2020 could well have been a year of biopics with females taking centre-stage. After Chhapaak, it was time for Shakuntala Devi and Gangubai Kathiawadi to release later in the year with many more in the pipeline for 2021.
A lowdown on what's going on in the Malayalam film industry.
Here's the lowdown from the Malayalam film industry.
It is always fun when real life couples take their love on screen.
As often is the case on celluloid, romanticising death is as significant as making every moment count where a young life's passing makes the realisation all the more heartbreaking and momentous.
'Unlike OK Kanmani, Kaatru Veliyedai lends itself to a classical form. It is very different from the previous film in tone, texture and scope.' Mani Ratnam discusses his latest film.
Here's looking at the newest batch of hot guys who are quickly consolidating their positions as heartthrobs.
'I didn't expect much from him when he came on set.' 'But he was just jumping and flying around and I couldn't tell that this was his first action film!'
Joker, Thithi, Maheshinte Prathikaram and Pelli Choopulu bag the big awards of the night!
A lowdown on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry.
'There is a deep sense of satisfaction in knowing that you know how to do your job and can go on to the next film with confidence.' Irudhi Suttru director Sudha Kongara chats about her film's success.
Astad Deboo created a modern dance vocabulary that was uniquely Indian.
'My film will not only be a reminder for all of us who have gone through these hellish two years, but also a reference point for future generations and for the four-five year olds who would have forgotten everything by the time they grow up.'
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
In the last ten years, 96 per cent of the sedition cases against 405 individuals pertained to making critical remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, points out Ramesh Menon, author, Modi Demystified: The Making Of A Prime Minister.
Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor don't burn the screen with passion but there's a pleasant sense to their togetherness, feels Sukanya Verma.
'I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.'
Take a bow, Nayanthara, Radhika Prasidhha, Aishwarya Rajesh, Jyothika, Nithya Menen.
'Film shooting is a long process, and it is important to have a good bonding with the person you are going to spend six to eight months of your life.' 'Baaki, film toh bann jaati hain.'
Subhash K Jha looks at actresses who dared play Momma at the risk of getting typecast.
A Web series shouldn't be outright unrealistic. Being Bollywoodesque is always suicidal, asserts Utkarsh Mishra.
Kareena Kapoor is all set to play an expecting mum in Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine.
As we celebrate the actor's much deserved award, Divya Nair presents 10 landmark films in Suriya's career, ranked in order of performance.
Joginder Tuteja goes back a decade, and looks at the big movies that flopped from 10 years ago.
Gorgeous Indian destinations, coming up!
"Every actor's life is short. It exists only between 'Action' and 'Cut'," Mohanlal once told Subhash K Jha.
The BJP continuing to look at the Dravidian polity through the religious prism has not worked in Tamil Nadu whereas it has yielded political and electoral results across much of the rest of the country, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Reviewers rated it high, but still, these films unfortunately flopped.
'You can't call this a pure Western. This has got love, passion, violence, suspense.' 'This is a film of today.'
Subhash K Jha celebrates Ajay Devgn as the movie star turns 53.
'When I contracted COVID and was extremely unwell, I almost thought I was not going to make it.' 'But this man (Karan Johar) was like family for us in Bombay. He would send doctors for me, made sure my medication was done correctly and made sure I came out of COVID.'
Onir has got what it needs to make sensible, thought-provoking, entertaining cinema, feels Prasanna D Zore.
Despite all its drawbacks, I was engrossed in Toofaan and the intensity Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra imbues it with for most part, observes Sukanya Verma.
'I never allow myself to look anxiously over my shoulder at what my co-star is doing.'
Police sources claimed that during investigations it was noted that allegations were "mischievous" and "lacked substance".
The letter was written by 49 eminent personalities, including filmmakers Mani Ratnam, Anurag Kashyap, Shyam Benegal, actor Soumitra Chatterjee as well as vocalist Shubha Mudgal in July this year.
Anurag Kashyap's classic Black Friday is a must watch film.
