Things are off to a good start when a lead movie character appears for the first time against strategic music or swaggering drama and the audience bursts into wholehearted whistles and applause.
Gujarat has around 3,000 licensees for allopathic drug manufacturing, apart from around seven homeopathic licensees, 500 ayuvedic and 600-700 cosmetics licensees
Saddled with glaring plot holes, caricaturish supporting cast, unintentionally funny punchlines, and Himesh Reshammiya, The Xpose is like Gunda, with better production values.
Singh is Bliing is far too moronic to be saved, says Raja Sen.
Amitabh Bachchan turns 75 on October 11. Rediff.com celebrates the superstar's birthday with this special series, looking back at the very things that made him the BIG B.
R Madhavan has a flair for playing unlikeable characters well and he achieves that here too, writes Sukanya Verma.
Logan is a relentless and thrilling film, a film that takes things farther than you may imagine, writes Raja Sen.
'Oddly enough, everything Raazi cannot explain or put a finger on, it glosses over in the name of patriotism or watan-love; glorifying thereby the very sentiment it had set out to mock.' 'This is the unique tragedy of the film: it becomes less of a counterpoint to pseudo-patriotism and more of a companion piece,' says Sreehari Nair.
A look at Akki's history of recycled South Indian fare.
The actor has quite a body of memorable death scenes to boast of.
Singh is Bliing proves all that glitters is not gold, says Sukanya Verma.
It's been a while since we've had a Batman film we can love.
'Sanjay Leela Bhansali's historical characters behave as though they are already aware of the chapters that will be dedicated to them and the sonnets that will be written in their memory.' 'And yet, they talk relentlessly about making and remaking history.' 'Can anything be more superficial?' asks Sreehari Nair.
Cartoon characters created and developed in local animation studios are enchanting Indian kids like never before, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Singham Returns offers quite a bit to whistle about with its steady supply of straightforward action and a hot-headed hero who delivers a punch with a fist and a line, writes Sukanya Verma
Tevar emerges an overdone, underwhelming film with zero charm, warns Raja Sen.
Sridevi, Karan Johar, Tabu... Sukanya Verma's week was all about time travel and pleasant encounters with the super young avatars of Bollywood's famous folk.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The number of small units has come down drastically, as large companies have expanded their manufacturing capacity.
Indu Sarkar is an effective propaganda movie only to the extent that it knows its mission-statement and knows whom to shame and whom to take in its stride, feels Sreehari Nair.
Yo, Rohit Shetty, what's with the volume, bro? asks Raja Sen
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Fugly is a trainwreck, says Raja Sen.
Stay away from theatres, I'd say. 50-kos away, even.
Sukanya Verma looks at the debutants of that year and how they've fared since.
Read about Rishi Kapoor's page-turning debut, SRK's super-charged turn in Raees, Sridevi as potential Dhoom vamp, Sanjay Dutt's contribution to Andaz Apna Apna and more in Sukanya Verma's super-film week.
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Boss is hell bent on assaulting the eardrums and senses with a vigorous spectacle of mindless action and screeching soundtrack.
Superstar Rajinikanth needs a box-office hit after two successive flops in Kochchadaiyaan and Lingaa, both 2014. Yet, Kabali is being projected as if the fans need the film, and the Tamil film industry needs it even more, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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'I am not the kind of girl who would try to impress Salman or anyone else. And I don't get impressed so easily too.' Know more about Bigg Boss 9's contestants!
Akshay Kumar makes some of those lines work, but things have gotten far worse this time around, notes Raja Sen
And no, the list doesn't start and stop with Boman Irani!
What could have been a relevant crowd-pleaser with a little effort from Sohail Khan and his writers is mostly a tedious and overcrowded drivel that shamelessly depends on Salman Khan's strapping charisma to tide them over, writes Sukanya Verma.
We look at Bollywood movies in which our celebs pack a punch... literally!
Sukanya Verma shares her exciting filmi week with us.
Sukanya Verma picks potential AB collectibles as Bollywood's most iconic star celebrates his 72nd birthday on October 11.
'Director Ali Abbas Zafar has directed a monstrous film, one with a repellent 70s-set storyline that makes no sense whatsoever, and a cast who should all hang their heads and offer up a minute's silence for assaulting their respective filmographies,' says Raja Sen after watching Gunday.
