TV actors finally crossover into Bollywood

By Subhash K. Jha An excellent actor and a wonderful dancer, Mithun Chakraborty, recently turned 63, but he didn't allow anyone to celebrate the occasion, says his son Mithun Chakraborty. The three time National Award winning actor, known to have ...

There is something about the theatre of the absurd that brings on a volley of unwarranted nonsense in the filmmakers of this country. Not this time. Fukrey about an eclectic bunch of no-good students poised between a rapidly-receding adolescence and a ...

Picture this. A mother watches her young son being wheeled into the operation theatre for a minor operation. The child never returns. Medical negligence is pass. Medical arrogance is the new menace. Enter a high-end 7-star hospital and you are bound to run ...

By Subhash K. Jha : Film: "Yamla Pagla Deewana 2"; Cast: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Neha Sharma, and Christina Akheeva; Director: Sangeeth Sivan; Rating: ** It is awfully painful to see the iconic Dharmendra, who has acted in several imperishable ...

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, June 6 : Action hero Vidyut Jammwal is shooting an additional action sequence with Saif Ali Khan for Tigmanshu Dhulia's "Bullet Raja". Post his display of high-octane action scenes in "Commando", Vidyut was signed to ...

Riz Ahmed, the not-so-reluctant star of Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundmenatlist in conversation with Subhash K Jha... How was the entire experience of working in a film that takes you through your own cultural heritage? It was lovely to reconnect with the sub ...

The trouble with a well-meaning film such as this is it cannot take the story and characters to their logical conclusion and somewhere ends up 'tale'-diving at crucial junctures in the plot. To begin with, we are introduced to Yuvaan and his college friends ...

If God lies in the details, then Ayan Mukherjee's second film qualifies as a mythological. Ayan Mukherjee lays out an elaborate languorous game-plan for a romantic liaison between two discernibly incompatible human beings who just happen to be thrown together ...

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, May 30 : Rituparno Ghosh was paranoid about his sexuality. Through experience he had learnt to be cautious about sending out the wrong signals to actors. He was often afraid of reaching out to actors, specially in Bollywood who, he ...