Chandu Champion is Kartik Aaryan's most ambitious work so far and the actor's muscular gusto is undeniable. There's visible fire in the man's belly but not enough soul, observes Sukanya Verma.
With Vinesh Phogat's heartbreaking disqualification over discrepancies in weight at the Paris Olympics just when India was keeping its fingers crossed for a sure shot victory at the finals, spirits have hit an all-time low. Art mirrors life and it won't be a surprise if our sports biopic obsessed film-makers turn this dramatic change of events into a movie one day.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is directing the biopic on the athlete which will go on the floors next year.
The Chennai High Court cleared the film for screening both in Kannada and Tamil.
It will be directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and produced by Luv Ranjan.
Enchanted rings, talking teddy bears and arranged marriages of the phony kind, hijack horror and more on OTT this week.
South Indian actress Laxmi Raii, who was reportedly dating India's limited overs cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, is hoping that she or her relationship with Dhoni, doesn't feature in the biopic based on the cricketer's life. "It's so strange that people are unnecessarily focusing on my past. While I and Dhoni have moved on, it looks like some people are still stuck with it.
Swapnil Kusale fought his way back to win the bronze in his very first appearance at the Olympic Games.
Amitabh Bachchan was honoured with the Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award at a ceremony in Mumbai's Dinanath Mangeshkar Natyagrih.
Decapitated ghosts, ancient ghosts, devil judges, devious cartoons, angry young women, it's a super flavourful platter of assorted goodies on the OTT menu this week.
Gandhi will now be seen in two upcoming OTT series -- Hansal Mehta's Gandhi, starring Pratik Gandhi in the title role, and Freedom at Midnight by Nikkhil Advani.
Joginder Tuteja lists our theatrical entertainment for the month.
Titled Kishoreda, the film will be produced by Percept Pictures Company.
The proposed director is Neeraj Pandey.
Neither films were rejected by the audience, something that has happened with so many recent, mid-budget films.
Neerja is releasing on February 19 worldwide.
Indian American Congressman Ro Khanna, 47, is headed towards running for presidency of the United States, his Indian American colleagues in the US House of Representatives believe.
Celebs spotted at the special screening of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story!
Sukanya Verma compares yesteryear stars and the contemporary ones at about approximately the same age and the results are glaring.
Amir Hussain Lone lost both his arms in an accident at his father's sawmill when he was eight years old.
India's tennis star Sania Mirza says she does not want a biopic made on her life but if something like this ever happens, she would like Deepika Padukone to play her on-screen.
According to the British tabloid The Sun, Pattinson, 23, has landed the role of the Nirvana lead singer, who shot himself in 1994.
Prachi Desai, meanwhile, has been confirmed in the role of Azhar's first wife Naureen.
'I feel very proud of him. He has always been there for us. And this is our friendship. Friendship No 1,' Paramjit Singh told the AajTak channel.
Maidaan's special screening was quite a star-studded affair, as film folk arrived to watch Ajay Devgn's new sports biopic.
With the kind of money and talent that has gone into making this movie, a really good biopic of a personality like Savarkar could be made. But this film is lost in polemics, as is the case with almost every biopic and period drama today, observes Utkarsh Mishra.
Priyanka Chopra
From wannabe astronauts to visually disabled heroes, be sure to make some time for all the OTT action Sukanya Verma recommends this week.
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Robert Downey Jr bagged his first ever Oscar award for his performance in the biopic drama film, Oppenheimer.
The actor is as entertaining at press conferences as he is in the movies, and he keeps the proceedings light -- and fun -- and Hitesh Harisinghani/ Rediff.com and Afsar Dayatar/ Rediff.com capture them.
'Murlikant sir saw the film for the first time alongside the army chief and many other army officers.' 'The way he got a standing ovation there, I got teary-eyed. It was a very emotional moment for all of us.'
Flight attendants, football coaches, renegade robots, underwater superheroes, it's all there on OTT this week.
The project will commence shooting in mid-2024.
Films that turned out to be box office disappointments.
There's a spate of book-to-screen adaptations dominating OTT streaming this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
On Tuesday, when trends indicated she was going to win her election, the four-time National Award winner said, 'Heartfelt gratitude to all the people of Mandi for this love and trust... This victory belongs to all of you, this is the victory of your trust in Prime Minister Modi and the BJP, this is the victory of Sanatan and in the honour of Mandi.'
Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde has objected to the biopic 'Sangharshyatra', based on the life of her father late Munde, claiming that the film's producer did not take permission from their family before making it.
Coming of age dramas, mind twisting thrillers, slice-of-rural life, here's everything you can watch on OTT this week.
Ashi Dua, who produced Bombay Talkies, will produce the film titled Sahir.
