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Our spies can blow up Pakistan, save the country, and fight an army of villains, but making audiences laugh at them seems to be a different mission...
From Robot to Jailer 2, the superstar has continued to headline films on his own terms even as ageing male actors are being cast as fathers and...
At 64, Tom Cruise swaps death-defying stunts for a flawed oil baron in his latest film Digger. But audiences are not ready to see their favourite...
Most politicians spend years constructing a public image. Tej Pratap Yadav is happy to destroy the boundaries between politician, vlogger, performer...
Gen Z has somehow developed a vocabulary where every minor inconvenience sounds like a human rights violation.
‘Premalu’ feels like a story happening to ordinary young people. But like every other masaledar Bollywood film, ‘Prem Keetanu’ adds spectacle...
David Dhawan calls Bicycle Thieves his favourite film. Vivek Oberoi compares his villain to Heath Ledger's Joker. And Emraan Hashmi doesn't watch...
Booking a Tatkal ticket requires serious mathematical skills. You have to know when the train started its run, where it originated, and when the...
Siddharth’s character in the film doesn’t do much. He is there to be looked at, desired, and imagined.
Ravi Kishan is now everywhere in Bollywood. His casting reflects why Bollywood needs regional stars.
Unlike the men of Mirzapur, who use a bruised ego to justify murder, Beena Tripathi is patient. The loud and violent underestimate her and that is why...
With richer visuals and room for actual world-building, HBO is delivering the authentic book-accurate Hogwarts we always deserved.
Coke Studio Bharat has barely any new voices, and the folk music that should be at its heart remains missing. In Pakistan, the show has made musical...
There is nothing wrong with an actor returning to what works. In fact, the box office often encourages it. But that is precisely why Ranbir Kapoor’s...
If today’s Bollywood hero does not get emotional validation, he responds with rage, violence, drinking, a machine gun. The slightest emotional...
Dial 1975 gives Tom Alter the same role he has played for much of his career — a police officer. But this time, it feels less like a character and...
From Darr’s Rahul saying “K-K-K-Kiran” to Om Kapoor’s iconic “Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost”, SRK has repeatedly delivered lines that...
Emraan Hashmi’s erotic thrillers found commercial success in the 2000s partly because they offered something that mainstream Bollywood rarely did at...
Taekwondo now helps dance teachers find children who can do a cartwheel, or is used by school management to attract new admissions through a 15-day...
After spending years trying to reinvent themselves, Bollywood’s ageing stars are discovering that audiences may not necessarily want a new version...
‘Bhojpuri Bawaal’ is almost a compilation of various celeb vlogs. An added treat is that for once, we don’t see Bhojpuri celebrities painted in...
Not every side character needs a backstory, and making Stuart or Georgie lead a show proves television has officially lost the plot.
The trailer of Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana feels less like a story adapted from a centuries-old epic written by sages and more like an adaptation by a...
The Odyssey becomes ‘epic’ only for those privileged enough to access a 15/70mm IMAX screening. India doesn’t even have one.
In Singeetam Srinivasa Rao’s Sing Geetham, conversations exist within music; the dialogues themselves are musical, not add-ons.
Mollywood Times, directed by Abhinav Sunder Nayak, suggests that major production houses sometimes invest in films for reasons beyond box-office...
During Subbu's training, the instructor simply asks the trainees to shout ‘sex education’ as loudly as they can, and the training is over. That,...
A lot has changed between Amitabh Bachchan's Zanjeer and Ranbir Kapoor's Animal. Today, the hero is the very man the old Angry Young Man used to...
People in comedies now come well-dressed and sleek-haired. They stand in one place and deliver lines. The films are walkie-talkie conversations.
The industry wants his presence, but not his range, reducing a capable actor to an accent, a costume and a stereotype.
One thing Shekhar Suman does in almost every episode of his show is perform a set of political jokes, laugh at them himself, and appreciate himself...
This shampoo commercial is different from slow-motion hair flips and a doctor suggesting the brand to fight dandruff. It’s all about Panday’s...
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