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Subhash K Jha looks back at Remo D’Souza’s Abcd 2 (Anybody Can Dance 2) featuring Varun Dhawan’s epic dance moves, in this special edition of This Day That Year feature series.

In Remo D’Souza’s Abcd 2 which turns 10 today, Varun Dhawan played a character called Suresh who is based on a real person called Suresh, a dancer who lives in Nala Sopara. Interestingly, the real Suresh also has a role in the Remo D’Souza directed film.

The story is based on the lives of four boys who are part of a dance institute called Fictitious Dance Academy.

Recalls Remo , “I thought I had exhausted my appetite for a dance film when I made Abcd. But then I came across the real-life story of these boys from Nala Sopara who went all the way to Las Vegas and won a dance show there. I knew I had to tell their story.

It’s interesting to see women directors in India pushing the envelope to explore themes. After we had Farah Khan doing a ‘boys’ film (Main Hoon Na), the following year, Vinta Nanda, a past master at TV soaps, turned the tables on the macho brigade in Bollywood by doing the kind of angst-laden film on suburban paranoia that would normally go to a male director like Mahesh Bhatt.

White Noise is Mahesh Bhatt’s Arth without the comfort of distance. Nanda plunges right into the centre of her protagonist’s anguished universe. Her first-hand experiences in the TV industry, her despair at getting caught up in the mediocrity and morass of the Great Indian Soap Trick, and most importantly, her acerbic study of promiscuous, easy-flowing relationships in showbiz are given a peculiarly pungent treatment in her debut spin.

By a stroke of luck, Nanda has got a relatively untried but...

18 years ago, Aurag Kashyap’s drama Black Friday released. Subhash K Jha revisits the film that starred Pavan Malhotra, Kk Menon, and Aditya Srivastav.

Recreating the events leading up to the ‘Bombay’ blasts (there was no Mumbai back then) on 12 March 1993, Anurag Kashyap’s clenched drama on the second-worst terror attack in Mumbai is a source of constant shock. On each viewing, you will come across new facets of the dark, diabolic characters plotting a conspiracy that still boggles the mind.

The extraordinary cast adds considerably to the palate of pulsating action. Watch out especially for Pavan Malhotra as Tiger Memon, K K Menon as inspector Rakesh Maria, and Aditya Srivastava Badshah Khan. Oh, didn’t I tell you? This film, for once, names and shames real-life terrorists.

Anurag Kashyap’s desperately dark exploration of the plan to blow up Mumbai had several exceptional performances, none more so than Pavan,...

Darshan’s Alleged Girlfriend Provides Chilling Confession. (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Leading Kannada film actor Darshan Thoogudeepa’s actress girlfriend has reportedly confessed to attacking the murder victim Renukaswamy. Darshan and Pavithra Gowda are accused of abducting and killing a devoted fan of the actor Renukaswamy earlier in June.

The pair were arrested alongside multiple other perpetrators who were reportedly involved in the horrific murder. For the unversed, Renukaswamy, a Chitardurga man and a fan of Darshan, was allegedly abducted and brought to Bengaluru earlier this month.

Trending Ram Charan Didn’t Come Out Of The House For A Week After Rrr’s Success, “The Good Or Bad Part…” Pushpa 2 Box Office: It’s Going To Be Allu Arjun Vs Aamir Khan This Christmas? What happened to Renukaswamy?

Per The News Minute, the victim was reportedly held in a shed and brutally tortured to death by Darshan and his 15 accomplices, who...

Marisa Pavan, the Italian actress and twin sister of Pier Angeli who received an Oscar nomination for her performance as the daughter of Anna Magnani’s seamstress in the 1955 drama The Rose Tattoo, has died. She was 91.

Pavan died Wednesday in her sleep at her home in Gassin, France, near Saint-Tropez, Margaux Soumoy, who wrote Pavan’s 2021 biography, Drop the Baby; Put a Veil on the Broad!, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Pavan also portrayed the French queen Catherine de’ Medici in Diane (1956), starring Lana Turner; an Italian girl who had an affair years ago with a corporate exec (Gregory Peck) in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); and the love interest of a former cop (Tony Curtis) investigating the murder of a priest in the film noir The Midnight Story (1957).

In Paramount’s The Rose Tattoo (1955), an adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play that won four Tony Awards, including best play,...

Mumbai, Aug 3 (Ians) The first song ‘Main Peeche Peeche’ from the upcoming film ‘Skanda- The Attacker’ starring Ram Pothineni, Sreeleela was unveiled on Thursday.

The composer S. Thaman is in his element as he has composed a very peppy and massy tune with full-on mass beats and crazy lyrics which are quite rhythmic. The music director keep the mood and tempo of the song upbeat. The vocals of Sreerama Chandra and Malvika combined with youthful lyrics by Ritesh G. Rao.

Ram’s energy and Sreeleela’s glamour took the song to the next level. The actress indeed matched the energy of Ram. Both have set the dance floor on fire with their elegant and electrifying dances. The costumes and the colorful set also added more weight to the song.

Santosh Detake cranks the camera for the film produced prestigiously by Srinivasaa Chitturi on a massive budget with high production values...

Years before Star Wars: The Last Jedi, another Star Wars story was told with the same subtitle that Disney should revisit given the studios' expansion of the galaxy. After Disney's sequel trilogy of Star Wars movies, the title of The Last Jedi is synonymous with the eighth entry in the Skywalker Saga. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is undoubtedly the most divisive Star Wars project to date, with many classing it as the best Star Wars film since The Empire Strikes Back while the other half of the fanbase views it as a disrespectful disregard of George Lucas' legacy.

Before Disney's official tenure as the owner of Lucasfilm though, The Last Jedi had another meaning for those familiar with wider Star Wars stories. Since Lucas began the franchise in the 1970s, various writers, artists, and creatives became involved in a galaxy far, far away.

Mumbai, May 27 (Ians) Fauja, a first-of-its-kind movie on the life of a jawan, shot in the hinterlands of Haryana, is all set to hit the theatres on June 1.

Starring Pavan Malhotra in a senior role, the movie revolves primarily around Karthik Dammu, an alumnus of the National School of Drama, who was previously seen in the Sayantan Mukherjee web series ‘Ray’. Sources privy to the closed-door premiere show of ‘Fauja’ have unanimously talked about it stirring up an emotion that is hard to let go.

Karthik, who is still in his extended student life and soon to transition into the corporate work life, talks about movies being more of a passion rather than a profession.

“In today’s fast-paced and competitive corporate world, finding a harmonious balance between one’s professional life and personal passions can be a daunting task,” says Karthik, who also is eagerly awaiting the release of...

Bhubaneswar, April 18 (Ians) Young swimmers from Odisha dazzled at the recently held Thailand Age Group Swimming Championship 2023 by winning six medals in total across events.

The tournament which was held at the Aquatic Centre, Assumption University Suvarnabhumi Campus in Thailand, witnessed Pratyasa Ray, Shristy Upadhaya, and Pavan Gupta finishing on the podium.

Odisha’s ace swimmer Pratyasa won two silver medals as she finished second in the 50m Backstroke event in which she clocked a time of 31.73 seconds. The 20-year-old also finished second in the 200m Backstroke, clocking a time of 2:31.51 seconds.

Meanwhile, Shristy clinched three bronze medals as she finished third in the 50m Butterfly event by clocking her personal best of 29.09 secs, in the 100m Butterfly event, she recorded her personal best time of 1:04.49 secs. She also finished the third 200m Butterfly event, clocking 2:32.37 secs.

Pavan, employed with the Railways bagged a gold medal in 50m Freestyle clocking 23.24 seconds.

Who do you suspect when everyone’s the suspect? Introducing the royal world of deep dark secrets, a murder mystery and a classic whodunit. Disney+ Hotstar is all set to launch their upcoming psychological thriller Gaslight. Produced by Ramesh Taurani, Tips Films Ltd. and Akshai Puri, 12th Street Entertainment and directed by Pavan Kirpalani, the film releases on 31st March, 2023 exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar. The mind-bending, edge-of-the-seat thriller is helmed by Sara Ali Khan along with Vikrant Massey, Chitrangda Singh, Akshay Oberoi, Rahul Dev amongst others.

Being the wonderful actress that she is, Sara constantly aspires to put her best foot forward and is very passionate about her craft. Director Pavan Kirpalani has worked with versatile actor Saif Ali Khan in the past and talks about how Sara is no different from her supremely talented father. Pavan had amazing things to say about the father-daughter duo!

Talking about it, Pavan Kirpalani said,...

Flix FlashbackMore than 18 years after it was released, director Blessy’s debut film continues to evoke a roller-coaster of emotions.Neelima MenonSaina MusicKaazhcha (2004) will always remain Blessy’s most seminal work. Inspired by an Iranian film, he weaves a compelling story of humanity and compassion in the backdrop of the charming backwaters of Kerala. A little boy from Gujarat gets orphaned in an earthquake and gets lost in a small town in Kerala. His chance meeting with a kind stranger leads us to a narrative that reaffirms our belief in humanity. The boy is homeless, grubby, hungry, and gabbles in an unfamiliar language. Initially, you see him in the company of street urchins who teach him to beg. At night when he snuggles inside open cylindrical tanks along with other children, they try to protect him from a predatory cop. But in a sheer stroke of luck, he bumps into Madhavan,...

Interview‘Dollu’ director Sagar Puranik spoke to Tnm about the creative choices he exercised, the reason for keeping things subtle and why he adopted an understanding tone when speaking about urban migration.Subha J RaoInstagramFresh from his 2019 National Award winning short film Mahaan Hutatma (2018), Sagar Puranik was contemplating making his feature debut. One day, at an event in Bengaluru, he witnessed a Dollu (double-headed drum native to Karnataka) performance. It was something he’d seen many times before, but watching the Dollu Kunitha practitioners playing the drums with gay abandon struck a different chord. “It was like I did not just hear the music, but saw the visuals that accompanied it and felt the reverberations it triggered,” Sagar recalls. He wondered how it would look on the big screen, because not many films spoke about the folk arts or music in detail. At the same time, during a conversation with a cab driver,...