Tag: Bollywood

Laapata Bollywood: How 2024 Became The Year Of Banality

December 30, 2024 admin

A good year in the movies can mean multiple things. Studios sufficiently bankrolling films, independent projects finding their way to the mainstream, underdogs triumphing over tentpole projects, new faces coming up and old faces rediscovering their voice. In that sense, 2024 fulfilled most of these possibilities. Filmmaker Sriram Raghavan, known for curating gore in his…

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A Wake-Up Call For Bollywood, Which Loves Itself Too Much

October 25, 2024 admin

At its surface, Reema Kagti’s latest feature, Superboys of Malegaon (2024), is the story behind the story of a motley group of film enthusiasts from the eponymous city, who made low-budget parodies of famed Bollywood and Hollywood films. To subject Kagti’s film to a surface-level reading, however, is a disservice to not just one of…

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More Indians Than Ever Are Holidaying Abroad

September 28, 2024 admin

Travel is on the rise again. According to the UN’s tourism agency, international travel for all purposes reached 97% of its pre-pandemic level in the first quarter of 2024. In some regions such as Africa and Europe, arrivals are already surpassing these levels. Indian travellers, in particular, are adding to this growing trend – no…

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Tom Cruise To Perform Deadly Stunts For Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony

August 7, 2024 admin

The closing ceremony will be a much shorter affair and will take place in more traditional fashion (File) Paris: With Tom Cruise widely predicted to engage in a death-defying stunt on the roof of the Stade de France, Sunday’s Paris Olympics closing ceremony promises a memorable passing of the five rings flag to Los Angeles….

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Presenting Gulzar, A Poet Of Love

July 26, 2024 admin

Writing in the Times Literary Supplement in October 1921, English poet and critic Thomas Stearns Eliot remembered John Donne thus: “Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think, but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.” Eliot’s…

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From Munjya To Srikanth, It’s Time Bollywood Accorded Small-Budget Films The Respect They Deserve

July 10, 2024 admin

What is common to Aavesham, Premalu, Manjummel Boys, Aadujeevitham, Bramayugam, Aranmanai4 and Hanu Man? All these South films were made on budgets ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 40 crore and were blockbusters, with some even collecting over Rs 100 crore. Though South does have big star flicks too, small- and medium-budget films have always…

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Bollywood And Its Stars Needs To Stop Bleeding Producers Dry. South Cinema Has Lessons

July 4, 2024 admin

Last month saw the release of Kalki 2898AD, and as of July 4, the Prabhas starrer has grossed more than Rs 700 crore at the box office. The success of this Tollywood film has naturally sparked comparisons with the Hindi film industry, with its recent flops coming into sharp relief. The recent Bade Miyan Chote…

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BJP Mandi Candidate Kangana Ranaut On Working In Bollywood

May 6, 2024 admin

The BJP has fielded Kangana from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi in the Lok Sabha elections. Mandi, Himachal Pradesh: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Mandi Lok Sabha constituency Kangana Ranaut, who is currently busy in her election campaign said that she is not going to leave the film industry. In an interview with ANI, she said,…

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