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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Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar has created the kind of mania perhaps last seen with Sholay across the nation, though at that time, the demographics and everything else was way different. So near-unanimous is the popular…
The upcoming film, Kesar Singh, produced by Parimal Shah and Vinit Shah under Equator Entertainments, brings together Bhumika Chawla and Arbaaz Khan in a deeply emotional slice-of-life drama set in the…
The man has kept the nation chuckling and chortling ever since he was contestant and later winner of the comedy reality television show, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’s third season, in…
Salman Khan to build Rs. 10K Crore studio in Telangana Salman Khan is planning to build a Rs. 10,000 crore integrated township and studio project in Telangana. One of that…
Some movies are destined for great things, but with conditions applied. So is Dhurandhar. Set for a press screening last week at 4 pm, the time was changed at the last…
He is considered among our most unmusical stars, for his spectacular early success was as villain. But Shatrughan Sinha has enacted several cult songs and chartbusters in his career. The…
His nears and dears are in Celebration Mode today—Dharmendra’s 90th birthday. Because though God called him so that he can spread his brand of deep love even in Heaven, in this…
We all know of the mega-busters in Hindi cinema. Sholay, by virtue of it being the biggest hit in the history of Indian cinema, is naturally the greatest success of…
Amazon MX Player, Amazon’s free video streaming service, has released the teaser of its first supernatural thriller, Bhay–The Gaurav Tiwari Mystery. Leading the series is Karan Tacker as Gaurav Tiwari and Kalki Koechlin as Irene Venkat,…
Netflix unveiled the hilarious and heartwarming trailer of its upcoming family comedy, Single Papa, introducing viewers to Gaurav Gehlot, a 30-year-old lovable man-child, whose idea of adulting is not worrying about…
The recent demise of Dharmendra had one sad element: a giant who gave 65 years of his life to cinema never got any acting award, except for the “Lifetime Achievement” awards that are given…
I seriously think that certain filmmakers love going eccentric (with a capital E’ and eight more letters, in Bold, Italic fonts). And when an average success like Raanjhanaa (cost of production Rs.…
It is one thing to make a new season, and quite another to make it interesting and substantial—and entertainingly sensible, the last being a key requirement and, if fulfilled, a…
November, the eleventh month of the year, saw a number of distinguished celebrities taking birth. The month is also noted for occasional Diwalis, the Guru Nanak Jayanti and Chhath Puja. Here we…
The honors the earlier seasons of this series has won nationally and internationally has made the makers take this one up pretty seriously and ambitiously as well. The action spans…
He was an extraordinarily accomplished and versatile actor. He was recognized for it by the industry but won no awards in a milieu wherein natural acting is not considered award-worthy.…
