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India’s T-Series, Reliance Entertainment and Match Cut Productions have teamed on Srijit Mukherji’s Hindi-language satire “Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga.”

Inspired by true events, the film is about the adverse effects of urbanization, human-animal conflict and poverty, leading to a bizarre practice in a village located on the edge of a forest.

It stars Pankaj Tripathi (“Sacred Games”), Neeraj Kabi (“Paatal Lok”) and Sayani Gupta “(Four More Shots Please”).

Mukherji’s credits include Bengali-language films “Autograph” (2010), which was a Glasgow International Film Festival and Abu Dhabi International Film Festival selection, “Jaatishwar” (2014), “Chotushkone” (2015), “Rajkahini (2015) and “Ek Je Chilo Raja” (2019), which played at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. “Sherdil” will be his second Hindi film after the 2017’s “Begum Jaan,” the remake of “Rajkahini.”

Mukherji said: “I got inspired by the real incident of tragic practises in villages bordering the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve and I knew I had to capture it in my next.

Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose has been one of the most controversial figures of contemporary Indian history. Both regarding his life (particularly his decision to leave (ousted for others) the Congress in 1939 following differences with Mahatma Gandhi, and join the Nazis and Imperial Japan against the British, but more regarding the events of his death. While the official record places it on August 18, 1945, after his overloaded Japanese plane crashed in Japanese Taiwan, there are two other theories that have drawn many followers, both of which state that Bose actually faked his death. The first suggests that he managed to escape to Russia, where he was captured and tortured to death in the gulags, while the second that he eventually left Russia, became a monk and returned to India under the name of Gumnaani Baba. The government’s stance on the findings of three different committees that dealt with the events,...

Srijit Mukherji’s “Vinci Da” deals with two human minds which are oxymoron but create an impact on the system. And sometimes the mind is covered with a mask of flesh and skin and there lies the criminal instinct which has a flow of its own. “Vinci Da” is a never before made psychological thriller in Bengali cinema which has a unique way to portray the conflict between good and evil thoughts and its impact.

“Vinci Da” is screening at London Indian Film Festival

Leonardo Da Vinci was a great painter but with a mind of a scientist. He studied anatomy of human body and attempted to identify the source of emotions and their expressions. “Vinci Da” is a makeup artist who deals with prosthetic makeup. He is knowledgeable and brilliant but does not get enough work or gets rejected for his honesty and intransigence approach. Adi Bose is a...

He used to be the blue-eyed boy of almost every urban filmmaker, but seems to have lost the hot seat to some of his contemporaries. Now, after bagging the most coveted copyright in the Bengali film industry, Parambrata Chatterjee is back in business with Feluda. In a freewheeling chat with us, the actor-director-producer spoke about his journey from Topshe to Feluda, the copyright tiff with Sandip Ray and things that he no longer finds interesting in Tollywood. Excerpts: Anukul has released and everybody is praising your work… I was waiting to work with Sujoyda (Ghosh) again. In the five years since Kahaani, we’ve planned so many things — some never happened, some will happen in the coming years. But this came as a sudden opportunity and we pounced on it. Now that it’s receiving so much appreciation, I feel ratified and satisfied to the hilt. In Tollywood, nobody rubs anybody the wrong way.

Kangana Ranaut has achieved what very few mainstream Bollywood actors achieve by winning the prestigious National Award for Best Actress. Kangana won the award for her critically-acclaimed performance in the woman oriented drama/comedy Queen, directed by Vikas Bahl. She is just one of many people to have scored at this year’s National Film Awards, which celebrate the best of cinema on a national scale and beyond Bollywood also. Queen also won the award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

Kangana has won a National Award before for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Fashion (2008). Given the unanimous praise she has received for her work in Queen, this story comes as no surprise. Congratulations Kangana!

The other big Bollywood winner was Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider, which won the awards for Best Choreography, Best Music, Best Male Playback Singer for Sukhwinder Singh (Bismil), as well as Best Costume. Unfortunately,...