Diwali blockbusters Saawariya and Om Shanti Om may not be screened at a multiplex near you. Leading multiplex chains PVR Cinemas, Inox Lesiure, Cinemax India and Fame, which account for 80 per cent of the country's multiplex screens and half the box office collections, have rejected a demand for a higher revenue share by the films' distributors and have threatened a blackout.
'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.
If you're a fan of sensible cinema liberally shot with realism, gallows humour and no-nonsense scripts, then this Tamil movie should gladden your heart.
We pay homage to Bhanu Athaiya by celebrating her best creations.
'The first one has done what it needs to do.' 'I'm sure there's going to be a stronger wave.' 'Anybody who thinks #MeToo has gone and they are off the hook are fooling themselves'
There is a world that Satyajit Ray created in his films that I wanted to be a part of -- as Durga bathed in the rain to Ravi Shankar's music; when Charulata sat on the swing regretting she never had a child; and Aarti stood up in defence of her colleague. Aseem Chhabra shares interesting memoris of Satyajit Ray on the latter's birth centenary on May 2.
The maverick filmmaker's latest offering Gangs Of Wasseypur has been a hit with the discerning audience.
Bhaichung said he is proud to represent Sikkim at the 13th edition of Sustainable Fashion Day.
Multiplex chains are rushing to smaller towns
The revived factionalism in the AIADMK, if not curbed now, has the potential to split the party vertically, warns N Sathiya Moorthy.
'These are cautionary tales, warning you to grow up fast, to be aware of the world around you and make sure that there are no wolves hiding in the shadows.'
Various events, award functions, interviews, shooting schedules have been called off in view of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
And the reason has everything to do with box office collections, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Feeling the heat and tension of the crisis? Fikar not!
A good deal of the 92nd Academy Awards (going hostless second year in a row) was a drag what with a staggeringly dull red carpet, long-winded, lacklustre speeches and uneven live acts following too quickly one after another.
Here's what your favourite celebrities are tweeting.
'It is not only the hero who displays guts and cleverness but the villain can also have these traits.'
DAM 999 will enter the library even before its theatrical release later this month.
Was romance invented so that Sanjay Leela Bhansali would one day make Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, which released on June 18, 1999, asks Subhash K Jha.
'Other designers take empty suitcases and go shopping for the actors's clothes in New York.' 'To me, this is bankruptcy of imagination.'
The raids were carried out across 23 locations in the state and involved around 200 sleuths, they said.
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.' 'There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the overall environment of sentimentality.' 'And the more effort you put into including these other voices, into assimilating these spoilsports, the more balanced your depiction of the tragedy in question will be,' observes Sreehari Nair.
'Some people get really angry when I talk about nationalism or when I share my opinion on farm laws.'
Others taxed at 5, 12, 18, 28%
Thugs of Hindostan may not have as easy a run at the box office as previous Hindi films did during Diwali.
'Once Mohanlal's ever-swelling entourage grasped his enormous worth, once it realized that the innate Mohanlal appeal could be profited from, it set about to exploit, to make uproars, to create the Mohanlal brand.' 'And he wasn't meant to be a brand. He was meant to be an artist, a tireless explorer of the unique seas inside him,' asserts Sreehari Nair.
Rajinikanth is yet to identify a filmi platform to be able to launch his political career from the celluloid platform as only MGR had done, successfully and in the pre-IT era, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'The day I am bored with acting, I will shift to something.'
The Telugu film industry reaches out to Chennai.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict for the week.
Some people know no limits. They don't think twice to challenge the extreme or go the extra mile. Some succeed, other keep trying. Here's a collection of some attempts at breaking records.
Over the last decade the Indian film industry has reinvented itself. Do film critics need to do that too?
Bloodsuckkers have always been a part of Hollywood even before True Blood and Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series.
Though he went back to writing "beautiful scenes" for other Bollywood directors, his deep interest in the lives of ordinary citizens never slackened, evident from the way he made himself available to human rights groups whenever they called him.
Femina Miss India 2000 and Indian cinema hottie Dia Mirza wore the showstopper -- a light pink and white cotton-candy inspired A-line dress -- for Nishka's collection.
The difference between watching a movie on a laptop in your apartment and watching it on a big white screen is almost spiritual, notes Sreehari Nair.
There's much more than talent to Rajkummar Rao.
Judwaa 2 has given Varun Dhawan his biggest opening day, and his biggest opening weekend.
