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.
Two distinct musical worlds come together on Mahiya, a collaboration between Shreya Ghoshal and Badshah. A romantic pop-dance number, the track brings Ghoshal’s melodic sensibility into Badshah’s contemporary pop landscape, pairing…
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OTT platforms are celebrating a decade of enduring popularity in the country. And this time, two of them have also chosen to offer gifts to viewers in the shape of…
T-Series has come on board for the film The Pride of Bharat – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, an ambitious two-part historical epic celebrating the extraordinary life, legacy and vision of one of…
This is one more Neeraj Pandey film that follows his body of work—on the police, intelligence officers, criminals, businessmen, and as we saw in Taskaree, even customs officers occupying centerstage. Gajab…
The production house, Alphaneon Studioz was launched at a Mumbai 5-star in a big manner. Producer Meghna Hirawat Upadhyay’s new venture marks an exciting step in her journey in the…
Radhika Apte and Keerthy Suresh hold centerstage in the Netflix series, Akka. Suresh plays the title-role, of the ruler, named Akka. Based in a fictional South Indian town called Pernunu, which…
Laugh and be patriotic! Can that be done together? Of course, as this entertainer proves. Can a Pakistani spy work for India after losing his memory? Definitely? He can remember…
The Luv Ranjan brand of romantic cinema is aimed primarily at the youth. I would add an asterisk and say *Youth of all ages! The man who has produced the…
It’s a sudden seasonal flurry of multiple releases on big screen and OTT. For example, seven (!!) movies are releasing this week and we do not know what will happen…
Film Heritage Foundation’s monumental 4K restoration of Kamal Amrohi’s landmark Hindi cinema classic, Pakeezah (1972), made a triumphant UK debut to a packed audience at a gala screening for the…
When a movie screener comes to me over a year (!) late from the PR (and only because they had read my—positive—review of Ohh My Dog), I realize that I cannot…
Ideally, a stew of multiple ingredients should be tasty and nutritious, but Nayyi Navelli is neither. It’s just a stew, with a stre-e-etched climax that could have been shortened to less than…
There has literally been a glut of movies on the 26/11 attacks that besieged Mumbai. From Ram Gopal Varma’s The Attacks of 26/11 and Kangana Ranaut’s recent Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata and even a couple…
