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Stream and scream away if you have the patience, for this one's dumbly rehashing the "Fast & Furious" flavour, cocktailed with tricks that reveal the hangover of assorted Hollywood hits, notably "Ocean's Eleven". For whatever remaini
Sooraj Pancholi's showbiz career has so far mostly been about surviving the spotlight of bad press, for his alleged role in starlet Jiah Khan's suicide. It'...
Only a couple of months ago, Ayushmann Khurrana was "Dream Girl", the phone 'sexpert' who aces in impersonating a woman's voice, and makes a ...
Based on Parinda Joshi's bestseller of the same name, "Made In China" presents Rajkummar Rao as Raghuveer, a Gujarati entrepreneur struggling to find his f...
22, Oct 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
Laal Kaptaan" stumps you, not because it is yet another new-age Bollywood effort that tries being different and ends up a misadventure, but because you notice the director's name in the credits is Navdeep Singh. Isn't this the same man who made the absolutely thrilling "NH10" a while back, and the simply outstanding "Manorama Six Feet Under" before this?Read News
22, Oct 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
As the years pass, Chandro and Prakashi's granddaughters take to shooting and the same story repeats itself. None of the cruel chauvinistic reality facing women has changed in all these years. The men in the household are still vehemently opposed to accepting the talent and achievements of their women, even though Chandro and Prakashi have conquered the hearts of the rest of the country.Read News
15, Oct 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
As soon as he shared the poster, his co-star in the film Bhumi Pednekar took to the comments section and wrote, "Chintu ji zyaada aankh mat mariye..aa rahe hai hum aur woh jald hi @kartikaaryanEarlier on Saturday, Sunny Singh rRead News
01, Oct 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
"The Zoya Factor" largely retains the core of Anuja Chauhan's chick lit bestseller of the same name, and also the book's overall feel-good, fairytale vibes. The fairly predictable chain of events that sets up the screenplay (by Neha Rakesh Sharma and Pradhuman Singh) has been garnished with a non-stop flow of situational laughs. Some of these work, many don'tRead News
20, Aug 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
Going to Mars is about as much of a challenge as chomping on a Mars chocolate bar -- at least, that's the impression "Mission Mangal" gives you. Akshay Kumar's latest ode to the nation prioritises the need to match the feel-good spirit of an extended holiday weekend, so much so it misses out on setting up the drama and thrill of a scientific feat that is nothing short of historic for India.Read News
14, Aug 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
Abhay's plans in life will be thrown in a tizzy with the resurfacing of his onetime flame Babli Yadav (Parineeti) in his life. They call her Babli Bomb for her feisty personality, and she is quite a contrast to the submissive women Abhay normally sees all around him, at home and in his community. Babli's entry is meant to trigger off a major change in Abhay's way of thinking. 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
Out of the three significant issues that majorly dot India China relations, NSG and BRI being the ot...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
Yesterday i.e. on 8th July 2019, the 106th birth anniversary of comrade late Shri Jyoti Basu was cel...
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...
