Let’s be honest here, as a desi audience that’s grown up on Bollywood Masala, we are definitely no strangers to the musical. But in Jagga Jasoos, director Anurag Basu tries to push the envelope by presenting most of the movie in tune and verse, an attempt to bring Broadway to Bollywood, something we probably last…
There is a fascinating stretch in the middle of Ondu Motteya Kathe, when the protagonist agonizing over his uninteresting love-life wonders if he should look up a childhood playmate on Facebook. As he strikes up an awkward conversation with her, the interaction shown to us through a Facebook Messenger chat window seems to be between…
Michael Bay’s films have mostly generated a divided opinion of sorts, for some his films just do not make any sense irrespective of the box office outcome. While for many others he is one terrific entertainer who knows how to deliver an enjoyable summer blockbuster with great consistency. The Transformer series is mostly what we…
There is always a hint of the unexpected in an Edgar Wright project. The man has a talent for making even the most mundane happenings seem dramatic, and a tendency to find the most oddball tales and present them on screen in a manner that has the audience gaping away, open-mouthed and wide-eyed. Post the…
I write this after a successful show of my second film, Local Kung Fu 2, at Fun Republic in Andheri (W), Mumbai, organized by 1018mb.com. And I somehow get the feeling that I would never want to make anything that I can’t sit and watch and laugh at with a bunch of people in a…
Bollywood singer Javed Ali marks his music directorial debut with a campaign for cancer awareness by Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital. The campaign named ‘Ummeed’ is conveyed musically through a video portraying the journey of a cancer patient and his fight against the disease.
Ace cinematographer Jomon T John is gearing up to don the director’s hat! Jomon is all set to direct an epic film titled “Kairali” that will have South India’s young superstar Nivin Pauly in the lead.
Atomic Blonde is a 2017 American action spy thriller film directed by David Leitch and written by Kurt Johnstad, based on Antony Johnston and Sam Hart‘s 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City, which revolves around a spy who has to find a list of double agents who are being smuggled into the West. The film stars Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, and Toby Jones. This will…
What is it that this man can’t do or hasn’t done or wouldn’t be doing? The Exhibit Magazine is exhilarated to reveal the July’17 issue featuring exclusively on the cover “the unconventional” Farhan Akhtar. The man who has donned many caps, be it of a director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playback singer, lyricist or a television…
Edmonton Movie Club presents the Third Annual India Film Festival of Alberta (IFFA) in six different cities in Alberta in what is the largest Indian film festival in Canada. The film festival will be held on Edmonton – July 14 -16, Calgary – July 21 – 23, Fort McMurray – July 29, Cold Lake –…
Dhyan Sreenivasan, son of legendary Malayalam actor/director Sreenivasan and brother of Director Vineeth Sreenivasan is all set to make his directorial debut with the jaw dropping pairing of Nivin pauly and Nayantara in the lead. The movie is titled ‘Love, Action, Drama ‘. This is said to be the modern/contemporary version of his father Sreenivasan’s…
Submissions are now open for Season 4 of Lexus Short Films. Opportunity for Indian Filmmakers to take their work global. Season 3 films including Cannes Bronze Winner ‘Game’ now available for online streaming.
