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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It’s an intimate beginning for an intimate travelogue. Richa Chadha has produced, written and hosted Musafiri, beginning with a trip around the lesser-known aspects of the megapolis that is Mumbai. The…
After Kesari, Raazi, Shershaah and Kesari: Chapter 2, Karan Johar is all set to bring forward the story of another unsung legend to the big screen. Dharma Production is teaming up with Leo Media Collective…
He’s boorish, self-centered and supremely irascible. Grumbling all the time after (and before) retiring from his job, Hari Prasad Sharma (Raghubir Yadav) is a quintessential old-fashioned and uber-traditional middle-class patriarch,…
As a company, founded in the year India got Independence, Rajshri Productions is now in its 80th year. Their debut production was Aarti (1962), before which they had only been film distributors. And…
The Marathi film, Gondhal (which means ‘Chaos’) is India’s choice for the upcoming (99th) Academy Awards. The Film Federation of India announced the winner among 33 films at a press conference on…
This week saw two big releases—Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra, a crime thriller inspired by dark reality and Kunal Kemmu’s Vibe, an action comedy of two normal youths coerced into going on a patriotic…
The team of Vibe met batches from the media for a rapid-fire shortly before the action comedy’s release. Though the meet was very brief, it was all that was allowed by the…
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…
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…
Best 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…
This 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…
Boman 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…
It 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’…
Prime 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…
Continuing 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…
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…
