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While Bollywood films are biting the dust one after another at the turnstiles, a Hollywood film ‘Thor – Love And Thunder’ is setting the cash registers ringing. The movie, which hit the screens last Thursday, raked in Rs 65 crore net in its extended first weekend. Though the collections took a slight dip on Monday, […]

  I watched the Tamil version of Rocketry: The Nambi Effect last Sunday in a new and fine theatre with red push-back seats in Kottayi, a small village in Kerala’s Palakkad. At the lobby, they sold coffee and popcorn and all of it was just as good as anything in Delhi or Bombay, and you wondered how […]

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: ‘Dr Strange – In The Multiverse of Madness’, a Hollywood film, took a phenomenal opening last Friday as it racked up Rs 28 crore on Day 1. After doing fairly well over the weekend, the collections of the movie are dropping during weekdays but it has already netted an impressive Rs 93 crore. At […]

  BENGALURU: The recent string of box-office clunkers has revived the debate about the paucity of stars in Bollywood. Big-budget films such as ‘Jersey’, ‘Heropanti 2’, ‘Bachchan Pandey’ and ‘Runway 34’ failed to even take a decent opening and turned out to be monumental bummers. Notwithstanding some bummers at the box office, Bollywood is still […]

BENGALURU: Bollywood star Ajay Devgn on Wednesday kicked up a furore when he tweeted that Hindi is the national language of India. What added fuel to the fire is the fact that his tweet was directed at Kannada actor Kichcha Sudeepa.   Hello @ajaydevgn sir.. the context to why i said tat line is entirely […]

MUMBAI: Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt tied the knot on Thursday in the presence of their families and close friends. Alia shunned the conventional red bridal trousseau and looked resplendent in an ivory saree with gold embroidery designed by Sabyasachi. Ranbir Kapoor wore a matching colour ‘sherwani’ with pastel ‘safaa’ with bejewelled ‘kilanji’. The […]

“If the doors of perception are cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”: William Blake Perception often supersedes bland reality. Anodyne facts are tossed out of the window, as they don’t make for an exciting reading, and exalted hyperboles are whipped up to spellbind the hoi polloi. In regard to Bollywood of […]

MUMBAI: The industry is abuzz with talks that Ranbir Kapoor and Alia are set to tie the knot on April 17. According to sources, the wedding will be an intimate affair with only family and close friends attending it. The marriage ceremony will be held at the RK Studios in Chembur. The ‘sangeet and mehendi’ ceremonies […]

On the occasion of Holi 2022, here are the 10 Bollywood songs you must savour to your heart’s content: 1) Holi Aayi Re Kanhai (Mother India)   2) Khelenge Hum Holi (Kati Patang) 3) Holi Ke Din (Sholay)  4) Rang Barse (Silsila) 5) Sajan Hume Aise Rang Lagana (Darr) 6) Soni Soni (Mohabbatein) 7) Holi […]