The Kashmir Files Director Vivek Agnihotri has criticised Bollywood film-makers, stating they do not have the courage to openly criticise a star like Ranbir Kapoor but they will do so behind closed doors.
The Kashmir Files Director Vivek Agnihotri spotted outside a Mumbai salon.
Reports that Mithun Chakraborty collapsed on location during the shooting of Vivek Agnihotri's The Kashmir Files are true.
Vivek shot Nautanki in Bhopal in the midst of the postponed schedules of The Kashmir Files.
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri appeared before the Delhi high court on Monday and tendered an unconditional apology in connection with a criminal contempt case over his alleged remarks against a judge of the court.
The prime minister also congratulated the film's makers for giving importance to scientists of the country.
'All the big production houses are making superhero films, so I thought I should make one too. So I have made a genuine superhero film,' Vivek Agnihotri says about his new film, The Vaccine War.
If someone says he is Bhopali, it generally means he is homosexual, a person with Nawabi likings, Agnihotri had said.
The high court asked him to appear after he tendered an unconditional apology, through an affidavit, for his alleged remarks.
Calling it a direct challenge to India's sovereignty, film director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri said on Thursday that he declined an invitation by the Oxford Union and found the theme of the debate -- 'This House Believes in an Independent State of Kashmir' meaningless.
The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday said he will quit filmmaking if intellectuals, including Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, are able to prove that events depicted in his film are false.
'No sane person will ever want to stop this film in Bengal. This is going to heal the Bengali community.'
'Before Gadar 2, I was a nobody.' 'Once Gadar 2 happened, my director was like, you're meant for the movies, girl.'
November is a busy month on OTT with several series arriving, in their next season after being vastly successful in earlier instalments.
Some of the issues Vivek Agnihotri raises in The Bengal Files are valid, but today, the need of the hour is to find ways of negotiating peace not pouring oil over troubled waters, asserts Deepa Gahlot.
Kolkata Police stopped the trailer launch of 'The Bengal Files', a film based on the 1946 Calcutta Riots, its director Vivek Agnihotri claimed, sparking controversy and allegations of censorship.
September is going to be an exciting month in theatres.
After making the blockbuster The Kashmir Files, Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri plunges headlong into another hard-hitting film, this time on the COVID vaccine.
'His belief that he is touched by the Almighty reflects in his performances.'
'What matters to me is that the film is reaching out and touching hearts.' 'An 85-year old man and his 75-year wife, who had never stepped into a cinema, went to see The Kashmir Files.' 'That is my real achievement.'
'We didn't realise what a tsunami The Kashmir Files was going to be.'
Showbiz folks watched the musical The Phantom of the Opera at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai.
'He was a visionary who redefined storytelling and inspired generations.'
The biggest releases of 2025 will actually start arriving in theatres from the Independence Day weekend.
The Kashmir Files Director Vivek Agnihotri, his wife and Co-Producer Pallavi Joshi and Producer Abhishek Aggarwal have sent a legal notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee for 'false and highly defamatory statements made with malafide intention to defame us and our films.'
'This film has changed me from within.'
'It's the most ban-friendly country in the world as far as cinema is concerned.'
Usha Uthup and Mithun Chakraborty were among those who were conferred with the prestigious Padma Bhushan award for their outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
Speaking on the occasion, Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, said the history of Kashmiri Pandits have a great and rich history.
The film will comfortably enter the 100 Crore Club, and a fourth installment seems assured.
The third-highest category of security in the country has been granted to Agnihotri because of the film-maker's increased threat perception after the The Kashmir Files release.
'He will eternally be remembered as Mr Bharat for always reminding us about roti, kapada aur kisaan.' 'Our integrity and patriotism. Our culture and our roots.'
'Whatever I said and I said clearly that for me and my fellow jury members, it was and it is a vulgar propaganda movie that didn't have a place and was inappropriate for such a prestigious competitive section. I can repeat it again and again'
The officer, Niyaz Khan, also appealed to the film producer to transfer all earnings to the Brahmin children's education and construction of homes for them in Kashmir.
The Kashmir Files, a Bollywood movie on the exodus of Hindus from the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley, will be banned in multi-racial Singapore as the film has been assessed to be 'beyond' the city-state's film classification guidelines, a media report said on Monday.
Turned away by the Foreign Correspondents Club and the Press Club of India, The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri says he has been banned "undemocratically" and will go ahead with a press conference at a five-star hotel on Thursday.
Although no fresh arrests were reported in the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation continued with its questioning of top officials of the RG Kar Hospital.
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid said he was "disturbed and shocked" to see the film being screened at the film festival.
'It's better if everyone uses eco-friendly Ganesha idols.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at the theatrical releases of the month.
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