Amar Kaushik is not just a filmmaker. He is a storyteller. One who always wants his stories to leave a message for the viewers, be it through his short film (Aaba) or full-length feature films (Stree and Bala). The son of a forest ranger father and an educationist mother, Amar has many storytellers from the […]Read More
From the world of films, theatre, television and web.
Saurabh Tankha You may not have noticed him as a student auditioning for a documentary role in Rang de Basanti or as a pickpocket in No One Killed Jessica but you just couldn’t have missed him as the inimitable Jana in Stree, the ruthless killer Hathoda Tyagi in Paatal Lok or the eccentric drug lord […]Read More
It was a decade back that Jaideep Ahlawat was first noticed in Priyadarshan’s Khatta Meetha, followed by Aakrosh in the same year. Then came Gangs of Wasseypur, Vishwaroopam, Raees and Lust Stories. But it was as Khalid Mir in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi that people sat up and took notice of this Rohtak-born post graduate in […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha It seems like yesterday when this young girl from Bhagalpur in Bihar entered our homes, with the dream of becoming a Block Development Officer. Over the next one year, Krishna Raj was a part of most families in India, both urban as well as rural. They smiled with her achievements and gloom descended […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha We have had films on young boys and girls wanting to make it big in Bollywood (Rangeela, Luck By Chance to name a few), but no one ever wrote about smalltime writers with stars in their eyes. Well, there is one now, though not released in theatres, but on OTT platform Zee5. Written and directed […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha By the time I reached the last episode, I was feeling a trifle sad that it’s ending, and was longing for more. Such an interesting and engrossing show it was. Web series Panchayat on Prime Video had been trending on Twitter ever since it released on April 3 but for some reason, I […]Read More
She was one of the leads in filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar’s Calendar Girls which followed her winning the first edition of Miss Universal Peace and Humanity in 2014 and working in a documentary, The World Before Her. You also saw her as Riya Sharma in the web series, Operation Cobra, with Gautam Gulati essaying the lead […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha You have seen him play many a roles in the past – as an author, as a speaker and an ex-armed forces officer. Just that he did not belong to the film industry then though he was associated with it remotely (co-authoring Queens of Crime: True Stories of Women Criminals From India) with […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Playing a baddie in your debut movie can be a suicidal decision. But when there is a Shah Rukh Khan as your idol, who doesn’t want to play the baazigar? So it happened with Shaan Groverr who took up the challenge to play a character with negative shades in the 2019-release, Noblemen. Though […]Read More
Chef Anshu Raj We have had a lockdown for nearly six weeks now and the lockdown has been made partially easy for a few cities. We have no reliable data to tell us when the Covid-19 pandemic will end. The new normal of social distancing, masks, gloves and washing hands is here to stay. Even […]Read More