The New York Film Festival served an amazing plate of films. Aseem Chhabra picks the best ones.
Bollywood makes way for regional cinema at the 65th National Awards.
'Not many films have a reference to a creature who talks, emotes, acts in a film. And Munjya is doing all of it.
India got a special seat at the 95th Oscars luncheon table, as our film folk mingled with Hollywood's biggest stars.
'If we see that romance only belongs to the young or to a particular age group, then the whole definition changes.'
'I'm just trying to keep my head down and hope people like my work.'
Aseem Chhabra lists the films that won his heart at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
Besides Rashmika Mandanna, this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 achievers list also features Radhika Madan from the showbiz world.
Rajkummar Rao does the best with what he is given and he ably elevates the generic story-telling. Too bad that his performance remains the only takeaway from such an inspiring real-life story, notes Mayur Sanap.
He then broke into a riff on the Carpenters hit song Top Of The World and sang, 'There was only one wish on my mind... RRR has to win, pride of every Indian... and must put me on the top of the world.'
Subhash K Jha picks his favourite five Sushant performances.
The controversy about The Kashmir Files may have got all the eyeballs but there was much more to the closing ceremony of the 53rd edition of International Film Festival of India in Goa.
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.
'...and showcased in their original beauty.'
Subhash K Jha picks the actor's best on his birthday on May 20.
Deepika joins Dwayne Johnson, Michael B Jordan, Riz Ahmed, Emily Blunt, Glenn Close, Troy Kotsur, Jennifer Connelly, Samuel L Jackson, Melissa McCarthy, Zoe Saldana, Donnie Yen, Jonathan Majors and Questlove.
The purpose for which AI should be used cannot be left to AI developers, asserts Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta (retd).
He was replaced by the then hot and saleable Sanjay Khan.
Priyanka Chopra honoured South Asian talent at a pre-Oscar event in Beverly Hills on March 24.
'Back in India, I am the dictator. No one tells me how to make a film.'
'The maximum struggle that I have gone through in this industry was to try to get a film made which had a female action star.' 'And that film never got made, despite reaching out to some of the biggest actresses.'
Raja Sen lists movies that would work wonders for any generation lucky enough to see them on the big screen.
'Today, if someone spits on us, we are ready to kill them, but these men, without raising a hand, led the country to freedom and that's easier said than done.;
'This is the best time to do a pan-Indian film.'
While Satya's pleasures are palpable -- among them the poetry of the coarse language, the mercifully rough-hewn texture, the oh-so-familiar underdog story -- these pleasures hit you at a completely different speed. The movie is charged with a sense of discovery, and every shot is a cornucopia of details existing independent of the main story. It's touching, notes Sreehari Nair.
An effortless artist at all times, Surekha Sikri's emotional eloquence and authoritative presence showed a knack for turning moments into meaning.
There were so many beautiful moments from Oscar night.
Saeed Jaffrey lives on through his versatile body of work.
Make time for this one, you will be in for a pleasant surprise like I was, endorses Mayur Sanap.
'...without looking into yourself.' 'What matters most is human relationships and the human mind.'
The latest addition to Antim is Pragya Jaiswal who makes her big Bollywood debut with it.
'I felt awkward pairing with Anushka Shetty on screen because she had played my daughter in a film.'
'At a festival that has shown so many brilliant films, I cannot be more thrilled to receive this award,' said Slave's director Steve McQueen.
Like Slumdog Millionaire, RRR will remain a one-time phenomenon until another big, larger-than-life, Indian film connects with the critics in the West, predicts Aseem Chhabra.
For the first time in history, the luxury car market is poised to cross the sales mark of 50,000 units in 2024, with Mercedes leading the way
The eulogies will pour for Ustad Zakir Hussain. There will be those who recount his genius, his enterprise, his achievements, his grace, and his charm. I have no selfies or autographs to remember him by, but I will never forget his most generous and gracious gift to me -- one day in heaven, among the celestial ensemble of Indian music.
'I felt insulted, very hurt, that Indian cinema meant only Hindi cinema.'
Sanjay Gupta's Mumbai Saga and Ram Gopal Varma's DCompany are all set to release this week, and add to the gangster movies made in Bollywood.
A quick look at the winners of the 94th Annual Academy Awards.
