Raise your hand if you like watching good, old-fashioned naach-gaana stretches in a cinema hall! Here’s a one-per-year list of these spectacles. Feel free to add your favourites.

Patriotism, aerial combat, terrorism, geopolitics, a nuclear threat, a bloody past, a shot at redemption, a marriage torn between a high-tension war scenario…Operation Valentine has so many elements ...

In other words, being fiction isn’t enough. In Jawan, the singularity of storytelling wears the plurality of life. For instance, the Robin Hood theme is timeless but also pointedly current. When a ...

Whether it’s a cameo, like in Badhaai Do (2022) where he played an openly-queer lawyer, or a double role, like in Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota (2018), actor Gulshan Devaiah tends to be a scene stealer.

Two diligent-looking R&AW officers walk into a room where Ayushmann Khurrana, playing an action hero Maanav, is doing a plank. He is in handcuffs. The officers, when they first see him, are baffled, ...

One of the most anticipated award shows around the globe, the Oscar awards which took place in Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatres have announced the winners list of the films which were released in 2023 that ...

The landscape of cinema and television has been radically, perhaps irreversibly, altered by streaming. This was clear last year. This year, too, the trend of direct to OTT releases continued, with a ...

In an interview with News18, Sonakshi Sinha talked about the possibility of a sequel to Dahaad. Dahaad is created by Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar and explores a series of murders of 27 women in a small ...

In Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain, when a struggling filmmaker (Ajith Kumar) hits a low after being rejected by multiple production houses and male actors, his good friend suggests swapping ...

The Canadian feminist activist Susan G Cole wrote that the best way to instil social values is to eroticize them. ALT Balaji reverses this- the best way to instil eroticism is to instill social values ...

A mini-flashback of what’s been a remarkable few weeks for Tamil cinema, and the issues they bring up ...

The soundscape of ‘Ayirathil Oruvan’ is as inventive and whimsical as the film itself. And of course ‘Un Mela Aasadhan’ is half the reason why the movie makes it to this list, but isn’t that pretty ...