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“Shaitaan,” the 2024 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror film, directed by Vikas Bahl and produced by Devgn Films, Jio Studios, and Panorama Studios, continues its triumphant streak for the third consecutive week, emerging as a super hit despite competition.

Starring Ajay Devgn, R. Madhavan, Jyothika, Janki Bodiwala, and Anngad Raaj, it marks Jyothika’s second Hindi film after her debut in 1998. The music by Amit Trivedi, along with cinematography by Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti and editing by Sandeep Francis, enhances the eerie ambiance.

#Shaitaan continues to gallop triumphantly for the third consecutive week, despite multiple films in the marketplace. Super Hit.

[Week 3] Fri 2.52 cr, Sat 4.57 cr, Sun 4.11 cr, Mon 3.04 cr, Tue 2.25 cr, Wed 1.85 cr, Thu 1.70 cr. Total: ₹ 137.72 cr. #India biz. #Boxoffice… pic.twitter.com/FXqD1dgoQ4

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) March 29, 2024

Released theatrically on 8th March 2024, coinciding with Maha Shivaratri, “Shaitaan” has maintained a steady box office performance. In its third week, it garnered impressive earnings: Fri 2.52 cr,...

Shaitaan

Starring: R. Madhavan, Ajay Devgn, Jyotika

Directed by Vikas Bahl

Vikas Bahl’s Shaitaan is not your typical dreary eerie shiver giver with creaking doors and shrieking banshees. This is far scarier. The evil is one of us. A charming bloke named Vanraj who can be just anyone: the friendly neighbourhood fix-it guy, the ever-smiling insurance agent or the benign banker, anyone you don’t mind accessing your home.

The script allows Madhavan to penetrate a normal upwardly mobile middleclass family (far more posh than in the original Gujarati film Vansh) with tha tever-grin countenance, and then create a hair-raising havoc.

Never before has Madhavan’s natural effortless charms been put to use with such frightening alacrity. One minute he is the coolest Uncle on the block , playing the friendly confidante to a teenaged girl. The next minute he is growling menacing beast of a man ordering the young girl to slap her father,...

The Sunflower web series review is here. The crime-thriller comedy series is created and written by Vikas Bahl. Directed by Vikas Bahl with Rahul Sengupta as the co-director. Sunflower is produced by Reliance Entertainment and Good Co. The crime-thriller comedy series stars actor-comedian Sunil Grover in the lead along with Ranvir Shorey, Girish Kulkarni, Shonali Nagrani, Mukul Chadha, Sonal Jha and Ashish Vidyarthi in pivotal roles.

Ott Web Series Sunflower Review

Shuttling between a murder mystery and a quirky social commentary, Vikas Bahl’s Sunflower is a cool vivid and wittingly wicked series that further clarifies the difference between fact and reality.

Filled with metaphor at paces, the title Sunflower is the name of a reputed society in the Mumbai metropolis.

The society comprises of interesting characters that include a righteous Hindi chemistry teacher Mr. Ahuja (Mukul Chaddha), a rich arrogant neighbour Mr. Kapoor (Ashwin Kaushal), a flagbearer of moral...

The Criterion Channel has unveiled their March 2021 lineup, which includes no shortage of remarkable programming. Highlights from the slate include eight gems from Preston Sturges, Elaine May’s brilliant A New Leaf, a series featuring Black Westerns, Ann Hui’s Boat People, the new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi.

They will also add films from their Essential Fellini boxset, series on Dirk Bogarde and Nelly Kaplan, and Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and Death in Venice, and more. In terms of recent releases, there’s also Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century and Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In.

Check out the lineup below, along with the teaser for the Black Westerns series. For weekly streaming updates across all services, bookmark this page.

The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917

Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963

Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916

Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979

Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972

Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen,...

Bollywood youth icons Ayushmann Khurrana and Vicky Kaushal shared the best actor prize at India’s annual national film awards, which were announced Friday.

Kaushal won for his mainstream breakout role in the hit war drama “Uri: The Surgical Strike,” which grossed about $50 million worldwide. First-time helmer Aditya Dhar won best director for the film, which also took home the awards for score and sound design.

Khurrana won for suspense thriller “Andhadhun,” another box office hit with $64 million. The film is an adaptation of Olivier Treiner’s 2010 French short “The Piano Tuner.” Director Sriram Raghavan and co-writers Arijit Biswas, Hemanth Rao, Yogesh Chandekar and Pooja Ladha Suri won the award for adapted screenplay. “Andhadhun” was also named best Hindi-language feature.

Keerthy Suresh won best actress for portraying actress Savitri in the biopic “Mahanati.” The film also won for costume design and best Telugu-language film.

Surekha Sikri was named best supporting actress for Hindi-language “Badhaai Ho,...

Compiling the best films list is never an easy task. Especially considering Indian films, India being the country that produces the most number of films in the world, spanning over a number of industries, based on languages from different parts of the country. There’s also the fact that some of the regional language films are not easily accessible with subtitles and like always, there would be a lot of films that might be missing from this list.

This year has been particularly strong in Tamil and Hindi (or Bollywood if you prefer) industries. But even a few of the acclaimed films from both of those industries missed spot on this list.

So here are the best Indian films of 2018 in reverse order. Some of them have premiered in festivals in the previous years but since they had the theatrical release in India only in 2018 they are also included. (By...

Umesh Kulkarni’s much-awaited film Highway has now been shifted to 28th August 2015.

Explaining why, the acclaimed filmmaker shares, “One of the reason we postponed the film is because there were not enough screens available to release the film. Anyways there is always a problem in getting prime slots for Marathi films and with Baahubali and Bajrangi Bhaijaan still running on the main shows, we decided to wait it out.” Taking the change of release dates in his stride, the filmmaker isn’t complaining as he adds, “The shift also gave us some time to work on the title animation properly.”

Produced by Vinay Vaman Ganu and co-produced by Arbhaat films, Highway – Ek Selfie Aarpar is a journey of self-discovery and doesn’t have one or two, but 30 lead actors, including Huma Qureshi, Tisca Chopra, Girish Kulkarni, Renuka Shahane, Mukta Barve, Sunil Barve, Kishore Kadam, Nagraj Manjule to name a few.

The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has announced the nine scripts selected for the second edition of the National Script Lab to be held from October 2014 – March 2015.

Actor Konkona Sensharma and editor Ranjeet Bahadur are among the nine writers whose scripts have been selected.

The first screenwriting workshop will be held from October 12 – 17, 2014 at the Courtyard Marriott, Chakan, Pune, followed by two more workshops and one-to-one consultation sessions over the next six months.

Marten Rabarts (Senior Consultant, Training and Development, Nfdc), Olivia Stewart (Producer of The House of Mirth, Brassed Off, and script consultant on The Lunchbox), and Rajat Kapoor, writer-director of Ankhon Dekhi will mentor these scriptwriters.

Also as part of the National Script Lab program, the screenwriters will also attend Nfdc Film Bazaar 2014 (Nov 20–24) to network and introduce their upcoming projects to both the Indian and international film industry delegates attending the market.

This year the Script Lab...