Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who stars as Saadat Haasan Manto in Manto (2018) — an Indian film that is not getting released in Pakistan — says society continues to remain stubborn in its reluctance to accept the bitter truth. As the film has not got the green light for release, writers, activists and journalists got together … 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
After the Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur-starrer The Lunchbox (2013), filmmaker Ritesh Batra once again writes and directs an unlikely love story set in Mumbai. Mumbai has been used as the backdrop in countless films (most recently this year’s Gully Boy), but director Batra, as seen in his earlier film too, loves to explore the … Read more
Generally, different language versions of a film’s trailer have the same content. But the Marathi version of the trailer of Thackeray, which was released today, is almost entirely different from the Hindi version, which was also released today. The Marathi trailer seems to have been cut keeping in mind Thackeray’s following in Maharashtra. The Hindi version gave … Read more
The makers of the Emraan Hashmi starrer Cheat India have decided to release their film a week ahead of schedule, on 18 January 2019, to avoid a clash with the Bal Thackeray biopic, titled Thackeray, which is scheduled for release on 25 January. The producers of both films made the announcement at a joint press … Read more
Actress Shweta Tripathi is set to reunite with actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Honey Trehan’s upcoming directorial debut, Raat Akeli Hai. The film will also feature Radhika Apte, who was last seen alongside Siddiqui in the popular Netflix original, Sacred Games. Raat Akeli Hai film has already gone on the floors with Tripathi as the latest … Read more
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has completed shooting for Raat Akeli Hai (2019), which will mark Honey Trehan’s directorial debut. “It’s a wrap for Raat Akeli Hai, a beautiful experience working with the talented Honey Trehan on his directorial debut. Amazing team and outstanding process,” Siddiqui tweeted on Sunday, 28 April. Raat Akeli Hai, a crime thriller, … Read more
A source close to production has confirmed to us that indeed well-known dubbing artiste Chetan Shashital has been roped in to record the voice of Bal Thackeray’s character in the Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Thackeray (2019). We had reported some days ago that the makers of Thackeray had heeded the advice and demands of the netizens to … Read more
As speculation on the sequel of Thackeray (2019) is rife, a source told us that he has had no talks about the sequel with the producers of the film. “I haven’t even had a discussion about the sequel or its plans as of yet,” said the source. Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s act as Shiv Sena supremo Bal … Read more
The trailer for Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s turn as Bal Thackeray has received mixed response. While several have praised Siddiqui’s transformation, many others have raised questions on the propaganda style of the film’s narrative. Rang De Basanti actor Siddharth tweeted his own view on the hate speech present in the trailer against South Indians. The actor tweeted: “Nawazuddin … Read more