Entertainment
Trans representation in Indian cinema
January 8, 2021
While most Hindi films still thrive on the offensive and stereotypical portrayal of the non-binary transgender characters, the past decade has seen some applause-worthy trans representation in regional movies, especially south Indian films.
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Web series that rose to unscaled heights in 2020
December 31, 2020
While everyone was locked inside homes and the theatres shut, OTT dominated the screens this year. The entertainment industry churned out brilliant web-series with intricately woven and multi-layered plots that hooked the audience for the entire lockdown. The dramatic hooks and e...
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Bollywood 2020: Pandemic, lives lost & the ri...
December 22, 2020
“Compared to the cataclysmic events of 2020, happenings in Bollywood read like trivial crumbs. Yet, 2020 has been equally harsh on the entertainment world,” a Delhi-based film critic, Anupam Kant, tells Media India Group. Kant talks about how the year started on a promising n...
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Celebrating the Tragedy King of Bollywood
December 11, 2020
“In Bollywood, you cannot become a star if you don’t have a bit of Dilip Kumar in you,” says filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, in an interview on a chat show. “From Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan down to Aamir Khan, Govinda and Shah Rukh Khan, Kumar’s influence can be felt in ever...
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Recollections of Bhopal Gas Tragedy on the silver ...
December 2, 2020
Wednesday, December 2 marks the 36th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy. While 2,259 people were reported dead immediately, on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, after poisonous gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, the toxic gas affected over a million people....
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National Journalism Day: When Bollywood met journa...
November 17, 2020
India has recently been witnessed an ugly tussle between its biggest film industry, Bollywood, and some of the mainstream television news channels. A fight that grabbed the central stage on all social media platforms and common people’s drawing-room via TV, for the past few mon...
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Cinemas struggle to resume after Covid19 intermiss...
November 11, 2020
Cinema halls were one of the first businesses told to shut down, even before the nationwide lockdown came into effect from March 25 and have been amongst the last to reopen. With the festival season approaching and resumption of the shooting of new films, theatre owners hope they...
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The name stays ‘Bond, James Bond’
November 1, 2020
Best known for the inaugural and one of the best portrayal of British Secret Service agent, Connery was born Thomas Sean Connery on August 25, 1930. His mother, Effie, he later revealed, occasionally worked as a cleaning woman. After doing a bunch of odd jobs and facing a handfu...
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Sparkling, scintillating superstar Shammi
October 21, 2020
Often called the first rockstar of Indian cinema, Shammi Kapoor, is remembered for his legendary films, boyish charm, dance moves and never-ending energy.
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7 Hollywood films with popular Indian songs
October 14, 2020
Indian viewers turned nostalgic, ecstatic and stunned when the Ryan Reynold-starring Deadpool (2016) opened to Mera Joota Hai Japani, a Hindi song from 1955 film Shree 420. The fervour reached a crescendo when director Tim Miller included Yuhin chala chal rahi, a song from Swa...
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