Hindi cinema

Actor Asif Basra found dead in Dharamshala

6:33 pm November 12, 2020

Dharamshala: Actor Asif Basra, known for starring in movies such as “Jab We Met”, “Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai” and “Kai Po Che!”, died on Thursday here, the police said. He was 53. The actor was found hanging in a private complex here by the police and a team of forensic experts is on […]

Top five Bollywood films of 2019: Where are the women?

3:44 pm December 28, 2019

New Delhi: If box office success is any yardstick, mainstream Hindi cinema continues to be overtly macho with four of 2019’s five top grossers dealing with themes of hyper masculinity leaving women as mere props or maybe a side note at best. While “War”, “Kabir Singh”, “Uri: The Surgical Strike” and “Bharat” demonstrated the skewed […]

50 years of Bachchan: Actor for all seasons and many generations

4:45 pm November 8, 2019

Mumbai: Fifty years ago, on November 7, 1969, a gangly, too tall actor appeared on the big screen in the under-appreciated “Saat Hindustani”. It was cinema history in the making but nobody really knew it until many years later. Half a century later, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas’ film is watched and critiqued again and again as […]

‘War’ collects Rs 53.35 crore on opening day

3:20 pm October 3, 2019

Mumbai: Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff-starrer “War” netted Rs 53.35 crore at the box office on day one of its release, the makers said on Thursday. Directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Yash Raj Films, the movie opened countrywide on Wednesday. The film, which also features Vaani Kapoor, amassed Rs 51.60 crore through the […]