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Sammit reverts to his murderous ways, targeting those close to him to protect his new identity as Professor Dev Sahni. Abhishek confronts Sammit in a powerful stand-off, facing his father's legacy and ultimately choosing not to become a killer like him. Anya hears Sammit's whistle, hinting at a dark connection that may suggest the familial evil skipped a generation and now resides within her.

Duranga season 2 premiered on October 24, 2023, and the eight-episode season of the Hindi-language web series ended with a violent confrontation and an ominous look to the future. An adaptation of the Korean series Flower of Evil, which featured one of the most menacing K-Drama villains ever, Duranga comes from Indian producer Goldie Behl and premiered in August 2022 with nine episodes in season 1. The Hindi drama series' first season follows Inspector Ira (Drashti Dhami), a police officer in Mumbai on the hunt for a serial killer who uses...

Hina Khan, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Kunaal Roy Kapur will be seen starring in ‘Shadyantra’, a murder mystery.

Hina, who plays Natasha, said: “I am delighted that my desire to work in a play has been fulfilled and I am making my debut in theatre with ‘Shadyantra.’ I play Natasha who is very naive, trusting and giving but then a tragedy forces her to look at her life and her relationships more closely and then her instinct of self-preservation kicks in.”

“I thoroughly enjoyed playing the character and the whole process as I always wanted to do theatre. This teleplay has given me an opportunity to be part of the theatre fraternity and I am hopeful to be part of more teleplays in future.”

The teleplay narrates the story of a married couple, Rohan Tiwari and Natasha Malhotra Tiwari. Natasha is the heiress of a construction company but leads a...

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 153rd birthday on Sunday, acknowledging that his ideas and philosophy are still alive and cinema has in its way promoted it, his life will be brought on screen through several movies.

On the special occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, here’s a list of actors, who have given some memorable performances in films based on the Father of the Nation:

Ben Kingsley in ‘Gandhi’: This definitive biopic of the Mahatma and Richard Attenborough directorial starred Ben Kingsley in an Oscar-winning role and on its release in 1982, became an instant global success. The film followed Gandhi’s journey from South Africa to India where he became a mass leader helming the non-violent, non-cooperative Independence movement against the British.

Interestingly, Naseeruddin Shah had auditioned for this role too but Kingsley got the part and prepared rigorously by reading over 28 books on Gandhi, losing a huge...

Patralekhaa is all set to essay the role of an actress in the upcoming series "Mai Hero Boll Raha Hu", and is awaiting the response of her fans to her role. "I am playing the character of Laila who is aspiring to be an actress. Laila can go to any extent to hide her weaknesses. So, I am extremely excited to see how my character will attract the audience," she says.

The actress adds it was a fun shoot. "When Ekta (Kapoor) ma'am offered me the part, I was thrilled. It was fun being a part of the show," she says.

"Mai Hero Boll Raha Hu" is set in the late eighties early nineties and also stars Parth Samthaan, as Patralekhaa's love interest. The show also features Arshin Mehta, Meenal Sahu, Arslan Goni, Ganesh Yadav, Errol Marks, Anubhav Nanda, Tarun Chaturvedi, Saquib Ayubi, Ankit Gupta, Tarul Swami, and Sumit Satija.

Chennai, Mar 1: Maverick filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, despite a series of flops, criticism and controversies, has managed to impress members from Telugu film fraternity, who watched his latest film "The Attacks of 26/11".

The film, on the terror attacks which rocked Mumbai Nov 26, 2008, released worldwide Friday. It features Nana Patekar, Sanjeev Jaiswal, Atul Kulkarni, Ganesh Yadav and Farzad Jehani in lead roles.

Parag Sanghvi has produced the film, which has been dubbed in Telugu as "26/11 India Pai Dhadi".

Certain members of Telugu film fraternity took to Twitter to share their views on the movie. Here's what.

The Attacks of 26/11 is based on the tragic terrorist attacks which transpired in Mumbai back in 2008. Directed by the legendary Ram Gopal Varma, the film stars Nana Patekar, Sanjeev Jaiswal, Ganesh Yadav and Atul Kulkarni in key roles. It is schedules to release in cinemas worldwide on 1 March 2013. Reportedly, the film’s 7 minute preview has crossed a whopping 1 million views on YouTube, proving that it has potential to do very well at the box office upon release. The music has been composed by an extraordinary 5 music directors, who include Sukhwinder Singh, Rooshin Dalal, Kaizad Gherda, Amar Mohile, Vishal Khosla and Sushil Khosla. The lyrics have been written by Kalgi Thakar, Rashid Iqbal, Liaqat Jafri. So let’s take a look and see what the soundtrack to this much anticipated film has to offer.

The first track is Antake Aaye, which is sung by Jaspreet Jazz. It contains intense rock music...

Ram Gopal Varma is one director who has consistently been courting controversy with almost every film he makes. The maverick director's next venture, The Attacks of 26/11, is based on the controversial subject of Mumbai terror attacks.

Now we hear that the film has been selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. The film which is produced by Parag Sanghvi (Alumbra Entertainment) and Eros International features Nana Patekar, Sanjeev Jaiswal, and Ganesh Yadav. Directed by Ramu, the film is complete and is currently in post-production stage. It will release in theatres March 1, 2013.

It was a star studded premier of Sushma Kual Ravi produced film Bubble Gum. Inspite of heavy rains, family and friends from the industry poured in at Cinemax in Versova to lend their support. First one to arrive were naturally the producer Sushma Kual Ravi along with the director Sanjivan Lal. Then arrived the young teen heroine of the film Apoorva Arora and both the leads Delzad Hiwale & Sohail Lakhani. Other celebrities were Sachin Khedekar, Tanvi Azmi, Shabana Azmi, Shaukat Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Ashutosh Gowariker & Sunita, Yash & Pam Chopra, Satish Kaushik, Ramesh Talwar, Baba Azmi, Inder Kumar, Imtiaz Ali, Siddhartha Kanan etc. While director Amol Gupte had said “I relived my childhood with this film”, Imtiaz Ali found it to be a beautiful narration of teens’ dilemmas and joys. “I am so happy to have picked up this script. My faith in my director Sanjivan is rewarded,” comments the producer Sushma Kaul.

Bubble Gum is a fun, frothy and warm coming of an age story of a fourteen year old boy Vedant. He has just stepped out of childhood and is not yet into adulthood. It is while going through turbulent phase of life in his academically critical year – first love or rather infatuation happens to him and sends his world upside down finally leading him to discover the meaning of love, life and relationship in a positive way!

The Cast

Teenagers:

Vidur: Sohail Lakhani from Mumbai

Vedant: Delzad Hiravali from Pune

Jenny: Apoorva Arora from Delhi

Ratan: Suraj Singh from Patna

Supporting Kids:

Partho: Harshvardhan from Kolkata

Ravi: Nischal from Luckhnow

Vineeta: Azeen from Jamshedpur

Mala: Sheetal from Luckhnow

The Parents: Sachin Kheddekar & Tanvi Azmi, Ganesh Yadav & Sita Singh, Ravi Khanvilkar

Adult Cameos: Masud Akhtar, Kamini Khanna, Mukesh Bhatt, Ashima Bhatt

The Crew

Producer: Sushma Kaul

Executive Producer: Sumit Kumar

Story,...

City of Gold

The Mumbai of today boasts of several glitzy malls, multiplexes, bowling alleys and lounge bars with addresses that refer to these being earlier locations of cloth mills (for example, PVR Phoniex Mills, the address of one of the upscale multiplexes). Those who know the history of these mills would know how the great strike of the early 1980s by mill workers, protesting gradual closure of the ‘loss-making’ mills by their owners, had driven the death knell for not only these industrial structures but also the thousands who earned their livelihoods by working in them. Now, almost three decades later, that story of mill workers is almost forgotten, except for maybe those who are involved with a few court cases here and there still lingering on. In a economically-upward India where the cities are earning their brownie points through humongous, modern day structures that comprise residential properties, corporate offices and businesses mentioned above,...

Ramgopal Varma's love for horror and supernatural continues. This time, in Phoonk 2, the team behind Phoonk promise more chills, more thrills and more screams. But what you get to hear at the end of the screening is a moan, since Phoonk 2 lacks the chills, thrills and screams that were the mainstay of its first part.

A sequel works if it goes one step ahead of the first part, in terms of content mainly. But Phoonk 2 doesn't take a step forward, but a step backwards. So what's the problem? Let's get into the introspection mode...

The problem is, what does the viewer expect from Phoonk 2? More terrifying and scary moments, right? But Phoonk 2 comes across as one of those usual revenge films, which tries so hard to create an eerie atmosphere, but never succeeds. It's more of a slasher film actually!

The problem is, the...

STARRINGSudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Neeru Singh, Anu Ansari, Ashwini Kalsekar, Ganesh Yadav, Zakir Hussain, Vikas Srivastav, Jeeva, Amit Sadh and others.DIRECTIONMilind GadagkarSTORY The plot of the flick begins with Madhu(Ashwni Kalsekar who had died in the first part of the Phoonk) becoming ghost and retrung from grave to take revenge on Rajiv.s(Sudeep) family members. This time Rajiv has got a new construction contract and moved on to a new place with his family.

Film: ‘Suryakanthi’; Director: K.M. Chaithanya; Cast: Chetan, Regina, Nasser, Ganesh Yadav, Ramakrishna and Kishori Ballal; Music: Ilayaraja; Rating:**1/2

K.M. Chaithanya’s second film ‘Suryakanthi’ had aroused a lot of expectations before its release because his debut venture ‘Aa Dinagalu’ had hit the jackpot. ‘Suryakanthi’, however, is a total commercial entertainer unlike his first movie.

During the pre-release publicity.

Movie Review: Ruslaan; Star cast: Raajveer, Meghaa Chatterjee, Asrani, Shahbaaz Khan, Ganesh Yadav, S.M. Zaheer and Smita Jaykar; Director: Mohan C. Sharma; Rating: * - Nothing new!

There has come a sea change in the face of cinema. Filmmakers are experimenting with different genres today but they are still some who keep digging the old concepts, which are no longer contemporary.

Ruslaan is a creation of one such filmmaker Mohan C. Sharma who has nothing new to offer. Ruslaan’s (Raajveer) life is just perfect. He has a family of parents and sister who love him and.