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While Aamir Khan’s ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ and ‘Raksha Bandhan’, which released last week, sank without a trace, a small Telugu movie – ‘Karthikeya 2’ – is making waves in Hindi circuits. Nikhil Siddhartha, the main lead of the movie, is fairly popular in Telugu-speaking regions but is not a known name for the Hindi audience. […]

The thundering debacle of Aamir Khan’s ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ has not only stunned the industry into silence but has also given his detractors the fodder to run him down. While his contemporaries – Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn – have copped bouts of troughs at different times, it is for […]

NEW DELHI: An old video of Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma is going viral on social media in which they are seemingly taking digs at each other. While the tone of the entire conversation seems tongue-in-cheek, a section of netizens are taking them at face value. “Anushka is an anxiety queen. She has to pop […]

Recently, the former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi created a flutter when he publicly announced he’s dating the former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen. The former cricket administrator, known for his in-your-face flamboyance, posted a slew of pictures of him enjoying vacations at exotic locales with Ms. Sen. The announcement elicited a volley of […]

On Tuesday, I was in Mumbai to collect some money that Producer owed me for developing a patriotic story into a script. Producer had paid for the air ticket and the hotel stay but then had run out of money by the time I landed a regular Bollywood occurrence. Hope and bullshit. Producer had tried […]

While Bollywood films are biting the dust one after another at the turnstiles, a Hollywood film ‘Thor – Love And Thunder’ is setting the cash registers ringing. The movie, which hit the screens last Thursday, raked in Rs 65 crore net in its extended first weekend. Though the collections took a slight dip on Monday, […]

  I watched the Tamil version of Rocketry: The Nambi Effect last Sunday in a new and fine theatre with red push-back seats in Kottayi, a small village in Kerala’s Palakkad. At the lobby, they sold coffee and popcorn and all of it was just as good as anything in Delhi or Bombay, and you wondered how […]

BENGALURU: Akshay Kumar’s mega-budget movie ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ took an exceedingly insipid start at the ticket windows on Friday in almost all circuits. As the day progressed, the collections picked up at a few places such as Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh but the numbers in big cities of other states remained on the lower side. […]

BENGALURU: ‘Dr Strange – In The Multiverse of Madness’, a Hollywood film, took a phenomenal opening last Friday as it racked up Rs 28 crore on Day 1. After doing fairly well over the weekend, the collections of the movie are dropping during weekdays but it has already netted an impressive Rs 93 crore. At […]

  BENGALURU: The recent string of box-office clunkers has revived the debate about the paucity of stars in Bollywood. Big-budget films such as ‘Jersey’, ‘Heropanti 2’, ‘Bachchan Pandey’ and ‘Runway 34’ failed to even take a decent opening and turned out to be monumental bummers. Notwithstanding some bummers at the box office, Bollywood is still […]