Neeyat is not only sluggish, it also creates zero interest in the characters. It could, perhaps, be watched on OTT, where it is inevitably headed, feels Deepa Gahlot.
Fascinating films based on true stories you might want to catch this year.
Before Vishal Bharadwaj's advent, several Hindi filmmakers had attempted screen adaptations of Shakespeare's various works, with varied success.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'How can so many misfortunes fall on one beautiful family?'
Singh is Bliing proves all that glitters is not gold, says Sukanya Verma.
What if we these popular American television series were made in India?
'I haven't experienced such a thing ever. It was beautiful.'
It ends poorly, sure, and has some clumsy moments on the way, but as a children's film, A Flying Jatt goes a helluva lot further than those Krrish things, feels Raja Sen.
Looking at the most touching Hindi movies inspired by true-life events.
Bombay Velvet paints a pretty postcard but not the soul of its decade, feels Sukanya Verma.
These sequels have failed to match up to their first installments.
Does Manmarziyaan feature in your list?
'No one's comparing and everyone's taking the song as mine... that's a battle won.'
'I always feel that to shake up human beings, you have to go a little extreme.'
Haider is a remarkable achievement and one of the most powerful political films we've ever made, a bonafide masterpiece that throbs with intensity and purpose.
Yudh has really rubbished my expectations, rants Raja Sen.
All this and more in Subhash K Jha's Bollywood Buzz.
Here's looking at Bollywood's tryst with luxury cruise liners.
'I choose the best of what I get. I will not do every Hindi film that comes my way. I would rather wait and do good films than do rubbish films because I will have no career left. It's tough in Bollywood because there is a lot of competition. You have to create a niche for yourself.' Raima Sen tells us why she's been away from Bollywood.
'Reading a newspaper is as important to me as reading a script. Sitting in a caf and drinking coffee is as important as going for a shoot.' Peeking into Atul Kulkarni's life.
Haider will haunt you long after you've left the theatre, promises Sukanya Verma.
Ram Gopal Varma is back with Part Three of that series, which presented to us the first clear evidence that the great man was slipping, rues Sreehari Nair.
Bombay Velvet is an obviously shallow film, an all-out retro masala-movie with homage on the rocks and cocktail-shakers brimming with cliche.
'Before I started Haider, I read a little bit of Hamlet. I saw a Russian version of Hamlet and, honestly, I got bored halfway through.' But Shahid claims his latest film is the best movie of his career yet.
'In the 1990s, wherever I would go for work, I would see Tabu dancing in a studio.'
'I have honestly never gotten so much appreciation in my career ever,' Shahid Kapoor reveals.
Nikita Puri lists the best shows and films to watch online as you ace social distancing.
Rana Daggubati on the The Ghazi Attack and Baahubali, the sequel.
'The overarching fact of modern social behaviour isn't that we are irresponsible women and men, but that we are never quite sure, when and how to act responsibly.' 'This is the real side of every Twitter outrage, where those who tweet about stories of 'unreported domestic abuse' end up feeling superior to those neighbours who are summoned up as clueless witnesses.' 'This view of the supposed spiritual decay of our times, which is at the core of Gali Guleiyan, is thus more fashionable than perceptive,' says Sreehari Nair.
'When you are half decent looking, you want to look like yourself, especially in your first project. But it was important to do justice to the role, especially when it is such a big project. I don't want to play the lead and look like a hero. I am open to do character roles, what is the harm in it?' Dangal actor Aparshakti Khurrana looks ahead in life.
'With Tanu Weds Manu, I discovered myself.'
