Category Cinema
A protest staged in Mumbai against the violence in the JNU campus on Sunday | Amey Mansabdar “Horrifying”, “heartbreaking” and “barbaric” is how many in the film industry, including actors-filmmakers Anil Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Rajkummar Rao, Twinkle Khanna, Anurag Kashyap… Continue Reading →
By – IANS With the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) coming into effect on January 10, Anurag Kashyap has raised in voice in protest once again. The filmmaker, who has been vocal against the CAA ever since it was passed by Parliament on December… Continue Reading →
Pooja Chaudhuri8th January 2020 Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone expressed solidarity with students injured on the intervening night of January 5-6 during violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Padukone’s visit to the campus irked a section of individuals who, since last… Continue Reading →
‘Calling Faiz poem anti-Hindu absurd’ New Delhi: Poet Javed Akhtar and renowned Urdu theorist Gopichand Narang have questioned and countered the view that a poem by the renowned sub–continent Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz is anti-Hindu in nature. Narang said… Continue Reading →
My acting comes at a price, not my principles’ Hours after he was let go as host of a TV show, ostensibly for attending an anti-CAA protest, Sushant Singh says he is prepared to pay any price for doing the… Continue Reading →
Pune: A 40-something Shreeam Lagoo traded his career as an ENT surgeon way back in 1969 to live his love for acting on stage. He never looked back, shaping an acting style all of his own and setting quality benchmarks… Continue Reading →
How can you always blame boys?’: Director Bhagyaraj’s ‘genius’ thoughts on rape ‘ Bhagyaraj was speaking at the music launch of ‘Karuthukalai Pathivu Sei’, a film which has a plot resembling the Pollachi sexual assault case. Tamil film director Bhagyaraj believes that… Continue Reading →
By Sheshu Babu* The above poem ‘Doosra Banvas’ by Kaifi Azmi, written in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition, reveals the contradictions of the movement that caused it, and is relevant even today. “I was born in a slave… Continue Reading →
The director who was attacked near his house in Thrissur alleged that it was the work of right wing protestors. Malayalam film director Priyanandan TR was attacked with cow dung on Friday, three weeks after he posted a derogatory poem… Continue Reading →
Hirani has denied the allegations, which were detailed in an email to ‘Sanju’ co-producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra. By Ankur Pathak MUMBAI, Maharashtra — Rajkumar Hirani, the director of heart-warming, family-oriented movies like the Munna Bhai series, and Aamir Khan-starrers 3 Idiots and PK, has been accused of sexual assault… Continue Reading →