Dhadak 2, starring Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi, releases on August 1, and film folk queued up to watch it at a special Mumbai screening the night before.
Triptii Dimrii can wear just about anything and make it look absolutely fantastic.
From October to Saiyaara, these Hindi love stories proved that romance still has the power to break hearts, move audiences and create box office magic in the age of violent cinema.
Big films like Dhurandhar, Chhava and Kantara: Chapter 1 hit box office gold in 2025, and its directors, Aditya Dhar, Laxman Utekar and Rishab Shetty, have proved their worth. But many other directors made an impact with their 2025 releases, in various languages.
Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri put forward their never-seen-before intense side in Dhadak 2, which is deemed as the spiritual sequel to the Ishaan Khatter and Janhvi Kapoor-starrer 2018 film, Dhadak.
'So my question was, 'What is it that you are proud of? What have you achieved? What is your contribution?' 'He had no answer.'
The year had a variety of films to choose from. Not all of them were successful at the box office, but had merit.
Mari Selvaraj delivers his most rage-filled film in years, with a superbly cast Dhruv Vikram giving it his all, notices Arjun Menon.
After a long time, here's a film that does justice to the people whose stories are never heard or written about, notes Divya Nair.
Aseem Chhabra ranks the Best of 2025's films that released in theatres, or went directly to OTT platforms.
It's all happening at the first Critics Choice Film Awards in Mumbai.
Maamannan could have been so much better with an alternate lead actor and a tighter, more gripping storytelling, sighs a disappointed Divya Nair.
Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
How many of the 319 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2018 have you seen?
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
Sreehari Nair is *not* impressed by this lot of films at all.
