In the industry for over 25 years, it's good to see how Rani Mukerji is continuing to spearhead films as the lead and still bringing in audiences.
Houseful signs were visible on online booking apps as well as physical boards all over again. It has been ages since one has seen a phenomenon like this.
Calendar 2022 will go down as a year when the real star was the Next Big Idea.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives the box office verdict for the week.
Kashmir's first INOX multiplex in Srinagar's Somwar area will be thrown open to the public next week.
'If OTT platforms had not come in, we would not get this second lease of life.'
The film, which was released on May 5, has kicked up a political storm.
India's multiplex bandwagon has gone beyond the metros to redefine entertainment in B and C class towns. Check it out.
Increase in occupancy will pave way for Hindi blockbusters to release, say multiplex operators.
'From the time we landed to the time we left, we got so much love that I didn't feel like coming home.'
Onir blasts Bollywood for being regressive.
Yoga institutes, indoor sports facilities such as badminton halls, tennis, squash courts, indoor shooting ranges will also be allowed to operate from Thursday.
The two obvious best choices are to combine OTT viewing time with some good eating, because Joe, Rishi and Co don't have to be the only ones dining well.
The city witnessed an unprecedented surge of cases and deaths during the second wave of coronavirus in April and May. The situation seems to have been improving over the past few weeks, allowing the government to reopen the city in a phased manner.
The order, listing various allowed and restricted activities because of the Covid pandemic, will come into effect from November 1.
'One ticket costs over Rs 300. Which means a family of five pays Rs 1,500, plus the food with one bucket of popcorn at Rs 350, a samosa for Rs 150.' 'Tell me, is it worth it?' asks Subhash K Jha.
It means more tickets sold and therefore more revenues and hastens the recovery of the devastated-by-the-pandemic film business.
'We would love to have more players entering the market because that is how the business will grow.'
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The key risks against a fast recovery would include long delays in business travel resumption, delays in commissioning, etc.
Movie theatres may reopen around the second week of July.
'If the South starts shooting on IMAX more, it will be beneficial. And likewise, it will benefit Bollywood directors.'
The sharp correction in the Indian markets from their peak levels has made valuations attractive, say analysts, who advise buying selectively, but only from a long-term perspective. Fifty-six of the Nifty 100 stocks, according to Mahesh Nandurkar, managing director at Jefferies, now trade below the 10-year historical averages, including stocks in financial, select auto, and pharma sectors. "Valuation (one-year forward consensus price-to-earnings, PE) has declined 25 per cent from October 2021 peak, almost matching the 33 per cent price-earnings contraction during the 2011 tightening cycle when repo rates went up by 375 basis points (bps) versus 250 bps this cycle.
Companies say that unlike in the US and other countries, in India the high cost of rentals and lower ticket price makes it unviable to run an operation without half the seats available for sale.
This is the fourth time in three decades that Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar have had movie releases on the same day.
'Samrat Prithviraj's collections are sobering. It has generated very little interest.'
'My eyes were too small (to convey) expressions. I was too hairy. I did not have a great physique. (In this profession) you just keep on working on your minus points and try to improve yourself as much as you can.'
Real life couple Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza's romantic drama took off in full speed, evident from the Rs 2.25 crore that it collected on the very first day.
Ushering in a new era of movie watching, the Union government allowed multiplexes, cinema halls and theatres to reopen from Thursday within the framework of a set of standard operating procedures.
'The world that we live in today has no space for nuance or conversation or debate.' 'So how does a small film that's not made for the sole reason of earning back your money and which is actually trying to say something that's fragile find its way?'
A film critic with The Hindu, 31-year old Sudhish Kamath takes time off work to make movies.
Filmmaker Prakash Jha, well known for his hard-hitting movies such as Gangajal and Apaharan, is set to change the entertainment and retail landscape of eastern India.
'A microcosm of India, inclusive and welcoming'. For years, Pragati Maidan was the centre of Delhi's social life.
There is nothing exceptional in the plot that will blow your mind away, warns Divya Nair. Yashoda Review
Code Name: Tiranga, on the other hand, is a disaster.
'Professors can teach even when they are 90 because they don't lose their skill with words. Go deeper and there's spirituality in it.'
When the Pakistan innings ended, there were 1.1 crore viewers live on the app and this increased to 1.4 crore viewers during the innings break.
Karthikeya 2 seems to have arrived out of nowhere and is turning out to be the top performing film of the weekend, and that too, in its second week of release.
The youthful former owner of Fame has unwittingly set off a takeover battle over his successful multiplex business.
While the Supreme Court has cleared the decks for the release of the Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie, there is uncertainty over whether it would be screened in the three states, as some multiplexes and single-screen cinemas fear the repercussions.
