Guns of Banaras, Review: Where are the bullets? When Nathalia Kaur, who was born Nathalia Pinheiro Felipe Martins, in Brazil, appears in the credit titles as the lead actress in probably her first...

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FILM
KK Rao
Bunty Negi
bangkok
Uttar Pradesh
Shekhhar Suri
Karann Nathh
Tej Sapru
Nathalia Kaur
Zarina Wahab
Polladhavan
Brazil
Vinod Khanna
Ganesh Venkatraman
Sham Kaushal
Abhimanyu Singh
Shilpa Shirodkar Ranjit
Salim Baig
Akash Sinha
Ashok Pathak
Tanvi Rao
Mohan Agashe

Thappad, Review: This slap is going to cost you dear A simple, significant, timely and relevant story line might be too thin to stretch into a full-length movie. Having settled for such a plot, the...

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FILM
Siraj Ruqaiya Syed
Anubhav Sinha
Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul
Anjum Rajabali
Siddhant Mahesh Karnick
Reema Lagoo
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
corporal punishment
Parvail Gulati
Tanvi Azmi
Ram Kapoor
Manav Kaul
Kumud Mishra
Dia Mirza
Gracy Goswami
Ratna Pathak Shah
Naila Grewal
Sushil Dahiya
Ankur Rathi
Maya Sarao
Sandeep Yadav
Nidhi Uttam. Shakeel Azmi
Anurag Saikia
Raghav Chaitanya

Bhoot, the Haunted Ship-Part I, Review: Scares are scarce Considering the negligible number of ghost stories being made in India, Bhoot, the Haunted Ship-Part I, made by names Dharma and ZEE, would...

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FILM
Akhil Sachdeva
Ketan Sodha
Pushkar Singh
Bodhaditiya Banerjee
Karan Johar
Dharma Productions
Zee
Bhanu Pratap Singh
Vicky Kaushal
Bhumi Pednekar
Sara Khalid Gesawat
Sanjay Gurbaxani
Alang
MV Wisdom
Ashutosh Rana
Meher Vij
Ghost
Siddhant Kapoor
creepy

Shukranu-Hui Emotion ki Nasbandi, Review: Tale of forced sterilisations lacks potency In modern Indian history, the Internal Emergency, proclaimed in 1975 and in place for about two years, is...

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FILM
Aakash Dabhade
Advait Nemlekar
Bishnu Dev Halder
Deven Murdeshwar
Divyenndu Sharma
Good Newzz
Harish Sagane
impotency
Indian National Congress
internal emergency
mass sterilisations
Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Nasbandi
Raj Bhansali
Rajesh Khattar
Ravi Kumar
Sanjay Gurbaxani
Sanjay Jaipurwale
Sayak Bhattacharya
Sheetal Thakur
Shweta Basu Prasad
sperm
Sudhir Singh
Vicky Donor
Vijay Raaz

Love Aaj Kal 2020, Review: 141 minutes of messy, moronic, melodramatic mishmash What do you do when that elusive commodity called plot decides to stay clear of your net? You dig into your archives...

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FILM
Aarti Bajaj
Aarushi Sharma
Amit Roy
Imtiaz Ali
Ishaan Chhabra
Jab We Met
Kartik Aaryan
Love Aaj Kal
Pritam
Randeep Hooda
Salman Khan
Sara Ali Khan
shahrukh khan
Simone Singh
Valentine Day
When Harry Met Sally
When Harry Met Sejal

Malang, Review: Why knot when you cannot unknot? Six cops, a serial cop killer, a wandering maiden, a Swedish female drug peddler and a sexually starved wife form the core dramatis personae of...

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FILM
Aseem Arrora
Anirudhha Guha
Mohit Suri
T-Series
Kunal Roy Kapur
Disha Patani
Anil Kapoor
Elli AvrRam
Kunal Kemmu
Dirty Harry
Amruta Khanvilkar
Keith Sequeira
Shaad Randhawa
Vatsal Sheth
Mahek Manwani
Devika Vatsa
Prasad Jawade
Nigerian drug-dealer
Mithoon
Ankit Tiwari
Asim Azhar
Ved Sharma
The Fusion Project
Raju Singh
Vikas Sivaraman
Devendra Murdeshwar
detached
saintly
carefree
Sufi
seer
crime
Vendetta
whodunit

MIFF 2020, Open Forum 2: “Viewers are willing to pay for docu content” Documentaries rarely provide investment returns, let alone earning profits. But that is about to change, or has it changed...

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Independent
FILM
Sanskar Desai
Ashok Kumar
Vats-Sharma
Indian Documentary Producers’ Association
Ravi Iyer
IDPA
Manika Verma
Netflix
Tasneem Lokhandwala
epic
Adita Jain
Docubay
Ramesh Meer
FX Factory
Global Content Forum

MIFF 2020, Twin Press Conferences: Son Rise and Shevanti Two film units held a joint press conference at MIFF on the 29th of January, representing the films Son Rise and Shevanti. Both films were...

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FILM
Vibha Bakshi
Chandrashekhar Gokhale
Milind Ingle
Hemanti Sarkar
khap panchayat
Nilesh Kunjir
Dipti Devi
Haryana

Kaanchli—Life in a Slough, Review: Slough and unsteady loses the race Probably the only thing going for Kaanchli is the fact that it is based on a Vijaydan ‘Bijji’ Detha story. Detha inspired the...

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FILM
Independent
Amol Palekar
Aseem Sinha
Dedipya Joshii
Habeeb Tanveer
Joginder Singh Panda
Kailash Detha
Malhotra
Mani Kaul
Mishra
Nareshpal Singh Chouhan
Parimoo
Prakash Jha
Pratibha Singh Baghel
Pushpendra Singh
Rajasthani
Shivang Upadhyay & Nishant Kamal Vyas
Swaroop Khan
Vijaydan ‘Bijji’ Detha

Jai Mummy Di, Review: Absence of substance Two middle-aged women hate each other for reasons unknown to their spouses and their children. One of them as two sons and the other has a daughter. In a...

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FILM
Amartya Bobo Rahut
Tanishk Bagchi
Meet Bros
Parag Chhabra
Rishi-Siddharth and Gaurav Chatterji
Hitesh Sonik
Sanket Shah
Dev Rao Jadhav
Chetan Solanki
Navjot Gulati
Sonnali Seygall
Sunny Singh
Poonam Dhillon
Supriya Pathak-Shah
Veer Rajwant Singh
Shiwani Saini
Tina Bhatia
Neha Kakkar
Jassi Gill
Lamborghini
Lamberghini