From highways connecting once-remote regions to aviation networks carrying millions, India's infrastructure story is one of transformation.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries and Tata Group have made it to the prestigious TIME's list of 100 World's Most Influential Companies of 2024. TIME called Reliance 'India's Juggernaut'. This is the second time that Reliance has found its way into the TIME list. Jio Platforms, the firm that holds digital properties of the conglomerate, was included in the inaugural TIME 100 Most Influential Companies List of 2021. Serum Institute is the other Indian company on the list.
Of late, war films -- particularly those that tell stories of the 1971 War and Kargil -- have been produced.
Mast Mein Rehne Ka is a thoroughly human film, which makes you laugh as hard as it will make you feel for the characters, notes Mayur Sanap.
Philip's is a light-hearted film you can enjoy with your family and safely recommend to your friends, endorses Divya Nair.
Shah Rukh Khan's box-office juggernaut and other specials on the OTT menu this week.
Deepa Gahlot picks 10 Web series that was worth the viewer's while.
Claiming there were "condemnable, inappropriate and malicious contents" in the serial, Tamil Nadu IT Minister T Mano Thangaraj said the trailer released in social media was aimed at discrediting and distorting the historical struggle of the Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Action, drama, thriller and rom-coms, this week has a lot of entertainment coming up on OTT as well as in theatres.
Superheroes, serial killers, spies. Sukanya Verma asks you to brace yourself for tons of action on OTT this week.
Call Me Bae is a spirited new addition in guilty pleasures for the fashion-loving, rom-com starved soul, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Mirzapur will be telecast on Amazon Prime Video on November 16.
February is a slow month when it comes to original Hindi content on OTT.
Variety is the spice of life and the greatest USP of OTT platforms. Sukanya Verma points out all the wonderful stuff to choose from this week's mix.
'Sam, as Nagarjuna affectionately calls Samantha, is like a daughter of the family.' 'Nag gets very upset to see any of his children in a vulnerable situation.'
The reported buyback of Temasek's 20 per cent stake in Tata Play by Tata Sons will be the third instance of Tata Group providing an exit to a foreign partner in recent years. In 2018, Tata Sons paid $1.27 billion to DoCoMo to buy back 26 per cent of the group's telecommunication venture, Tata Teleservices. This was followed by Tata Sons acquiring AirAsia Berhad's 49 per cent stake in AirAsia India in two tranches to make it a wholly owned subsidiary.
Love stories, superheroes, family dramas, kiddie flicks, whodunits, rom-coms, Sukanya Verma lists your OTT menu for the week.
At the end of eight episodes, the climax is bound to leave you with questions but it would be fair to say that the two-episode backstory and the characters seemed far more interesting than the six-episode drama and tension that led to it, observes Divya Nair.
The two obvious best choices are to combine OTT viewing time with some good eating, because Joe, Rishi and Co don't have to be the only ones dining well.
Tandav, a nine-episode political thriller starring Bollywood A-listers Saif Ali Khan, Dimple Kapadia and Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, started streaming last week but the show landed in a huge controversy over its depiction of Hindu deities.
The Jonas Brothers documentary, Chasing Happiness, is airing on Amazon Prime.
'The tank battle was fought at ranges of 300-700 metres.' 'It was a rare example of the complete destruction of a squadron by another squadron.'
Poacher neither minces words in condemning these self-seeking slaughterers nor leaves any stone unturned in highlighting the hard work put in by friends of the forest, notes Sukanya Verma.
As happy as one is to cheer for her global star status, I wish PC's choice of projects was more topical than stale formula, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Deepa Gahlot lists some 2023 movies that you need to watch if you haven't already.
Things may not always look bright, but the sun won't stay out forever is a running theme conveyed across its short films about people from various walks of life in all their varying moods and musings, applauds Sukanya Verma.
I binged on various shows this year -- some for work, some for pleasure, few I couldn't spare time for, others I didn't have access to while some started out fabulously only to fizzle towards the end.
The US Open women's final between Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez attracted a bigger audience on ESPN than the men's clash featuring calendar year Grand Slam-chasing Novak Djokovic and Russia's Daniil Medvedev.
The Queen faces fresh new challenges on personal and professional front, a teacher gets romantically involved with her pupil, a boy and his truck embark on fun-filled adventures, a game of thrones over panchayat politics and more OTT recommendations from Sukanya Verma this week.
In ethical non-monogamy, individuals have romantic or sexual relationships with several partners, states rediffGURU Ravi Mittal.
The launch of Koel Puri's Clearly Invisible In Paris, in Mumbai, last Friday, revealed Suhana's star power.
Arsenal had more than twice as many chances but failed to take any as the visitors defended gamely.
Quite a few Hindi films have taken up issues related with sex, and managed to shine the torch on some pertinent issues.
VJ-actor Cyrus Sahukar married longtime girlfriend Vaishali Malahara in Alibaug on Friday.
The price for pushing the envelope beyond the comfort zone that the land of storytelling is used to is a hefty one, observes Meghna Chadha.
In the three previous rounds of testing since players resumed training there were 12 positives.
Unpaused: Naya Safar holds on to a light-at-the-end-of-a-tunnel thought and looks at the pandemic-afflicted people from all walks of life through the prism of optimism in five poignant stories, notes Sukanya Verma.
There is nothing of the level of Yes Minister, House Of Cards, Madam Secretary or Veep but there are at least 10 Hindi series and an OTT-released film or two, to whet the viewer's appetite for power-mongering, corruption and intrigue.
'Where are the funny writers on Indian television and OTT platforms?' 'Where are the sitcoms?' asks Vanita Kohli Khandekar.
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