'We had decided that if the audience liked Stree, then after two or three years we would plan a sequel.' 'Because of the kind of reaction we received for the film we have already started work on it.'
Zelenskyy requested that cinema must always be "on the side of freedom".
The 10-member jury was headed by filmmaker Vipul Shah. The awards were announced by jury member Dharam Gulati.
Fashion takes a front seat this awards season, as the Style Icons and OTTplay Changemaker Awards make way to the fifth edition of the Critics Choice Awards, 2023.
The makers of the upcoming film on gays Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun are upset over the double standards of the censor board in India.
The BAFTAs saw a swish set of Hollywood on the red carpet, as they came up to make their presence felt, and in some cases, collect their awards.
It's the most romantic day of the year, and the best time to hum romantic songs!
'We don't have that support system.' 'The last six years has gone into making Manto and raising Vihaan and it has been tough.'
The Brown Cloud follows a young boy's journey to adulthood, and parallels his growing disillusionment with the deterioration of the environment, caused by an ever-growing brown cloud of pollution in the atmosphere.
The question 'Who was/were behind Aditha Karikalan's killing?' will continue to remain a historic mystery despite Mani Ratnam setting out to unravel it in his own way, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
All the action from the third edition of the ongoing Ladakh Film fest.
Movies on DVD that you should not miss.
'I come from a very small town. I never had my own house in Bombay.' 'Today, that experience helps me as actor.'
It was heartening to see so many women -- young and old, many in hijab and burqa shaking their bodies, raising their arms and singing with complete abandonment.
Aseem Chhabra gives us the top films that enriched his year.
Choose from the three releases this week.
Sukanya Verma goes down memory lane to recap the desi sightings at the Oscars.
Sreehari Nair wasn't impressed with Rangoon at all. But find out which film tops his list!
'I knew that I want to do a film about sexuality and sex, without playing safe.' 'I knew in India, that was going to be really difficult. I was taking up a big battle.'
'There's this presence, a sense of patrolling and surveillance. And it's not coming from a place of safety.' 'It's coming from a place of 'You don't belong here'.' 'It's a malevolent force, the society at large is observing them.'
With two directors -- Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta -- whose films have been nominated for Oscars, and with the veteran actress Shabana Azmi and the relatively younger Preity Zinta joining the celebrities, the eighth edition of the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival opens on Wednesday in New York.
A glimpse of the Pathaan star exuded more glamour than a room full of Hollywood put together.
Sreehari Nair is *not* impressed by this lot of films at all.
'Who do you think directs most of the films that he has done in the last four-five years?'
'Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Ranjeet and Shakti Kapoor were eating mutton biryani.' 'Suddenly, all of them jumped to their feet.' 'Sridevi had entered.' 'It was almost like a top army general had walked in.' 'The kind of respect she commanded without demanding it was incredible!'
It is the two women directors in Shuruaat Ka Twist who end up making the best films, feels Sreehari Nair.
'Talvar belongs to Irrfan Khan, who plays the chief investigating officer. With each new film, this very fine actor continues to surprise us and delight us.'
Watching Aavesham is like sprinting through the whole history of our mass-masala movies and seeing it in a new light, notes Sreehari Nair. And this, incidentally, is the story of Fahadh Faasil's career too.
Check out the movie releases, and make your pick!
Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar was in for an unpleasant surprise when he flagged off the fifth edition of Jaipur Marathon in which over 50,000 participants took part.
Joginder Tuteja looks at Shah Rukh's 10 biggest recent hits.
'When entering an industry like Bollywood, every actor hopes for a starmaker... My starmaker was Dev saab.'
Mohammed Shami, who is among the best in the business, might just have to keep warming the bench.
The film is a simple tale about coping with how after we lose someone we love.
The 92nd Annual Academy Awards hardly had any surprises up its sleeves. Here's a quick look at the winners.
The Mumbai 48 Hour Film Project attracted a lot of talented filmmakers who actually wrote, shoot, edited, and scored a movie in just under 48 hours.
Last weekend seemed to be dedicated to awards for style and talent.
If there is one lesson we get from Depp vs Heard, it is that the American legal system is deeply flawed and the court of public opinion and social media make it harder for victims to get justice, observes Aseem Chhabra.
Kara Johar goes down memory lane and spilled the beans on his infamous rifts with Kareena Kapoor and Kajol.
