A Maddock Original Film Featuring: Rajkummar Rao, Kriti Sanon, Paresh Rawal, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aparshakti Khurana, Manu Rishi Chadha, Prachee Shah Paandya, Mazel Vyas. Produced by: Dinesh Vijan Directed by: Abhishek Jain Music & Background Score: Sachin Jigar Story: Deepak Venkateshan Screenplay & Dialogues: Prashant Jha Music On: Zee Music Company
A Maddock Original Film Featuring: Rajkummar Rao, Kriti Sanon, Paresh Rawal, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aparshakti Khurana, Manu Rishi Chadha, Prachee Shah Paandya. Produced by: Dinesh Vijan Directed by: Abhishek Jain Music & Background Score: Sachin Jigar Story: Deepak Venkateshan Screenplay & Dialogues: Prashant Jha Music On: Zee Music Company
Yash Raj Films announced the release dates of five of its upcoming movies this year – Prithviraj, Shamshera, Jayeshbhai Jordaar, Bunty Aur Babli 2, andSandeep Aur Pinky Faraar- in an official announcement on Wednesday.
Centred on a rich software engineer who suffers from hypochondria (Gulshan Devaiah) and a doctor (Saiyami Kher)﹣a Covid warrior, the film narrates a lighthearted story that states that even in a new world designed and run by the virus, the demands and crises of human relationships remain the same.Arun delicately weaves in two narratives into this short ﹣one, of systemic apathy, India’s class divide and the hypocrisy of charity, and another, on the chasm between the young couple’s desire for a life where they could be a normal family cooped up in a house and their reality.
The trailer of Unpaused, Amazon Prime Video’s first Hindi anthology film, was released on Tuesday at a virtual press conference. Unpaused is a collection of five short films set in a post-Covid-19 world. Directed by Raj & DK, Nikkhil Advani, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Avinash Arun, and Nitya Mehra, the shorts delve into themes of friendship, love, hope, second chances, and new beginnings.
Amazon Prime Video on Wednesday announced its first Hindi anthology film titled Unpaused, along with an official teaser. It is helmed by five directors- Raj & DK, Nikkhil Advani, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Avinash Arun, and Nitya Mehra.
While Sahil has a real job, Rosesh spends his time trying out for theatre roles and writing terrible poetry – for instance, “Khatarkhun Khatarkhun/ Chale Mere Dil Ki Dhun” and “Hai hava mein victory ki aroma/ jeet gayi Momma, jeet gayi Momma. ” For his part, Indravadan spends his time playing practical jokes on Maya and harassing Rosesh (or Maya Part 2, as he calls him).
Maybe it’s a coincidence that in Soni in which a superb Geetika Vaidya plays a young cop disillusioned with the system has Amrita Pritam’s Raseedi Ticket given to her, and in this movie, she’s working in an Amrita’s house… and film ends with the recital of a poem titled Amrita.The trailer had me thinking maybe this is one of those court-room screaming matches, or one woman fighting for all women, kind of film. But it isn’t.
Set in Mirzapur, the story revolves around three families – Pankaj Kapoor who’s an all-powerful don; two brothers played by Ali Fazal and Vikrant Massey; a family of two sisters played by Shriya Pilgaonkar and Shweta Tripathi. “It’s the story about power-hungry people and the games they play,” says Shweta.
Manav Kaul is a known theatre figure, having started his own theatre company in 2004 that produced several notable plays including Ilhaam, Park and Shakkar ke Paanch Daane. He made his acting debut in Hindi cinema with fantasy film Jajantaram Mamantaram in 2003, and has been lauded for his performance as a right-wing politician in the Gujarat-based Hindi drama Kai Po Che! in 2013.
An action-comedy directed by Seth Gordon, this film features A-listers like Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, and Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra. The plot follows lifeguard Mitch Buchannon and his team, who in an effort to save their beach have to take down a drug lord.Focusing on a physicist (Kishore) and his young girlfriend (Yasmin Ponnappa) with time travel as the backdrop, the film is directed by Dhilip Kumar and written by film critic Baradwaj Rangan.
Among the nominees in the major categories were cinematographer Rachel Morrison and actor-writer-director Greta Gerwig, making history as the first women to ever be there. Morrison lost her award to Roger A Deakins, the iconic cinematographer whose legacy is impossible to be contained in an Oscar recognition, and Greta lost to Shape Of Water director Guillermo Del Toro, whose film also won the award for the best picture, toppling the trend of not awarding the best director and best picture to the same team.
Netflix India has several projects lined up for the new year and one of them is Love Per Square Foot. Infusing some real struggle involving the want of space in an already packed and notoriously unaffordable city, Love Per Square Foot appears to be that slice-of-life romantic comedy with the two protagonists, who for once, are in a quandary that is very relatable.
The nominations for the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards are out, featuring some good films and some not-so good films from last year.
The #MeToo movement so far has become a tool for privileged women as this report in the Bustle points out: “While the “Me Too” campaign has been a powerful demonstration of the systemic nature of sexual violence, most of the stories have focused on non-disabled, white, and straight cis women.Some of the best known names of the entertainment industry confessed to inappropriate behaviour – Louis CK, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Ben Affleck… according to Vox, 105 power magnets have been accused of sexual harassment ever since Bill O’Reilly was fired from Fox News.
An adaptation of Vikram Chandra’s novel Sacred Games and a collaboration with Shah Rukh Khan’s company Red Chillies Entertainment for a web-series based on Bilal Siddiqi’s novel The Bard of Blood are the other Netflix ventures in India.Streaming video giant Netflix will venture into it’s first Indian film in collaboration with Ronnie Screwvala production house RSVP.
The cold aloofness with which the film portrays its male characters in sensitive and intimate situations as these, is strange. While the film stands by its four female protagonists in solidarity, it shows little sympathy to the male characters who come across as selfish misogynists who treat women like domesticated animals.
The weekend is almost here, and so are some of the films you have been waiting for all these months. Right from Pushkar-Gayathri’s take on the Vikram and Vetaal adventures and HipHop Thamizha Aadhi’s biography on screen to the liberation of women and their sexuality in Alankrita Shrivastava’s film – here’s a look at all the Friday releases and what you have to look forward to:
Vikram Vedha
The second trailer of Alankrita Shrivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha is underlined with a mischievous sense of humour. Quoting newspaper headlines that refer to the six-month long battle the film had to wage against the country’s Censor Board, the film advertises itself as “The Most Controversial Film Of The Year”.
Lipstick Under My Burkha director Alankrita Shrivastava has been through a lot to ensure her film makes it to the big screen. The award winning film-maker’s tussle with the Censor Board has been a long one, with the Board even refusing to certify it as it was “too lady-oriented”. In a free-wheeling interview with IANS Alankrita says: “We are reaching a crisis point. We have to decide, as citizens of India in 2017, whether we want to claim our freedom and live in a free and democratic country or live with this guardianship.”
Lipstick Under My Burkha director Alankrita Shrivastava says that dealing with the CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani made her feel like a criminal, reports Mid-Day.She also said that Nihalani made her feel like a criminal, “The Examining Committee was divided in its opinion, so, we approached the Revising Committee.
Director Alankrita Shrivastava says the middle finger on the poster of Lipstick Under My Burkha is not a symbolic gesture for the CBFC, but society in general. The film was eventually cleared to release on July 21 after a long and controversial tussle with the Censor Board.
After a long tussle with CBFC, which had infamously cited “lady oriented” as a reason to deny certification, Lipstick Under My Burkha will now release on 28 July, with an ‘A’ censor certificate.
Director Alankrita Shrivastava, whose film Lipstick Under My Burkha was embroiled in a CBFC controversy earlier this year, has said that the FCAT’s (Film Certification Appellate Tribunal) decision to award her film an ‘A’ certificate is “very reasonable”.
The Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) has ordered the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to certify the film Lipstick Under My Burkha. According to a Hindustan Times report, the FCAT has asked for the film to be granted an ‘A’ certificate with “voluntary and some additional cuts and deletions” and has asked the filmmakers to reduce the duration of sex scenes.