Author: Navneet Mundhra

BENGALURU: Since April, barring ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’, a spate of Bollywood films have tumbled disastrously at ticket windows. Almost all these movies, which featured A-list stars, didn’t even fetch decent initials and sank without a whimper. This is perhaps one of the worst phases Bollywood has seen in a long time. However, producers of some […]

BENGALURU: India and South Africa are set to cross swords in the five-match T20I series which is starting on June 9. With World T20 slated to take place later this year, both the teams are aiming to firm up their team combinations. Let’s look at five players to look out for in the series: 1) […]

BENGALURU: A month after a private airline denied a specially-abled child to board its Ranchi-Hyderabad flight at Ranchi airport, an Indian para swimmer too had to face an alleged insensitive incident. Para swimmer Shams Aalam on Monday took to Twitter to express his unhappiness over the treatment meted out to him by Air India staff […]

BENGALURU: The former England captain Joe Root once again rose to the occasion on Sunday and scored an unbeaten 115 to guide his team to a five-wicket win against New Zealand at Lord’s. Chasing 277, the visitors were in a pickle at 69-4 but Root, as he has often done, towed the team out of […]

BENGALURU: India and South Africa are set to lock horns in the five-match T20I series which is starting on June 9. The series is being organised keeping in mind the World T20 which will take place later this year in October-November. So, both the teams are looking at it to try different players, finetune their […]

BENGALURU: Akshay Kumar’s mega-budget movie ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ took an exceedingly insipid start at the ticket windows on Friday in almost all circuits. As the day progressed, the collections picked up at a few places such as Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh but the numbers in big cities of other states remained on the lower side. […]

  BENGALURU: The trailer of Aamir Khan’s upcoming movie ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ has elicited howling derision and an array of contemptuous memes from a large section of netizens. An official remake of the 1994 Hollywood classic ‘Forrest Gump’, starring Tom Hanks, ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ is directed by Advait Chandan. A lot of people feel that […]

BENGALURU: Is the box office back to pre-pandemic levels? Have the cinematic choices of people changed? Why is the INOX on the expansion spree when the obituaries of the exhibition sector are being written? What are the challenges exhibitors and owners of cinema halls are facing in India? In an exclusive interview with The New […]

  BENGALURU: The 2020-21 series between India and Australia Down Under is regarded as one of the best Test series in recent times. After copping an ignominious defeat at Adelaide in the first Test, India – beset with injuries – bounced back with a vengeance and clinched the Border-Gavaskar series 2-1. However, there was one […]

  BENGALURU: Former Indian batsman Virender Sehwag on Wednesday revealed that he wanted to retire from One Day Internationals (ODIs) during the Commonwealth Bank Series in Australia in 2007-08. Australia, India and Sri Lanka participated in the three-nation tournament and ultimately India defeated the hosts in the finals to win the championship. Sehwag’s scores in […]