Dadasaheb Phalke Award is the highest honour for a film artiste in India. It is given each year by the Government of India to one individual for his or her outstanding contribution to cinema. It is a part of the National Awards each year. However, … [Continue reading]
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish advocated the idea of euthanasia on a patient who was completely bed-ridden and in a vegetative state from below his head. But filmmaker Ananth Narayan Mahadevan’s Aata Vel Zaali (English title: It’s Time To Go) … [Continue reading]
Stories about protagonists suffering from a severe illness have been dealt brilliantly in India in films like Anand and Kal Ho Na Ho. Filmmaker Suhas Desale’s Marathi movie Amaltash, which also deals with an important character going through a … [Continue reading]
Filmmaker Pulkit’s recent saga Bhakshak, starring Bhumi Pednekar in the lead, tells a fictitious tale inspired from horrific case of a girls’ shelter home in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. In 2018, it came to light that a number of orphan girls in a shelter … [Continue reading]
Filmmaker Siddharth Anand’s Fighter is touted to be India’s first aerial action film. It revolves around a group of Indian Air Force officers. The story starts off in 2019 when a combat unit Air Dragons is created in response to the increase in the … [Continue reading]
When a filmmaker consistently leaves behind his signature stamp on all his films and, barring one attempt, has a super successful record, he becomes a genre in himself. Sriram Raghavan is easily one such filmmaker. His latest Merry Christmas has all … [Continue reading]
Beliefs in different superstitions is a part and parcel of live all over India, including among the educated class. Superstitions often make way for comedy if looked at them from a distance. This tussle between superstitions and science is tackled by … [Continue reading]
Filmmaker Vipul Mehta’s Ole Aale is the official Marathi remake of his Gujarati blockbuster Chaal Jeevi Laiye (which this reviewer hasn’t seen). The film is produced by the same banner Coconut Motion Pictures, which produced the original … [Continue reading]
Rajkumar Hirani recently completed 20 years as a filmmaker as his debut Munna Bhai MBBS celebrated two decades. In all these years, he and Shah Rukh Khan came close to working together but things couldn’t go forward. So when the two heavyweights … [Continue reading]
Very few films make the kind of noise Sandeep Redddy Vanga’s Animal is making right after its release. The movie, starring Ranbir Kapoor in the lead as Ranvijay Singh, is being called out for its severe violence and the promotion of misogyny. There … [Continue reading]