There are days you have a lot of work and then there are days you have none, Danish Sait tells Film Companion. Also known as Royal Challengers Bangalore’s 12th man Mr Nags, he’s quite a multitasker, ...

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan won the Miss World 1994 pageant, and 30 years later, her beauty still sings. In director Mani Ratnam’s adaptation of the beloved Ponniyin Selvan novels, the story is anchored by ...

Christo Tomy’s Ullozhukku is stung by grief. The Malayalam drama is mostly about the two characters – Urvashi’s Leelamma and her daughter-in-law Anju (played by Parvathy Thiruvothu) coming to terms ...

‘The Iron Claw’ was the signature move of the Von Erichs, the legendary family of professional wrestlers who rose to stardom in the Eighties and went on to occupy pride of place in the WWE Hall of ...

The year is 2066. An air taxi picks me up from a cardio-reparation chamber in Mars; my ailing 80-year-old body settles in for the hour-long ride home. I swipe the oxygen to summon a transparent plasma ...

India has had a stellar run at Cannes’ 24. Among the many laurels that Indians brought home this year is All We Imagine As Light, directed by the FTII alumni Payal Kapadia, which won the prestigious ...

Last seen together in the 2021 horror comedy Roohi, Rajkummar Rao and Janhvi Kapoor have their second collaboration in Sharan Sharma’s romantic sports drama Mr. & Mrs. Mahi. They play a couple with a ...

This is to say that the elements to make for a compelling crime drama are all in place; the problem, however, is that the writing cannot hold the weight of these elements, far less coalesce them to ...

Rahul, heir to the Raichand dynasty, visits Delhi’s crowded Chandni Chowk neighbourhood, where he sees the love of his life, Anjali, for the first time. She is dancing on the street, without ...

I’ve been worried for myself lately. I haven’t been reacting to bad movies the way I used to. It’s mostly a mild mix of submission and sarcasm. A few sighs here, a few puns there – and I’m done. But ...

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Here’s my short take on In Retreat, by debutant director Maisam Ali, which played in the ACID Cannes sidebar. The sidebar, run by the Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema, was launched ...