Films
Alisha Chinoy: 6 Anthems of An Unforgettable Diva
Alisha Chinoy (also named Alisha Chinai for a while!) made her name from the 1980s in both Indipop albums as well as playback singing in Hindi cinema. She began her singing…
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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Films
Ektaa Kapoor Unveils Hoonur: ‘We Want Artistes to be Truly Understood’
Ektaa Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms has unveiled Hoonur, a new talent management company celebrating storytelling and performance, dedicated to nurturing artistes and strengthening the culture of storytelling and performance in the entertainment…
Film Review
2016-2025: Are We Inching Towards Realistic Cinema Now?
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.…
Films
Six Priceless Quotes from Birthday Boy Aamir Khan
Aamir 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…
Film Review
Film Review: Boong is Nothing Less Than a Quasi-Epic
Search 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…
Films
Ek Din With Aamir Khan
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,…
Film Review
Film Review: Subedaar Disappoints on the Whole
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…
Film Review
Film Review: Jab Khuli Kitaab is Akin to a Textbook On Classy Filmmaking
What 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…
Film Review
Film Review: The Accused is a Gripping Drama Around Doctors
This 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…
Films
Women’s Day Special Part 2: More Distinctive Voices in the Lata-Asha Reign
Lata 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.…
Films
Women’s Day Special Part 1: The Alternative Female Voices in the Lata-Asha Era
From 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…
Films
When the Audience Becomes the Camera
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…
Web Series
Web Review: Kohrra 2 is a Gritty and Layered Thriller
Police 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…
Film Review
Film Review: The Bluff is Like a Hindi Movie Disguised as Hollywoodian Thriller
The 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…
Films
Wiser Counsel Prevails for Toxic, Thanks to Middle-Eastern Tensions
KVN 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…
South Asia
The March Denizens
March, the third month of the year, is a birth month for several colorful talents in Hindi cinema. Holi and also Gudi Padwa, the Hindu calendar New Year, usually falls…