'Just the fact that the biggest language at the box office was Telugu and not Hindi is startling.'
It means more tickets sold and therefore more revenues and hastens the recovery of the devastated-by-the-pandemic film business.
The OTT treasure is brimming again with tons of treats in various genres and languages. Sukanya Verma suggests what you can catch this week.
In reel life, folks. Meet bubbly Ishita Dutta.
Are Emraan Hashmi's thrillers popular?
Many more friends and colleagues visited the Devgans to condole with them.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The actor is currently working on his next film Papanasam.
Drishyam director Jeethu Joseph gives Dileep one of the best characters of his career, says Paresh C Palicha.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
This film is Mommootty's version of Drishyam, feels Paresh C Palicha.
Joginder Tuteja looks at actors with the most movies in the pipeline.
Gehraiyaan seems to be aurally thin, which serves as a clue to the larger issues plaguing the movie, observes Rohit Sathish Nair.
'This is the best time to do a pan-Indian film.'
Initially we sit tight in our seats expecting something very gripping to happen but, nothing of that sort happens.
While we await Shilpa's second innings in the movies, Joginder Tuteja looks at how well the top '90s actresses have done when they returned to acting.
The screening drew guests from the movie and modeling worlds.
'I have done a lot of films for friendship and, whenever I have done that, I have suffered.' Ajay Devgn gets candid about his career, and Drishyam.
In Nishikant Kamat's Drishyam remake, Tabu will be cast in a powerful female antagonist's role of a senior police office, who goes all out to save her son from the law.
'I thought either Rajnikanth or Kamal Haasan should do Papanasam. Rajni sir liked it but was not sure about how his fans would accept certain scenes, if he were to do it. Like the scene where he is beaten up by a cop. Kamal sir loved the film and agreed to do it. Later, Rajni sir was willing to take it up but by then, the project was already on with Kamal sir.' Director Jeethu Joseph discusses his well-reviewed film.
Check this space for updates on the PK remake!
Ishita will be seen in Firangee, opposite Kapil Sharma, which releases this Friday.
Here's looking at five Malayalam films that made the biggest impact at the box office.
The Body scores with superb performances and a thrilling story, feels Moumita Bhattacharjee.
Pranav is currently assisting director Jeethu Joseph in Papanasam
Malayalam actor Sharafudheen talks about the films that defined his career.
Read on to find out how Tabu touched this designer's heart.
Ajay has made some brilliantly reviewed films, some big hits and many, many, entertainers.
There's the excitement of watching minor people commit major crimes and watching how that becomes their second nature, almost. Just when you think the show is extending outwards, it implodes. And with the ethical hinges off totally, you, the viewer, wouldn't know quite how to react, observes Sreehari Nair.
'My main ambition is to be on the sets everyday for the rest of my life.'
'Once Mohanlal's ever-swelling entourage grasped his enormous worth, once it realized that the innate Mohanlal appeal could be profited from, it set about to exploit, to make uproars, to create the Mohanlal brand.' 'And he wasn't meant to be a brand. He was meant to be an artist, a tireless explorer of the unique seas inside him,' asserts Sreehari Nair.
The film also stars Jimmy Shergill and Tushar Dalvi in the lead roles.
Hindi films like Oh My God and Aashiqui-2 are being remade in Telugu.
'I stand by my remarks against Rahul Gandhi. I also stand by what I said in that video,' says Yogesh Soman, director of Mumbai University's Academy of Theatre Arts who has been sent on 'forced leave' by Mumbai University.
