Nikkhil Advani, a master of long-form storytelling, reflects on Freedom At Midnight and what it was to make a two-part series on the most difficult period of India's history in these polarised times.
In a new series, Bollywood's towering talents, who themselves made brilliant works this year, pick their favourite show of 2021, and tell us just why they loved it.
Chirag Vohra has set a benchmark with his performance as Gandhi in Freedom At Midnight.
Adivi Sesh hosted a screening of his new release, Dacoit: Ek Prem Katha, in Mumbai, and invited film folk to watch it.
The ladies looked gorgeous at Monisha Advani, her brother Nikkhil Advani and their business partner Madhu G Bhojwani's Diwali party. But the guest list includes this swish set too.
Dhurandhar was a big winner at the Indian National Cinema Academy Awards, held at Mumbai's Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre.
Ritwik Pareek's debut feature film, Dug Dug, offers a brilliant satirical and philosophical exploration of the fine line between faith and foolhardiness, observes Sukanya Verma.
Nikkhil Advani, his wife Suparna Gupta and his sister Monisha Advani of EMMAY Entertainment threw a Diwali party and invited all their friends over.
Netflix India announces it's slate for the 2026, the stars of the show and films walk the red carpet for the event. Take a look.
'Gandhi was Thakur and Gabbar was Jinnah.'
Amazon Prime Video promises big releases coming up this year!
January has a rich slate of web series and movies on the OTT platform. Joginder Tuteja gives us a quick look.
Whether Freedom At Midnight 2 has a political agenda, a bias or two will be read into it, depending on the affiliation of who is watching, notes Deepa Gahlot.
Sunny Deol. Akshaye Khanna. Anil Kapoor. Madhuri Dixit. Saif Ali Khan. Manoj Bajaypee. Netflix's 2026 slate packs a starry punch.
We look at the longest Hindi movies through the years, and interestingly, most of them have done well.
'About whether I'm worried it will blow up into something, no, I'm used to these things.' 'I am a voice in the city and have said quite a few things that may have ruffled feathers. But I stuck with them because it's your truth.'
Sharvari shares some fabulous Monday motivation, as she gets ready to start shooting for her new film, Alpha.
John Abraham and Nikkhil Advani step up their creative collaboration as they bring forth the new actioner Vedaa.
Saiyaara has emerged as a blockbuster, and it's time to welcome the two newcomers, Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda, to Bollywood.
Abraham, 51, shared a picture with the Olympian and her medal on his Instagram page.
'Today, Shah Rukh is sitting so high up that it will have to be something really spectacular for him to jump up and say, "Hey, yes, let's make this film!".'
'I wouldn't change a single shot even if I could, the film is just perfect even with a supposedly flawed script!' Celebrating Sholay's 50th anniversary on August 15 with a special series, where contemporary film folk analyse the cult classic.
'The opportunity to live as the Serpent excited me.'
Tamannaah Bhatia is on a roll and we just can't look away.
Even as the rest of India are heading towards Ayodhya, Tamannaah Bhatia has another temple in her sights.
'I have no idea why I was so many film-makers' choice for Jinnah. I assume it is because I was born and bred in Mumbai and speak English.' 'There's also my name, people tend to believe that a Muslim character can best be played by a Muslim actor.'
'They were born stars the day they were selected for this film.'
'Had these leaders known that Jinnah was dying...'
'I don't have to 'kill' my best friend (on a reality show) and not even apologise.'
Baazaar isn't a box office success, so what were its stars and producers celebrating?
'When you watch Freedom At Midnight, I want you to feel like you are sitting on a ticking time bomb.'
2003's Kal Ho Naa Ho is still winning hearts!
Ram Madhvani's series is all over the place and also boring to watch, complains Deepa Gahlot.
Film folk assembled for a mid-week party at a Mumbai restaurant, when Nikkhil Advani celebrated eight years of his production house Emmay Entertainment.
Freedom At Midnight is a bold attempt to revisit the whole discourse about Partition, its causes, and the predicament under which the Congress leaders accepted it. It perfectly captures the extremely confused and complicated situation to which it seemed the only viable solution, observes Utkarsh Mishra.
'Who decides what is jingoistic?' 'What is patriotic?' 'Who decides Lagaan is patriotic and Gadar is jingoistic?'
Superheroes, snowmen, freedom fighters, Sukanya Verma lists everything the OTT channels have to offer this week.
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