By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Aug 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) For Chaitanya Tamhane, Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron is like a friend and a fatherly figure, who has influenced his work in a big way. Tamhane won wide…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Aug 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bobby Deol has been around in Hindi films for two and a half decades now. The 50-year-old actor, son of Bollywood icon Dharmendra, opened up on the raging…
Ramsingh Charlie (film streaming on SonyLIV); Cast: Kumud Mishra, Divya Dutta, Farrukh Seyer, Akarsh Khurana, Salima Raza, Rohit Rokhade; Direction: Nitin Kakkar; Rating: * * * (three stars) By Vinayak Chakravorty The clown as a…
Aashram (series streaming on MX Player); Cast: Bobby Deol, Aaditi Pohankar, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Darshan Kumaar, Anupriya Goenka, Tridha Choudhury, Adhyayan Suman; Director: Prakash Jha; Rating: * * * (three stars) By Vinayak Chakravorty Prakash…
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Aug 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) National Award-winning filmmaker Prakash Jha feels the social media space has become toxic because people are not using their freedom of expression responsibly. Rather, they are doing so…
New Delhi, Aug 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) This year, many Bollywood actors including Sonakshi Sinha, Saqib Saleem and Sayani Gupta, have logged out of social media. Most of them state that social media platforms, which started as…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Aug 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Comedian-actor Kapil Sharma feels comedy can help people forget about their problems for a while, and so he says there should more shows in the genre right…
Mumbai, Aug 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy has pointed a finger at the role of Mumbai Police and Bollywood in the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. “For day 1 (July 9) I…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistani filmmaker Asim Abbasi grew up watching women being treated as minority in real life as well as on screen, which made him wonder about the gender lines that society…
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) TV and film actor Trupti Shankhdhar, who belongs to Bareilly, has claimed a threat to her life from her father. The ‘Kumkum Bhagya’ actor has posted a video on…
Nw Delhi, Aug 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress Shama Sikander has opened about going through an unsavoury moment of casting couch proposition, adding that she dealt with it as maturely and wisely as she could. “I think…
Mumbai, Aug 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actor Emraan Hashmi is all set to tickle the funny bone with a new comedy film, Sab First Class. The film revolves around the aspirations and dreams of the common man….
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, Aug 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Veteran actress Shabana Azmi shuns the hardliner stance that music and art is prohibited in Islam. She cites the example of greats such as late shehnai legend Ustad…
By Durga Chakravarty New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actor Siddhant Chaturvedi roared as the rap star MC Sher in Gully Boy last year, and life has never been the same. The talented actor, who has…
BY VINOD MIRANI A lot of people in the film industry ask if the star system is over, if the Covid-19 pandemic and the full scale invasion of the OTT streaming platforms are only speeding…
By Natalia Ningthoujam New Delhi, Aug 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) With lockdown paralysing shootings schedules, TV stars seemed more affected than their counterparts in films. However, a section of telly celebs have found a great avenue to…
Mee Raqsam (film streaming on Zee5); Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Danish Husain, Aditi Subedi; Direction: Baba Azmi; Rating: * * * (three stars) By Vinayak Chakravorty There is something very earnest about Mee Raqsam that endears,…
“Class Of 83” (film streaming on Netflix); Cast: Bobby Deol, Annup Soni, Joy Sengupta, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Bhupendra Jadawat, Ninad Mahajani, Hitesh Bhojraj, Sameer Paranjape, Prithvik Pratap; Direction: Atul Sabharwal; Rating: * * and 1/2 (two…
Mumbai, Aug 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) From Covid-induced pandemic to natural calamities to severe economic crunch, 2020 has been the worst year of this century so far. The year seems to be jinxed for the entertainment industry,…
“The Gone Game” (series streaming on Voot); Cast: Sanjay Kapoor, Arjun Mathur, Shweta Tripathi, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rukhsar, Indraneil Sengupta, Dibyendu Bhattacharya; Direction: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat; Rating: * * * and 1/2 (three and a half…