New releases from 15 March — Milan Talkies, Mere Pyare Prime Minister and Photograph — failed to get going at the box office. Holdover releases Badla and Captain Marvel were the first choice for the cinegoers. Badla, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu, made Rs2.50 crore nett on its second Friday, to take its India … Read more
There were a handful of low-budget films that released on 15 March, but none of them has made an impression at the box office. Photograph, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra, director Tigmanshu Dhulia’s love story Milan Talkies, and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Mere Pyare Prime Minister couldn’t fetch Rs1 crore each in their opening weekend, … Read more
All the three new releases this week — Mere Pyare Prime Minister, Milan Talkies and Photograph — have opened to dismal numbers at the box office. Of the three, director Ritesh Batra’s Photograph had the highest opening with a collection of Rs25 lakh nett, as per figures shared by BoxOfficeIndia.com. When the film with the … Read more
These days, the Holi song in Hindi cinema is seen rarely. The upcoming release, Mere Pyare Prime Minister, brings back the sights and sounds of the colourful festival and mixes it with an old-school sound of the 1950s. Taking a cue from V Shantaram’s Navrang (1959), composers Shankar-Ehsan-Loy take the joyous setting from the film … Read more
In an exclusive chat with Cinestaan.com, actress Anjali Patil has revealed that she will play an athlete in a biopic to be made in Marathi. “I am doing a biopic on an Olympic athlete, which is in Marathi,” she said during an interaction to promote her next film, Mere Pyare Prime Minister. When asked about … Read more
India is currently mourning the loss of at least 38 police personnel in a terrorist strike yesterday in Pulwana district of Jammu & Kashmir. Asked for his opinion on the attack, filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra said, “Everybody is angry. We know that. We also know we shouldn’t forgive this. But it is too difficult to comment, at … Read more
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Mere Pyare Prime Minister has been delayed yet again. Earlier slated to be released on 8 March, the film will now be in theatres on the Ides of March. The makers confirmed the change through a press release. The film addresses the issue of open defecation and sanitation through the story of an eight-year-old … Read more