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Two films and Academy nominations, in separate categories; same filmmaker! What’s up? I ask director Geeta Gandbhir...
What’s it about a Rs 50 lakh film, Laalo, that’s made Rs 120 cr at the box office, with everybody eager to meet its debut director, Ankit Sakhiya, 29?
Did a Saturday walk-through India’s iconic Prasad Labs in Chennai; and no, seriously, what did I see?
What’s it about Anubhav Sinha’s latest, pulsating thriller that must draw you into theatres this Friday?
How do you inhale a setting? I ask Sudip Sharma, the city’s finest screenwriter-showrunner!
Looking at how an old capital, of the youngest state in India, became its most liveable metropolitan city!
An ode to the indefatigable bathroom singer; wrote this, as usual, while crappily humming an ear-worm in my head, under my breath!
Figuring out how Neeraj Pandey’s thriller about smugglers feels like such an airport bestseller, and yet so brilliantly researched
If water, sanitation, roads, potholes, etc matter to you, I don’t know a more important vote than for local body elections; no?
Netflix doc series ‘Bad Boy Billionaires’ is finally complete, with a Hyderabad court allowing its last episode to drop after five years. What...
What’s it, if not the return of the morally unambiguous villain, missing for long, that also explains Khanna’s year at Bollywood’s box-office, no?
Decoding the ’80s and ’90s to figure how the ‘Dhak Dhak’ dancing queen defined a full decade on the big screen
Figuring what’s it about a TV reality show, which mimics social life, that it accounts for 800 days of desi TV-OTT programming, every year?
Looking at how the ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ director has scripted a children’s fable, on the art of giving, with her holiday release that opens in...
Director Dibakar Banerjee’s film, traversing three generations of an Indian family between 1989 and 2042, would’ve killed it among audiences; it...
If distribution is the issue with films as independent filmmakers are rightly cribbing about, now; then, really, where are the distributors?
There was an absurdist, Bollywood comic trilogy between 2005-08 that, it beats me now, how it’s rapidly expanded its fandom
With his latest release that opens Nov 14, director Kanu Behl wraps a trilogy that shakes you off your frickin’ slumber!
How a man from Seoul with an office for a decade in Mumbai has been hell-bent on unclogging the writers’ block in Indian cinema
Picking the brains of an ‘accidental actor’, ‘reluctant director’, and such an insouciantly cool being
What to make of star-actor Ayushmann Khurrana’s first desi ‘festival film’, Thamma? Let’s see...
The UAE’s headed in the exact opposite direction of the USA, currently; just watch for where the world grows!
Recency bias apart, did the undisputed Master, for his tenth film, deliver his most universally loved yet? Happy to discuss…
If you’ve wet your tissues already, spellbound by Homebound, should we discuss its director and the conflict that’s so central to the film?
Aryan Khan’s ‘Zoya Akhtar-ian’ debut on Netflix is such a perfect peek for those who love Hindi movies for movies’ sake!
Obsessed with villains, currently, thought why not get actor Abhishek Banerjee to go behind his iconic one from Paatal Lok
Read his book, and briefly spoke to retired Mumbai cop, Madhukar Zende, to realise there’s more to his career than nabbing serial killer, Charles...
TVF’s Court Kacheri is a small-town legal drama that explores family, nepotism, and rural life through authentic storytelling. With Pawan Malhotra,...
What’s with Jay Roach’s The Roses (opens in theatres, August 29), about a warring couple, that so naturally exposes the thorns?
Looking at the GOAT villain as Sholay turned 50. For, if you notice, Gabbar was ageless; not just metaphorically, also, literally!
The series Mayasabha mixes fact and fiction so wonderfully, even the Andhra titans it’s based on won’t endorse it openly!
Drove 300 kilometres to watch a movie that I could catch at a theatre near me. What happened next kinda blew my mind
Spoke to Shakespeare, the sultan of smut, about what he thinks of the sarkar shooting down Ullu!; consider that he once simply posted an Instagram...
Somehow, we associate European directors’ names with art-house cinema; how about a mini czar of crazy actioner, yo!
Surveying those who’ve watched Celine Song’s beautifully lit, minimalist Materialists — dying to discuss this conversation-starter of a movie...
Kukunoor’s series, The Hunt, on Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination probe, is the sort of comeback he deserves!
Isn’t there so much more to Bangkok, Thailand, than a bunch of frisky desi men gallivanting after a sales conference!
Handsome Hooda knows when to take himself seriously (onscreen), and not (in life, in general)
Barring the turban, and the language of expression, it’s equally a mystery to me how so much of current Punjabi hop-hop stardom fits so seamlessly...
There’s something about Karan Tejpal’s Stolen, that premiered at Venice, which has got film buffs and some of Bombay’s top filmmakers buzzing over it…
As with films, in life too, the ‘second half’ matters far more than the first. Actor Rao is a case study for why!
What is it about Rahul daCunha’s minimalist murder-mystery, now playing at a movie theatre near you, that keeps viewers hooked to its meaty plot,...
Superstar-producer opts for online pay-per-view for his next theatrical release, instead of going OTT. Isn’t that similar to DVD; only you can’t...
Ideally, you don’t argue with writer, conversationalist Javed Akhtar; you discuss, listen, and save the gems forever!
If YouTube is indeed the new TV, who then is the new Mihir Virani? Hey, how about Mayo, the ‘Japani’!
What about the Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively sequel, Another Simple Favor (drops May 1), that makes us drown in such guilty pleasure?
Going back-to-back from Khauf (Prime Video) to Sinners (theatrical release), you figure there can certainly be spook with substance!
Hardly a coincidence that everywhere you look, you find smartphones and social media as protagonists, if not the onscreen anti-heroes
Got Bhai withdrawal symptoms, watched Sikander, tried to make sense, of the phenomenon, not the movie, of course!
Hence, spoke to one-take artiste, director Philip Barantini, on his Netflix mini-series, that’s instantly captured global imagination
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