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
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
Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra believes that screenplay is about subtexts and moments, never about camera movements. “For me, a screenplay is never written. It is always rewritten, and rewritten and rewritten. A lot of times you mistake a story as a screenplay. I don’t think it’s that,” the Rang De Basanti (2006) filmmaker said while … Read more