Esha Gupta, who’s part of the Indian government delegation at Cannes, made her red-carpet debut at the film festival. Gupta wore a floaty white gown with a thigh-high slit designed by Nicolas Jebran.

Actors’ fees and a lacklustre promotional campaign are among the problems that industry insiders pointed to while dissecting the failure of the Akshay Kumar-Tiger Shroff film at the box office. In ...

In the midst of the pandemic, the Chhattisgarh police in Raigarh decided the best way to encourage public safety measures was to use Bollywood film dialogues in their posters, re-interpreting Bachchan ...

From polite nostalgic laughter to crazy giggling, these films provide all kinds of laughs. Slapstick or situational, dark or fantasy, there’s something for everyone. A young villager (Jayaram) goes to ...

Cast: Suvinder Vicky, Barun Sobti, Harleen Sethi, Varun Badola, Manish Chaudhari, Vishal Handa, Rachel Shelley As a police procedural, Kohrra is a bilingual blend of sense and suspense. Days before ...

When you watch enough bad movies in life, common sense goes for a toss. The most obvious things – like language – stop making sense. For instance, deep into the hellfire that is Wild Wild Punjab, I ...

Jithu Madhavan fully understands the excitement this thin plot can generate and instead of zooming past this idea to get to the “story”, he fills up the first half with some of the most random moments ...

Premalu’s biggest LOL moment takes place when the romance tries to address the biggest problem we see with its predecessors. In a clever bit of self-referentiality, it acknowledges its protagonist’s ...

A man named Albert (Vijay Sethupathi) returns to his ancestral home after seven years. The year is “When Mumbai was known as Bombay”. His mother is dead. His neighbour assures him that she went ...

Anil Ravipudi is no stranger to success, but Bhagavanth Kesari and its success are special, he says. "Box office hits always make me happy but this film brought special applause and respect my way.

All We Imagine As Light is an evocative, stirring portrait of Mumbai and its people – especially immigrants. Payal Kapadia, making her feature debut, tells the story of two Malayali nurses – Prabha, ...

The older I get, the less patience I have for Hindi cinema’s biopic-for-dummies template. Actually, that’s not true. I’ve always been impatient with Wikipedia pages parading as movies. I’ve always ...