'When democracy first came to Bhutan people had no idea and they were like 'What is that?' Oh it's that thing they have in India where the leaders are always fighting and arguing.' When I screened the film to Bhutan's film committee, they thought my film was good but they were concerned about that line. They wanted me to change that line. They said, 'We don't want to offend India.' I tried to tell them that Indians have a great ability to laugh at themselves but they insisted I change it.'
Rajkummar Rao and Adarsh Gourav get into the nutty mode easily and carry off the dark comedy without overacting, while Dulquer Salmaan looks bored, observes Deepa Gahlot.
As Independent India turned 76, so did the ethereal Raakhee I know better than most, says Subhash K Jha.
Shreekant Sambrani remembers P R S 'Biki' Oberoi, personal friend and hospitality icon, who passed into the ages this week.
Gowri Ramnarayan explores the world of Kalki Krishnamurthy whose magnificent novel Ponniyin Selvan has inspired Mani Ratnam's latest film PS I.
The love for the festival of colours is not restricted to just songs and moments in the movies. The various hues of colours are used in film titles for dramatic effect too.
'Dada only shot my left side because he loved that profile. He encouraged the Bengali side in me.'
Within six months, outlets carrying Vicks jumped from 60,000 pharmacies to 750,000 general stores. The trade boycott collapsed. Consumers were happy, finding Vicks now at every street corner. A fascinating excerpt from Gurcharan Das's Another Sort of Freedom.
The pilot of Vishal Bhardwaj's much-anticipated adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery is here. Aditya Roy Kapur's hotel manager takes on Anil Kapoor's all-powerful arms dealer. Idris Elba is back in action. Sukanya Verma shares her OTT recommendations this week.
'Working with Poonam Dhillon and Padmini Kolhapure again has been a dil bekaraar moment.'
It's a fun, Fun, FUN menu on OTT this week.
Dinesh Raheja doffs his hat to the movie legend, who will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award this year.
The trailer has everything you were looking for: Suspense, action, drama, plotting and vengeance, cheers Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
100 years of Dev Anand and 10 scenes etched in our memory!
The court said being the author, Ray was the first owner of the copyright to the screenplay and the right to novelise it is also vested in him.
We remember some of Nitin Chandrakant Desai most influential works.
Time to celebrate the humble sweet potato. Extremely versatile, it lends itself for a festive dessert.
A whirlwind trip of the dark underbelly of global finance, covering everything from tax law changes to aiding criminals to decamp with money from bank accounts.
If future episodes are as verbose and unwieldy, it might be difficult to keep from switching channels, points out Deepa Ghalot.
There is nothing of the level of Yes Minister, House Of Cards, Madam Secretary or Veep but there are at least 10 Hindi series and an OTT-released film or two, to whet the viewer's appetite for power-mongering, corruption and intrigue.
August 23, the day the Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down on the lunar surface, would be celebrated as 'National Space Day'.
In an attempt to woo the low income group, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Tuesday announced a new scheme `Sulabh' for basic phone subscribers with the facility of only incoming calls at rentals ranging between Rs 99 to Rs 160 a month.
Thriller, horror, feel-good, rom-com, action, vendetta, biopics -- you name it, you got it on OTT this week.
'A very large part of this would have come from opium.'
'A simple boy from Gurdaspur, whom I caught glimpses of when he was sitting alone in his penthouse, reflecting on life and how far he had come.'
'This novel, even after 1,000 years, is still relevant.' 'The politics and psychology is still relevant.' 'It is as contemporary as you can get.'
Natasha Perianayagam scored the highest grades amongst all candidates.
'Something which is just entertaining you continuously is not giving you a moment to pause, reflect or think.'
Sukanya Verma lists everything you can watch on streaming platforms this weekend.
Shah Rukh Khan's box-office juggernaut and other specials on the OTT menu this week.
Ravinder Singh, best selling author of books like I Too Had A Love Story and Can Love Happen Twice? lists his all-time favourites.
Badla, bhoots and a barrage of detective dramas bombard the streaming platforms this week. Sukanya Verma lists everything you can see or skip.
'We bonded over the fact that we are both from Delhi and he spent a lot of his childhood in the same neighbourhood as me.'
ISRO will now conduct further testing of VELC and its eventual integration with the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, it said in a release.
The company is, currently, testing its products along with BSNL for commercially rolling them out in India. The company plans to launch its products for one million BSNL lines in Ahmedabad and Bangalore in two months. Renovau has developed a product suite where video images can travel over internet on a bandwidth of as low as 128 kbps. The switch, developed by the company, will offer call routing, call management and billing solutions.
Blind is a film you are better off not watching, warns Mayur Sanap.
The first half of 2023 has been good to Bollywood, as we saw big blockbusters like Pathaan and The Kerala Story. But there have been flops as well.
In a video message from New York on Monday night, the 75-year-old Mumbai-born author who has lived under the shadow of a fatwa since The Satanic Verses was published in the 1980s said it was important to continue to fight for the freedom to express and to publish.
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