In the midst of the pandemic, the Chhattisgarh police in Raigarh decided the best way to encourage public safety measures was to use Bollywood film dialogues in their posters, re-interpreting Bachchan ...

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The year is 2066. An air taxi picks me up from a cardio-reparation chamber in Mars; my ailing 80-year-old body settles in for the hour-long ride home. I swipe the oxygen to summon a transparent plasma ...

As we end the countdown of the 100 best albums in Hindi cinema, here's the entire list from #100 to #1 ...

There is no mainstream filmmaker in India who – for over 35 years – has pushed himself and his art the way Mani Ratnam does, with each new film an attempt to challenge the boundaries of mainstream ...

The smartest thing about Sharmajee Ki Beti, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s directorial debut, is its title. The term is a riff on the colloquial Indianism “Sharmaji Ka Beta,” the perfect hypothetical boy ...

Vijay Devarakonda’s latest film, Family Star, is mostly unremarkable, save for one scene. It happens after an antagonist shows up at his house with an auto rickshaw and demands that his sister-in-law ...

Christo Tomy’s Ullozhukku is stung by grief. The Malayalam drama is mostly about the two characters – Urvashi’s Leelamma and her daughter-in-law Anju (played by Parvathy Thiruvothu) coming to terms ...

Jithu Madhavan fully understands the excitement this thin plot can generate and instead of zooming past this idea to get to the “story”, he fills up the first half with some of the most random moments ...

Adarsh Gourav started his career as the younger Rizwan in Karan Johar’s My Name Is Khan (2010), alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol (Khan essayed the older Rizwan). It was, however, the role of Balram ...

Tillu (Siddhu Jonnalagadda) is back and so is his deadpan humour. After being pulled by Radhika (Neha Sshetty) into a pool of dirt in the first film, he is scared of commitment on the personal front ...

PT Sir aims to convey a very strong and important statement about sexual harassment and victim blaming. But director Karthik Venugopalan seems to be hesitant in pinning all his hopes on just the ...