It’s been two decades since Parineeta brought old Calcutta, poetic love, and timeless music to life on screen. Pradeep Sarkar’s directorial debut, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, remains one of Hindi cinema’s most elegant love stories. As the film completes 20 years, here’s why it still deserves your time and your heart. 20 years of […]
Filmmaker Ribhu Dasgupta’s highly appreciated Te3n completed nine years today. The film was a mystery drama and it had an interesting cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Dasgupta looks back at the film in an interview with us. Ribhu Dasgupta on 9 years of Te3n, “The love the film still gets is […]
Actor Aamir Khan is gearing up for his much-anticipated return to the big screen with Sitaare Zameen Par, and while the buzz around the film has been building steadily, one topic that has caught public attention is the 23-year age difference between Aamir and his co-star Genelia Deshmukh. Aamir Khan breaks silence on 23-year age […]
When a bad remake is made, we find that the sheen of the original classic dims a bit for us. Much the same happens when a poor sequel comes in. And we rue the fact that we revisited a sequel that is made with the mere idea of ‘assembling’ another hit! From Jism 2 to […]
On June 8, actress and former Miss India Celina Jaitley took to social media to pay a deeply emotional tribute to her late parents, her mother, Meeta Jaitly (D.Psych.), and father, Colonel V.K. Jaitly (SM), on her mother’s death anniversary. Sharing two poignant photographs, one featuring her parents together, and another capturing a tender moment […]
Filmmaker Partho Ghosh, known for making some prolific films in the 1990s, passed away today. Actress Rituparna Sengupta worked with him in quite a few films. She remembered the late filmmaker in an interview with us. Rituparna Sengupta on Partho Ghosh’s passing away, “When he is born again, he will create such great plethora of […]
Neeraj Shridhar’s songs re-createdNeeraj Shridhar seems to be back suddenly! Albeit in re-creations! Not only has he sung the sole lingering track of Bhool Chuk Maaf—the re-created ‘Chor bazaari’ from Love Aaj Kal (2007), composed by Pritam, but he is also the main singer of the re-created ‘Papa to band bajaaye’ in the new Housefull […]
Filmmaker Guddu Dhanoa’s historical saga 23rd March 1931: Shaheed completed 23 years on June 7. The film was a biopic on Bhagat Singh, played by Bobby Deol, and it revolved around his martyrdom along with Sukhdev and Rajguru. Sunny Deol was seen in the role of Chandrashekhar Azad. Dhanoa looked back at the film in […]
Veteran Bollywood filmmaker Kawal Sharma, who directed more than a dozen Hindi films featuring stars like Sanjay Dutt, Mithun Chakraborty, Govinda, and Jeetendra, has been arrested in Mumbai by the Haldwani Police after evading a court-ordered sentence since 2022. Kawal has directed films like Jeete Hain Shaan Se (1987), Maalamaal (1988), Mar Mitenge (1988), Namak […]
Why was the making of The Legend of Bhagat Singh so important to you?I’ll be very honest with you. When I was around 13 or 14 years old, I remember asking my father (the late filmmaker P.L. Santoshi) about Bhagat Singh. That evening, as night fell in Lonavala, my father told me everything he knew […]
