I giggled when Sonam Kapoor’s upper class family was slyly made fun of by their own domestic employees, I indulgently cringed at both the lesbian love story and Sahil Mirza’s writerly male angst in equal measure and I was genuinely moved by the electric combination of Anil Kapoor and Juhi Chawla.
The trailer of Argentina Fans Kattoorkkadavu begins and ends with references to the Argentinian football captain Lionel Messi. Starring Kalidas Jayaram and Aishwarya Lekshmi in the lead, the film, directed by Midhun Manuel Thomas, is based on a short story by Ashokan Cheruvil.
Directed by debutant Rajath Ravishankar, Dev is an action, adventure, romantic-thriller starring Karthi and Rakul Preet Singh in the lead. The film is said to be inspired by the life of Kapil Dev. It will release this Valentine’s Day.
The trailer of Neeya 2, a horror thriller written and directed by L Suresh, starring Jai in the lead released on Friday. Pegged as a take-off from the 1979 film Neeya which starred Kamal Haasan, the new film features Varalaxmi, Raai Laxmi, Catherine Tresa and Jai.
In Gypsy teaser, we see Jiiva explain that he is a gypsy and that means he hates religion. The people who are listening to him – a lowly police man and street performers who dress as gods, assume this means he is a maoist, and call out to their god.
And the film gives up the opportunity to be a smart disaster drama. There are instances where Mansoor and a few others in the valley raise their concerns about the illegal constructions in the ecologically-fragile valley, but the film uses the natural calamity as one of the tools to narrate the tragic love story. The cloudburst and the lovers’ fate are foreshadowed in a crucial scene where the couple seeks refuge inside a cave atop a mountain on a rainy day.
Humans of Bombay’s recent post is to dedicated to Sunny Leone who shared the story of the day she met her husband, Daniel Weber and how they eventually got their ‘violin moment’ after hours of small talk.
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Dulquer Salmaan’s Vaan will have four heroines, according to its director Ra Karthik. In an interview with Deccan Chronicle, Karthik said: “Vaan means Vaanam (sky) and it even denotes rain, and other things. There are different segments in the film, which are nature related. Though there are four heroines, it is not the regular clichéd love story. It is about life and a feel-good film and has a positive approach.”
And, Sudheer Babu is neat in his role as a comic book writer-and-artist; and full-marks to Indraganti for writing a mature mother-son scene where the mother (Pavithra Lokesh) tells the son to accept rejection, and to not sulk.There’s a particular scene in this movie that appears almost an hour into the narrative that, I found, would speak volumes about our perception of women in the film industry.
Krishna Vamsi is known to be one of the iconic filmmakers of Telugu cinema with a stellar body of work. It came as a shock to many when a series of films made by the director proved to be failures owing to lack of quality content. With the failure of films like Mogudu, Paisa, Govindudu Andarivadele and the recent Nakshatram, Krishna is no longer considered to be the most bankable director in Telugu cinema.
Sai Pallavi will reportedly play the lead in Venu Udugala’s next. The project is a love story set against the political backdrop of the nineties, according to a report on Deccan Chronicle.
After a lukewarm response to Jab Harry Met Sejal, Imtiaz Ali is back, this time with Ekta Kapoor for a passionate love story. The makers of Laila Majnu unveiled a poster back then, after which the film was almost forgotten. However, the teaser of the film is out now. As the name suggests, this one is a hard-core love story, with a picturesque backdrop, re-telling the classic tale of Laila and Majnu.
Aditi Rao Hydari is all set for her Telugu debut with Sammohanam, starring Sudheer Babu as the male lead. While the film is slated for release in June 15, the makers of the film have released the official trailer.
In this film which claims to be an unconventional love story, lovers don’t really look like lovers, friends don’t look like friends, and even Facebook doesn’t look like real Facebook.His office has a bunch of token characters – a boss (Manobala) whom no one in the office takes seriously, a colleague (Samyukta Hornad) who giggles without a reason and flirts generously with Abhi, and a bunch of nameless co-workers who seem to have no idea why they are in the frame.
Telugu character artiste Bindu Chandramouli posted on Facebook saying she felt “heartbroken”, because despite being part of such an epic film, people did not get to see her in it. “It’s very disappointing to have known that the makers have decided to cut out the character of Pushpavalli (after dubbing) and also the appearance of the character of her young daughter Rekha. (sic),” she wrote. Was it axed to sanitise the love story between 32-year-old Gemini Ganesan and 16-year-old Savitri?
Rakul Preet Singh who was last seen as Sonia Gupta in Neeraj Pandey’s Aiyaary has bagged three major projects in Kollywood.
In spite of being centered around a terribly skewed romantic relationship, Thattathin Marayathu was a well-packed and marketed commercial film that played to the gallery of young men and women.For Rajesh Nair, whose previous Salt Mango Tree was an adorable little film that, albeit old-fashioned, had some stellar writing, Kalyanam is a giant stumble into mediocrity.
After nearly two decades, Gautham Vasudev Menon and R Madhavan will team up again for the sequel to the 2010 romantic drama Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya, which featured Simbu and Trisha.On working with Shoojit Sircar for the romantic drama October, he said, “We are not trying to break any stereotypes (of romantic Hindi films).
Syam and his co-writer Dileesh Nair started working on the screenplay right after the shoot of Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum. “In the beginning, there were these two lead characters – Appu and Mathan, a couple in love – and the unusual situation their relationship is stuck in.It isn’t usual for writers to involve themselves in the production and post-production stages of a film. I like to stick on because I love cinema, says Syam.
“There hasn’t been a single Tamil film talking about homosexuality like what we’ve done, where it’s as straightforward as the title itself,” he says, adding that the film doesn’t tread the preachy path, but instead, includes points of view from various characters.MSIG marks cinematographer Rathina Kumar’s first feature film, but he says that he was always interested in direction.
Filmmaker BR Vijayalakshmi says her upcoming Tamil-Malayalam bilingual romantic drama Abhiyum Anuvum, which stars Tovino Thomas and Pia Bajpai, will be a bold and different film.
Actor Akshay Kumar said that the romance in his Toilet: Ek Prem Kathao was written in such a way that he remembered it more than anything else from the film. “I never make a social film with lot of commercial material; I make sure that there is a love story. To be honest I remember the love story more than anything else in this (Toilet: Ek Prem Katha) film,” he said.
Actress and producer Priyanka Chopra will produce a Bengali-Marathi film titled Nalini, based on poet Rabindranath Tagore’s love life. The Nobel Laureate was in love with his teacher and wrote several poems about her. While the film is planned as a biopic, the focus will be on Tagore’s romantic side.