Soumen Das 
Day 2 of the Kazhcha-NIV Indie Film Festival on Saturday (8 December) saw a panel discuss the ‘myth and realities of film certification and censoring’ in India. The session, titled ‘Certification And Censoring: Myth and Reality’, brought together voices of rebellion in cinema like the Babusenan brothers (directors Santosh and Satish Babusenan); film critic Sachin Chatte; advocate Vijay … Read more
Filmmaker S Shankar is on a sequel signing spree. After striking gold with superstar Rajinikanth’s 2.0, a sequel to 2010 blockbuster Enthiran; he is all set to commence work on Kamal Haasan’s Indian 2, which marks Shankar’s reunion with Kamal after two decades. Now, Shankar has revealed he has plans to make a sequel to … Read more
After a lacklustre 2018 in which he produced and acted in the disappointing action-film Race 3 and produced Loveyatri, Salman Khan is looking ahead to 2019 with the productions of Bharat and Notebook. The actor-producer announced that Notebook will be released on 29 March 2019. The love story will introduce two new faces, Pranutan Bahl … Read more
The trailer of Pavel’s debut film Rosogolla has been released. The film will launch National award winning director and actor Kaushik Ganguly’s son Ujaan Ganguly, and Abantika Biswas as the lead actors. Rosogolla narrates the journey of the undaunted Nabinchandra Das, the creator of rosogolla, the iconic mishti or sweet of Bengal. What makes the … Read more
Writer PF Mathews has been widely felicitated for his contributions in Malayalam literature as well as for his screenplays for films like Kutty Srank (2009), which won him the National Film Award for Best Screenplay, and his latest work, Ee.Ma.Yau, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery. At the screenplay writing workshop organized for aspiring writers as … Read more
Actor Salman Khan and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap were honoured for their work on Bigg Boss and Sacred Games respectively at the first edition of the Asian Academy Creative Awards in Singapore over the weekend. The first season of Neflix’s Sacred Games won two awards for best direction (fiction) by Kashyap and best editing by Aarti … Read more
Producers Siddharth Roy Kapur and Ronnie Screwvala have come together for a host of projects. The duo is producing director Shonali Bose’s The Sky is Pink that stars Priyanka Chopra, Zaira Wasim and Farhan Akhtar. This is Chopra’s first full-fledged role in Hindi cinema after her work in American TV series, Quantico. Given her … Read more
After screening at the film festivals of Mumbai, Dharamshala and Kerala, Anamika Haskar’s Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon is headed to Park City, Utah to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. The film, starring Ravindra Sahu, Raghubir Yadav, Gopalan, and Lokesh Jain, is one of six films selected for the … Read more
This Republic Day weekend will see a clash between Kangana Ranaut’s Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi and Hrithik Roshan’s Super 30, as both are scheduled to be released on 25 January 2019. Apart from the box office clash, what adds spice to this tussle is the frail relationship between Hrithik and Ranaut. A report in … Read more
Director Abhishek Kapoor has had a tough time in getting his film Kedarnath (2018) released. The film was delayed as result of financial disputes with initial producers KriArj Entertainment. Ronnie Screwvala then took over the reigns of production and the film was theatrically released on 7 December. There were concerns whether releasing Kedarnath only a … Read more