Do You Wanna Partner is frothy and funny without being loud or crude, which is something so many Indian comedies cannot manage, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'The chemistry came very naturally; we didn't have to try too hard. It was there already and it just flowed. It was effortless.'
'He was once a hero. He was the poster boy of investigative journalism.' 'Then suddenly, because the TRPs of his channel were down, his boss decides to sack him.'
'I don't know how long cinema will survive.'
Vidya Balan showed off her new film, Neeyat, to members of the film industry at a special star-studded screening in Mumbai.
Agatha Christie meets Vidya Balan in Neeyat, Mayur Sanap tells us after viewing its trailer.
Neil Gaiman's popular The Sandman comic series just got a taste of Bollywood.
Sam Bahadur is a mechanical summary of his life, ticking off one chapter after another without bothering to pause or ponder over their significance and influences, observes Sukanya Verma.
The summer saw its fair share of hits at the box office. Now, the monsoon has quite a few movie releases from across genres.
Tea with Twinkle... Arjun celebrates... Tara meets a special friend...
Some of her best films are not available on streaming platforms, but Deepa Gahlot looks at her Hindi cinema oeuvre on OTT.
Bombairiya is billed as a quirky comedy on our smartphone obsessed times.
'I started losing sleep.' 'I started having trust issues.' 'I knew that actors sometimes go through this and I thought I'll be able to step in and step out of the character.' 'But it took me a while to feel good again.'
'You cannot drop to the ground, however many bullets hit you.' 'Because if you are weak, this is not the place for you.'
Neeyat is not only sluggish, it also creates zero interest in the characters. It could, perhaps, be watched on OTT, where it is inevitably headed, feels Deepa Gahlot.
One needs patience to watch Once Again, feels A Ganesh Nadar.
'He not only immerses himself into the character, but he wears it.' 'He does not let even a fragment of himself show while he's playing the part.'
It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday releases, psychiatrists began dabbling in film criticism, and film critics turned into psychiatrists, says Sreehari Nair.
Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga is a boring, overlongm tale of an eccentric with delusions of leadership, sighs Deepa Gahlot.
Joginder Tuteja lists the biggest money-making movie murder mysteries.
Prithvi Theatre announces Summertime -- workshops for children in the age group of sox to 16 years.
A special screening of Gurinder Chadha's new film Partition: 1947 was held in a theatre in Mumbai.
In a new series, we look at the top 10 shows in the most popular genres.
Some were brilliant while in others, the performances made them a great watch.
Sherni is a triumph -- a sublime outcome of purpose and storytelling falling in place, applauds Sukanya Verma.
'We wanted to explore the divisions in India -- be it class, caste, language, religion or gender.'
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The lockdown has seen some amazing shows finding their way to home screens.
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
Paatal Lok is definitely a must watch show. The credit for its success goes to the writers who enthralled us with their unique characters, but also to the wonderful band of actors who grabbed the opportunity to showcase their frightening raw talent, notes Aseem Chhabra.
The film is based on the Arushi Talwar murder case.
'My ethnicity has been my biggest struggle in the industry, a setback in getting me work.'
Karan Sanjay Shah gives us five exciting things to watch out for in Sacred Games 2.
All the action from the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival.
'The overarching fact of modern social behaviour isn't that we are irresponsible women and men, but that we are never quite sure, when and how to act responsibly.' 'This is the real side of every Twitter outrage, where those who tweet about stories of 'unreported domestic abuse' end up feeling superior to those neighbours who are summoned up as clueless witnesses.' 'This view of the supposed spiritual decay of our times, which is at the core of Gali Guleiyan, is thus more fashionable than perceptive,' says Sreehari Nair.
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
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