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Bollywood star Bobby Deol has stolen the limelight with his performance in projects such as ‘Ashram’, ‘Class of ‘83’ and ‘Animal’. He is loving his villain era and feels he should have had the maturity that he has now during the 1990s when he did films such as ‘Kareeb’.

Asked if he loves his villain era or the 90s chocolate boy time, Bobby said: “As an actor I would pick now I feel as an actor I have learnt more… I was immature at that time (1990s)…”

Talking about a special film “Kareeb”, which released in 1998 and was directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Bobby wishes he had the kind of “maturity” he has now to play the character of Birju in the film.

“I wish I was this mature when I was playing the character in Kareeb, maybe I would have done a better job as an actor but that...

Kareena Kapoor Khan Has A Message For Shirtless Actors In Bollywood! (Picture Credit: Instagram & IMDb)

Kareena Kapoor Khan may have averted controversy during her Koffee With Karan Season 8 appearance. But she’s not mincing words regarding her thoughts about Bollywood stars. The Jab We Met actress is far from impressed with actors flaunting their six-pack abs. However, she’s all praises for her cousin Ranbir Kapoor. Scroll below for the hot scoop!

Bebo mentions that one needs to be a good actor in order to become a star. She cited the example of Bobby Deol, who’s played versatile roles in his filmography. It took time, but the Ashram and Animal actor is finally getting his due credit as a Bollywood star.

During a latest interview with Film Companion, Kareena Kapoor Khan took a dig at some Bollywood actors. She said, “If you are great, talented, and people have liked you,...

Mumbai, Dec 6 (Ians) Actor Chandan Roy Sanyal, who makes his directorial debut with ‘Suzie Q’, has said that the film challenges preconceptions, blurs the lines between genres.

‘Suzie Q’ has been officially selected to be showcased at the Kolkata International Film Festival (Kiff) 2023 on December 9 and December 10. The film is a journey of its lead character Suzie Q played by the versatile and acclaimed actress Parno Mittrah.

The film stars Prakash Jha, Sangeet Sivan, Umesh Jagtap, Kishtee Jog, and Priya Banerjee. ‘Suzie Q’ delves into the journey that gets bizarre and dangerous as the lines of reality blur when a 40-year-old Suzie who sees vivid hallucinations embarks on a trip to her ex-husband’s destination wedding.

Talking about the film, Chandan said, “This film is very special for me. It’s exciting because it challenges preconceptions, blurs the lines between genres, and leaves room for interpretation.”

He further mentioned: “I...

Mumbai, Dec 6 (Ians) Actor Chandan Roy Sanyal, who makes his directorial debut with ‘Suzie Q’, has said that the film challenges preconceptions, blurs the lines between genres.

‘Suzie Q’ has been officially selected to be showcased at the Kolkata International Film Festival (Kiff) 2023 on December 9 and December 10. The film is a journey of its lead character Suzie Q played by the versatile and acclaimed actress Parno Mittrah.

The film stars Prakash Jha, Sangeet Sivan, Umesh Jagtap, Kishtee Jog, and Priya Banerjee. ‘Suzie Q’ delves into the journey that gets bizarre and dangerous as the lines of reality blur when a 40-year-old Suzie who sees vivid hallucinations embarks on a trip to her ex-husband’s destination wedding.

Talking about the film, Chandan said, “This film is very special for me. It’s exciting because it challenges preconceptions, blurs the lines between genres, and leaves room for interpretation.”

He further mentioned: “I...

Sandeep Vanga Reddy’s blood-soaked Bollywood epic “Animal,” starring Ranbir Kapoor, emerged as the No. 1 film globally with $42.1 million, according to data published by ComScore.

“Animal” released across 38 global territories. The worldwide gross total includes $6.1 million in North America where it released across 850 locations and opened at No. 7. In India, the film opened at No. 1, grossing $28.8 million over the weekend.

In “Animal,” Ranbir Kapoor plays the son of India’s richest man who takes on an antagonist played by Bobby Deol (“Ashram”). The cast also includes Rashmika Mandanna (“Pushpa: The Rise – Part 1”).

Like Reddy’s previous films, the Telugu-language “Arjun Reddy” (2017) and its Hindi-language remake “Kabir Singh” (2019), “Animal” is a study of toxic masculinity. Reviewing the film for Variety, Dennis Harvey wrote: “There’s the whole issue of toxic masculinity, which Vanga’s previous efforts were decried for celebrating. ‘Animal’ is too ridiculous to take grave offense at,...

Koffee with Karan Season Eight began with a bang, and it generated a lot of positive and negative reactions on social media that focused on Ranveer and Deepika’s relationship dynamics. Discourse is necessary in a country like ours, but moving on to the next episode is the best thing to do to get over all the white noise around the last one.

The second episode had two of the most subdued guests, who have been known for delivering both hit and flop films spanning decades. Sunny and Bobby Deol grace the couch for the second time in twenty years. Nothing has changed in the dynamics the brothers share. The feeling of family values they projected two decades ago still resonates in this episode as well. Their career trajectories have gone through various ups and downs, but they retain a strong, dignified stature throughout the show. Sunny Deol and Bobby...

One of the most beloved cricket leagues in India is about to start its season. The Indian Premier League cricket season starts Friday, March 31 on Willow TV. Sling TV is your best option to watch Ipl cricket in 2023 offering a number of different add-on channel packs that will allow you to stream every match. Right now you can (buy link: sling-tv text: get your first month’s subscription for 50% off). Check below to see which Sling add-on is right for you!

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The Indian Premier League is a men’s T20 competition, which means each side gets a single innings per game. It has a score limit of 20 overs, which is where the style of cricket play gets its name.

No stranger to comedy or drama, Kal Penn is one of the most diversely talented actors to work in Hollywood over the past two decades. After breaking out opposite Ryan Reynolds as Taj Mahal in Van Wilder, Penn went on to star in the trio of beloved stoner comedies in the Harold & Kumar franchise.

Related: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Harold & Kumar Movies

Since then, Penn has transitioned to television, where he's starred in such dramatic fare as Designated Survivor and most recently, Clarice. As for his cinematic career of late, Penn hasn't starred in a feature film since 2018's The Ashram, an Indian drama from director Ben Rekhi.

Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest co-production market, has revealed 21 eclectic projects from several countries and in a welter of languages, for its 2021 online edition.

The selected filmmakers will pitch their projects virtually to a curated audience of Indian and international producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents at an open pitch session. This year, Film Bazaar has also collaborated with the French Embassy in India which will be sponsoring the French Institute Award for one market project.

As is the usual case, the projects are a mix of festival favorites and debutants.

From India, Berlinale title “Eeb Allay Ooo!” editor Tanushree Das and Rotterdam title “Nasir” cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi make their directorial debuts with Bengali-language “Baksho Bondi” (aka “How Long Is Tomorrow?”), produced by Naren Chandavarkar (Rotterdam Fipresci winner “The Bangle Seller”); Tamil-language “Bommainayagi” (aka “Queen Doll”) by debutant Shanawaz Nizamudeen, produced by Pa. Ranjith, director of Rajinikanth...

Exclusive: Political commentator Van Jones and The View co-host Meghan McCain have joined timely documentary The Reunited States about bridging the political and racial divides in the U.S.

Jones and McCain are joining as executive producers.

Dark Star has picked up the film’s domestic rights and will release from January 29, the week after President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Subjects of the film include Susan Bro, who’s daughter Heather Heyer was killed when a car drove through a crowd of counter-protestors at the infamous Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally three years ago today; Steven Olikara, the founder of the Millenial Action Project, a bipartisan coalition of 1,500 young lawmakers; Greg Orman, an independent politician who ran for Governor of Kansas in 2018; and David and Erin Leaverton, a Republican couple who travelled to all fifty states with their three kids in an Rv in an effort to understand how to heal national divisions.

Bobby Deol completes 25 years in Bollywood, and the actor says his journey has taught him to never give up and always bounce back.

He posted a photo collage on Twitter with the words: "25 years of lights, camera, action, humble and grateful".

It's been 25 years at the movies for me.. A journey that started in October of 1995.. an overwhelming and emotional one. I proudly say, I’ve seen the highs and the lows. The one thing these 25 years have taught me is, to never give up; always bounce back and keep moving ahead! pic.twitter.com/eiX3k1I4VU

— Bobby Deol (@thedeol) October 5, 2020

Alongside the image, he wrote: "It's been 25 years at the movies for me.. A journey that started in October of 1995... an overwhelming and emotional one. I proudly say, I've seen the highs and the lows. The one thing these 25 years have taught me is, to never give...

Exclusive: LA-based sales firm The Exchange has boarded world sales rights to timely documentary The Reunited States, which follows unsung heroes on the journey to bridge the political and racial divides in the U.S.

Subjects of the new film include Susan Bro, who’s daughter Heather Heyer was killed when a car drove through a crowd of counter-protestors at the infamous Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally three years ago today; Steven Olikara, the founder of the Millenial Action Project, a bipartisan coalition of 1,500 young lawmakers; Greg Orman, an independent politician who ran for Governor of Kansas in 2018; and David and Erin Leaverton, a Republican couple who travelled to all fifty states with their three kids in an Rv in an effort to understand how to heal national divisions.

The documentary follows Bro on her quest for social justice from the first anniversary of the Charlottesville rally up until her...

Radhika Apte Screen Talk at the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival 2019 on Sunday 23rd June, 2019 at Cineworld Leicester Square, London England

Darren Brade Photography

At a very special event on June 23rd at this year’s London Indian Film Festival Radhika Apte gave a special talk with Girl With Pearl Earring director Peter Webber about her stunningly varied career. The brilliant actress has been seen in hit films like Padman, Andhadhun and Kabali garnering rave reviews. She is also known for her independent films like Parched, Phobia and Bombairiya where she really shone in her amazing performances. Apte has also appeared in English films like The Wedding Guest and The Ashram. She won a Jury Award at the Tribeca Film Festival for her bravura performance in Madly. Not only that she has done several Netflix series headlining the original Ghoul, Lust Stories and Sacred Games with great acclaim.

Along...

French studio Gaumont (“Narcos”) is collaborating with Indian producer Dina Dattani (“The Ashram”) on a series adaptation of Preti Taneja’s debut novel “We That Are Young.”

A re-imagining of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” set in contemporary India, the novel follows the tumultuous lives of the aging patriarch of a business empire, his three daughters and their vassals. The novel made it to several “book of the year” lists and won the $13,200 Desmond Elliott prize for new fiction in 2018.

“‘We That Are Young” is a work of epic scope and depth, providing a deep insight into today’s India, and the clash of tradition with modernization, as well as nuanced sexual politics,” said Gene Stein, president of television for Gaumont U.S. “We intend to shoot this series on location in India with the highest degree of authenticity while creating an elevated dramatic storyline with true global appeal.”

Dattani...

Before we get to your Amazon Prime June updates, the streaming service has a special surprise for its members: every season of “Dawson’s Creek” is available now, and you don’t even have to wait until next month.

Starting June 1, stream “All or Nothing” which follows the New Zealand rugby team the All Blacks throughout their 2017 season. On June 3, you can stream the Oscar-nominated “Lady Bird,” followed by Amazon Original series “Goliath” Season 2 on June 15.

See below for the complete list of titles hitting Amazon next month.

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Available June 1

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

2 Days in the Valley (1996)

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)

As Good As Dead (2010)

August Rush (2007)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Beer for My Horses (2008)

Beowulf (2007)

Black Widow (Aka: Before It Had a Name) (2005)

Blitz (2011)

Blood and Glory (2016)

Blue Like Jazz...

Long a destination for spiritual seekers from all over the world, India presents a diversity of religions and a potentially enlightening set of ancient traditions to the uninitiated. More than a few have lost their way in this unfamiliar terrain, though, offering filmmaker Ben Rekhi a ready template for his account of Americans abroad overwhelmed by mystical experiences.

Rekhi, a former entertainment executive, scored points with genre fans with his 2005 debut, Waterborne, but markedly changes themes for The Ashram. Often dominated by a familiar form of Asian-influenced religious eclecticism, Rekhi’s feature plays out as a low-key spiritual thriller that should...

Quite a different entry in the 16th Iffla program, since “The Ashram” features mostly non-Indian actors and deals with the supernatural, at least more than it does with reality.

Following the trail of his missing ex-girlfriend, Jamie discovers a remote monastery in the mountains founded by a guru with allegedly miraculous powers. As Jamie tries to pry secrets from the guru’s devoted acolytes, which include the friendly Nitin and Gayatri, and the strict and mysterious Chandra, he also meets the guru and learns of a power that is hidden within him. At the same time, the secrets lurking in the monastery prove more dangerous than Jamie ever imagined.

Let us start from the obvious. Despite the basic premise that involves a guru and the fact that it takes place in a remote area in the Himalayas, “The Ashram” is actually a Hollywood film and not an Indian one, in cast,...

"There are things happening here I never thought could be possible..." The Orchard has debuted an official trailer for a new cult thriller titled The Ashram, from writer/director Ben Rekhi. After receiving a cryptic message from his missing girlfriend, American skeptic Jamie, played by Sam Keeley, travels travels to India to pick up her trail. Once there, he discovers a secret community in the Himalayas led by a guru with strange powers likely involved in her disappearance. As he tries to dig even deeper and immerse himself as a "seeker", he discovers there might be a portal to another dimension that this cult is hiding. The cast includes Melissa Leo, Kal Penn, Manoel Orfanaki, Kallirroi Tziafeta, Radhika Apte, and Hera Hilmar as his missing girlfriend. This is a powerful trailer, I just hope the film lives up to the promise of potential here. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Ben Rekhi's The Ashram,...

The Orchard has secured North American distribution rights to Ben Rekhi's thriller The Ashram, starring Sam Keeley (The Cured), Oscar winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar franchise), Hera Hilmar (Da Vinci's Demons) and up-and-coming Indian actress Radhika Apte (Badlapur). Co-written by Rekhi and Binky Mendez and shot in India, the film is set in the timeless and mystical world of yogis in the Himalayas. It follows American skeptic Jamie, who…...

Exclusive: Canadian sales agent will launch sales with Evan Rachel Wood drama.

Montreal-based Seville International will kick off sales on a prestige slate that includes A Worthy Companion starring Evan Rachel Wood, riding high in her starring role in HBO’s Westworld.

Luc Déry and Kim McCraw produce and Jason and Carlos Sanchez will direct the film about a troubled woman who uses manipulative tactics to persuade a teenage runaway to live with her. Julia Sarah Stone and Denis O’Hare have joined the cast.

Senior vice-president of sales Anick Poirier and her team hold worldwide rights to A Worthy Companion as they do on The Ashram, a spiritual thriller from producer Guneet Monga of Sikhya Entertainment (Gangs Of Wasseypur) and executive producer Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Insidious, Take Shelter).

Sam Keeley, Melissa Leo And Kal Penn will star in the tale of an American who travels to the Indian Himalayas to find his missing girlfriend and encounters a community...