In 2021
They are young and raring to go. In spite of proving their talent they are yet to find big success in Hindi cinema. That may change sooner rather than later....
Gullak 2 Old Battle Filled With A New Wine
Gullak Season 2(SonyLIV,5Episode) Rating: *** Thank God for the Indian middleclass and its jugaadu optimism. There isn’t a problem that that can’t be “managed” with some amount of resourcefulness and a great deal of resilience....
Abhimanyu Dasani Speaks On The Road He Has Chosen For Himself.
“Scam 1992 Is The Show I Binge-Watched,” After A 3-Year Hiatus The Talented Abhimanyu Dasani Has 3 Releases To Look Forward To In 2021. He Speaks To Subhash K Jha On The Road He Has Chosen For...
Anupriya Goenka Tells why The OTT Is The New Normal.
Anupriya Goenka who had a tremendous 2020 on the digital platform with Asur, Aashram and specially Criminal Justice 2,tells Subhash K Jhawhy The OTT Is The New Normal A tough 2020, but you gad some good success? Yes,...
Wander Review: It Is A Wired-For-Weirdness Thriller
Wander(Video On Demand) Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Katheryn Winnick, Heather Graham\ Directed by April Mullen Rating: * ½ Canadian director April Mullen made a shallow shocker in 2016 Below Her Mouth, a...
5 OTT Superstars Of 2021
The days of cine-superstars lording over audiences’ attention is over. The OTT platform ,a compulsion rather than a preference in 2020 to begin with, has now come to stay. As Sunny Leone...
The Assistant Is A MeToo Masterpiece
The Assistant(Amazon Prime Video) Directed by Kitty Green Rating: **** Just days before I was left dazed by this sparkling gem—or maybe sparkling is not quite how I should describe...
Nirvana Inn Adil Hussain Shines In An Eerie But Not Scary Shining
Nirvana Inn(Cinemapreneur) Starring Adil Hussain, Sandhya Mridul, RajshreeDeshpande Written & Directed by Vijay Jayapal Rating: ** An expectably polished performance from Adil Hussain, which conveys deep echoes of Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining, cannot salvage this weak atmospheric...
Did Laxmmi ( Bomb) Consider Changing Akshay’s Name?
Just a day to go before the Akshay Kumar starrer Laxmmi(nee Bomb) starts streaming, and the film is being talked about as the blockbuster of the year.Sources say the producers of Laxmmi are in a panic ...
Amidst Controversies Mirzapur 3 Plans To Bring Favourite Character Munna Back
Mirzapur , the popular webseries on Zee5 , is in a bit of plan change. The plan was to drop Vikrant Massey’s character Bablu in Season 1 and Divyendu Sharma’s character Munna in Season 2. Things were going as per...
This Digital Diwali, 4 Hindi Films Will Release On The OTT Platform
4 Hindi films, Raghava Lawrence’s Laxmmi, Hansal Mehta’s Chhalaang, Anurag Basu’s Ludo and Abhishek Sharma’s Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari. Trade experts comment on the Diwali content Milap Zaveri(writer-filmmaker): “I am excited about all 4 of them. Laxmmi looks brilliant!!! Akshay sir is a revelation. The Bam bhole song is epic!...
Should Laxmmi Release Simultaneously On OTT & In Theatres? Trade Experts Speak
Many trade experts feel that this Diwali’s big release Laxmmi(earlier entitled Laxmmi Bomb) has all the qualities of a blockbuster including the presence of Akshay Kumar. Sadly it’s been earmarked for release on the OTT platform when...
The Glorias Review : It rings Back The Many Personalities Of Gloria Stenheim
The Glorias(Amazon Prime) Starring by Gloria Steinem Starring Julianne Moore,Alicia Vikander,Timothy Hutton,Lorraine Toussaint,Janelle Monáe,Bette Midler Directed by Julie Taymor Rating: ** If you have followed Gloria Steinem’s feminist philosophy—and I can’t claim to have done so—this...
Will Covid Kill The Theatre Business?
The disastrous re-opening of movie theatres across the country has put a huge question mark on the future of movie theatres in India.Sources say if the attendance remains as thin...
Applause Entertainment Brings French Comedy To OTT In India
The super-successful OTT content provider Applause Entertainment is all set to bring the hit French workplace comedy ‘Dix Pour Cent’ (Call My Agent), originally created by Fanny Herreroand Showrunner Cedric Klapisch and represented by TF1 Studio and...
OTT Vs Theatres It’s An Open War
By refusing to release in theatres the films that have recently been streaming on the OTT platform, the multiplex chains have made it very clear to producers that they can’t...
Shilpa Shinde: “Sunil Grover Tried To Take Over The Entire Show”
The cold war between two comic stars Sunil Grover and Shilpe Shinde intensifies as Ms Shinde, in a conversation with me , lashes out at Grover for trying to hog the limelight. “He is such...
Cinema Halls To Remain Closed In September
For the Indian film industry reeling under the impact of the Covid 19, the hope that movie theatres will be re-opened in September had been dashed to the ground. Phase 4 of ...
Flesh Review: Stomach Churning Brutality In The Name Of Realism
Flesh(Eros Now) Starring Swara Bhaskar, Akshay Oberoi Directed by Danish Aslam Rating:** Where does the depiction of exploitation mutate into a form of exploitation itself? The answer is embedded in this sickeningly violent 8-episode series...
Hamilton The Most Overrated Film In Cinema History
Hamilton(Video On Demand) Starring Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, Jasmine Cephas Jones as Maria Reynolds Directed by: Lin-Manuel Miranda Rating: ** ½ Here comes the most overrated film I’ve seen...
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 OTT players like Netflix , Amazon, Zee5 and Hotstar are ...
Producers’ Decision To Go Straight To Digital, Trade Experts Speak
Sameer Nair(CEO, Applause Entertainment): “I think this whole Multiplex versus OTT Platform debate is much ado about nothing.For now, with theatres shut, it makes sense to sell what’s on the shelves rather...
The National Awards To Include OTT Releases?
The merger of the big-screen experience with the OTT platform seems to be getting surer than ever. We now have it from sources from the central government that the parameters ...
OTT Platform Comes To Bollywood’s Rescue
There is no certainty as to when movie theatres will open in India. Unnnamed sources from the central government reveal that the cinemas will remain shut even when the national...
Would The Current Stay-Home Situation Help The OTT Platform To Grow? OTT Providers Speak
Aparshakti Kurrana(actor, Hotstar Special Kanpuriye): “All of us today need to take charge of our health and take preventive measures. Avoiding social gatherings such as going to the cinema is one of them. I...
Bollywood A-listers To Include No-OTT Clause? Saif Denies Such Plans
With Karan Johar’s feature film Drive heralding the new era of straight-to-digital screening, there is a widespread apprehension among Bollywood’s A-listers that their feature films could find their release on the digital platform without ...