No Time To Die Gives Us No Time To Breathe
The trailer of the new James Bond film is exhilarating and indicative of a time in the near future when we can all go back to the nurturing darkness of movie theatres to experience the exhilaration of a true-blue action-driven eternal franchise with the imperishable James Bond in his, ha ha, last appearance in…
Amitabh Bachchan’s Granddaughter Opens Up About Longtime Struggle With Anxiety
Mental health conditions are often considered a taboo in desi communities such as India. It takes years for anxious and depressed individuals to come out of their shell and a great amount of courage on their part to battle the…
C U Soon: A Gripping And Moving Thriller
Thank God for happy endings. Well, almost. This thriller about an online dating plan gone horribly wrong, has a whole lot of balls, plus a steadily beating heart. And it ends on a bright note. We needed that. An important detail that we must remember is that the…
Ashram: Baba Black Sheep, Have You Any Shame?
A poorest of the poor series, Aashram stumped me with its abject crassness. Lengthy sequences of girls being chased across forests infested with two-legged animals, Babas and Babus seeking sexual favours from Babes who are all for it as long…
Chadwick Boseman: How Much Crueler is 2020 Going to Get?
The unexpected death at age 43 of Chadwick Boseman who played American cinema’s first black superhero in Black Panther comes as a complete shock to me. Really, how much crueler is 2020 going to get? Boseman’s fans were eagerly looking forward to the Black Panther sequel which kept getting postponed. Now we know why. Boseman,…
Sadak 2: Film Fails To Impress Despite Sanjay Dutt’s Performance
Believe it or not, Gulshan Grover in a walk-on part which he must have accepted for old times’ sake, plays a villain named Haathkatta. Because, get this, one of his hands has been severed. Subtlety is certainly not one of…
Radhika Apte More Visible In Her International Film Than Ali Fazal
Two talented actors, Radhika Apte and Ali Fazal, will be seen in prestigious international films at just about the same time. While Fazal in the trailer of Death On The Nile is visible for just one shot amidst a gallery of outstanding co-stars, Apte is all over the trailer of A Call To Spy and understandably…
Dimple Kapadia Didn’t Understand The Tenet Script
Christopher Nolan’s latest mind-bender Tenet has opened in the midst of the Coronova crisis, in specific theatres in selected cities across the world. The critics are baffled by the script. They are not embarrassed to say they don’t follow the script. It is okay to confess ignorance with Nolan. And apparently that’s what Dimple Kapadia has been doing. She has told her close friends that she couldn’t follow…
5 Bollywood Biographies That Didn’t Lie
Bollywood has churned out multiple biographies in the past. From Asha Parekh The Hit Girl to Shatrughan Sinha Anything But Khamosh, stories centering on the lives of renowned personalities have been popular amongst readers/viewers for a long time. Now, the…
10 Superstars Who Have Played Chivalrous By Taking A Backseat For Their Leading Lady
Rajesh Khanna in Amar Prem: At the peak of his superstardom when the entire world was his stage, Rajesh agreed to play second fiddle to Sharmila Tagore in Shakti Samanta’s immortal love story. In fact, so sure was Samanta that…