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The last movie of the Star Wars saga, « The Forces Awakens », is a huge worldwide success, notably in the United States, in Europe and Japan, or even in China. But India resists the power of the Force and the film was largely eclipsed there by big Indian films such as « Dilwal...

French hit redone by Kashyap’s Phantom

« La Famille Bélier », a huge French cinema hit in 2015, on the touchy subject of a family of deaf persons, will be remade in India by Reliance Entertainment and Phantom Films, the production house of Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl. The film, which attracted more than 7 million...

Berlin Film Festival

The 2016 edition of the Berlin Film Festival, February 11-21, is an opportunity for Indian films such as “Sairat” (Wild) by Nagraj Manjule, to get a world exposure in a festival unique by its attendance and conviviality. The adjacent film market is another venue to screen the...

Women Power

Over the last couple of years Indian cinema has seen a flood of women centric biopics that speak a thousand words about the women power and their significant achievements. Latest offering in this category is Neerja, a biopic being made on the life of the Indian flight purser, Nee...

Out of jail

After spending six years in jail in Pune, the 56-year-old Bollywood star and director Sanjay Dutt will finally be released by the end of February this year. Sanjay Dutt, a big Indian film star and producer, started his career in 1981. He has acted in more than a hundred Bollywood...

Dilwale Review

Rohit Shetty’s much-awaited film Dilwale finally hit theatres on 18th December 2015. Starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, was foreseen as one of the biggest releases of 2015. However, the film failed to keep up to the expectations, especially as it also...

The Downfall of Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir Kapoor, the fourth generation actor of the renowned ‘Kapoor family’ of the Hindi cinema who is a favourite amongst female audiences of the country is perhaps no longer a favourite of the box office numbers. That is yet again proven by the results of his latest release ...

Island City

Ruchika Oberoi’s Island City produced by National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has won the Fedora prize for the best young director in the sidebars of the Venice Film Festival, 2015.   In the international film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film...

International Film Festival: Goa, The countdown be...

GOA IS ALL SET TO HOST 45TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIvAL OF INDIA, WITH A FOCUS ON CHINA. THE FESTIvAL WILL SCREEN 26 FEATURE AND15 NON-FEATURE FILMS. With Goa’s peculiar culture and hospitable atmosphere, the state will soon become an international film festival venue like Cann...

Haider: Little more than kin less than kind