One of Bollywood’s top blockbuster directors, Rajshri bossman, Sooraj Barjatya, 61, dives deep into his film journey as he switches into web-series with Bada Naam Karenge
22 March,2025 07:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Almost 70 percent Indians live in villages. Almost none in mainstream series. Gen Z comedy, Dupahiya, addresses misbalance beautifully
19 March,2025 07:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Especially, if it concerns India pitted against its errant/devious neighbour, Pakistan, in a Gadar kinda way, if you like.
15 March,2025 06:59 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Can you watch the same stand-up comedy gig twice? No. The same, great musical, though? Again, and again! Why?
12 March,2025 09:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Who you feel worst for is actually the lame lead pair—looking so frosty/frozen, throughout. That’s young Khushi Kapoor and Ibrahim Ali Khan. Their lineage is well-known—Sridevi’s daughter, Saif Ali Khan’s son.
08 March,2025 12:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
The Waking of a Nation is more a dry, albeit fictionalised document on Hunter Commission, investigating Amritsar massacre, than a sprightly series. Had to ask director Ram Madhvani why he made it
05 March,2025 08:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Films are a heavily gated community. And that’s what some men, more like super-boys, attempted to break, without paisa, and with passion alone—using cycle for trolley shot, cart for crane, parodies for scripts, wedding-video for camera
01 March,2025 07:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Film acting debut at 42, directorial debut at 65… I ask the indefatigable Irani: Is there an age to fulfill your dream?
26 February,2025 11:50 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
This is what you’d call the typical, mid-budget, Delhi-Punjabi, Bollywood picture, including its soundtrack, for the most part. As against a ‘Punjabi’ Punjabi regional, as it were
22 February,2025 06:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Chatted up Mumbai filmmaker, who’s done more for LGBTQ rights than anyone I know; now that his new movie is out in theatres too!
19 February,2025 06:55 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank ShekharADVERTISEMENT
