State BJP leaders complained about the hero criticising high GST on medicines, and even took pot shots at (Joseph) Vijay’s religion. With the media latching onto this attack, t...
This film, in which Vijay succeeds his father, a don, was promoted with the tag line Born to Lead. CM Jayalalitha didn’t relish the loaded line, and Thalaivaa was rele...
A 2012 hit, remade in Hindi with Akshay Kumar as Holiday, this film drew objections from Islamic groups in Tamil Nadu for portraying Muslims as terrorist sleeper cells....
Ahead of the release, Vijay tried to join the Youth Congress (but was overage) and tried to share a platform with Rahul Gandhi, but the ruling DMK kept him away. They also blocked ...
As if to emphasise the shape that’s inevitably summoned up by the mere mention of his next film’s name, Shahrukh tucked in golgappas in Mumbai on his birthday. But Zero
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Namaste England, the film was to be called, and its (possibly) oafish director thought a corny desi name gave him the licence to misbehave with a beautiful ingenue by ...
Oscar winner A R Rahman, Oscar winner Resul pookutty at the trailer launch of "2.0" in Chennai.
Amit Masurkar’s movie about a young, upright government employee entrusted with the task of holding polls in a Maoist-infested district met with critical and commercial succe...
Its positive nationalism went much beyond the nation in terms of influence, creating huge collections in China. Towering over the film, actor-producer Aamir pushed Bollywood bo...
A testament to the technological prowess of Telugu cinema, Baahubali (1 & 2) moved much farther than being a regional film.Filmmaker S.S. Rajamaouli has raised the bar in fantasy c...
Salman Khan’s movies have all been about himself in recent times, but it was this tale of a simple soul who risks his life to reunite a little girl with her family in Pakistan ...
An indie movie at its best, it had everything—a gripping plot, riveting performances and superb direction. A drama exposing caste and gender inequalities, Masaan engaged with s...
A cracker of a film which underlined woman power in Indian cinema like never before. In the maverick Kangana Ranaut, Bollywood finally discovered an actress who was capable of de...
Few Indian movies in recent years have created as much buzz at the international festival circuit as Ritesh Batra’s love story of an ageing widower and a young housewife who are ...
Set in a godforsaken place in erstwhile Bihar, the two-part film did not open with ticket windows on fire, but quickly attained cult status. Revolving around the coal mafia, it is ...
LSD unfolded before three eyes: CCTV, handycam, spy cam, and exposed what was about to be laid bare anyway very soon—breakdown of the personal, acceptable and the ethical, be...
Until Anurag Kashyap’s breakthrough, Sharat babu’s Devdas was wallowing weightily in the 21st century, the Bhansali version having only added opulence to a cliché. De...
Rajkumar Hirani underscored his credentials with his Munna Bhai movies but 3 Idiots catapulted him into a league of his own. Based on a Chetan Bhagat bestseller, ...
Shahrukh had by now begun to be known as only the hero of feel-good musicals. But this movie, where he played a hockey team coach who grooms a bunch of gutsy girls to fight for the...
An Othello from western UP! Vishal Bhardwaj took Shakespeare to the dusty badlands of the Hindi heartland and conjured a powerful film. The surprise of surprises was Langd...
