Anuj Kumar

‘Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video’ movie review: Rajkummar Rao enlivens this long title with a short shelf life

Coming from a background in writing low-brow comedy skits for television, director Raaj Shaandilyaa ...

entertainment | 5 days ago

Mithun Chakraborty: The lone ranger

Beyond the gobbledegook of method and spontaneity, in the realm of cinema, there is a Mithun Chakrab...

entertainment | 1 week ago

‘CTRL’ movie review: Ananya Panday is in control in this timely lesson on the dangers of AI

A cautionary tale on cybercrime and artificial intelligence, CTRL works like a ready reckoning on on...

entertainment | 1 week ago

Shabana Azmi: A trailblazing actor who brought depth to her characters with grace and empathy

In the 1970s when Hindi cinema was coming out of the chocolate box, there emerged an unconventional ...

entertainment | 1 week ago

‘Binny And Family’ movie review: Anjini Dhawan and Pankaj Kapur bridge the generation gap in this heartfelt family drama

We often hear the declaration ‘I’m not a kid anymore’ or ‘I need my space’ in our surroundings, but ...

entertainment | 2 weeks ago

Politics of aesthetics: How ‘Laapataa Ladies’ got a shot at the Oscars

Towards the end of Laapataa Ladies, when Inspector Shyam Manohar foretells that Jaya, one of the two...

entertainment | 2 weeks ago

Hansal Mehta on ‘The Buckingham Murders’: Telling my kind of stories is still a struggle

When writer Aseem Arora approached Hansal Mehta in 2018 with the story of The Buckingham Murders, th...

entertainment | 3 weeks ago

‘Yudhra’ movie review: Siddhant Chaturvedi struggles to rev up a ragged actioner

Bollywood has tasted blood again. After the revolting Animal and the arresting Kill, this week we ha...

entertainment | 3 weeks ago

‘The Buckingham Murders’ movie review: Kareena Kapoor Khan mothers this socially-pertinent whodunit

An intriguing murder mystery layered with apposite social commentary, The Buckingham Murders (TBM) i...

entertainment | 1 month ago

‘Berlin’ movie review: Aparshakti Khurana and Ishwak Singh become the voice of dissent in this subversive espionage thriller

Set in the Delhi winter of 1993 when the Iron Curtain had just lifted over Europe after years of Col...

entertainment | 1 month ago

It is yesterday once more as nostalgia overwhelms the Bollywood box-office

Mohit Kumar, a 35-year-old business executive in Noida, is impulsively scrolling on a ticketing app ...

entertainment | 1 month ago

Row over names of hijackers in Netflix series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ | Explained

Netflix’s latest web series IC 814: The Kandhar Hijack flew into a patch of turbulence early this we...

entertainment | 1 month ago

Vijay Varma interview: On ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’, being an outsider and playing leads

After watching Vijay Varma’s performance in Anubhav Sinha’s IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, one wonders...

entertainment | 1 month ago

‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ series review: Vijay Varma, Manoj Pahwa power this stirring political thriller

On December 31, 1999, when the world was eager to embrace Y2K, Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh...

entertainment | 1 month ago

Anubhav Sinha on ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’: I’m not in the business of saving or glorifying people

Once wedded to Bollywood shindig, Anubhav Sinha, in recent years, has emerged as a gutsy chronicler ...

entertainment | 1 month ago

The slaying of the Sarkata: The changing portrayal of the female protagonist in 2024

It has been an agonising August for Indian women. A medical student has been brutally silenced in Ko...

entertainment | 1 month ago