Director Suparn Verma talks about his forthcoming multistarrer and why Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena bombed.
At 6 pm on December 3, Mumbai's youth intend to stage a 'non-cooperation' movement of sorts at the Gateway of India. Suparn Verma, filmmaker and ex-rediff employee, has spearheaded the protest, inviting everyone to join him.
The matter is also being inquired by ScoopWhoop's Internal Complaints Committee.
Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena director Suparn Verma gets ready with his next.
Hasmukh just doesn't make you laugh and that's its biggest tragedy, complains Moumita Bhattacharjee.
Suparn Verma and Raja Sen dissect 2007 with Rediff Readers, while Bolly Woods moderates the chat.
Director Suparn Verma and resident film critic Raja Sen discuss the 2007 movies.
'These days you are the main inspiration for a lot of young film-makers. They are mimicking your films.'
The sizzling Koena Mitra bares her heart for rediff readers.
Suparn Verma may have issues with The Expendables 3 but the joy of watching these heroes together on screen is a movie event marked in his calendar until they keep making them.
Manoj Bajpayee simply lives, and loves, the role -- of a man who life is fast passing by, and who continues to live the lie of a simple government servant, observes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui's survivor instinct has been learnt on the streets. His hard-earned victory has come after innumerable struggles, but he hasn't lost focus of one simple fact. Suparn Verma -- who directed Nawaz in Aatma -- tells us what it is.
'Around the same time, I watched Rock On!! where those guys have that midlife crisis.' 'They are busy with their corporate jobs and then they want to start singing again.' 'Seeing that, I got a boost.' 'I felt if I don't give acting a full chance again, I will regret it.' 'So I decided to quit my job and pursue acting full time.'
Is Kangana single then? 'I have an answer to everything, but not this,' she replies.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
'What adult citizens do in the privacy of their home, what they eat or drink or watch, is not the government's concern.'
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
He had no airs about his talent, he did not intellectualise it, he just lived and breathed acting.
A look at the week's hits and misses.
'Today it is a studio being held to ransom, tomorrow it will be a government, an entire nation. I don't see anyone laughing when that happens,' says Suparn Verma.
We take a look at vintage two-wheelers on display at the just-concluded Auto Expo 2016.
The Lunchbox director responds to the FFI letter.
In the documentary The World Before Her, a young girl has to submit to the will of her father for a most gut-wrenching reason: 'He let me live... I am a girl... but he let me live.' Is that reason enough, asks Suparn Verma.
'You have a chance to use this massive mandate to push through life changing reforms, transform India into a superpower because our nation's biggest strength are its people, and we the people are the most hardworking industrious and entrepreneurial the world has ever seen.' 'Arm us with a society which lives without fear, a governance where business can be conducted smoothly without greasing palms, instill in this great nation a sense of pride once again. Let this nation be bigger than you and the party.' Suparn Verma's impassioned appeal to Narendra Modi.
'If the government is really bothered about saving Indian culture, then stop the culture of rape, stop the culture of corruption, stop the culture of goondaism, stop the culture of burning churches.' 'The State has no right to come into our homes and teach us lessons in moral science and Indian values.'
Our generation got independence too easy, we take our freedom too lightly, we treat our country and environment like toilet paper and take the easy way out because we have no sense of pride or self worth except when it is an India-Pakistan match. We need to be broken more so that we may rise, says film director Suparn Verma.
'When a woman uses stunning sexy photo shoots to make a splash and be noticed by the audiences and the industry, it doesn't mean she can be broken down to breasts, buttocks, legs, navel and oh... a pretty face,' says movie director Suparn Verma.
'Mistaking carnality for sensuality, X: Past Is Present rings as too literal-minded and too talky, with a technique that just about drains any real density or genuine playfulness that may exist beneath all the talk,' says Sreehari Nair.
'2016 may have been unkind, more than other years, but we are here and we owe it to the ones who are gone -- to live and love fully this wonderful gift of life,' says filmmaker Suparn Verma.
'Nikkhil Advani's POW shows a director's deft touch and is a promising start of a great story, top notch acting talent and great behind the scenes production team,' says film director Suparn Verma.