A film is always a team effort. It’s only when the lead actors and the supporting artistes sync that a movie becomes real for the audiences. Therefore, in the big picture, it’s as important to cas...

At 60, Neena Gupta doesn’t look her age and she has her kitty full with projects. After playing a middle-aged housewife dealing with an unexpected pregnancy in Badhaai Ho and more recently a loving ...

He is enjoying a purple patch in his career with back-to-back success of Andhadhun and Badhaai Ho and now he is back as a young IPS officer Ayan Ranjan with Anubhav Sinha’s hard-hitting anti-discrim...

The first film Sanya Malhotra signed after the mega success of Dangal was Ritesh Batra’s Photograph. An intimate story about an unlikely pair finding each other in the mad bustle of Mumbai, the film...

Few things are as illuminating as the reaction of the audience in a cinema hall. In a sequence in Badhaai Ho, Ayushmann Khurrana takes a break from the exertion of bedding his partner and asks — as ...

The fear of “log kya kahenge?” has crushed many a dream, nipped many a relationship in the bud and killed many an unconventional idea. Especially in a society like ours that is quick to judge and ...

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Bharathi S. Pradhan is a senior journalist and author...

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