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30 years of Shah Rukh Khan
Because of the way he carries his stardom, and manages his offscreen life, Shah Rukh Khan is the one star from his generation who can appeal to both Gen Z and older fans.
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Why is a low-budget Emma Thompson film about sexual choices at 60+ a rage around the world?
The British sex comedy has stoked critics, feminists and movie lovers alike primarily for its sex positivity message.
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Jug Jugg Jeeyo review: The Bollywood marriage story
Anil Kapoor is the only spark in a vapid Punjabi family drama.
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Elvis review: Baz Luhrmann's anti-biopic is all visual kinesthetics, very little substance
All razzle-dazzle, and no new insight on either Elvis Presley or his relationship with his greedy manager.
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Pride Month: Diversity and inclusion in Bollywood stories
Bollywood stories, especially on OTTs, have more LGBTQI representation than ever before. In Pride Month, we look at where storytellers can go from here.
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Mind-number: Why 'Spiderhead', starring Chris Hemsworth, is such a disappointment
What happens when the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ director translates a George Saunders short story on screen? An ineffective hodge-podge of a satire and action film.
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Masoom review: The menacing shadows of family dysfunction
The Disney + Hotstar mini series is a psychological thriller with Boman Irani and Samara Tijori in lead roles.
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The Broken News review: The news is dead, long live the news
Zee5’s ‘The Broken News’ is one of the best media dramas to have come out of the Indian OTT universe.
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Jurassic World: Dominion movie review: The Giganotosaurus is back on 3D
Pop-science, a post-pandemic message for the need to co-exist with nature and familiar faces from 30 years ago in the third of the Jurassic World trilogy. Messy, convoluted and a VFX marvel.
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Ms Marvel review: Iman Vellani steps up as the first South Asian female superhero in the MCU
Marvel Studios produces its most charming fan wish-fulfilment story with Kamala Khan, a Muslim-American teenage Captain Marvel fanatic-turned-superhero from Jersey City. Is this the way forward for MCU?
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My body is a wonder weapon
Why is the woman’s nude body such a powerful tool of disruption and political agency even in our image-saturated world?
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Akshay Kumar: The actor as Superpatriot
What happens when an actor consciously and strategically chooses roles to please the establishment—and make hundreds of crores out of this patriot heroism.
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It’s time we had our next Satyajit Ray
Cannes 2022 screened the restored ‘Pratidwandi’. At home, Satyajit Ray's birth centenary celebrations are symptomatic of our obsession with cultural hero-worship, binaries and hyperboles.
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Top Gun: Maverick review: Soar once more with Tom Cruise
For a commercial film to be this mature about projecting male swagger and yet retain its sexiness is a feat that belongs to 'Top Gun: Maverick' and its protagonist.
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Panchayat Season 2 review: A heartwarming comedy of mofussil manners
The popular web series starring Jitendra Kumar, Neena Gupta, Raghubir Yadav, Sanvikaa, Faisal Malik, and Chandan Roy, among others, is back with a second season on Amazon Prime Video.
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Jayeshbhai Jordaar review: Revenge of the pappi
A boisterous, high-pitched message film about Gujarati patriarchy with Ranveer Singh in the lead role.
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The Worst Person in the World review: Rom-com with a twist
The Oscar-nominated Norwegian film, with a luminous lead performance by Renate Reinsve, just dropped on Mubi.
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Modern Love Mumbai review: The love anthology fatigue worsens
Mumbai is a cinematic soufflé without a recognisable character or soul in this torpid adaptation of the original ‘Modern Love’.
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Mother's Day 2022 | Mom is superhero, hero, avenger, villain and comrade in recent films
Writers and directors are engaging with the primal drama of motherhood like never before.
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Thar review: Anil Kapoor is in topnotch form, but the lead characters aren't satisfactorily realised
A competent but emotionally and morally feeble doff to the Spaghetti Western with Anil Kapoor and Harshvardhan Kapoor in lead roles.
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Memories of Irrfan Khan
Friday (April 29, 2022) was Irrfan Khan’s second death anniversary. A memoir by one of his directors, Anup Singh, brings alive what really made him the actor and man that he was.
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Runway 34 review: Ajay Devgn carries off his role with swag, but the film hits turbulence
What begins as a taut aviation thriller crash lands into a tediously verbose investigative drama.
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Film fest pick: The Kashmir film you haven’t heard of
After winning Best Debut Indian Director at the Kerala International Film Festival last month, Prabhash Chandra’s ‘I’m Not The River Jhelum’ will be screened next week at the Kolkata International Film Festival.
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Guilty Minds review: A courtroom drama big on ideas and emotions
Helmed by Shefali Bhushan, ‘Guilty Minds’ is a compelling example of the how the genre works best.
