The game of flops and hits in Hindi cinema is getting piquant by the hour! No one can predict which movie will work, and which not, in the current scenario. …
Rajiv Vijayakar
Rajiv Vijayakar
Rajiv Vijayakar is the Entertainment Editor at South Asian Herald. He has been a journalist and critic for over 25 years and was part of the National Film Awards Jury in India in 2011 and 2015. He has authored four books, the latest of which, “Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal,” won the National Award for Best Book on Cinema in 2021. He also was on the 2025 jury for choosing the Indian entry for the Oscars.
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Six Priceless Quotes from Birthday Boy Aamir Khan
by Rajiv Vijayakar 5 minutes readAamir Khan turns 61 today. He has broken his own tradition of celebrating with the media, and we miss that! It’s therefore time to recall the priceless quotes he has …
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Film Review: Boong is Nothing Less Than a Quasi-Epic
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readSearch for a flaw in this film and you will not find any! The Manipuri film, Boong, was one of my favorite movies when I was on the Oscar selection jury …
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It was a day (Ek Din) with Aamir Khan, three days short of his 61st birthday that falls on March 14. The media witnessed the trailer of his latest production, Ek Din, …
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The director, Suresh Triveni, has given us the outright mediocre Tumhari Sulu and the gripping Jalsa. He said that he just wanted to have a good time making films of the kind he …
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Film Review: Jab Khuli Kitaab is Akin to a Textbook On Classy Filmmaking
by Rajiv Vijayakar 5 minutes readWhat happens when your wife of 50 years wakes up after two years in a coma, against expectations of recovery, and you have served her with selfless love in that …
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Film Review: The Accused is a Gripping Drama Around Doctors
by Rajiv Vijayakar 3 minutes readThis one’s about doctors, but it is not strictly a medical thriller, like a Coma or The Vaccine War back home. Dr. Geetika Sen (Konkona Sen Sharma), a renowned gynecologist and head of the …
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Women’s Day Special Part 2: More Distinctive Voices in the Lata-Asha Reign
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readLata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle enjoyed total supremacy from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. Here is a look at some more challengers after those we discussed in Part 1. …
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Women’s Day Special Part 1: The Alternative Female Voices in the Lata-Asha Era
by Rajiv Vijayakar 8 minutes readFrom the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, several new, young singers were successfully ushered, but the Mangeshkar sisters – Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle – had a dream run that …
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At the Subedaar trailer launch when I met actor Aditya Rawal for the first time, a colleague was asking him about his negative role in the Amazon Prime Video film. Taking it …