Soumen Das

Director Shubhashish Bhutiani’s Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation, 2017) will be released in Germany on 18 January 2019, according to an official statement. Starring Lalit Behl, Adil Hussain, Palomi Ghosh and Geetanjali Kulkarni, the film was released in India last year to critical acclaim. (It was ranked fourth in Cinestaan.com’s list of 10 best feature films of the … Read more

Actor-producer Sohum Shah’s period horror film Tumbbad (2018) received critical acclaim and while the film did not set the box office on fire, given its limited release, the word of mouth was also largely positive. For such an engrossing film that stood out for its story, telling performances and cinematography, Tumbbad got just 575 screens when … Read more

Despite the success of Vada Chennai (2018), director Vetrimaaran chose to focus on his more anti-establishment Visaranai (2016) during his conversation at the 23rd International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) in Trivandrum. The director is also a member of the jury for the Indian films category, and was speaking with H Shaji, deputy director of the … Read more

Nitesh Goral, a resident of Goa, lost his life after his motorbike rammed into actress Zareen Khan’s car. The incident took place at around 6 pm in the Anjuna area of Goa. An officer from the local police station confirmed the incident. According to a source, Zareen Khan’s car was stationary when the biker rammed into it. Khan … Read more

Star comedian and actor Kapil Sharma married Ginni Chatrath in Jalandhar in a traditional Punjabi ceremony, which was enlivened by popular singer Gurdas Maan. Sharma made a late entry at the wedding venue, which was done up in red and gold. The bride stuck to the traditional for her attire, and accessorised her look with … Read more

Viacom18 Motion Pictures recently released an impressive biopic in Marathi, Aani… Dr Kashinath Ghanekar (2018), based on the life of famed thespian Kashinath Ghanekar. The production house is now back with another biopic — Bhaai: Vyakti Kee Valli — based on the life of the great Marathi literary figure and artist Purushottam Laxman Deshpande aka PL … Read more

Two of actor Ayushmann Khurrana’s films, Andhadhun (2018) and Badhaai Ho (2018), have cracked the list of IMDb’s Top 10 Indian Movies of 2018. While Sriram Raghavan’s Andhadhun comes in at number one, Amit Sharma’s Badhaai Ho holds steady at number five. The online list is determined by users who rank the films on a … Read more

Sreekumaran Thampi was the main guest at the closing ceremony of the Kazhcha-Niv Indie Film Festival 2018, where a rapt audience listened to him recount his journey in cinema and share some of the challenges that he faced. Filmmaker and organiser of the film festival, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, introduced Thampi who started his career in … Read more

Veteran actor Dalip Tahil essayed the character of India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), the biopic on India’s acclaimed track and field sprinter Milkha Singh. Later in 2014, he played Nehru in Shyam Benegal’s television series Samvidhaan (2014). Now, Tahil is ready to play Nehru for … Read more