BY SUGANDHA RAWAL New Delhi, Oct 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Content over glamour, characters over gimmicks, and a whole new star system for the medium — these are a few traits that have defined the ongoing OTT…
BY AHANA BHATTACHARYA Kolkata, Oct 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Calcutta High Court has limited the number of visitors at Durga Puja pandals to 45 at a time this year, in an attempt to ensure social distancing…
BY ARUNDHUTI BANERJEE Mumbai, Oct 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actor Gulshan Devaiah feels recent controversies, related to allegations of Bollywood-drug trade nexus as well as nepotism charges, which have been surrounding the film fraternity, do not bother…
BY NATALIA NINGTHOUJAM New Delhi, Oct 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ahead of Dussehra, which emphasises on the celebration of the triumph of good over evil, actors have shared their favourite films that define the theme of the…
Footfairy (film screening on &Pictures); Cast: Gulshan Devaiah, Sagarika Ghatge, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Ashish Pathode; Direction: Kanishk Verma; Rating: * * * and 1/2 (three and a half stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY Footfairy is simply…
A Suitable Boy (series streaming on Netflix); Cast: Tabu, Ishaan Khatter, Tanya Maniktala, Rasika Dugal, Mahira Kakkar, Ram Kapoor, Vivaan Shah, Shahana Goswami, Namit Das, Manoj Pahwa, Aamir Bashir, Vijay Varma, Ranvir Shorey, Kulbhushan Kharbanda,…
Comedy Couple (film streaming on Zee5); Cast: Saqib Saleem, Shweta Basu Prasad, Rajesh Tailang, Pooja Bedi, Aadar Malik; Direction: Nachiket Samant; Rating: * * * (three stars) BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY A dash of gender politics…
Mumbai, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress Zarina Roshan Khan, who played the popular role of Indu Daasi in TV show Kumkum Bhagya, died after suffering a cardiac arrest. She was 54. Shocked by Zarina’s sudden demise…
Mumbai, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Saiee Manjrekar, who made her debut in the 2019 Salman Khan-starrer Dabangg 3, looks back at her screen test for the film saying she knew she had to impress in the…
Dehradun, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actors Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur have completed the Uttarakhand schedule of their upcoming film, Jersey. Taking to Twitter, Shahid thanked the state government for their efficient policies that enabled the…
Los Angeles, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress Eva Mendes is hinting that she might return to acting soon. Mendes has taken a six-year-long break to raise her children with actor Ryan Gosling. In an interview with…
Mumbai, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actors RajKummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar are all set to start shooting for “Badhaai Do” in January, 2021. It is the second instalment in the “Badhaai Ho” franchise. In it RajKummar…
Los Angeles, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey says his father died of a heart attack while having sex with his mother. The Oscar-winner is all set for the release of his new memoir,…
BY VINOD MIRANI The last 20 years or so brought about a complete change in the way the film industry works. The corporate houses invaded the film industry. Some thought it would be for the…
BY SUGANDHA RAWAL New Delhi, Oct 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Are you familiar with the emerging pay-per-view offers for movies? How many times did you catch a television movie on Indian small screen before the pandemic hit…
Putham Pudhu Kaalai (Tamil film streaming on Amazon Prime); Cast: Jayaram, Urvashi, Kalidas Jayaram, Kalyani Priyadarshan, MS Bhaskar, Ritu Varma, Suhasini Maniratnam, Anu Hasan, Kathadi Ramamurthy, Komalam Charuhasan, Shruti Haasan, Andrea Jeremiah, Leela Samson, Gurucharan,…
Halal Love Story (Malayalam film streaming on Amazon Prime); Cast: Indrajith Sukumaran, Joju George, Grace Antony, Sharaf U. Dheen, Nazar Karutheny; Direction: Zakariya Mohammed; Rating: * * * and 1/2 (three and a half stars)…
BY SUGANDHA RAWAL New Delhi, Oct 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hollywood star Ethan Hawke compares living life to building a spider web, saying each moment, success and challenges are connected to each other beautifully. “Life is a…
BY SUGANDHA RAWAL New Delhi, Oct 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hollywood actress Jessica Alba feels women will not take a step back as the entertainment industry moves towards revival in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. She…
BY NATALIA NINGTHOUJAM New Delhi, Oct 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bollywood biggies have given Diwali the passover despite cinemas opening, so the festival weekend will be all about small to medium budget films taking up big screen…