Gutsy Girl: It took two Bollywood superstars considerable muscle and firepower to extract Indian citizens trapped in conflict zones — Akshay Kumar in Airlift and Salman Khan in Tiger Zinda Hai; in Pranay …
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Retro Trip: The cars are Ambassadors and Fiats, the phones are rotary; there are STD phone booths with LCD panels displaying call duration, cassette players and tapes are still around, …
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Just how far the influence of a designer goes can be gauged by how quickly and for how long their products make it to the market in fakes. Today, a …
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Return Of God: The play Kanji Viruddh Kanji by Bhavesh Mandalia, adapted from a lesser known film, The Man Who Sues God, was made into a Hindi film by Umesh Shukla, Oh My God (OMG), in which God formed an important …
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Sunny Rise: A director who has not made anything worthwhile for years, a star who has seen better days, a nepo kid in search of a big break, and one …
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The Good Fight Ravi Jadhav has been making Marathi films with unusual subjects—including the powerful Natrang (2009) about a man who plays the nachya (eunuch) in a traditional lavni troupe and Nude (2018) about a woman who strips …
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When The Kashmir Files was screened at the International Film Festival of India last year, the jury chairman, Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid had called it vulgar propaganda and sparked a controversy. By then …
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Jungle Beats: The effect of climate change has been a subject of Nila Madhab Panda’s earlier films, like . His first OTT project, The Jengaburu Curse is set in Odisha, which is …
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As Independence Day approaches and recedes every year, there is always, mingled with the celebration, a twinge of what if Partition had never happened. If Muhammad Ali Jinnah is revered …
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The streaming space is full of police procedurals, and some also weave in social issues, like the new show Kaalkoot (on JioCinema). Directed by Sumit Saxena and starring current OTT darling Vijay …