Fashionistas are gearing to put their best couture forward, as another season of the Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW), the leader in promoting creative excellence and the business of fashion in India, is set to begin where a robust line-up of fashion stalwarts and the brightest young designers will showcase their ready-to-wear brands on the runway [...]
Her introduction begins with her talking about her day job at Google as a community manager. But spend 10 minutes talking to Sagari Venkata and her passion for music is surprising as equally as being infectious. When we finally meet over coffee, our topic of discussion has a third added dimension – movies. Sagari plays [...]
As the title, trailers and promotions leading to the release have adequately revealed, I Me Aur Main revolves around Ishaan Sabharwal (John Abraham), a snotty, self-centered successful music producer. He is inconsiderate of other’s feelings, chauvinist, an incorrigible flirt and the kind of guy all of us women would’ve known in real lives at some [...]
Having grown up with dance reality series, Boogie Woogie being the first, harboring a penchant for dance and ensuring I’ve caught every dance flick that’s ever been made, the not-so successful history with Bollywood dance flicks (remember Chance Pe Dance) had made me very wary of reviewing ABCD – AnyBody Can Dance. Being a loyal [...]
He’s sporting a perpetual grin of late and he has all the right reasons to. Dressed in formals teamed with loafers, Varun Dhawan is much more relaxed than the last time we met, during the release of SOTY. He’s just walked off-stage after winning the Debutant award for ‘Student of the Year’ sharing it with [...]
2012 was a reasonably good year for Bollywood overall, with trade pundits stating that in terms of innovation & commerce, the year set a benchmark. With the 2013 movie calendar looking additionally promising, it’s a safe bet that the year will have enough drama, action and (hopefully) moolah to keep everyone thoroughly entertained. But while [...]
2012 saw the predominantly good, a couple bad and some occasional ugly bits of cinema. Everyone seemed to get a bit of their share in the sun. Looking back, the year at the theatres for the maximum part of it was positive, providing much indulgence to ardent cinegoers by its ample variety in scripts. Franchise [...]
Table No. 21 which was the first release of the new year has received encouraging reviews and has been claimed as a surprise at the box – office. The movie has been critically acclaimed for it’s script and the story line written by Shantanu Ray Chibber and Sheershak Anand. Both are ecstatic with the response [...]
For Bollywood, its lead jodis have been very crucial since time immemorial. In many instances, perfect casting of characters is known to have salvaged otherwise weak scripts. While the years gone by saw filmmakers playing safe and casting repetitive albeit bankable jodis who had proven their worth, 2012 saw filmmakers being additionally experimental than ever [...]
The decade gone by welcomed many changes to the face of Indian Cinema. While rom-coms mostly ruled the roost, filmmakers began innovating and experimenting with other genres. One such bunch of movies popularly termed ‘bromance’ introduced by the blockbuster Dil Chahta Hai became an instant hit mostly among collegians. Celebrating abiding male friendships, the recent superhits [...]
At a star studded event, Reliance Home Video & Games launched the home video of Raaz 3. Among those present were Mahesh Bhatt, Mukesh Bhatt, Vikram Bhatt, Emraan Hashmi, writer Shagufta Rafique and Reliance Home Video & Games COO Sweta Agnihotri. The film, presented by Fox Star Studios & produced by Vishesh Films, has been directed [...]
Reliance Home Video and Games recently released the critically acclaimed film Heroine on home video. Produced by UTV Motion Pictures & Bhandarkar Entertainment, directed by National award winning director Madhur Bhandarkar; the film stars Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Divya Dutta and Shahana Goswami. Heroine is the flashback tell-tale of actress Mahi Arora (Kareena Kapoor), her [...]
After a successful run with Good Night Good Morning, Supermen of Malegaon and the much acclaimed Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron recently among many others, PVR Directors Rare next is a quirky romance drama 10 ML LOVE releasing in theatres on 7th December. Set against the backdrop of your everyday world, 10ML LOVE – a contemporary adaptation of [...]
A Love without life, or a life without love? Time is the strongest tests of relationships? Or something like that! Through Dil Toh Paagal Hai, Yash Chopra made famous the ‘someone somewhere is made for you’ belief. With Jab Tak Hai Jaan, he elucidates the concept of timeless love. Every relationship has its time, it’s [...]
The first thing that stood out of the initial trailers of Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (LSTCK) was the name of Anurag Kashyap associated with it. The man of the dark side of cinema whose banner AKFPL gave Udaan, Gangs Of Wasseypur as well as Sunil Bohra’s Shahid, and Chittagong, is crossing over to the [...]
For Alia Bhatt, conversations of late begin with her likeness to Kareena Kapoor. Nicknamed Baby Bebo by designer Manish Malhotra, Varun chips in that she exudes similar intensity and vivacity. “Who would mind that?”, she quips confidently confessing that the actress happens to be one of her particular favorites. In Student of the Year Alia [...]
The first thing you notice about Varun Dhawan is his friendly banter. As he meets, greets, and casually acknowledges his gathered audience of press, fans and well-wishers, you can’t ignore the strong resemblance in conduct that he’s inherited from father David Dhawan. Chip off the old block? I wonder. Varun is nonchalant about tags, as [...]
The reverse countdown has begun at Dharma Productions as the team gets set for Karan Johar’s directorial Student of the Year to hit the screens worldwide on 19th October. In between interviews, magazine cover shoots, promotional events, brand associations, product launches, the team is making sure they’re playing every trick available in cinema textbooks to [...]
The beauty about entertainment writing is that you get to meet and get to know so many artistes with such passion for their work that it brings a special joy just having to pen two lines about them. One such artist I have recently got to know is Jankee Parekh. Singer, musician, performer, Jankee’s love [...]
In news for more controversial reasons than one, Heroine like all Madhur Bhandarkar movies was on the must-watch films list of many. For a country constantly fascinated with the inside tittle-tattle of the glamour world, salacious gossips has many takers. When a filmmaker intents to throw mirror on the colorful life of mainstream actress in [...]
I was recently reading this gorgeous book by Shakti Salgaonkar called “Imperfect Mr. Right”. The book is a tale about how we almost dismiss Mr/Miss Right because of our societal expectations from our partners in terms of stature, riches, backgrounds etc, but fall for that very same person when packaged differently and their true identity [...]