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Kaddish, an award-winning short film by New York-based South Asian filmmaker Razid Season, screened on October 24 at Goethe-Institut Bangladesh in Dhaka, according to a statement about the film. 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…
Yash turns up the intensity as Ravana in a powerful new reveal from Ramayana: Rise of a Legend, unveiled by the makers on Dussehra. Titled Rise of Asura in Hindi, the musical unit…
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…
The 10th month of the year is about festivities. Navaratri, Dusshera and Diwali arrive this month. Let us look at the most important names from Hindi Cinema who took birth in…
Eleven years after ABCD 2 (Any Body Can Dance 2), Raghav Juyal returns to Remo D’Souza’s Dance Universe as the lead of Any Body Can Dream. From being part of the ensemble cast…
The poster as we see it, and the film’s title (meaning “chaos” or “pandemonium”) may indicate a comedy, but Afratafri is actually not one at all. It is a serious, social drama…
On October 13, we enter the 40th year since Kishore Kumar, Hindi cinema’s most versatile genius, passed on. The actor-singer-filmmaker-composer, who was also a lyricist and writer, was known primarily as…
In this exclusive conversation, Priyamani Raj reflects on her beginnings, the pressures of success, working with Shah Rukh Khan, her affection for Sri Lanka, the changing landscape of Indian cinema…
There is a familiar ring to the tale in real life. Aniket (Vikram Singh Chauhan) and Pooja (Mrunal Thakur) are friends who act together in theater. Aniket has fallen for…
