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This episode reflects on how Brazilian and Portuguese cinemas serve as a bridge between Latin America and Europe.Rui Poças is an acclaimed Portuguese cinematographer best known for his long-standing collaborations with two key figures of contemporary Portuguese cinema: Miguel Gomes and João Pedro Rodrigues. Since working on their respective debuts—The Face You Deserve (2004) and O Fantasma (2000)—Poças has lensed such acclaimed films as Our Beloved Month of August (2008), Tabu (2012), The Ornithologist (2016), Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022), and most recently Grand Tour (2024), which won Best Director at Cannes Film Festival.His distinctive visual style has also shaped important works by leading voices in Latin America, Europe, and the US, including Zama (2017) by Lucrecia Martel, Good Manners (2017) by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, Frankie (2019) by Ira Sachs, and The Rye Horn (2023) by Jaione Camborda.Rachel Daisy Ellis is a producer originally from England who relocated to Brazil in 2004. For over a decade, she has...

Subhash K Jha revisits R Balki’s Cheeni Kum, which started Amitabh Bachchan, Paresh Rawal and Tabu. Plus, as a bonus, in a throwback conversation Amitabh Bachchan talks about the film and working with Tabu.

Cheeni Kum is probably the sauciest, slickest, and most scrumptious romantic comedy you’ll see in the Hindi language in a long time.

She’s in London for a holiday. He, Amitabh Bachchan, is a cantankerous sarcastic chef who can’t take a snub even when it’s served up on a platter. She , Tabu, serves him a biryani he cannot forget. Cheeni Kum makes you forget there’s a difference of 30 years between the woman and the man. That’s the magic of pure acting. The magic of two of the finest actors at work as they create an ebullient alchemy.

Also in this mellow ode to love, are an 85-year-old mom (Zohra Sehgal) living life king-sized,...

Subhash K Jha looks back at late director Raj Kaushal’s Shaadi Ka Laddoo which starred Sanjay Suri, Ashish Chowdhary, Mandira Bedi, and Divya Dutta. Sanjay Suri shares his thoughts on working with the director who understood how to get the best performance out of him, a man he still misses today.

Raj Kaushal’s Shaadi Ka Laddoo is 21.

A hotshot ad maker, Ravi Kapoor, in London. His buddy Som from Ludhiana. Ravi unmarried and sick of his single status. Som married and raring to go go go. Amusing premise for a romantic comedy, specially when handled by a director who knows the world that he enters. Raj Kaushal takes us into the seemingly sexy but supremely sad world of Ravi Kapoor (Ashish Chowdhary), who looks enviously at his pal’s seemingly perfect marriage with the nice warm Punjabi kudi (Divya Dutta), while Som in London looks at every skirt and sari in sight…...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Benediction (Terence Davies)

Time is everything in a Terence Davies film. In Benediction, his biopic about English poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden), he eventually covers his subject’s marriage to Hester Gatty (Kate Phillips). There’s a shot of the couple standing still, facing the camera as they pose for a wedding photo (a shot that tends to pop up throughout the director’s filmography). The camera flashes, we see the black-and-white photo, and then a fade transitions us to the future, where it rests on their bedside while Hester looks at their newborn child. The sequence is an encapsulation of what Davies does best: observing life with one’s head facing backwards, the cumulative weight of the past bearing down on every moment of the present.

Grand Tour

Portugeuse director Miguel Gomes' The Grand Tour transports us back to colonial Burma in 1917, where jilted bride Molly (Crista Alfaiate) sets off across the Asian continent in pursuit off her fiancée Edward (Gonçalo Waddington), a British civil servant.

Gomes has established himself as a singular voice in world cinema. From his Portugeuese mountain-set drama, Our Beloved Month Of August (2008), to Tabu's (2012) character's search at the foothills of Mount Tabu in Africa, and the Arabian Nights trilogy (2015), Gomes has geographically shifted the focus of his stories. He continues to redirect his authorial traits not only through the setting of Asia but by bringing together the screwball comedy with the aesthetically striking monochrome cinematography of The Grand Tour's period chapters, and a documentary style for the present day.

Grand Tour

In conversation with Eye For Film, Gomes discussed his transformation as a storyteller, the relationship between cinema and.

Kesari Chapter 2 Director Karan Singh Tyagi Shares Insight On The Film ( Photo Credit – PR Image )

The Akshay Kumar starrer Kesari Chapter 2 is all set to be released on April 18, 2025. The movie aims to bring to light the untold story of the horrifying Jallianwala Bagh massacre. As the tragedy clocks in 106 years today (April 13), director Karan Singh Tyagi who makes his directorial debut with the same, shared insights on the emotions behind the ambitious project.

Akshay Kumar plays C Sankaran Nair who was a senior member of the Viceroy’s council and was once knighted by the Empire. However, after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, dared to file a case against the Crown for genocide, facing several obstacles during the same. Talking about the same, Karan Singh Tyagi called the incident extremely relevant to the present times. He recalled how the British Empire tried to suppress the truth and also spread a...

Ajay Devgn Tabu Banter ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

If there’s one Bollywood friendship that continues to age like fine wine, it’s the one between Ajay Devgn and Tabu. While the magic of the duo is often witnessed on-screen, that magic is nearly overshadowed by their chemistry off-screen. In a throwback interview, Ajay had the internet buzzing when he hilariously joked about why Tabu is still single.

The Viral Moment: Ajay’s Joke That Stole the Spotlight

In a previous interview with Navodaya Times, Ajay Devgn didn’t hold back when asked about Tabu’s unmarried status. Without missing a beat, Ajay delivered a classic one-liner: “Tabu ko main hi chahiye, but main mil nahi raha hoon (Tabu wants me but that can’t happen).”

After the laughter died down and Tabu gave him a mock glare, Ajay quickly followed it up with: “Matlab mere jaisa yaar. Mere jaisa aur...

Tabu With Puri Jagannadh ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Most of us have heard the news that actor Vijay Sethupathi and director Puri Jagannadh are joining hands for an upcoming project. But now, there’s a new update: Bollywood actress Tabu is also joining the team.

The announcement was made via social media with a photo of Tabu sitting in the middle, Puri Jagannadh on her left, and Charmme Kaur on her right. The image was captioned: “She’s explosive. She’s electric. She’s The Tabu. Proudly welcoming the gem of Indian cinema, actress @tabutiful, on board for a role as dynamic as her presence in #PuriSethupathi.”

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Charmme Kaur, the former actress, is one of the producers of this film. She is producing it as co-producer with director Puri Jagannadh under the banner of their production company, Puri Connects.

This is a nifty indie weekend with a busier and higher profile limited release schedule than we’ve seen in some time. The Ballad of Wallis Island, The Friend, Grand Tour, Viet And Nam, Holy Cow and documentaries The Encampments, which is super timely, and Secret Mall Apartment are peppering theaters in major markets.

Many have festival imprimaturs from Cannes on down and great Rotten Tomatoes critics scores. In moderate release, Sony Pictures Classics is out with Steve Coogan in The Penguin Lessons.

Limited openings: Watermelon Pictures debuts Macklemore-produced The Encampments at the Angelika, which has been adding shows, and the doc looks like it’s heading to a super opening of $70+k at one location. The distributor moved up the release date given the timeliness of the film, which follows students at Columbia University who launched a movement protesting the war in Gaza. It features detained student activist...

Runaway Groom: Gomes Charts a Barren Odyssey

In what serves as an extremely taxing personification of cold feet, Miguel Gomes feels as if he’s going through stylistic motions with his latest feature, Grand Tour. A surprise project considering his long gestating adaptation of Euclides da Cunha’s Backlands, it follows on the heels of his experimental pandemic film The Tsugua Diaries (2021), and his sprawling three part epic, Arabian Nights (2015). Blending documentary footage overlaid with heavy narration with a rather comically conceived bad romance, it’s a period piece which initially promises to slide into the unique territory of his 2012 masterwork, Tabu (especially as it’s utilizing the same two actors suffering beneath a different kind of compromised romance).…...

Miguel Gomes’ Best Director victory at Cannes likely struck a small but passionate group of cinephiles as a greater win for the cause. It had been nearly 20 years since his first feature, The Face You Deserve, debuted to extremely limited interest; even if every film since represented an incremental uptick in attention there was still little expectation he’d be handed one of cinema’s five-or-so most prestigious honors from a jury headed by the director of the previous year’s highest-grossing film.

It began an international festival tour that reached one of its final stops at NYFF, during which time I met Gomes for a discursive interview that touches on cigarettes, sunglasses, Pixar, and his next feature as much as Grand Tour itself. Seated inside Film at Lincoln Center’s Café Paradiso––we meant to speak outside on an unseasonably warm October afternoon; security forbidding him from smoking rendered...

Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour premieres in theaters on March 28 before coming to Mubi on April 18.Grand Tour.Some years ago, I traveled nearly the length of Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. That winter was warm, as nearly all are now, but a Siberian winter is still winter by any definition, and for two weeks I shivered my way from Ulaanbaatar to Moscow. I slipped on the vast frozen expanse of Lake Baikal, visited a museum dedicated to the painter Nicholas Roerich where all the paintings were fakes, saw a cathedral built atop the merchant house where in one night the entire Romanov line had been eliminated. On the leg from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk I shared a cabin with three men. I do not speak Russian, and for twenty-eight hours we managed to communicate via gestures and photos and sentence fragments ventured in halting English. They wanted to know where I was coming from,...

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Grand Tour opens in theaters on March 28 from Mubi.

If Chris Marker and Preston Sturges ever made a film together, it might have looked something like Grand Tour, a sweeping tale that moves from Rangoon to Manila, via Bangkok, Saigon and Osaka, as it weaves the stories of two disparate lovers towards a fateful reunion. The stowaways could scarcely be more Sturgian: he the urbane man on the run, she the intrepid woman trying to track him down. Their scenes are set in 1917 and shot in a classical studio style, yet they’re delivered within a contemporary travelogue––as if we are not only following their epic romance but a director’s own wanderings.

Grand Tour, which delivered much-needed magic to this year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup, is directed by the one and only Miguel Gomes, the...

In this amazing list, Subhash K Jha reveals his choice for the top 10 female characters in Bollywood.

Nargis’ Radha in Mehboob Khan’s Mother India(1957):

Nargis played Radha, the deserted wife who brings up her two sons on her own and kills one of them when he turns into an outlaw. For the first time in a Hindi film, the female protagonist was portrayed as strong, resilient, conscientious, and doughty without losing her femininity. Nargis won both national and international awards.

Meena Kumari’s Choti Bahu in Guru Dutt’s Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962): In the feudal household where women were content wearing expensive sarees and jewellery and never mind what their husbands did with other women, this wife dared to raise her voice. If her husband liked to drink, no problem. Choti Bahu hit the bottle to have him stay at home. The portrait of a woman...

"I'll hunt him down, whatever it takes." This one is for cinephiles only. Mubi has unveiled the official US trailer for a strange film titled Grand Tour, a unique creation from Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, best known for his films Tabu (2012), The Tsugua Diaries (2021), and his Arabian Nights trilogy (2015). The film premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival last year and it won the Best Director award as part of the competition, with stops at many other festivals after. Described as a "breathtaking odyssey of romance, escape, and pursuit." In 1917 Burma, a British civil servant abandons his fiancée — only to find her then relentlessly chasing him across Asia. A playful yet melancholic reimagining of the "pursuit film," blending luminous 16mm B&w cinematography with archival footage. This stars Gonçalo Waddington & Crista Alfaiate. It is a tragicomedy though also "melancholic and courageous." This is definitely not for everyone - an experimental, abstract...

Miguel Gomes, the Portuguese filmmaker behind The Tsugua Diaries, Arabian Nights, and Tabu, made his long-awaited return at last year’s Cannes Film Festival with the mesmerizing odyssey Grand Tour. After picking up Best Director at the festival, Mubi has now set a U.S. release beginning March 28 followed by a streaming release on their platform beginning April 18. Ahead of the roll-out, the new trailer and poster have arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “Grand Tour by Cannes Best Director winner Miguel Gomes is a breathtaking odyssey of romance, escape, and pursuit. In 1917 Burma, a British civil servant abandons his fiancée—only to find her relentlessly chasing him across Asia. A playful yet melancholic reimagining of the pursuit film, blending luminous 16mm black-and-white cinematography with archival footage.”

Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review, “If Chris Marker and Preston Sturges ever made a film together, it might have looked something like Grand Tour,...

Miguel Gomes’ stunning “Grand Tour” is a trek through yearning, spanning both time and space.

The film, which premiered at Cannes in 2024 where Gomes won Best Director, was later acquired by Mubi for release. “Grand Tour” takes it title in stride: The film begins in 1917 Burma, where British diplomat Edward (Gonçalo Waddington) ditches his fiancée Molly (Crista Alfaiate) after getting cold feet before their nuptials. Edward instead sets off on a pursuit across Asia, with Molly following suit.

The film is billed by Mubi as a “melodrama and screwball comedy with a cat-and-mouse chase between lovers.”

“Grand Tour” includes black-and-white period visuals with modern-day documentary footage to span from Saigon to Shanghai onscreen. The film was Portugal’s Best International Feature entry to the 97th Academy Awards.

“I think I’m really attached to Portuguese cinema,” Gomes told IndieWire. “Portugal doesn’t have a film industry. Because of the economical context,...

On paper, the idea of playing the busybody housewife Rajeshwari in Toh Baat Pakki, who seems to have only one mission in life, namely to see her sister (newcomer Yuvika) married off, must have sounded like an exciting new character to explore for the brilliant actress. Alas, Tabu had not bargained for the mundane situations and the pedestrian dialogues that her character is put into.

Toh Baat Pakki is one of those tragic comedies that don’t elicit a hint of humour. If Basu Chatterjee lost the plot, he would probably have turned up with this listless ode to the middle-of-the-road movies of the 1970s.

This middle-of-the-roader gets stranded in the middle of nowhere. The plot is intrinsically bereft of ingenuity. The direction is plodding and strained most of the way.

Tabu plays the interesting-on-paper dreadful-in-execution housewife as part-schemer, part-dreamer but entirely annoying and avoidable. Unlike the shrew that Sridevi...

Sandro Aguilar’s “First Person Plural,” which screens at International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition, has launched its trailer with Variety.

The film is produced by O Som E A Fúria, the company behind Miguel Gomes’ “Tabu” and “Arabian Nights,” Eugène Green’s “The Portuguese Nun” and Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama.”

“First Person Plural” centers on Mateus Lagoa and his wife Irene, who will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary at a luxurious resort on a tropical island, leaving their teenage son dangerously adrift. Before departure, during an unexpected night apart, vaccine side effects strike —fevers, fainting and hallucinations. A melancholic mood creeps in, fracturing their world and hinting at unforeseen dangers.

In a statement, Aguilar comments: “When Mateus and Irene wake up in their idyllic retreat and the whole landscape changes abruptly: luxury hotels, massages, cocktails, stereotypes of a reward on earth, everything takes on a ceremonial nature,...

Tabu In Dune Prophecy ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Tabu has impressed not only the Indian but also the international audience with her scintillating performance as Sister Francesca in HBO’s Dune: Prophecy. She joined the sci-fi in its penultimate episode and made a mark with her impactful role and powerful performance.

The show’s first season has now ended, and HBO has already renewed it for a second season owing to the audience’s positive response. So, will Tabu be seen in Dune: Prophecy Season 2? Let’s find out.

*Warning: Major Spoiler for Dune: Prophecy Season 1 Ahead* Tabu might not return in Dune: Prophecy Season 2

Tabu’s fans would be disappointed that the actress might not be seen in Dune: Prophecy Season 2. We say this because Tabu’s character, Sister Francesca, dies at the end of the first season.

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Are Diljit Dosanjh and AP Dhillon feuding? (Photo Credit – Instagram/Facebook)

Punjabi superstars Diljit Dosanjh and AP Dhillon have got involved in a controversy. The two hitmakers, who are currently touring across the country, are busy taking jibes at each other on their shows and social media.

The whole fiasco started with an appreciation statement, as Diljit wished AP Dhillon luck for his tour during his Indore concert. However, the Brown Munde singer lashed out at him, alleging that he had blocked him on Instagram. Diljit has now responded to AP’s allegations with an Instagram story.

Diljit Dosanjh Reacts to AP Dhillon’s Allegations About Blocking Him on Instagram

After Diljit gave a shoutout to AP Dhillon during his Indore show and called him his ‘brother,’ the latter publicly called him out for blocking him on Instagram. AP announced at his Chandigarh concert, “I just want to say one small thing,...

Miguel Gomes does not consider himself a genius like Alfred Hitchcock.

The 52-year-old Portuguese director’s ravishing, cross-continental, mostly B&W feature “Grand Tour” — a mix of drama and ethnology — won him the Best Director award at Cannes back in May and is now Portugal’s Oscar submission to the 2025 Oscars. According to Gomes, unlike Hitchcock, he cannot sit around a room and dictate innovative ideas for story arcs and shots.

Speaking with IndieWire at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood, in his first time in L.A. and on the first stop of his Oscars press tour amid the film’s upcoming release in France and Italy, the gracious, soft-voiced, sharp-eared Gomes said, “I have, in my case, to open the window, let the world come in, and react to it.” Cigarette puffs later, he said, “I have to catch butterflies.”

It’s fascinating to hear a modern master...

Here’s why Jeremy Renner refused to return for Mission Impossible. ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Jeremy Renner chose dad life over action-packed stunts. Yep, you heard that right. The Marvel star turned down a franchise that defines explosive action to be there for his daughter, Ava.

Renner spilled the tea on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz, explaining that there was no way he could leave his 11-year-old for a year and a half. “There [was] no schedule, so I can’t go out for a year and a half. I gotta go be a dad,” Renner said, adding that it wasn’t just about the distance—it was about Ava. “I couldn’t move my daughter out here; her mom was back home. I was landlocked.”

But here’s where it gets even crazier. The Mission: Impossible team didn’t just ask him to return—they offered him a week-long trip overseas.

Changes Tom Hardy wanted in Venom: The Last Dance ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

When Venom: The Last Dance hits theaters, it’ll wrap up a trilogy of films that boldly ventured into the Spider-Man universe but without Spider-Man. Sony’s strategy has opened the door to some wild, offbeat stories, from Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web to Morbius, doing its own thing. But Tom Hardy’s portrayal of the chaotic antihero, Venom, has truly defined this franchise. As Hardy revealed, the biggest shock for fans might be the film’s unexpected technical twist: bringing Venom into the daylight.

It might sound simple, but as Hardy shared with CinemaBlend, getting the symbiote into the sunlight posed a significant challenge. “One of the challenges in this movie was that we wanted to see Venom during the daylight,” Hardy explained. “It’s a huge exposure point for Venom. At nighttime, you can technically hide...

Here’s why Dakota Johnson was embarrassed by this audition ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Speaking at a private event in Los Angeles, the Ben and Kate star spilled the tea about a time she went way too far in the audition room. “I got really into it,” she shared. “It was dramatic, and I took my shirt off. And then you didn’t have to do that.” Cue collective secondhand embarrassment.

But the kicker? She’s still cringing about it. “It’s still embarrassing,” Johnson admitted before laughing, “I’m more embarrassed that I just told that story.” Let’s just say she gave the phrase “putting it all on the line” a whole new meaning.

This wasn’t the only audition horror Dakota dished out. During her Madame Web press tour, she dropped another gem about being labeled “pretentious” for simply introducing herself. Shaking hands with the audition crew was enough to spark some drama.

Here’s how Julia Roberts deals with raunchy movie scenes. ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

With over 50 movies, the 56-year-old actress has never gone au natural on-screen. Why? Well, Julia Roberts insists on keeping her career “G-rated.” Yep, it’s all about choices, and she’s made some pretty firm ones.

In her recent British Vogue cover story, Roberts spoke about her stance, admitting, “It’s more about what I choose not to do.” The Erin Brockovich star said she’s not here to judge others but has always been transparent about her boundaries. “To not take off my clothes in a movie or be vulnerable physically is a choice I make for myself,” she explained. Roberts opts out of the raunchy stuff and never looks back.

But wait, it gets better. This decision isn’t just about her career—it’s personal. In 2009, at the Duplicity premiere, she shut down any hopes of changing her mind.

Here’s how Mila Kunis accepted the Friends With Benefits role ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Well, after a dinner with director Will Gluck and co-star Justin Timberlake, they reworked it—and the rest is rom-com history. The Black Swan star admitted, “When I got the script, it was very dated, but I knew it made for a funny movie.” Talk about a formidable first impression. But Mila Kunis saw potential, so she sat down with Gluck and Timberlake to hash out the details.

The three of them realized they were on the same page over a meal (because the best ideas are born over food). “We were able to workshop it, rewrite the script, and tailor the characters to what we feel our generation is like now,” Kunis explained. And just like that, the film we know and love was born—funny, fresh, and cheeky.

What’s even more incredible? The...

Ajay Devgn At The Box Office 2024: Had A Surprising Year With Failures! (Photo Credit – Facebook)

Ajay Devgn had a brilliant start at the box office this year with the horror thriller Shaitaan starring R Madhavan. The film was a hit at the box office and everyone was expecting a superb year for the actor who promised to arrive with four films in 2024.

Ajay Devgn Box Office 2024

But Shaitaan’s box office dominance could not help Ajay Devgn retain stardom as he delivered one of the biggest flops of his career on Eid with Maidaan. The sports biopic clashed at the box office with Akshay Kumar’s Bade Miyan Chote Miyan and could not earn despite accolades!

He next arrived with another huge defaulter spoiling his screen presence with Tabu with a shoddy screenplay in Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha. He is finally aiming for a redemption of sorts at...

Was Rishi Kapoor unhappy with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya? ( Photo Credit – Facebook; Wikimedia )

Ranbir Kapoor is currently arguably Bollywood’s biggest star. After Animal’s unprecedented success, he has etched his name as one of the most bankable stars in the industry. He has an impressive lineup of films to show for in the coming years, including films like Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana, Animal Park, and Love and War, directed by ace director Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Ranbir Kapoor’s association with Sanjay Leela Bhansali returns to the actor’s debut film, Saawariya, which was a box-office disaster. In a recent interview with Indian Express, Bhansali spilled the beans on how Ranbir’s father, Late Rishi Kapoor, was unhappy with the film’s outcome.

Rishi Kapoor considered Saawariya detrimental to Ranbir’s career

Sanjay Leela Bhansali revealed that when Rishi Kapoor finally saw the film at a screening, he was...

Is Nataša Stanković leaving Mumbai? ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Nataša Stanković and her ex-husband and cricketer Hardik Pandya have been a consistent topic of discussion ever since they announced their separation in July, and speculations have been rife about the future of the once sought-after couple and their son Agastya’s future. Recently, there were reports of Nataša and her son moving to Serbia after she spent some time in her native country. Still, Nataša has quashed those rumors in a recent interview with ETimes and confirmed that she will continue to live in India.

Nataša opens up about Agastya’s schooling and relationship with Hardik Pandya.

Nataša dismissed any possibility of leaving India and mentioned the fact that her son Agastya goes to school in India as a huge reason why she will never go back to Serbia permanently; she said, “There’s a talk in the city that I am going back.

Kartik Aaryan Spoke on love and partners (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Bollywood star Kartik Aaryan is currently enjoying the success of Bhool Bhulaiya 3. Directed by Anees Bazmee, the horror-comedy movie is a sequel to the Bhool Bhulaiya franchise and has already crossed 150 crores at the Box Office in a week. Kartik Aaryan starrer Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 also stars Triptii Dimri and Vidya Balan in lead roles.

In an interview with Youtuber Raj Shamani, Kartik shared his take on love and called himself unlucky in love. He shared, “Mera personal life at one point pe kaafi talked about ho gaya tha uss moment pe. Mai toh privately bhi date nahi kar raha hu. Dara dara ghum raha hu shayad.”

He then added, “You meet very few people after getting famous. Because of your work, you meet a minimal number of people. It becomes like that. Paise ho jaye, shauhurat kama li, but...

Shah Rukh Khan shares insights on his first Bollywood mentor. (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Legendary choreographer Saroj Khan died on July 3, 2020, in Mumbai at 71 after facing breathing issues. She was a three-time National Award winner and has choreographed over 2000 songs. She has choreographed some iconic songs such as Hawa Hawai, Mr. India (1987), Ek Do Teen, Tezaab (1988), Dhak Dhak Karne Laga, Beta (1992), Mere Haathon Mein, Chandni (1989), and many more.

In a tweet, King Khan shared that she taught him the dipping step. He wrote, “My first genuine teacher in the film industry. She taught me for hours how to do the ‘dip’ for film dancing. She is among the most loving, caring, and inspiring personas I have ever met. Will miss you Saroj ji . May Allah bless her soul. Thank you for looking after me.”

For the uninitiated, Saroj Khan has worked as a choreographer in Srk’s films, such as Devdas,...

Juhi Chawla and Shah Rukh Khan on a movie set (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan has a net worth of Rs 7300 crore, according to the data provided by the 2024 Hurun India Rich List. He lives in a Rs 200 crore mansion today called ‘Mannat’ and owns an extensive car collection that features four-wheelers from brands like BMW, Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Bugatti, and Range Rover.

However, did you know there was a time when Srk’s car was taken away as he couldn’t pay its Emi? Those were Shah Rukh’s initial days in the Hindi film industry.

One of his closest co-stars and a business friend, actor Juhi Chawla, made this revelation. She had seen Srk very closely and had known him since the day he didn’t have his house when he used to eat food on the film unit’s set.

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Singham Again Early Reviews!(Photo Credit – YouTube)

The wait is over. Singham Again has finally arrived in theatres worldwide. Starring Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor Khan in the leading roles, the cop drama has received mixed reactions. While Salman Khan stole the thunder as Chulbul Pandey, Deepika Padukone, and others failed to disappoint the cine-goers. Scroll below for the early reviews.

Directed by Rohit Shetty, Singham Again is the fifth film in the cop universe. While the pre-release hype was decent, it was expected to stay way ahead of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3. However, that was not the case as Kartik Aaryan’s film enjoyed impressive buzz and knocked it out of the park in advance booking.

After the trailer, many netizens mocked Rohit Shetty for casting Arjun Kapoor as the leading antagonist. They felt the casting of the villain wasn’t powerful enough for Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh,...

Grand Tour.Grand Tour (2024), director Miguel Gomes’s sixth feature and first to play in competition at Cannes, is a return to the globe-trotting style of his pre-pandemic work. In this follow-up to his remarkably resourceful Covid comedy The Tsugua Diaries (2021), which he codirected with his wife and frequent collaborator Maureen Fazendeiro, the Portuguese filmmaker exhibits an equal but opposite kind of inventiveness as he turns a two-page passage from W. Somerset Maugham’s The Gentleman in the Parlour, a 1930 collection of the English author’s travel writing, into a peripatetic odyssey across Southeast Asia. In 1918, Edward (Gonçalo Waddington), a civil servant for the British government, spontaneously flees Rangoon the day his fiancée, Molly (Crista Alfaiate), arrives to be married. As Edward sets off by boat to Singapore, and from there to Bangkok, Saigon, Manila, Osaka, and Shanghai, telegrams from Molly inexplicably arriving all the while, the story blossoms into a surreal,...

With only three stellar features to her name in the last two-plus decades, The Forest for the Trees, Everyone Else, and Toni Erdmann, every new film from Maren Ade comes with much anticipation. While she’s also stayed busy producing no shortage of great work with Tabu, Arabian Nights, Western, In My Room, The Whistlers, Ahed’s Knee, Corsage, About Dry Grasses, and more, the German filmmaker is now working on her fourth feature.

In an interview with Screen Daily, Komplizen Film producer Janine Jackowski revealed Ade is scripting her next film Zauberwort (aka Magic Word), with plans to shoot in 2026, which means a festival premiere is still likely three years away. “[Ade] is writing very intensely. She is working very hard,” said Jackowski, though was tight-lipped about any other details on the project.

As for whether we’ll ever see that U.S. remake of Toni Erdmann, which at one...

Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour takes its title from an established travel itinerary known as the Asian Grand Tour, a popular option with Westerners seeking a broad but surface-level introduction to the continent in the early 20th century. Proceeding from Mandalay to Rangoon (present-day Yangon) to Singapore, and then on through Bangkok, Saigon, Manila, and Osaka, before ending in Shanghai, the tour was ideally designed to satisfy the era’s popular taste for Eastern exoticism in an efficient, tourist-friendly package.

It’s easy to see the appeal for Gomes, a director for whom boundaries of space and time have always been ripe for cinematic manipulation. Grand Tour retraces the steps of the journey with the imagination and playfulness of his best work, indulging its globetrotting impulses while casting a satirical eye on its uncomfortable basis in colonial conquest.

Gomes’s film actually takes its titular tour twice, utilizing a diptych...

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The Busan International Film Festival‘s sixth annual Asia Contents Awards and Global Ott Awards has revealed its nominees across 11 competitive categories.

Pts Taiwan’s “Imperfect Us” leads with five nominations, followed by Indonesian Netflix series “Cigarette Girl” with four. Wong Kar-wai‘s series debut “Blossoms Shanghai” (Tencent Video) and Korea’s “A Killer Paradox” (Netflix) each have three nods. Other multiple nominees include Korea’s “Daily Dose of Sunshine” (Netflix) and “Lovely Runner” (Cj Enm Studios/Bon Factory) and Thai Prime Video series “Enigma” (Gmmtv).

The best lead actor (male) category sees Hu Ge (“Blossoms Shanghai”), Yim Si-wan (“Boyhood”), Choi Woo-shik (“A Killer Paradox”), Wu Kang Ren (“Living”), Cho Jin-woong (“No way Out: The Roulette”) and Sakai Masato (“Vivant”) competing for the award.

For best lead actor (female), nominees include Dian Sastrowardoyo (“Cigarette Girl”), Park Bo-young (“Daily Dose Of Sunshine”), Nikaido Fumi (“Eye Love You”), Ariel Lin...

A first look image of Tabu in Dune: Prophecy has been revealed. The upcoming Max series will focus on the history of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood in the Dune universe. In addition to Tabu, Dune: Prophecy is set to have a leading cast including Travis Fimmel, Emily Watson, Camilla Beeput, Sarah Lam, Olivia Williams, Jodhi May, and Mark Strong.

Now, Variety has revealed a first look image and character details for Tabu's role in Dune: Prophecy. Check out the image below:

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Tabu On Ajay Devgn. (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Ajay Devgn and Tabu are all set to entertain the audience with their new film, ‘Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha’. The duo has previously acted together in several movies, including Haqeeqat, Takshak, Vijaypath, Drishyam, Golmaal Again, De De Pyaar De, Drishyam 2, and Bholaa. Although they aren’t always paired as a romantic couple on screen, the audience enjoys watching them together.

It’s well known that Tabu and Ajay Devgn are good friends. In interviews, they often praise each other for their work and dedication. In a new interview, the Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 star opened up about her bond with Ajay.

Tabu On Her Friendship With Ajay Devgn

Regarding her equation with Ajay Devgn, the Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha actress told India Today, “He is completely unconditional with me. He’s completely indulgent too. He never stopped working with me, which is...

Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha – Kisi Roz Song Out (Photo Credit – YouTube)

Ajay Devgn and Tabu’s heartbreaking love story, Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha, is arriving in theaters on July 5. A new song from the film, helmed by Neeraj Pandey, titled Kisi Roz, is out. The song is crooned by Maithili Thakur and composed by Mm Kreem.

Manoj Muntashir has penned the lyrics, and this is the third song from the love story. Earlier, the two songs, Ae Dil Zara and Tu, did not peak. While Tu, a song about Lord Krishna, is inspired by Chhand, Ae Dil Zara touched hearts.

Now, the third song, Kisi Roz, has been released in Maithili Thakur‘s voice that does not find a place in hearts, simply because of the mismatch of voice, lyrics, and emotions. While Manoj Muntashir’s pen brings the depth of heartbreak, the voice doesn’t justify the emotion.

Exclusive: Mubi has snapped up multiple key territories for Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour, following the film’s world premiere in Competition at Cannes where it won the Best Director prize.

The global distributor, streaming service and production company has acquired North America, UK, Ireland, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Turkey and India. The company will unveil release plans in the coming months.

Opening in Rangoon, Burma in 1918, the film follows British civil servant Edward Abbot (Gonçalo Waddington) who flees fiancée Molly Singleton (Crista Alfaiate) the day she arrives for their wedding. Determined to get married and amused by his move, Molly tracks him across Asia.

Grand Tour was Gomes’ first feature to world premiere in Competition at Cannes, after debuting previous critically-acclaimed films Arabian Nights in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2015 and Tabu, which played in competition at the Berlinale in 2012, winning the Silver Bear.

Gomes co-wrote the screenplay with Mariana Ricardo,...

After the extraordinary triple whammy of Emelia Perez, The Substance and Anora, here comes Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes with a blast of cinematic chloroform to calm the Cannes Competition down a touch.

A talky, experimental odyssey through the Far East, it deals with issues of colonialism and gender, but in such an oblique way that it’s hard to fathom without referring to the rather cryptic press notes that come with it. Fans of Gomes’ deadpan style — with which he broke out in 2012 when his film Tabu became an arthouse favorite on the festival circuit — no doubt will respond to its eccentricity, its wry irony and its undeniably striking monochrome cinematography. Less enlightened viewers may wish to take a pillow.

The film takes place in two timeframes. The fictional narrative takes place in 1918 and begins with British civil servant Edward Abbot (Gonçalo Waddington) arriving at Mandalay station in Burma. Although...

The spirit of “Sans Soleil” casts a long shadow over Miguel Gomes’ beguiling “Grand Tour,” a less essayistic but similarly atemporal travelogue that sometimes feels almost as indebted to Chris Marker as Gomes’ “Tabu” was to F.W. Murnau. Much like Marker’s 1983 masterpiece, Gomes’ film is propelled by the mysterious frisson that it creates between “exotic” documentary footage and disembodied narration. And much like “Sans Soleil,” “Grand Tour” uses that non-stop voiceover to shape its accompanying images into an abstract story about the elusive relationship between time and memory.

In this case, that story is a love story (of sorts), one that again finds Gomes harkening back to the kind of blinkered colonial romances that were so prevalent in the silent era and the early days of Hollywood. And since a love story requires a tactile anchor for its yearning, Gomes — in stark contrast to Marker — cast a pair of...

Sharmin Sehgal Shares Heeramandi BTS, Jackie Sues Over “Bhidu,” Farah Criticizes Entourage Costs. (Photo Credit – Instagram)

From heartwarming behind-the-scenes moments on the sets of Heeramandi shared by Sharmin Segal to the epic budget of the upcoming Ramayana film, entertainment news is buzzing today.

Actress Shamita Shetty bravely opened up about her Endometriosis diagnosis, while Jackie Shroff is taking legal action to protect his name and likeness. Meanwhile, Salman Khan’s shooting case continues to develop with a new arrest and a community leader’s demand for an apology.

Additionally, fans of Thalapathy Vijay are reminiscing about his school days after his 10th exam results surfaced online. In Hollywood, Tabu is set to grace our screens once again in the sci-fi series “Dune: Prophecy,” and fans can expect to see Ali Fazal and Fatima Sana Shaikh reunite in Anurag Basu’s upcoming film “Metro In Dino.”

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Is Tom Hanks Eyeing Gotham? Actor Expresses Interest in Portraying Batman Villain ( Photo Credit – Flickr )

Renowned for his adaptability in a multitude of genres from comedy, romance, science fiction to war dramas, Tom Hanks previously revealed his aspiration to join the cast of a Batman film. Given the expansive realms within the DC universe, the possibility of Hanks realizing this dream has heightened, hinting at an intriguing evolution in his professional journey.

During an interview with On Demand Entertainment a decade ago to promote “Captain Phillips,” Tom Hanks discussed his absence from major superhero films and whether it was intentional. Hanks shared that although he hadn’t been approached for such roles, he had a keen interest in the genre, especially in playing a villain, preferably a Batman adversary, as he preferred not to portray characters guiding the heroes.

With the coexistence of two Batman franchises—Matt Reeves’ The Batman...

"I've been running away from her like a coward." The Match Factory has revealed a first look trailer for a Portuguese film set in Asia premiering at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival next month. This new film is called Grand Tour, and it's the latest feature by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, best known for his films Tabu (2012), The Tsugua Diaries (2021), and his Arabian Nights trilogy (2015). Grand Tour was already announced as part of the prestigious Competition at Cannes 2024 this year, which is a big deal for a film like this. Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, Burma, in 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage and amused by his escape, trails him across Asia. The film stars Gonçalo Waddington & Crista Alfaiate. Variety says it features a mix of "narrative sequences shot in a studio [which are] intercut with footage of contemporary Asia." It is...

Among our most-anticipated premieres at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, now less than a month away, is Grand Tour, marking the return of Portuguese director Miguel Gomes. Starring Gonçalo Waddington, Crista Alfaiate, Cláudio da Silva, and Lang Khê Tran, the 1917-set film follows a civil servant who flees from his fiancée, who subsequently attempts to track him down across Asia. Mixed in with this narrative is 16mm footage of contemporary Asia. Ahead of the Cannes premiere, the beautiful first trailer has now arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly… Determined to get married and amused by Edward’s move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.

Variety has been granted exclusive access to the trailer (below) for Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ “Grand Tour,” which will have its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival’s Competition section. Variety can also exclusively reveal that that distribution on “Grand Tour” will be handled in France by Tandem, and in Italy by Lucky Red, and that Gomes’ next film will be “Savagery.”

“Grand Tour” kicks off in 1917 in Burma. It centers on Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, who runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly… Determined to get married and amused by Edward’s move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.

The film stars Gonçalo Waddington and Crista Alfaiate, and the cast also includes...

In the upcoming Weekend Ka Vaar episode, Munawar Faruqui will be seen making it clear that he does not want to be friends with Mannara Chopra and even asked her to “get over” him.

In a promo shared by the channel on Instagram, shows Tabu as the guest doing the hookstep of the title track of ‘Dabangg’ with Salman Khan, who is the host of the show.

Salman then gives a task to the housemates, where they have to do “Pyaar se bezzati”.

Munawar is on the stage and talks about Mannara.

He said: “Mannara Vicky bhai bolte hai humaari patang hai to I agree. Jab tak koi dor na ho kisi ke haath, Mannara direction nahi leti”

To which, Mannara responds: “Jo patange yahan bana rahe hai woh hum sab ko dikh raha hai.”

An annoyed Muanwar, then replies: “Mannara get over me.”

And she responds with “definitley.”...