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, …
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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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 …
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Web Review: Kohrra 2 is a Gritty and Layered Thriller
by Rajiv Vijayakar 3 minutes readPolice procedurals are not so common on the Indian web, and good police procedurals even rarer. Kohrra 2 is a vast improvement over its Season 1, with only one common character, sub-inspector Garundi (Barun …
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Film Review: The Bluff is Like a Hindi Movie Disguised as Hollywoodian Thriller
by Rajiv Vijayakar 5 minutes readThe influence of Hindi cinema on Hollywood has been more than what one can think. Apart from Indian actors portraying Indians as well as Americans or other non-Indians, we have …
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Wiser Counsel Prevails for Toxic, Thanks to Middle-Eastern Tensions
by Rajiv Vijayakar 3 minutes readKVN Productions and Monster Mind Creations have today announced a “strategic rescheduling of the global theatrical release for the highly-anticipated action-drama, Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups. Originally slated for a …