'Why is it that we are so forgiving of the glaring problems in grand multi-starrers like Dil Dhadakne Do,' asks Sreehari Nair, 'but when a small film with a truly personal vision seeks our approval, we analyse it through a prism of formal perfection?' 'With its Seinfeldian humour, episodic structure and performers who play off each other's energies, Meeruthiya Gangsters goes farther than most Hindi movies.'
'The film-literate public in Kerala are not happy watching run-of-the-mill movies.'
While Justice Kant and Bhuyan delivered the majority verdict, Justice Datta dismissed Ansari's appeal against the Allahabad high court order.
The police arrested six major associates of gangster Chota Shakeel in connection with an extortion racket in Mangalore on Thursday. This city in coastal Karnataka has been a talking point for a long time, and for all the wrong reasons. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
It's FaFa time and more on OTT this week! Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
An unidentified gangster demanded an extortion of Rs 5 lakh from Industrial Cooperative Federation Ltd chairman Narain Singh in Patna. Singh, who is in a wheelchair due to disability, got the extortion demand on his cell phone. The gangster also threatened him of dire consequences if the money is not paid.
Gangster Abu Salem, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, was on Thursday attacked inside Taloja Central Jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, the police said.
The police suspect a virtual private network was used for uploading the Facebook post, allegedly by Anmol Bishnoi, the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi on Sunday, he said.
Former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court verdict convicting and sentencing him to life imprisonment in a 2006 fake encounter case.
He had allegedly hanged himself with a bed sheet in the toilet of the lock-up, as per the police.
'The Mulayam government pressurised officials, IG-Range, DIG, and SP-STF were transferred, even I was made to resign within 15 days'
Based on the technical surveillance, they were apprehended on April 16 from a temple premises at Mata No Madh near Bhuj town in Gujarat by joint teams of the Mumbai and Kutch police.
"The court of Additional Sessions Judge/First MP-MLA Court Durgesh also imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Mukhtar and Rs 1 lakh on Afzal," ADGC Criminal Neeraj Srivastava said.
With the hugely popular Panchayat's third season ready to drop this week, we look at all the rural themed shows available on OTT.
The raids were carried out in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and the Union Territory of Chandigarh by the NIA as part of a mega operation that began early Thursday morning, a spokesperson of the premier investigating agency said.
Sudhakar Badgujar, the leader in question, denied the allegations while speaking at a news conference in Nashik.
Vikas Dubey, who met with a gory end in an encounter with the UP Special Task Force near Kanpur on Friday, conjured the image of a typical don who dabbled in real-estate, won a district-level election and rubbed shoulders with political figures.
The Mumbai police on Monday claimed to have cracked the murder case of Mid Day crime reporter Joyobroto Dey, and arrested seven Chota Rajan gangsters who reportedly orchestrated the crime. But the police is still curiously silent over the motive, reports Toral Varia.
'If my brother was a criminal they could have filed a case against him and put him on trial. Why kill him?' This is not justice.'
With the Lok Sabha elections going on, May is rather silent when it comes to new Bollywood theatre releases.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat on Thursday revoked the disqualification of Bahujan Samaj Party leader Afzal Ansari as a member of the Lower House after the Supreme Court conditionally suspended his conviction in a Gangsters Act case.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it would like to examine the plea of the Maharashtra government, challenging the remission granted to gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli who is serving a life sentence in a murder case.
At least nine separatist organisations supporting terror groups have their bases in Canada and despite multiple deportation requests Ottawa has taken no action against those involved in heinous crimes, including the killing of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, officials in New Delhi said on Tuesday.
Gangster Udham Singh, who operated in Meerut and Baghpat districts and carried a cash reward of Rs 50,000 on his head, has also accused the Bahujan Samaj Party minister of framing him in false cases. Singh, against whom over 50 cases are pending including the killing of Siddharth Upadhaya, deputy general manager of Bajaj Sugar Mill in Meerut on April 11, had surrendered before a local court on May 2.
As Thalapathy Vijay embarks on a career in politics, Arjun Menon looks closer at his glorious filmography.
Bunty Pandey, a seemingly new don in town, has demanded Rs 2 crore from the superstar.
Pathan was suffering from various ailments, including blood clots in the brain, and had suffered a paralytic attack earlier.
Vikrant Massey is a man of undeniable talent. But he too can't rise above Blackout's derailed script that reduces the likes of Jisshu Sengupta, Chhaya Kadam and Mouni Roy to chumps, observes Sukanya Verma.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday slapped the stringent Gangsters Act on independent member of legislative assembly Raghuraj Pratap Singh, better known as Raja Bhaiya.Raja Bhaiya, his cousin and Samajwadi Party Member of Parliament Akshay Pratap Singh and their two aides Hari Om Srivastava and Nanhe Singh have all been charged under the Act.Raja Bhaiya had earlier been put behind bars during Mayawati's last regime.
A work supervisor of a private construction company engaged in the golden quadrilateral project was stoned to death in Rohtas district last month.
Comedies are a difficult genre to pull off in today's day and age, thanks to the audiences' increasing exposure to diverse content and dwindling attention spans. Still, there are quite a few Tamil movies that can bring on the laughs. Arjun Menon lists the recent releases you can watch at home.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed till further orders the premature release of gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli, who is serving life imprisonment in a murder case.
In a breakthrough, Mumbai Police on Monday claimed to have cracked the five-month old module of gangster Ravi Pujari operating in Mumbai, with the arrest of three Nepalis and two Gujaratis, who used to flee to Ahmedabad after carrying out every firing in the city.
Thousands of people from Ghazipur district and nearby areas turned up to attend the last rites of Mukhtar Ansari who died of cardiac arrest in Banda on Thursday.
People had also started gathering at Mukhtar Ansari's residence in Ghazipur and there was a large deployment of security personnel around the house.
He also announced his resignation from Sone Lal Patel's Apna Dal.\n\n
Jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya, an accused in the Rohini court shootout, was killed in a morning attack by rivals inside Tihar Jail, officials said on Tuesday.
The accused have been identified as Rajpreet Singh, Virender Singh, Sachin Bhati, Arpit Dhankar and Susheel Pradhan, the police said.
