The trailer of Vicky Kaushal’s Uri: The Surgical Strike has received a thunderous response. While it does away with the cliched jingoism, the trailer had enough ammo to conquer your imagination. The makers have now released a new teaser of an action sequence from the film. Based on the Indian army’s surgical strike on Pakistani … Read more
Just days before Gully Boy is due to be screened in India on 14 February, the film starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt together for the first time will be making its bow at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. The musical is said to be inspired by the lives of rappers Divine and Naezy. Director … Read more
Veteran filmmaker Tulsi Ramsay passed away after suffering a heart attack early this morning at his residence in Mumbai. He was 75. The funeral is expected to take place today (14 December). Trade analyst Atul Mohan announced the sad news on Twitter. The Ramsay Brothers are considered as the pioneers of the horror genre in … Read more
Saqib Bilal, a class 11 student, who had made a special appearance in Vishal Bhardwaj’s highly acclaimed Haider in 2014, had reportedly joined the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. In an 18-hour long gun battle with the Indian armed forces, Bilal, along with another militant named Mudasir Rashid, was killed at Mujgund in the outskirts of Srinagar on … Read more
After returning to films this year with Anurag Kashyap’s Manmarziyaan (2018), actor Abhishek Bachchan has revealed his next project. He will be joining the cast of Amazon Prime Video’s Breathe for its second season. The actor is the latest to make the move to digital. Actors like Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui and actresses … Read more
Iranian film The Dark Room, by Rouhollah Hejazi, won the Golden Crow Pheasant award for Best International Film, while Lijo Jose Pellissery took home the Silver Pheasant for his film, Ee. Maa. Yau, at the closing ceremony of the 23rd International Film Festival of Kerala in Trivandrum. The awards were distributed by chief minister, Pinarayi … Read more
Ajayan, who shot to fame with the only film that he directed Perumthachan (1990), died in Trivandrum on Thursday (13 December), said his colleague and veteran character-actor Nedumudi Venu. Ajayan breathed his last at a private hospital after a cardiac arrest, Venu said. He is survived by his wife and two children. Venu said it … Read more
In a quiet neighbourhood of Mumbai, a father prays for protection over his family. He works as a liftman in a posh building while his son Raju (Moin Khan) is hoping that this time he passes his exams. As luck would have it, he doesn’t and circumstances force him to take over his father’s job in … Read more
After its international premiere at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea in October, director Praveen Morchhale’s Widow Of Silence is now part of the official selection at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019. Directed by Praveen Morchhale, Widow Of Silence is set in conflict-ridden Kashmir and revolves around a Muslim ‘half-widow’ named Aasia whose husband is arrested … Read more
Pick a song from the 1980s or 1990s. Hire Tanishk Bagchi to remix it. Play on nostalgia factor by retaining hook lines. Add some rap portions. Cast a hot dancer in the video. Voila! You have a dance number to sell your film on! This time China Gate (1998) song ‘Chamma Chamma’, composed by Anu Malik and featuring … Read more