A look at this week's hits and misses.
What does the box office of Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan's film have to say?
'It's a performance that puts the Bachchan hysteria to shame,' observes Sreehari Nair.
Great Grand Masti is neither great nor grand, and it doesn't have any masti elements either, warns Namrata Thakker.
The order stated that a scribe's accreditation could be permanently cancelled if he or she is found generating or propagating fake news.
The letter alleged that some of the recent articles written by the award-winning writer amounted to "misleading" the Muslim youth. It also warned that Ramanunni would meet the same fate as that of professor T J Joseph, whose right arm was chopped off by the members of a radical Muslim outfit for allegedly hurting their religious sentiments through a question paper he had set.
Sanam Re is a moronic film, feels Sukanya Verma.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
The crisis will strengthen Nitish Kumar's position as Lalu's troubles erodes his bargaining power within the ruling coalition in Bihar.
The under-one-minute films are titled 'Menu Cards, Mom and Neighbours'.
Apple, along with other technology companies, is allowed only to report such numbers in increments of 1,000
Second Hand Husband is entertaining in parts, says Nishi Tiwari.
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
The Hindi version of Rajinikanth's Kabali did not find much love outside Tamil Nadu
"What do they want us to do? They label us as a threat to peace and cage, confine and gag us. So how can we be of help?" said Mirwaiz.
The Supreme Court's observations on the Indian Premier League fiasco appears to have had an effect on the Indian team at the World T20, as its media manager, Dr R N Baba, has issued a gag order on the media, stating that questions 'only on ICC World Twenty20' will be entertained.
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
The Press Council of India and News Broadcasters Association, the two regulatory bodies for print and television media respectively, will determine whether the news is fake or not.
Modi also reminded Congress of the Emergency, saying it's a blot on the democracy that will never fade.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
Even as the anti-terror operations continue at the Pathankot Air Force base, the National Investigation Agency has started piecing together the puzzle over how the terrorists managed to sneak into the country and launch the brazen attack.
Facing flak over its order to block access to 857 pornographic and humour websites, the government on Tuesday lifted ban on all those websites that do not feature child pornographic content.
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
The party also said it would be a travesty to treat the current unrest in the Valley as a mere law and order problem.
An FIR has been lodged against Tamil superstar Rajnikanth's wife Latha for allegedly forging documents to obtain a court order.
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
The public discourse surrounding the murder of Infosys techie Swathi begs for sanity. Sadly, there are no takers for it in Tamil Nadu as conspiracy theories -- some communally explosive -- keep cropping up. R Ramasubramanian reports.
A look at the hits and misses at the box office this week.
'When those who took oath in the name of the Indian Constitution are not acceptable, where do the other Kashmiris stand?'
'Sudhir Mishra takes us into the dreams and fears of our politicians, into their self-deceiving pitches, and he shows us their demons and angels,' says Sreehari Nair.
'Even the ruling party -- if it really respects the independence of the judiciary and democracy -- should support this impeachment motion.'
Sringaravelan plot's wanders on aimlessly with no logic. You just have to go with the flow of the comedy, which gets quite boring towards the end.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged the media to accept the challenges of threat to freedom of expression posed by certain quarters. "In a democracy, we realise the importance of freedom of expression only when it is denied to us just like the importance of breathing is realised when one cannot breathe for two seconds," Modi said.
'Just as the monkey god needed a Jambavan to prod him into realising his superpowers, so did the poll panel need a poke from the Supreme Court into remembering it had an armoury of powers at its disposal to stop the infractions,' notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Shreyas Talpade's film, co-starring the Deol brothers, never adds up to anything beyond a shrill or overdone caricature straight out of a dummy's guide in how to amuse, says Sukanya Verma.
In our special series re-visiting great Hindi film classics, Sukanya Verma looks back at Madhubala and Kishore Kumar's Half Ticket (1962).
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