Every character in debutant director Akshay Shere’s savage funny bitter and violent ode to the road movie wants money. Sometimes they also crave for sex. For example there’s this incidental character (the film has drug dealers, racketeers and criminals crawling out of every frame) who’s force-doped by Ravi Kissen (very at- home playing...

Portrayal of animals in poor form or display of any form of harm towards them in movies has surely become an issue of major concern globally. And now it seems like Zoya Akhtar is also pulling some attention from animal lovers for the same reason. Zoya, who is busy filming the multi starrer Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (starring Hrithik Roshan, Katrina...

A realistic gripping account of politics set among the dark underbelly of Mumbai pickpockets in the infamous area of “Bhindi Baazaar”…. Like every other commercial organization here too are employees and their designations. They too have field work, administration structure and skill-set, alongside they also have business rivalry;...

The first shock of looking at Salman Khan is that he is no way closer to his character Chulbul Pandey in his upcoming film Dabangg. It’s only when you hear him talk that his many dimensions come to the forefront. Its five minutes into our conversation and Khan knocks me off with his dare-devil answers. No, he’s ain’t a pro-wrestler...

It’s the moment any journalist would avoid. Interviewing the producer of a film while the Censors are watching it to give their certification. Arbaaz Khan sends me a text message to call him at an unusual timing. It was 4.30pm. An unexpected text puts me in frenzy. I call him at 4.38 for the interview and off he goes in a flash on the other end....

He stuck to his own, unaffected unperturbed by anyone’s opinion but his own. Some called him a slice of life director and other’s typecast his work as non commercial but Nagesh Kukunoor is still one of the few directors who believe in their work passionately and are not hesitant to take the road less travelled. Time and again he has extracted...

Besides impending motherhood, Kajol has just celebrated her birthday and her husband Ajay Devgn has just had a big success in Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai. “Don’t you think I’ve trained him very well?” her voice sparkles with mischief pride and pleasure when told that she has a hand in Devgn’s makeover. “Seriously,...

It was not too long ago when Himesh Reshammiya became the first man from India to perform at the Wembley Arena and Heineken music hall Amsterdam with a packed audience. Now he is thinking bigger and would now be the first International Pop star to be launched globally from India in the mainstream Western music market. The album is titled “at...

What if Diwali crackers start to burst in Eid? It is pretty evident that Dabangg is releasing this Eid. Abhinav Kashyap cannot thank his good fortunes enough. When I met him recently at his Andheri office, he too bursts a cracker of a quote, “It’s a great burden off my head that I am not being known as Anurag Kashyap’s brother after...

Another morning’s newspaper. The headline reads – ‘Dabangg trailer opens with a bang. The twitter world going ga-ga about the trailer.’ A quick shower and off I head to meet the debutant director of Indian cinema’s most talked about film releasing this Eid. When I enter Abhinav Kashyap’s just done up office in Andheri,...