'Despite its noble attempts, tight editing, terrific sound design, good performances and a compelling story, Hotel Mumbai tells a big lie.'
With its slick cinematography and breathless pace, Bloody Daddy is not really made for OTT, but that's where it ends up, notes Deepa Gahlot.
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'Movie-goers will thrive if you give them what they want.'
'...And so many people are trying to find a way out of it.'
'It's time to change this system of randomly giving stars and the right to bad critics to run down our products.' 'Two films, even if both get three stars, are very different from each other.' 'I can understand if these stars indicated a level of enjoyment or engagement, but the current rating system is flawed because there are no parameters.'
'If you look at the Number 1 film in India this year across Bollywood and other regional film industries, it is Avengers: Endgame.'
'It has never happened that all Top 5 songs on Spotify are from one film. On the Ormax list, the Top 9 are from Animal.' 'The music is good, sure. But everything has taken off with Animal the film.'
Yet again, it's a Hollywood film that's scoring in Indian cinemas this season.
Prime was the first to grab streaming rights for seven titles for an estimated Rs 300 crore.
Thematically riveting, but inept execution lets Kafas down, complains Mayur Sanap.
'Our viewers have grown up over the years.' 'Today, they want to see something which is sensible, a story rooted in logic rather than jingoism.'
'Since God was being shown in live action on such a large scale, Prasanth was initially sceptical about going with an animated character.'
'It looks like an overnight success but nothing happens overnight.' 'There's a lot of struggle, hard work and sacrifice.'
'I started as an actor when I was only two-and-a-half years old, so I am not new to attention and the perks of being an actor.'
The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Wednesday raised objections to the portrayal of Lord Ram, Lakshman and Ravana in the teaser of Adipurush, claiming that it 'ridiculed Hindu society'.
Full credit to Ayan Mukerji for venturing into the 'Astraverse', says Deepa Gahlot.
'To this day, women, especially housewives, come up to me to tell me how much Arth matters to them.'
The box office report for the year so far ain't good.
'If we don't wake up and try all out to give audiences good content, they will move towards a new kind of cinema. We will become like Europe.'
'Always smiling, creative, problem solver, ambitious and a man who walked ahead of an Industry.'
Dinesh Raheja doffs his hat to the movie legend, who will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award this year.
Though Prabhas and Saif will play Rama and Ravan in the traditional style of antagonists the dynamics between the two epic warriors would be far more flexible.
'For me, Nitin Chandrakant Desai will always be associated with masti-mazaak.'
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
There's a whole slew of sequels coming up, and Joginder Tuteja lists them for us.
Punjabi singer-actor Gippy Grewal gets ready for his Bollywood innings.
'Suvinder Vicky in Kohrra. Manoj Bajpayee in Joram. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub in Joram and Scoop. Gagan Dev Riar in Scam 2003. Sukant Goel in Kaala Paani.' 'The number of awards will not be enough for the kind of work that has happened this year.'
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'I don't make big budget films. So if my film makes Rs 120 crore, it's a huge hit. We finish fast, make it on a small budget and recover fast,' Akshay Kumar tells Patcy N/Rediff.com.
'Kangana is such a stylo, she knows what will look good on her.'
'I would get very pampered on the sets so my grandpa used to get very scared about that.' 'He would think I would feel great from inside and my life would get messed up.'
2023 was a good year for international cinema with many strong films premiering at the Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Toronto film festivals.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the biggest March releases in the last decade.
'We will see footfall returning to pre-COVID levels by January.'
'What's beautiful now about India is that we are discovering so much more about each other, our stories and micro culture.'
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