Aan Tiwari honoured with Best Child Actor award for Baal ShivTags
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Aditi Rao Hydari: Lockdown made us understand how important OTT platforms are
She made her digital debut with the Malayalam romantic drama Sufiyum Sujatayum last year, and was later seen in the web space in the Nani-starrer Telugu action flick V. Actress Aditi Rao Hydari is now gearing up for her third film on OTT, the Bollywood re
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Review: Pele: Genius in the time of unrest
Football has forever blended deeply with Brazil's socio-politics and culture, and if there is an icon who continues to represent the sport stronger than anyone else in that nation, it is Pele.
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Manushi Chillar: I'm getting a Diwali debut similar to Deepika Padukone
Miss India 2017 Manushi Chillar is all set for a Bollywood debut in the ambitious historical drama Prithviraj. She stars opposite superstar Akshay Kumar who essays the title role of Prithviraj Chauhan. She feels lucky that her film is scheduled for releas
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Anurag Basu: Thin line between using freedom of creativity and misusing it
Filmmaker Anurag Basu says filmmakers have always explored bold subjects irrespective of the medium it is presented on. However, the line that differentiates freedom of creativity and misusing that freedom needs to be kept in mind by filmmakers at all tim
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Mahesh Manjrekar shares his take on OTT censorship
Filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar does not support the idea of censoring OTT content. At the same time, he feels filmmakers should be responsible and not take advantage of lack of censorship in the digital space.
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Own production: The eternal dream (Column: B-Town)
Core business is a phrase that got familiar with the arrival of corporate houses in the film business. Which is to say, they would stick to the business they came to do and know it better, rather than branch out into other businesses that may look lucrati
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Review: Drishyam 2: Slow burn suspense drama
The beauty of Drishyam lay in the finality of its end. As Mohanlal's Georgekutty buried the truth (literally) and got away with the perfect cover-up, there was hardly scope to dig out anything new, you would think -- for scriptwriter or cops.
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Review: Girls Hostel 2.0: Good for a quick binge
Girls Hostel 2.0 rides the advantage of the ready fan base season one had built. Essentially, TVF and director Chaitanya Kumbhakonam don't try changing the narrative tone that clicked the first time around.
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Shraddha Kapoor: During lockdown, I understood the value of 'shunya'
Bollywood actress Shraddha Kapoor describes the lockdown phase of last year as one of her crucial phases for self-realisation. It was a period when she could learn to unlearn and redefine the value of zero, the spiritual meaning of shunya, she says.
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Actors have a moral duty towards movie theatres: Film Chamber
With just a few days left for the OTT release of 'Drishyam-2', one of the most awaited film of superstar Mohanlal, the Kerala Film Chamber has expressed their ire over the move as this could well prove disastrous for the film theatre owners.
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Review: Namaste Wahala: Crossover love story of cliches
Namaste Wahala harks back to the way Bollywood doesn't make love stories anymore. You have a boy and a girl in love. You have a fuming parent on either side who does not approve of the match.
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Review: 'To All The Boys: Always And Forever' is about feel-good cliches
It is Valentine's Day, week and month, what could be more perfectly timed, right? To All The Boys 3 is your option if you're not in the mood to look beyond sweet syrup.
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Celebrities have a view to air
For years, Authorities That Be have had a 'use and ignore' policy towards celebrities, especially filmstars, as well as top-rung filmmakers. Various regimes over the decades have held film celebrities in a tight leash, always having an attitude of 'Or Els
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Rajiv Kapoor beyond 'Ram Teri Ganga Maili'
Rajiv Kapoor passed away on Tuesday after a massive heart attack. For the first time in 31 years (his last released films were Zimmedaaar and Aag Ka Dariya in 1990), he was gearing up for a new film. He was set to return in Toolsidas Junior, starring Sanj
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Ronan Keating: Would love to connect with a Bollywood artiste and perform
International pop sensation Ronan Keating understands why Grammy-winning superstar Beyonce infuses an Indian flavour in her songs and videos, and says he hopes to work with a Bollywood star or a singer one day.
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Movie channels face redundancy (Column: B-Town)
The advent of OTT platforms seems to have put paid to the era of television movie channels. The kind of movies telecast on these channels makes it obvious that neither do they have the supply of new titles nor the wherewithal of any kind to compete agains
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Review: Lahore Confidential: Absolutely, uniformly a mess
Few films manage a level of absolute uniformity in the quality they peddle -- in terms of writing, direction, acting and tech-specs. Lahore Confidential is that film. It is absolutely, uniformly a mess.
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Saif Ali Khan on becoming father again: It was great fun, the entire process!
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan is looking forward to embracing fatherhood again, what with wife Kareena Kapoor Khan expected to deliver their second baby this month. Saif says fatherhood has made him stable, and that at the moment he is in a position to en
