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 all about the Vibe. The second Kunal Kemmu directorial, Vibe, is set to release on September 18, clashing with Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kemmu’s sister-in-law’s Daayra, a dark thriller. Kemmu now turns…
The trailer launch of Meghna Gulzar’s Daayra was held at the PVR Juhu multiplex with the lead pair, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran, in attendance along with producers Vineet Jain of…
Ajay Devgn joins Sony Entertainment Television’s iconic crime franchise, Crime Patrol, as the special host of its latest edition, Crime Patrol: Crime Ka Current Season, which premiered on August 31, on Sony…
The crash of the massively hyped Toxic has once and for all, junked the myth that pan-Indian South films are the messiahs for Hindi cinema box-office. After a smash opening of Rs.…
My two very loquacious and articulate movie buff friends, coincidentally named Yash Sutaria and Huma Advani, came out of the movie hall along with me after we had watched Toxic: A…
South Indian (especially Telugu) films, like those from any busy industry, can range from awesome to awful. Happily, this one (which I watched in Hindi) is nears the ‘very good’ tag…
A son’s emotional bonding with his father cannot be truly estimated. It is a full-blown assortment of memories that maintains fragrance for decades. Nitin Mukesh, 76, revisits precious reminiscences on…
On August 27, it is 50 years since Mukesh Chand Mathur left us. Mukesh sang a fraction of the number of songs of his illustrious contemporaries Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar…
After Raazi, a Junglee Pictures-Meghna Gulzar project will always be anticipated. Daayra is their next collaboration and features the unique combo of Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran, and the makers have just…
From the 1970s to the 1990s, we had innumerable films named after deities or holy entities like Krishnavtar (Mithun Chakraborty’s non-starter), Gautam Govinda, Amar Shakti, Ram Avtar, Vishnu Devaa, Shiv Raam, Shanker Shambhuand…
Ektaa R. Kapoor is all set to bring the next big-screen horror-comedy, Hero Ki Horrorine, to audiences on January 7. A Jai Ho Media Ventures production, the film is presented by…
When such movies connect, they often do so on a massive scale: Hindi cinema lovers of the 1970s will remember the resonance created by Jai Santoshi Maa (1975) and Shirdi Ke Sai Baba (1977).…
When it happened in 1999, it was the height of treachery from the neighboring country. This stunning series opens the curtains on the pathological hatred of individuals in that rogue…
With just eight days to go for Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups to hit cinemas, the makers have officially kickstarted the countdown to the film’s worldwide release on August 26. Sharing…
A look at the 2025-2026 scenario shows clearly that, besides the Dhurandhar franchise, the films that have truly done great business are almost always multi-star films, nationalistic movies, comedies and horror comedies.…
This year, we have seen Ikkis and Main Wapas Aaunga on the traumas of Partition. They were very personal for the protagonists and endeared us to their issues. But the films were probably rejected…
