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Actors Divyenndu and Pratik Gandhi on the making of Madgaon Express
Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Mirzapur actor Divyenndu and Scam 1992 actor Pratik Gandhi speak about the serious business of comedy and acting in actor Kunal Kemmu's directorial debut film.
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Murder Mubarak on Netflix | Homi Adajania: Working with Dimple Kapadia is like a bad habit I don't want to get rid of
Homi Adajania on how to make whodunnit - leaving breadcrumbs, et al, and working with the huge ensemble cast of Murder Mubarak on Netflix.
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Emraan Hashmi on Showtime: ‘I play a quintessential Bollywood producer who's a bit of a brat’
Actor Emraan Hashmi on his new web-series Showtime, his 20-year-long career in Hindi film industry and his current slate of films.
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Varun Grover on making ‘All India Rank’ about IIT entrance: The story & emotion are very much from my life
Varun Grover on the IIT coaching ecosystem at Kota and how it has cornered STEM subjects as a male dominion, and drawing on his own life and experiences to write and direct All India Rank.
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Yami Gautam on Article 370: 'It was about time'
Yami Gautam on her upcoming film 'Article 370': "We have heard synonyms such as ‘propaganda’, ‘chest-thumping’, but the audience just wants something new, well-made and entertaining. Here we are giving them something which is based on true events."
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Sikandar Kher on Dev Patel’s Monkey Man: ‘I first auditioned for the part 10 years ago’
Actor Sikandar Kher on how the Sushmita Sen-starrer Aarya series has been a game-changer for his career, bagging his first international role in Dev Patel’s revenge film Monkey Man, and how he’s pursuing work in any language.
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Bhumi Pednekar on Bhakshak: ‘I wanted to correctly portray what a journalist with this kind of information would do’
Pednekar's Kanika Kapoor from Thank You For Coming and Vaishali Singh from Bhakshak, which is on uncovering child abuse in an orphanage and releases on February 9 on Netflix, wouldn’t coexist in the same world, yet, both are dealing with the same issues of patriarchy.
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Raveena Tandon on Karmma Calling, the Hindi remake of Revenge: ‘I have never played a character like Indrani Kothari’
Veteran Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon and her Karmma Calling co-actors Namrata Sheth and Varun Sood talk about their characters and the Disney+ Hotstar series, which is the official Hindi-language remake of the American series Revenge.
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Main Atal Hoon: Pankaj Tripathi on playing former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in forthcoming biopic
The former prime minister is the flavour of the month. Atal Setu, India's longest sea link, was inaugurated last week, and this week, on January 19, his biopic is releasing in the theatres.
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How Killer Soup on Netflix cast Manoj Bajpayee, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sayaji Shinde, Nassar and Malayalam actor Lal
Writer-director Abhishek Chaubey, Manoj Bajpayee, Konkana Sen Sharma and Sayaji Shinde on Killer Soup, a black comedy which releases on Netflix on January 11.
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Kho Gaye Hum Kahan director Arjun Varain Singh: ‘It all began while I was working on Gully Boy as Zoya Akhtar’s DA’
Director Arjun Varain Singh and lead actors of the Netflix drama, Ananya Panday, Adarsh Gourav and Siddhant Chaturvedi, talk about the making of the film and 20-somethings seeking meaningful connections in the digital age.
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Tanuja Chandra on Wedding.con: ‘All these women are totally undeserving of what they've gone through’
Director Tanuja Chandra shares about Wedding.con, her Amazon Prime Video true crime docu-series on marriage frauds and scams. Made with BBC Studios research, the series is a cautionary tale.
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Sriram Raghavan: Katrina Kaif's Hindi, Vijay Sethupathi's Hindi didn't bother me
Sriram Raghavan on the Vijay Sethupathi - Katrina Kaif pairing in Merry Christmas, the fun of not knowing some things, and casting Agastya Nanda as Param Vir Chakra Arun Khetarpal in Ikkis.
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Prime Video docuseries First Act on child actors in Hindi films and shows 'came from repeated encounters with parents and children'
Deepa Bhatia on Amazon Prime Video's First Act about child actors, who can protect child actors and how, and what happens when actors experience a lull after early success.
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Chamak actor Paramvir Singh Cheema: ‘I had a smaller part in Tabbar but I play the protagonist Kaala in this big-scale show’
Actors Paramvir Singh Cheema and Isha Talwar and director Rohit Jugraj of the SonyLIV web-series 'Chamak', which is releasing on December 7, talk about the making of the show.
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Roshan Mathew: We are not superstars. The world doesn't come to a halt when a film of ours hits theatres
Actor Roshan Mathew on his big break, working across Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam film industries, his latest film Maharani, and why he always comes back to doing Malayalam cinema.
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Kirti Kulhari on Khichdi 2 Mission Paanthukistan: ‘I was possessed by this spirit called Parminder’
Four More Shots Please actor is back to playing Parminder in the just-released Khichdi 2: Mission Paanthukhistan, a direct sequel to the 2010 film, Khichdi: The Movie.
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Ishaan Khattar on Pippa: It was an insane experience, being in a war tank
Adapted from Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta's book 'The Burning Chaffees', Pippa recounts what happened in the November 1971 Battle of Garibpur. The Brigadier, director Raja Menon and actors Ishaan Khattar and Soni Razdan on the film, and their research and prep for it.
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Avinash Arun Dhaware on Three of Us: It was important to reset before Paatal Lok Season 2
Director Avinash Arun Dhaware on making Paatal Lok, School of Lies and now Three Of Us; and why he had to hit reset before making Paatal Lok 2, which is now in post-production.
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Jio MAMI 2023 | Dilli Dark director Dibakar Das Roy: ‘The city can appear very crude & harsh but it accepts people from all walks of life’
The debutant director talks about his film, which premiered at the Mumbai Film Festival, on the prejudices against the African diaspora in India, the country's acceptance of complexion and belief systems, and casting Sudani from Nigeria actor.
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Darshana Rajendran: Would love to work across Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films, because they are all so different
Malayalam film actor Darshana Rajendran on Paradise which won Best Film at the Busan film festival, working with Roshan Mathew, her breakout role and doing Hindi and Telugu films.
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Jio MAMI 2023 | Aarya co-director Vinod Rawat: ‘Pushtaini is my launch film as an actor, to explore themes of grief and loss’
The co-director of Sushmita Sen-starrer web-series, Vinod Rawat on his directorial-cum-acting debut 'Pushtaini', its Asian premiere in the Focus South Asia segment at the Mumbai Film Festival, and working with Hrithik Roshan on 'Kaabil'.
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Vikrant Massey on working with Vidhu Vinod Chopra: 'He has always walked his own path'
Actor Vikrant Massey on 12th Fail, why he signed up to play a UPSC aspirant turned IPS officer who is alive today, his next films and preparing for fatherhood.
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Sultan of Delhi actors Tahir Raj Bhasin and Anjumm Shharma on working with director Milan Luthria
Sultan of Delhi actor Tahir Raj Bhasin: Gunfights in leather jackets in the desert and heroes talking on top of trains; love the honesty in Milan Luthria's heightened dramas.
