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Delhi: Okay, we get the point. This is supposed to be brainless fun. What was that hackneyed line our filmwallahs love to parrot -- about leaving your brains out and all that blah. But Bollywood often forgets even the brainless needs some amount of brains to create, in order to qualify as fun.
A film by Alankrita Shrivastava, Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare is one of the few movies of Bollywood which has the female character as the protagonist. This movie i...
We will gloss over veracity of facts, particularly the presentation of Indian Air Force, and keep the scope of this review to discussing cinematic elements. Factuality ha...
Sanjay Dutt played the role of Ravi with full sincerity and deserves praises for his portrayal of a hopeless man, who talks with his deceased wife about their reunion aft...
31, Jul 2020, by : FnF Correspondent
Delhi: Three days after Sushant Singh Rajput's father KK Singh lodged an FIR against Rhea Chakraborty at Patna's Rajiv Nagar Police station, the actress has shared a video in which she said that she has faith in God and the Judiciary. The 'Jalebi' actress finally broke her silence after filing a petition in the Supreme Court to transfer the case in Bihar to Mumbai. Read News
12, Jul 2020, by : FnF Correspondent
Chintu is six and it is his birthday. There are balloons and festoons all around in the house. Daddy has promised cake, though 'daadi' would love it if he had kheer. His best friends will be there, too. Chintu understands today is his day. He is the special one. Read News
12, Jul 2020, by : FnF Correspondent
The triumph of this film lies in the idea it serves, provocative for the way it challenges societal norms even as it sets up a tale of slowburn tension, propped up by a cast that does its job sufficiently. But "Bulbbul" is predictable, and for a horror film that is a downer. The narrative could have done with a few more smart spRead News
12, Jul 2020, by : FnF Correspondent
Bhonsle in the end fights as a vigilante to ensure justice is served to the powerless, irrespective of which side of the ethnic divide he stands. In the process, he defines the mark of a true Maratha, and Bajpayee in turn comes up with a career-defining act -- we will discount "Aligarh", of course, when we say tRead News
06, May 2020, by : FnF Correspondent
Thor of all things Hollywood comes to India -- to Bangladesh strictly, going by the script. But because it's Ahmedabad being passed off as Dhaka, we'll gleefully go with the idea of "Extraction" being Chris Hemsworth's & ;India film'Read News
27, Feb 2020, by : FnF Correspondent
Thappad", Anubhav Sinha recently declared, is meant to be the concluding feature of his 'discrimination trilogy' -- the other two being "Mulk" (2018), which spoke of bigotry in the name of religion, and "Article 15" (2019), his manifesto on oppression on the basis of caste. "Thappad" trains focus on gender discrimination to complete the picture.Read News
"Padmavati", in a sense, is a neighbourhood story. My village, Mustafabad, happens to be in Rae Bareli, which embraces numerous Chishtiya Sufi shrines or places where the saints spent some time, including Khwaja Ashraf Jehangir Semnani, the saint Malik Mohammad Jaisi, the author of "Padmavat", was devoted to. Jaisi would faint at the controversy surrounding his masterpiece.
National Award-winner Madhur Bhandarkar, who has had several run-ins with the censor board over his critically-acclaimed projects, is exasperated at having to give all ki...
A tale of a small boy, Mowgli, wandering in an enchanting Indian forest with an entourage of his animal friends in 'The Jungle Book' took the Indian box office ...
New Delhi/Mumbai: India's film industry, said to be the largest globally with some 1,000 movies produced each year, earns around $2 billion from legitimate sources s...
20, Aug 2016, by : FnF Desk
In Amritsar, Happy (Diana Penty) is getting married to the local corporator Daman Singh Bagga (Jimmy Shergill). On the other hand, Pakistani ex-governor, Javed Ahmed (Javed Khan) and his son Bilal Ahmed (Abhay Deol) are attending a conference in India.Read News
13, Aug 2016, by : FnF Desk
"Rustom" is a crime-mystery film, based on real life incident of naval officer KM Nanavati. The movie deals with a true story of love, passion, murder, morality and justice that shook the nation. Vipul K Rawal, an ex-navy officer, has written the story, screenplay and dialogues for the movie and also guided the film's unit in using authentic places and objects for the shooting, which is one of the highlights of the film, say the audience.Read News
05, Jun 2016, by : Uma Ramasubramanian
His much-awaited film 'Udta Punjab' is still awaiting clearance from the censor board, but actor Shahid Kapoor hopes that the film, which addresses the issue of drug menace in Punjab, is made tax-free so that it could reach a wider audience. Read News
11, Feb 2016, by : Jaideep Sarin
Chandigarh may not be a historical city but the courage and determination of three personalities from here have put them on the country's cinematic map. 'Neerja', a film based on the youngest of these three, will release in February. It deals with the heroics of the then 23-year-old Pan Am chief flight purser Neerja Bhanot.Read News
01, Feb 2016, by : FnF Desk
As a young Director in UN Division of India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in 1990, when the world was not networked as it is today, I have vivid recollections of following Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait along with my colleagues in our office on a short-wave radio which carried the BBC hourly bulletins. Read News
26, Dec 2015, by : FnF Desk
Star power sells, but content is the original king. This stood true for Bollywood's roaster-coaster 2015, a year full of films with strong and unique storylines making their small presence felt in a big way. One can't say the year has been "bad" for Bollywood, says trade analyst Taran Adarsh.Read News
by : Priti Prakash
On July 11, 2020, 60 days after 20 Indian soldiers along with the Commanding officer Suresh Babu of ...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
Swami Vivekananda's short and profound 9/11 speech stirred the Americans and he cast a spell on the...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
by : Surya Mohan Dubey
Continuous deadly events happening every now and then prove that Indian Government has utterly faile...
