'India has the largest slate of local original content outside the US.'
Thriller, horror, feel-good, rom-com, action, vendetta, biopics -- you name it, you got it on OTT this week.
One needs patience to watch Once Again, feels A Ganesh Nadar.
Check out what's happening in Cannes!
Hindi cinema witnessed unique facets of womanhood, her complexities and morality this year.
'Even at 50, I will make mistakes, but I'm willing to get up and learn again.'
The legendary film festival has a strong Indian flavour this year.
We've seen the cool grandmas, and now it's time to see the hatke filmi grandfathers.
'A whole lot of faffing around happens from the time Lootcase sets up its amusing premise and concludes it in a manner typical of its genre.' 'But the actors are such effortless fits for their parts, there is pleasure in this dillydallying,' observes Sukanya Verma.
Check out the impressive line-up at the International Film Festival of South Asia.
'The maximum struggle that I have gone through in this industry was to try to get a film made which had a female action star.' 'And that film never got made, despite reaching out to some of the biggest actresses.'
The hits and misses of the week.
Director Richie Mehta dedicated the honour to all the women who not just endure violence that men inflict on them, 'but are also tasked to solve the problem.'
The world's richest man and the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos bonded with Bollywood at a grand party thrown in his honour.
In a new series, we look at the top 10 shows in the most popular genres.
The hits and misses of the week.
'The challenging part was when I did not have a penny in my pocket and I was doing theatre.' 'I had to sometimes travel without a train ticket to go for rehearsals.' 'Those times were really hard on my family and me.' 'But my parents would say, "Never give up. Just keep following your dreams. Do what you dream about but when you do that, do that with great honesty and great commitment".'
City Of Dreams 2 released recently, and is quite a must watch.
Amazon Prime Video has announced a huge number of assorted Web series and movies, and the slate sure looks interesting.
Love, memorable, throwback pix to celebrate Mother's Day.
The power of the series is that it is rooted in reality, feels Deepa Gahlot.
The hits and misses of the week.
Affluence without conscience, haunted homes and heads, a big fat Punjabi wedding and more on OTT this week. Here are Sukanya Verma's 10 recommendations.
...But a comedy about Class Wars. Sreehari Nair tells us why.
The 26th edition of Lions Gold Awards was held on January 25.
'We can't live in a delusional world of just I, me, myself.'
'Ishaan Khattar, with the please-fall-in-love-with-me looks in his eyes, carries the first episode,' observes Aseem Chhabra.
'It is difficult to pin down any singular factor but marriage does invite the emotional investment of viewers,' observes Chintan Girish Modi.
'You've to wait for the correct project and the right character.'
Sukanya Verma lists some of Bollywood's delightful reel-life husband and wife jodis in the last few years.
Sreehari Nair introduces you to three promising movies coming up.
'Deeply flawed, Sacred Games and Mirzapur come nowhere close to representing the diversity of stories from this country,' says Vikram Johri.
As splendid it is to behold, A Suitable Boy cannot match in soul and falls short of being memorable, feels Sukanya Verma.
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
Netflix has unveiled a line-up of 15 original series as well as returning seasons of popular shows.
In A Suitable Boy, Mira Nair holds our hands and takes us through the magical journey, introducing us to so many fascinating characters from another era, observes Aseem Chhabra.
Celebrity stylists Pranay and Shounak open up about dressing up Vidya and other celebs.
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