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Kanu Bahl's Agra struggles to get screens in India

De De Pyaar De gets 2400 shows, award-winning Agra has 19: 49 filmmakers join Kanu Behl to demand transparency from theatres, OTT

November 18, 2025 8:04 am

Post Kanu Behl's Agra getting just 19 shows while mainstream films get hundreds, 50 independent filmmakers have issued a joint statement calling for equitable showtimes, transparency in programming, and OTT updating their policies.

The time when Kamal Haasan turned down a lucrative career path as a Hindi movie star after the success of Ek Duuje Ke Liye

Kamal Haasan, India's original pan-India star, walked away from Bollywood in the 80s, left Manmohan Desai fuming: 'I asked for script and he...'

October 30, 2025 11:56 am

Kamal Haasan spoke about how Bollywood films took years to make, often going into a spiral of reshoots as the reason for walking away from the industry. Not getting scripts also made him take this decision.

Caste, religion and hate: The questions ‘Homebound’ makes us face

October 18, 2025 1:22 pm

We need more films like ‘Homebound’. Films that don’t flinch from caste, faith, or inequality; that speak plainly but think deeply; that trust viewers to feel, reckon, and change. Because cinema isn’t escape. It’s confrontation

Bollywood's silver screen has inadvertently become the classroom where millions learn about sex, desire, relationships, and physical intimacy.

'The navel becomes a sexual organ’: Cinema-goers, intimacy coordinators share their take on Indian movies' role in shaping the audience's perspective of real intimacy

September 09, 2025 11:59 am

“One of my scriptwriter friends, a very funny guy, has even written a treatise on how to educate the Indian masses that that’s not where it goes,” said Dibakar

In 'Panchayat', the bottle gourd goes from minor comic indulgence to election symbol

Bottle gourd in ‘Panchayat’, plant metaphors in Hindi films hide a grief for dying forests

August 26, 2025 11:01 am

Disappearing fruits; missing girls as missing flowers; politicians and everyday vegetables, lauki and kathal — If these are not an unconscious manifestation of the death of our forests, what is?

Seema Pahwa says she refuses to train starkids when trained actors are not getting work: 'Hindi cinema is selling faces now, not stories'

April 28, 2025 4:40 pm

Seema was at her candid best when discussing the concept of nepotism, star kids, and the huge amounts of money that is being invested in such careers

'Refused Munna Bhai MBBS role due to arrogant Vidhu Vinod Chopra,' reveals Paresh Rawal: 'VVC ignored people he started with after becoming successful'

April 28, 2025 1:25 pm

Paresh Rawal said that Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi are still 'very good people' despite staying with Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 'so long'.

Akshay Kumar and Ananya Panday from Kesari 2

Kesari 2 Box Office Collection Day 10: Akshay Kumar-starrer eyes Rs 100 cr club globally, makes impressive Rs 8.15 cr; destroys Sikandar and Jatt record

April 28, 2025 11:00 am

Kesari 2 Box Office Collection Day 10 India and Worldwide: Akshay Kumar-R Madhavan film's domestic nett collection now stands at Rs 65.45, with its Sunday collection at an impressive Rs 8.15 crore.

Ground Zero box office collection Day 1: Emraan Hashmi's military drama falls behind Loveyapa, Azaad; earns Rs 1 crore

April 26, 2025 11:59 am

Ground Zero box office collection Day 1: The Emraan Hashmi film, which had positive reviews from critics, made Rs 1 crore

'I might have beaten him up': Amit Tandon weighs in on Udit Narayan's kissing controversy, calls Aditya Narayan 'unprofessional, spoilt'

April 22, 2025 4:41 pm

Taking the case of Udit Narayan and the viral kissing video, singer and actor Amit Tandon stressed home the importance of self-restraint and boundaries.