For those who thought Vicky Kaushal’s Masaan act last year was just a one-off flash in the pan affair, Zubaan is an eye-opener. Kaushal plays Dilsher, the waylaid Sikh boy from Gurdaspur who only wants to be successful in ways that we normally describe success. So he schemes his way into the heart mind home and property of a business tycoon Sikand (Manish Chaudhary, exuding arrogant power the way Amrish Puri did in Subhash Ghai’s Pardes) ends up getting what he thinks he wants.
From here onwards first-time director Mozez Singh (who must be kidding about being a debutant, which first-timer would be able to make film so confident and compelling??!!) charts Dilsher’s descent into a selfserving opportunism and then his sudden swerve into redemption. This journey back and forth on the scale of morality has been undertaken repeatedly in films as far-ranging as Raman Kumar’s...
From here onwards first-time director Mozez Singh (who must be kidding about being a debutant, which first-timer would be able to make film so confident and compelling??!!) charts Dilsher’s descent into a selfserving opportunism and then his sudden swerve into redemption. This journey back and forth on the scale of morality has been undertaken repeatedly in films as far-ranging as Raman Kumar’s...
- 3/4/2016
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Starring Sara Jane Dias, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Sandhya Mridul, Anushka Manchanda, Pavleen Gujral, Amrit Maghera, Rajshri Deshpande
Written & Directed by Pan Nalin
For all the perverts out there who think it’s their birthright to peer up women’s skirts, here’s a film that peers right into women’s souls…seven of them, all so grandly scripted they seem to have walked into the film from our lives.
Every one of the seven female protagonists played, let me tell you, by actresses who were born to be their characters, is so sharply written, I came away thinking of them as people whose lives I’d like to know more about. (Ah, us prying Indians, whether it’s skirts or lives, we just love to intrude.) Sadly by the time Pan Nalin’s exceedingly persuasive film ended, one of the ladies was no longer with us. Such is life.
The temptation...
Written & Directed by Pan Nalin
For all the perverts out there who think it’s their birthright to peer up women’s skirts, here’s a film that peers right into women’s souls…seven of them, all so grandly scripted they seem to have walked into the film from our lives.
Every one of the seven female protagonists played, let me tell you, by actresses who were born to be their characters, is so sharply written, I came away thinking of them as people whose lives I’d like to know more about. (Ah, us prying Indians, whether it’s skirts or lives, we just love to intrude.) Sadly by the time Pan Nalin’s exceedingly persuasive film ended, one of the ladies was no longer with us. Such is life.
The temptation...
- 12/5/2015
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
As most of us Whovians and ComicMixers know, BBC America became the All Doctor Who All The Wibbly Wobbly Timey Winey Stuff network this past week in honor of the premiere of Season 9 – which, as I write this, airs tonight, Saturday, September 19. So I pretty much kept my TV tuned to channel 101 (the BBC America station on my cable system), except for some episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Hardball with Chris Matthews – oh, and the first half-hour of the Repugnantican debate on CNN, of which the less I have to say about that sorry affair the better, except that it disgusted me, and I returned to the All Doctor Who All The Wibbly Wobbly Timey Winey Stuff with relief.
So here’s a rundown of my opinions of random episodes in the lives of the Doctor.
Most Heartbreaking
There have been a number of emotion-walloping episodes since the...
So here’s a rundown of my opinions of random episodes in the lives of the Doctor.
Most Heartbreaking
There have been a number of emotion-walloping episodes since the...
- 9/21/2015
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
It is going to be a sizzling August in Jodhpur where the impressive multi-cultural cast of Gurinder Chadha's new film The Viceroy's House will soon gather. The film chronicles the last months of Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina's stay in India before British rule ended. The very talented British actor Hugh Bonneville, who has endeared himself to critics and audiences playing a gallery of real-life characters including John Bayley and Sir Christopher Wren, is playing Lord Mountbatten, while Gillian Anderson of X Files plays his wife Edwina. Interestingly the film casts Huma Qureshi with Manish Dayal in a romantic space. Manish was the critics' delight last year as the Indian chef in France in Lasse Hailstrom's well-received The 100 Foot Journey. Manish, who rose to instant stardom, would be happy to have his screen-dad Om Puri from The 100 Foot Journey back as a co-star in Chadha's film. Chadha is...
- 8/8/2015
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Interview and photo by Michael Lizarraga.
When Lon Chaney Sr. drove by a tall, thin contract actor waiting for a bus one night in the pouring rain, the famous movie star did more than just offer this unassuming Englishman a ride home; he gave his passenger some acting tips that would forever change his life: “Find something that no one else is doing or willing to do, and do it better than anyone else; leave your mark.”
The unassuming passenger, of course, was Boris Karloff.
From its 1910 screen debut to the recent I, Frankenstein and upcoming Whale/Karloff remake, Mary Shelley’s “man playing God” tale has cinematically endured for over a century, largely due to the “quarterback” and “maestro” of all monsters, Boris Karloff. Twice inscribed on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, twice featured on the U.S. stamp, his voice heard every Christmas throughout millions of homes, Karloff...
When Lon Chaney Sr. drove by a tall, thin contract actor waiting for a bus one night in the pouring rain, the famous movie star did more than just offer this unassuming Englishman a ride home; he gave his passenger some acting tips that would forever change his life: “Find something that no one else is doing or willing to do, and do it better than anyone else; leave your mark.”
The unassuming passenger, of course, was Boris Karloff.
From its 1910 screen debut to the recent I, Frankenstein and upcoming Whale/Karloff remake, Mary Shelley’s “man playing God” tale has cinematically endured for over a century, largely due to the “quarterback” and “maestro” of all monsters, Boris Karloff. Twice inscribed on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, twice featured on the U.S. stamp, his voice heard every Christmas throughout millions of homes, Karloff...
- 5/15/2014
- by Holly Interlandi
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Film: "O Teri"; Actors: Pulkit Samrat, Bilal Amrohi, Anupam Kher and Sara Jane Dias; Director: Umesh Bist; Rating: ** - masala-mix version of 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron'.
Luckily, this is not an official remake of Kundan Shah's classic "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron". If it was, the makers of the original could have sued for defamation.
"O Teri" borrows the concept of two bumbling, very unprofessional professionals who chance upon a scam from Kundan Shah's film and turn it into an extended Santa-Banta joke. It was Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Baswani in the original. It is Pulkit Samrat and Bilal Amrohi in this re(ek)make, designed.
Luckily, this is not an official remake of Kundan Shah's classic "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron". If it was, the makers of the original could have sued for defamation.
"O Teri" borrows the concept of two bumbling, very unprofessional professionals who chance upon a scam from Kundan Shah's film and turn it into an extended Santa-Banta joke. It was Naseeruddin Shah and Ravi Baswani in the original. It is Pulkit Samrat and Bilal Amrohi in this re(ek)make, designed.
- 3/28/2014
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
Vineyard Theatre 108 E. 15 St. will present the new musical Arlington by Victor Lodato and Polly Pen -- with previews set to begin Wednesday, February 12 prior to its official opening night on Sunday, March 2. Directed byCarolyn Cantor The Great God Pan, After The Revolution, Arlington will star Alexandra SilberMASTER Class on Broadway with Tyne Daly, The Woman In White as Sara Jane, a young wife who valiantly tries to remain hopeful while her husband is away at war, despite a growing concern that something is not quite right. This new music-theatre piece is a stirring and powerful work that explores complex questions about history, identity and power as it takes us deeper into the storm stirring beneath Sara Jan's sunny exterior.The company met the press yesterday and you can check out complete photo coverage below...
- 1/15/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Vineyard Theatre 108 E. 15 St. will present the new musical Arlington by Victor Lodato and Polly Pen -- with previews set to begin Wednesday, February 12 prior to its official opening night on Sunday, March 2. Directed by Carolyn Cantor The Great God Pan, After The Revolution, Arlington will star Alexandra Silber Master Class on Broadway with Tyne Daly, The Woman In White as Sara Jane, a young wife who valiantly tries to remain hopeful while her husband is away at war, despite a growing concern that something is not quite right. This new music-theatre piece is a stirring and powerful work that explores complex questions about history, identity and power as it takes us deeper into the storm stirring beneath Sara Jan's sunny exterior.The company met the press earlier today and you can check out a photo preview from the festivities below...
- 1/14/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
My personal action figure collection. Let your envy begin.
One of the pure pleasures of being a Doctor Who fan during this time is that we get some really excellent action figures to play with. I have a small, but growing, collection of them, and I have yet to find any I’ve disliked. This is in contrast to what we had during the 1980s and 1990s when Dapol, who I understand tried quite hard, were producing a line that was best described as…well, I’ll be polite and refrain from using any of the words that come to mind.
Nowadays we have figures of all eleven Doctors, including variant figures, like the Sixth Doctor’s blue outfit and various regeneration versions. We also have all the major new series companions and a handful of old series companions. There’s also of course tons of villains from the old and new series both,...
One of the pure pleasures of being a Doctor Who fan during this time is that we get some really excellent action figures to play with. I have a small, but growing, collection of them, and I have yet to find any I’ve disliked. This is in contrast to what we had during the 1980s and 1990s when Dapol, who I understand tried quite hard, were producing a line that was best described as…well, I’ll be polite and refrain from using any of the words that come to mind.
Nowadays we have figures of all eleven Doctors, including variant figures, like the Sixth Doctor’s blue outfit and various regeneration versions. We also have all the major new series companions and a handful of old series companions. There’s also of course tons of villains from the old and new series both,...
- 3/21/2013
- by Chris Swanson
- Obsessed with Film
Warning: Contains Spoilers
“This is the story of Amelia Pond, and this is how it ends.”
It would be an understatement to say that Amy Pond and Rory Williams are the two greatest and most beloved companions of the modern era of Doctor Who. They are two of the most iconic, universally celebrated characters in the show’s forty-nine year history, creations that will be remembered with the same fondness as Who legends like Sara Jane or Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The way Steven Moffat and his team wrote these characters, weaving their histories in with the Doctor’s in complex, meaningful ways, was consistently fantastic. And in Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, the show found two wonderful actors who could go toe-to-toe with Matt Smith’s historically brilliant performance in any given episode. For the generation of fans who joined the series with the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory are an inseparable part of Doctor Who,...
“This is the story of Amelia Pond, and this is how it ends.”
It would be an understatement to say that Amy Pond and Rory Williams are the two greatest and most beloved companions of the modern era of Doctor Who. They are two of the most iconic, universally celebrated characters in the show’s forty-nine year history, creations that will be remembered with the same fondness as Who legends like Sara Jane or Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The way Steven Moffat and his team wrote these characters, weaving their histories in with the Doctor’s in complex, meaningful ways, was consistently fantastic. And in Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, the show found two wonderful actors who could go toe-to-toe with Matt Smith’s historically brilliant performance in any given episode. For the generation of fans who joined the series with the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory are an inseparable part of Doctor Who,...
- 9/30/2012
- by Jonathan R. Lack
- We Got This Covered
So much, yet so little given in last night’s offering of Doctor Who. I’m going to forego a semi recap like I’ve been doing as: 1) if you are reading the review you probably know what happened and 2) I feel that there is a bit more to talk about when it comes to the characters of Amy, Rory and the 11th Doctor. Plus I feel like if I start nitpicking the events of “The Power of Three” (especially the ending) I might write 2,000 words, that will mostly be a rant that starts with why would any government let mysterious cubes lie around everywhere, and end with, the big bad was a hologram of a race of aliens the Doctor considers a bedtime story, then the doctor waves his sonic screwdriver at a board and everything is fine. Never mind the 24 hours of dead people on the street who actually should be brain-dead,...
- 9/23/2012
- by Stephen Andolfo
- TVovermind.com
Who’s your favorite Doctor?
I discovered the Time Lord back in the late 1970s (I think), when Wnet, the New York PBS station, started running the Tom Baker episodes. Baker’s Doctor, with his floppy-brimmed hat, outback duster, and loonnnng, multi-colored, scarf – did Granny Who knit it for him? – was the itinerant cosmic hobo. Only instead of hopping the rails, he “tripped the light fantastic” across the universe in the Tardis. Companions Sara Jane Smith (the late Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) were – seen with the advantage of hindsight –sort of “Mulder/Scully” prototypes, with Sara Jane as the believing Mulder and Harry as the skeptic. I can’t say that the British military operations called Unit – Unified Intelligence Taskforce – was the FBI, although Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart did sort of act like the Assistant Director Walter Skinner, walking the high-wire tightrope between helping the Doctor and answering to his superiors.
I discovered the Time Lord back in the late 1970s (I think), when Wnet, the New York PBS station, started running the Tom Baker episodes. Baker’s Doctor, with his floppy-brimmed hat, outback duster, and loonnnng, multi-colored, scarf – did Granny Who knit it for him? – was the itinerant cosmic hobo. Only instead of hopping the rails, he “tripped the light fantastic” across the universe in the Tardis. Companions Sara Jane Smith (the late Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) were – seen with the advantage of hindsight –sort of “Mulder/Scully” prototypes, with Sara Jane as the believing Mulder and Harry as the skeptic. I can’t say that the British military operations called Unit – Unified Intelligence Taskforce – was the FBI, although Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart did sort of act like the Assistant Director Walter Skinner, walking the high-wire tightrope between helping the Doctor and answering to his superiors.
- 8/6/2012
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
During the promotion of ‘Kyaa Super Cool Hain Hum’, crowd threw stone at Sara Jane Dias. The actress is highly ashmed of the incident. She was with the cast and the crew of ‘Kyaa Super Cool Hain Hum’ in Faridabad on Monday. She took to Twitter to share her anguish, and wrote: "A stone was thrown at me on stage in Faridabad, it hit and hurt my lip, for the first time in my life, I'm truly ashamed of our people." "It's deeply disheartening to have to say horrible things about my country... but this was uncouth and had it have been someone 'more important' it would not have gone down well," she added. The actress was in tears followin...
- 7/24/2012
- Bollywoodmantra.com
Sarah Jane, Neha Sharma have some lesbian action in Kya Super Kool Hain Hum - Realbollywood.com News
Mumbai, July 2: Film maker Ekta Kapoor attained reputation to touch controversial topics in her films. After Dirty Picture, she while unveiling Kya Super Kool Hai Hum declared that the film would be a mother of all fun filled sex comedies. From the first look teasers the film makers have released one can be sure that there will more controversial acts by the lead stars. The film which stars Ritesh and Tushar in the lead, has hot beauties Sara Jane Dias and Neha Sharma. Those who had a look at the teasers were stunned to see hot beauties.
- 7/2/2012
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
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