Subhash K. Jha
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Manorama: The comedienne, vamp & the maharani of memes-Entertainment News ,
Manorama's last celluloid work was for Deepa Mehta's Water, in which she played the leery and vulgar widow who heads a widows' ashram. → Read More
Nawazuddin Siddiqui doesn’t deserve this in life-Entertainment News ,
The latest video where Nawazuddin Siddiqui stands outside the gate of his own home, locked out of his own paradise, is very troubling. → Read More
Alejandro Loayza Grisi's Utama captures the drama of real life noiselessly-Entertainment News ,
This is the world that commands our respect for its simplicity: no machines, no technology, no complications. → Read More
Nolly is Helena Bonham-Carter’s Baby’s Day Ouch-Entertainment News ,
Nolly is suffused with memorable moments and characters, all so effortlessly lined up that we don’t feel emotionally manipulated for even a second. → Read More
Lekh Tandon: The man who directed Amrapali-Entertainment News ,
Sanjay Leela Bhansali an ardent admirer of Lekh Tandon’s work says, 'Amrapali inspired my historicals Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat.' → Read More
Vinod Mehra: The invisible actor-Entertainment News ,
In an era when actors shouted to be heard, Vinod Mehra was the mute performer. His performances never screamed for attention. → Read More
Lies damn lies… Urvashi Rautela is NOT cast in Rishab Shetty's Kantara 2-Entertainment News ,
Urvashi Rautela had earlier similarly fastened her tweet belt with cricketer Rishabh Pant. → Read More
Shahid Kapoor-Vijay Sethupathi's Farzi is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride-Entertainment News ,
Farzi has some very interesting plot twists. It is mounted impressively, with the settings and locations exuding the musk of misguided materialism. → Read More
Michael is an impressively mounted ode to Amitabh Bachchan, Trishul & action genre-Entertainment News ,
For an action film, Michael finds ample room for the women to bloom. Anusaya Bhardwaj as the archvillain Gautham Menon’s borderline psychotic wife overdoes it. → Read More
Vani Jairam: Did her career get sabotaged in Hindi?-Entertainment News ,
The belief that Lata Mangeshkar did not allow Vani’s career to take off is laughably invalid. Only failed female singers made this allegation. → Read More
Almost Pyaar With DJ Mohabbat is Anurag Kashyap’s best in years-Entertainment News ,
Anurag Kashyap’s screenplay is a whammy. Elegant and eccentric at the same time as only the filmmaker can be, the storytelling moves in two separate zones, moods and colour palettes. → Read More
Happy Birthday Preity Zinta: The dimpled star after Sharmila Tagore-Entertainment News ,
Preity proudly preens that most of her films are clean entertainers. Out of the 37 films that she has done 36 have been ‘PG13’ (kids below 13 can see the films when accompanied by parents). → Read More
Megan is a whole lot of campy fun-Entertainment News ,
While Megan definitely is a humorous horror venture, to call it a horror-comedy would be impolite. → Read More
Just how awful is Nivin Pauly’s new film Saturday Night?-Entertainment News ,
Saturday Night is an incurably imbecilic film which thinks friends are bonded by rowdyism. Little do they know. → Read More
Revisiting Naseeruddin Shah-Arshad Warsi-Vidya Balan's Ishqiya which completes 13 years of release-Entertainment News ,
Ishqiya released in 2010, is the kind of cinema which you can love or hate, but cannot be indifferent to. → Read More
On Priyadarshan’s birthday, let's pick his best works-Entertainment News ,
In his 45-year career, Priyadarshan has two abiding regrets. He has never been able to collaborate with writer MT Vasudevan Nair, and he has never been able to work with Amitabh Bachchan. → Read More
Subhash Ghai on Madhuri Dixit, Manisha Koirala, Mahima Chaudhry: 'Not one of them has kept in touch with me'-Entertainment News ,
Ghai says his male actors have stayed connected with him. 'Whether it is Anupam Kher, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Sanjay Dutt...they’ve stayed in touch. The male actors have given me respect, the female actors have not.' → Read More
On Ramesh Sippy’s 76th Birthday, let's revisit his finest film… No, not Sholay but Shakti-Entertainment News ,
The power of Shakti is star power at its starkest. But it’s also the power of the director and the actors to maintain an aesthetic and dramatic equilibrium between narrative and populism. → Read More
Cinema Marte Dum Tak: A game-changing look at pulp cinema of the 90s-Entertainment News ,
Cinema Marte Dum Tak breaks the glass ceiling with bare ankles. It breaks open the taboo on ‘that’ kind of cinema in the 1990s which the sex-starved audience insisted on frequenting. → Read More
The Pale Blue Eye is a pale venture that leaves you feeling blue-Entertainment News ,
It’s not that The Pale Blue Eye doesn’t have moments of glorious epiphany. But they occur much too infrequently. Most of the narration is like plodding in the snow that covers the frames. → Read More