'After the first Kantara, when they announced the second one, I kind of knew he will call me. I had this instinct. Then he called me at midnight and I didn't pick up. I was like, I'm not talking to anybody at 12 at night. The following day, I called and we chatted. He said, I have to narrate you something. I said, I know, it's Kantara!'
Here's a super fun way to while away your time!
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
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Hunterrr is a deeply problematic film, and fails rather miserably, warns Raja Sen.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Ulajh strikes you as an attempt at statement-making gone horribly wrong, a punchline that doesn't land, a roar that never reaches the ear, observes Sreehari Nair.
'Two actors don't necessarily have to get along to create chemistry.'
Sukanya Verma looks at how one of the seven primal human emotions is usually treated in Hindi movies.
'I'm not jealous anymore. But sometimes I am, when I'm not part of that project.'
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities!
Movies, like all forms of great art, are not meant to tell us how we ought to be, but honestly document how are.
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Badhaai Do carries its audience on the wave of those little farces that come with being queer in India, a land where masculinity still has some say, observes Sreehari Nair.
Joginder Tuteja looks at promising comedies getting ready to tickle your funny bone.
Stars spotted at the special screening of Kannada movie Thithi!
'I remember I was doing The Hate Story and had finished shooting all the other bits with Paoli (Dam, actress), only the erotic bits were left. It was the first time I was doing lovemaking scenes and I had no clue how to do that. My wife was like, 'don't worry, just be comfortable, it's your job.' It was comforting coming from my wife.' Knowing Gulshan Devaiah better.
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Check out the star arrivals
Will Sunny Leone score yet another hit?
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A look at the hits and flops of the week.
Raja Sen looks back at the good things that happened in Bollywood in the first half of 2015.
'2015 gave us a set of Hindi films that brought to light, the true uncorrupted joys of filmmaking even in their roughness.' 'Films which told us why we loved films in the first place. Films that were less ashamed of revealing their weakness and ones that took chances with audience expectations.'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade.
'Harshvardhan Kapoor will go on to become one of the finest Indian actors of this generation,' predicts Sreehari Nair. 'In Bhavesh Joshi, Kapoor treats the movie like a box and tries to break out of it.' 'It's magic to watch a young actor like Kapoor achieve intensity without overextending himself; he can hold a frame while merely being in it.'
10 frontline filmmakers announced their decision to return the prestigious National Awards over the government's "apathy" in addressing the students issues and the environment of intolerance.
'It's an experience of a lifetime. It's the first time I acted in a South Indian film where I was treated as an equal by an actor.'
'This is a film that trumpets out its sex -- it is content in being a girl's version of the archetypical boy's locker-room picture.' 'And if it was just that, that would have been fun too, but Lipstick Under My Burkha doesn't want to affect your senses, it wants to control your mind!' Sreehari Nair comes away unimpressed.
'Mistaking carnality for sensuality, X: Past Is Present rings as too literal-minded and too talky, with a technique that just about drains any real density or genuine playfulness that may exist beneath all the talk,' says Sreehari Nair.
'2016 was the age of convenience for Hindi movies; of down pat effrontery and planned feeling triumphing over attempts to discern something complexly beautiful,' says Sreehari Nair.
'Peddlers isn't a movie of grand cinematic achievements, but one of small yet startlingly original victories.'
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