Shah Rukh Khan
Bollywood baddies
December 17, 2019
One of the main ingredients of a Bollywood masala movie are the big, bad, scary and mean villains. Some of these villains have left a lasting impact in the minds of movie enthusiasts with their impeccable performances
Read MoreKIFF 2019 goes grand in its silver jubilee
November 13, 2019
The 25th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) that was inaugurated on November 8, is buzzing with the excitement of cinephiles. Celebrating its silver jubilee, the festival will for the first time be screening films on celluloid by reintroducing 35 mm projection system. ...
Read MoreKIFF 2018 showcases the best of regional and international cinema
November 19, 2018
The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) completed 24 years and focused on the cinema of two countries here fore underappreciated by the Indian audience: Australia and Tunisia.
Read MoreCoffee with Franciska Töröcsik
November 17, 2017
The critically acclaimed actor of Aurora Borealis, talks about her European influence, acting methods and women empowerment, exclusively with Media India Group.
Read MoreBollywood explores Indian social taboos
August 31, 2017
While earlier, films highlighting social issues were limited to the screenings at film festivals, Bollywood filmmakers have lately been talking about social taboos in India and other subjects like defecation, menstruation, and sex.
Read MoreBollywood blockbuster ‘Devdas’ to be screened at Cannes again after 15 years
May 18, 2017
As part of L'Oréal Paris Open Air Cinema On May 20, Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 2002 film ‘Devdas’ starring Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead will be presented at the 70th Cannes Film Festival yet again after 15 years of its release.
Read MoreThe Indian-European ‘filmi’ love affair
April 21, 2017
With Indian films crossing the centenary mark, Bollywood has stepped into the changing diaspora of increased global audience in terms of its ‘soft power’. Bollywood is nevermore confined within the boundaries of Indian theatres or Indian audiences as it ventures out into Euro...
Read MoreShah Rukh Khan to launch mobile application for fans
April 17, 2017
Aiming a better and direct connection with his fans and also to keep them updated with his projects, stories and personal life, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan will soon launch his personal mobile application, tentatively on April 22
Read MoreIIFTC observes the impact of cinema on tourism
February 23, 2017
Tourism and cinema have an indelible connection with inspirational exchange since times immemorial. The India International Film Tourism Conclave (IIFTC) felicitated few Indian filmmakers for their impact on tourism today.
Read MoreModi led TIME readers’ online poll
December 6, 2016
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won the TIME magazine ‘Person of the Year’ reader’s online poll. But the US elect-president Donald Trump was ultimately chosen as the ‘Person of the Year’ by the US magazine’s editors, who had picked Modi in 2014.
Read MoreA slice of Hollywood for Indian travellers in Dubai
December 1, 2016
The Indian audience, enchanted by the storylines, the entertainment aspects, the actions or the thrills and the innovation in Hollywood films, can now literally jump into the big screen action at Motiongate Dubai.
Read MoreDear Zindagi addresses the conflicts in a modern Indian woman
November 30, 2016
Looking at life from an unapologetic perspective, Dear Zindagi offers a much-needed psychoanalysis of modern idiosyncrasies and emotional turmoil in an urbane yet effortless scheme of things.
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