Music director turned filmmaker Indraadip Dasgupta’s debut feature Kedara (English title: The Songs Of Silence) was premiered in the India Competition section of the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival in the presence of the director, actors Kaushik Ganguly and Rudranil Ghosh, dialogue writer Srijato Bandopadhyay, producer Samiran Das and actress Mousumi Sanyal Dasgupta, who makes her … Read more

Buoyed by the response to her latest release Kaatrin Mozhi, the Tamil remake of Tumhari Sulu (2017), actress Jyotika is now gearing up to commence work on her next project, which will be directed by debutant S Raj. The yet-untitled film was launched earlier this week in Chennai and regular shooting for it will commence … Read more

Actress Rasika Dugal says while it is a good sign how the image of Indian women is changing on-screen, she feels there’s an attempt to try to create a new stereotype to break the earlier. In the Amazon Prime Video show Mirzapur, Dugal essays a housewife who is quite a complex, grey character. Sharing her … Read more

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