It has been a dull Friday at the box office as the new releases Pihu and Mohalla Assi failed to spark a revival, adding to the dubious returns of Vijay Krishna Acharya’s Thugs Of Hindostan. With both new releases dealing with serious subjects, the audience seems to have kept away. Vinod Kapri’s Pihu deals with … Read more
The Maharashtra State Commission For Women is currently awaiting actress Tanushree Dutta to depose before the committee with regards to her accusation against actor Nana Patekar. The actress had levelled charges against Patekar of sexually harassing her on the sets of Rakesh Sarang’s Horn Ok Pleasss, which remained unreleased. The Indian Express quoted Vijaya Rahatkar, … Read more
The winners at the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival were announced yesterday, the closing date of the festival. The festival began on 10 November and various national and international artistes, including Simon Baker, Majid Majidi and Shoojit Sircar, participated. In the National Competition in Indian Language Films, Arijit Biswas was chosen for the Hiralal Sen Memorial award for Best … Read more
National Award winning director Shoojit Sircar on Friday said the disparity between content-driven festival circuit films and commercial Hindi cinema is decreasing. “There was a disparity. But I think it is decreasing. If you look at films such as Masaan (2015), The Lunchbox (2013) and the like, these have worked in mainstream Bollywood and festivals, … Read more
Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi made a smashing comeback in front of the arc lights last year with the highly successful Khaidi No 150. More than a year after the film’s release, he is shooting for the highly anticipated drama Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy, in which he plays Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a freedom fighter from Kurnool. Being made on … Read more
Well-known singer and dubbing artiste Chinmayi Sripaada, who had accused veteran lyricist Vairamuthu of sexual harassment last month, revealed on Saturday that her membership of the dubbing artistes’ union has been terminated. The reason she has been given is that she had not paid the subscription fee for two years. Chinmayi took to Twitter to announce … Read more
Actress Soha Ali Khan says being a mother has made her stronger, and that her daughter Inaaya Naumi Kemmu has given her an incredible life lesson. Asked about her bonding with her daughter, Khan told IANS here: “My daughter is an incredible life lesson for me. As I was the youngest in the family, I … Read more
Ahead of her big December release, Aanand L Rai’s Zero (2018), actress Anushka Sharma headed to the city-state of Singapore to present her wax statue at the Madame Tussauds museum. Sharma’s wax likeness will be the first ever interactive wax statue at any of the museum locations around the world. The actress, dressed in a … Read more
After ‘a debilitating spell of dengue’, actress Shraddha Kapoor is back to shoot for her next film, Chhichhore (2019), directed by Nitesh Tiwari. Kapoor began a night shoot on the social drama with co-star Sushant Singh Rajput. Kapoor plays Maya, an engineering student, in the film which is planned for release on 30 August 2019. The actress shared a … Read more
Director Abhijeet Shirish Deshpande’s Aani… Dr Kashinath Ghanekar is doing well at the box office. As per trade sources, the film has earned Rs15.90 crore nett in the 11 days since it was released on 8 November. The Marathi film had clashed with the big-ticket Hindi film Thugs Of Hindostan at the box office. However, … Read more