Director Sohan Lal’s The Great Indian Road Movie, a film that travels through 17 states and shows us the various sights and characteristics of India through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy, was screened at LIFFT India on Sunday (9 December). The film won two awards at the festival – Best Producer, awarded to Abhilash … Read more
Kokilaben Ambani was the wife of Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian business tycoon and founder of the Reliance Industries. So who is Kolilaben, how her inclusion in Dhirubhai’s life changed his fortunes? Let’s find out some interesting facts about her, her relationship with Dhirubhai and the net worth of this power couple. Biography/Wiki Kokilaben Dhirubhai … Read more
The five-day film and arts festival, LIFFT India Filmotsav, concluded on Monday (10 December) in Lonavala. The second edition of the festival, curated and organized by actor and filmmaker Riju Bajaj and his team, featured 120 films from 30 countries in about 27 languages. Vivek Sharma’s A Game Called Relationship was the opening film of … Read more
Veteran filmmaker David Dhawan and his actor son Varun were in conversation with screenwriter Rumi Jaffery at session aptly titled Dha.One. During this session at the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa recently, the father-son duo made some candid revelations. Sriram Raghavan’s Badlapur (2015) marked a change in Varun’s career. After doing … Read more
His movement is limited, diet is restricted and he recognises only a few close ones. But as he turns 96 on Tuesday (11 December), Hindi film legend Dilip Kumar continues to get the love of his fans who have embraced his prolific performances in a glorious career that has earned such epithets like Indian cinema’s … Read more
Freedom seems to have become the buzzword at the ongoing 23rd International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). In his conversation with film critic and writer CS Venkiteswaran, director Umesh Kulkarni seconded Majid Majidi and Buddadeb Dasgupta’s ideas saying, “Politicians are completely using the idea of faith of the common people and trying to set their … Read more
As an actress Katrina Kaif has her limitations, but there has been no doubt of her dancing skills. She has enthralled the audiences with memorable performances in songs like ‘Sheila Ki Jawaani’ from Tees Maar Khan (2010), ‘Chikni Chameli’ from Agneepath (2012) and ‘Kamli’ from Dhoom 3 (2013). Kaif adds her another glorious number ‘Husn … Read more
Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has added a film on Empress Elisabeth of Austria to the growing list of projects he is working on. After directing the Oscar-nominated Elizabeth (1998), starring Cate Blanchett, Kapur will be directing a German film on the life of the Austrian royal and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I. The upcoming film … Read more
Popular Marathi film actor Aniket Vishwasrao and actress Sneha Chavan tied the knot in a private ceremony in Pune on 10 December. The couple were engaged in August this year. As per reports, Vishwasrao and Chavan are family friends. Reportedly, Vishwasrao’s aunt and Chavan’s mother are close friends. The two of them shared pictures from … Read more
Actor turned producer Dev Adhikari and his real life partner actress Rukmini Maitra are going to pair up for Aniket Chattopadhyay’s next yet untitled film after he finishes the biopic on social worker Padma Sri Subhasini Mistry. The film will be a fantasy tale, inspired by noted author Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar’s two stories on Habu … Read more