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What Do We Do With Shraddha Kapoor?
Shraddha Kapoor’s limited acting talent is noticeable in every frame of Haseena Parkar, forcing a pertinent question: What exactly is she still doing in Bollywood?
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Game Over Review: A Taut Thriller Single-Handedly Elevated by Taapsee Pannu
A woman’s body is both, her biggest weakness and her greatest weapon. If the world derives pleasure out of brutalising it, women respond to that assault by using their bodies as tools of resistance. Ashwin Saravanan’s Game Over thrives on this precise duality and there’s no actor who can bring this out better than the physically alert Taapsee Pannu.
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Neeraj Ghaywan: The Middle-Class Boy Who Breathed Life into Bollywood’s Masaan and Sacred Games
The award-winning filmmaker, Neeraj Ghaywan, quit a cushy corporate life and charted his own course at 30. The result is sensitive films like Masaan, that drew accolades at home and abroad, and the second season of Sacred Games.
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RRR Review: A Visual Masterpiece
Rajamouli’s latest feature film is just as visually invigorating as his previous films that though it could have used a tighter script, is everything you’d want to go back to the cinemas for.
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Why Purab Kohli is Bollywood’s Most Overlooked Dependable Performer
Back in 1998, Purab Kohli debuted with Hip Hip Hurray, where he played a studious 12th grader raised by a single mother. Last week in Typewriter, he essays a single parent to a school-going student. It is the actor’s eagerness to work without obsessing over billing, screen time, or stardom that makes him a dependable performer, even today.
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Good Luck Jerry review: Janhvi Kapoor Anchors a Delightfully Airy Crime Caper
Good Luck Jerry is anchored by a career-best performance by Kapoor and though it isn’t deep or particularly inventive, the film is charming, entertaining and ludicrously simple, but in a good way.
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Bollywood’s a Sellout! Did We Really Need Cobrapost to Tell Us That?
A sting by Cobrapost, Operation Karaoke, set up a fake PR agency that asked Bollywood celebrities to endorse a political party for money. But after a slew of propaganda films and biopics, are we really surprised to learn that the industry is full of actors who are cosily nestled in political pockets?
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Football Shootball Hai Rabba
The FIFA World Cup is upon us and I fear the worst. During the last World Cup, we braced ourselves for “expert comments” from John Abraham. This time it’s going to be Anupam Kher, isn’t it?
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“Main Shah Rukh Khan Banna Chahta Hoon”: John Cena
If his social media handles are any indication, WWE’s biggest star, John Cena, is making a pitch to enter Bollywood – waiting in the wings for his “phata poster, nikla hero” moment.
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Why Kangana Ranaut Needs Manikarnika To Be a Success
Kangana Ranaut’s combative, no-filter style has come with setbacks. Thanks to her unwillingness to be diplomatic, she has alienated an influential chunk of Bollywood. It’s the reason that, even after doing a massive costume drama like Manikarnika, she’s not mentioned in the same breath as contemporaries Deepika, Anushka, and Alia.