Her quirky turn as the bindaas Lata Kutty, opposite Pankaj Tripathi’s Sattu bhaiya, in Anurag Basu’s Ludo is earning her a lot of praise. We caught up with Shalini Vatsa, who has earned he...
Why have Diego Romero as DoP and what did he bring to the vision of the story?
Diego and some of his friends met me in Madrid after watching a retrospective of my films at Madrid Intl Film Festival. ...
Movie theatres are slowly opening up across the country. Are you, in any way, disappointed that you couldn’t release Ludo on the big screen?
Anurag: Right now, releasing it on a streaming platf...
Calcutta boy Abhiroop Basu’s latest short Laali is presently being screened at the Dharamshala International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. The 35-minute short, starring Bollywo...
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...
A forward going around a few months ago had Salman Khan crowing, “I delivered the year’s biggest flop — Race 3.” “Oh no,” said the caption with Aamir Khan’s pic. “I laid the biggest eg...
We don’t discuss business at the table” is an iconic line from The Godfather. Food, family and family sharing food at the dining table are an indelible backdrop in this classic mafioso drama. In M...
If you walked out of the hall in June 2018 thinking that Bollywood couldn’t possibly churn out a worse film than Race 3, then we have news for you… Drive has just vroomed into Netflix. Drive aspir...
Pankaj Tripathi was severely jet-lagged when The Telegraph caught up with him on a late August afternoon. The man who now stands for quality work on screens big and small had flown in to Mumbai t...
Near the end of episode five of the new Amazon Prime show Mirzapur, two very drunk friends have a conversation about the romance and poetry of killing with a razor blade as opposed to a gun. “Iss se...