This festive season, the celebrations are getting a whole lot louder, the laughter a whole lot crazier, and the family WhatsApp groups a whole lot more entertaining! Netflix is all …
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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Gotta hand it to the folks from the South. For every execrable biggie actioner, they hand us a modest and riveting action-comedy. Logic takes a walk through the southern states …
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Don’t Be Shy! Sees Alia Bhatt on the Other Side of the Camera as She Launches Four New Faces
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readBest Friends, breakups, and bad decisions: Prime Video’s Don’t Be Shy! promises a messy, funny, and heartfelt young adult rom-com, premiering September 25. The trailer was launched on September 11 at the …
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Film Review: Mahaprabhu Jagannath is a Winner all the Way
by Rajiv Vijayakar 3 minutes readThis devotional is a winner all the way. The story of how Lord Jagannath (of Puri) demolished the ego of Aham, an erstwhile ideal student of a sage, with the …
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Boman Irani Reveals Why He Ditched his Usual Rehearsal Routine for Haiwaan
by Rajiv Vijayakar 1 minutes readBoman Irani has revealed an interesting change in his approach to his upcoming crime thriller, Haiwaan, directed by Priyadarshan, which stars Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan in the lead. The …
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A ‘Classic’ Culmination: Drishyam—The Conclusion Sets New Benchmarks
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readIt was a 2-day junket to Goa, with the right ambience created with a lot of effort by the PR machinery of Parag Desai and team. A ‘Confidential Case File’ …
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Film Review: Babita Singh Reporting is Much Ado About Less Than Nothing
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readPrime Video continues with its abundance of drab and dissatisfying fare with Babita Singh Reporting. A purported crime thriller, it just does not thrill. Wonder what is wrong in the Prime …
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Disaster Trek: A Look at Hindi Cinema’s Greatest Disasters in the Millenium—Part 2
by Rajiv Vijayakar 4 minutes readContinuing with Hindi cinema’s greatest fiascos of all time, I have explained that a flop is a film that does not recover its investment, but a disaster is that which …
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It’s a first for an Indian TV series. Mirzapur—The Movie cashes in on the much-loved three-season hyper-violent series that has become endemically popular. In a merciful situation, we have censors for the …
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It’s all about the Vibe. The second Kunal Kemmu directorial, Vibe, is set to release on September 18, clashing with Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kemmu’s sister-in-law’s Daayra, a dark thriller. Kemmu now turns …