Popcorn entertainment returns to your living rooms with quite a bang on OTT this week.
Poornima Indrajith, who acted with Nedumudi Venu in the daily soap Oomakkuyil for three years, shares lovely memories of the legendary actor, who passed into the ages on October 11.
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 is a silly scary movie that knows it is a silly scary movie, observes Sukanya Verma.
'Brahmastra is kind of a meeting place of modern India with a feeling of ancient Indian powers about it.'
'My father is a postman. My mother is a homemaker. No one in my family had studied medicine.' 'I wanted to be the first doctor in my family so I could listen to people like me and help them feel better about themselves,' says Archana Vijayan, an MBBS student with a disability, who was initially denied admission into medical school, even after passing the NEET twice.
'I don't find characters that are not grey that exciting.'
I thought Saudi Vellakka a glancing, loving depiction of the judicial system as a pageantry filled with performers trying to do right by everyone, do everything by the book, and failing despite their best attempts, observes Sreehari Nair.
The comedy is stale, but there are bits that make you laugh, notes Divya Nair.
Beloved movies, brand new shows, must-watch documentaries and feel-good fare, it's all there on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma offers a peek.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the biggest Bollywood hits in August in the last decade.
'I don't believe in focusing on the bad things that have happened in my life.'
Will it promote a CUET-centric coaching culture causing students to focus on the entrance rather than the Class 12th exams?
Operation Romeo is disappointing not because it is a bad or boring film, but because it did have something significant to say and chickened out, observes Deepa Gahlot.
In what is amongst the first focused fund in the space, India Media Entertainment Fund (IMEF) is raising Rs 500 crore, which will provide both equity as well as instruments like non-convertible debentures (NCD) to companies in the content, distribution platform and services areas. The private equity fund has appointed a high-profile advisory body which includes ad guru Prahlad Kakkar, managing director of Red Chillies Entertainment and cricket team KKR Sports, actress and entrepreneur Raadhika Sarathkumar, who has starred in Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada films and runs Radaan Mediaworks. It also includes Ramnath Pradeep, former chairman and managing director of Corporation Bank, and Rajesh Gupta, senior partner of law firm SNG Partners.
Modern Love Hyderabad, even though predictable, is interesting in parts and keeps you entertained emotionally, observes Divya Nair.
Life, history, adventure, Sukanya Verma offers a rather feverish schedule on OTT this week.
Friendships are not merely severed, but built over scuffles. And just about anything can stir things up -- a long-standing feud, a pointless stare, a disrupted moral stance, a fist that ricochets off a face and smacks another face in the near vicinity, observes Sreehari Nair.
People may line up to see Rahul Gandhi, given he is currently, the only major politician speaking of inflation and unemployment in an India bombarded daily by Right-wing delusion. The challenge is how to transfer the goodwill into votes when the object of curiosity is surrounded by usual suspects and sycophants, observes Shyam Menon.
'Just think of this innocent man who had to suffer so much.' 'Who will compensate for the physical and mental torture Kappan had to go through in the last two years though he has not done any crime?'
Swara Bhasker says Nil Battey Sannata changed her life!
Thrillers, horrors and real-life inspired stories dominate the OTT scene this week.
'There was so much grace, depth and serenity in him.'
'I realised how serious it was when my doctors broke down.'
Kumbalangi Nights is one of those movies that will put you in a good mood every time you watch it, promises Anita Aikara.
Prithviraj plays J C Daniel who made the first Malayalam film.
'The administration started intruding into the kitchens and bedrooms of the local community.'
'For the first time in 50 years the people of Lakshadweep who have till now never raised their hands, got out on the streets and started raising their voices.'
Nishikant Kamat, who was undergoing treatment in Hyderabad, passed away on August 17. He was 50.
Though the bride and groom were Roman Catholics, Engels made it clear that it would not be a church wedding for him.
Biju Menon feels bogged down by expectations that his latest film carried, feels Paresh C Palicha.
Sreehari Nair reviews Ayyappanum Koshiyum.
Ashraf Palarakunnummal has one mission in life -- to ensure the dignity of the dead. This he does by seeing to it that expats who die in the Gulf are transported back to their home countries without too many hassles for the bereaved families. Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com talks to the Good Samaritan who was honoured with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman recently.
'I have wanted to act since I was seven. I wasn't confident enough.' 'I thought I didn't have the face, the body and the figure because back then, it was all about the body.' 'Now, the industry is changing.' 'People are noticing talent.' 'It has become more than someone just having a good body.'
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
'It's only in the last seven years, I have taken acting seriously.'
'It is about the fight between two families, why they fight, how they fight and what they feel.'
'I'm a guy who tries to find humour in every situation, no matter how difficult and serious, without offending anyone.'
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
RRR isn't the "spectacle" it is made out to be, argues Sreehari Nair.
Priyadarshan has made some of the best comedies in Hindi cinema, but the director says it none of it would have been possible without the cult success of Hera Pheri which completed 20 years on March 31.
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