News

Manorama, who was known for her comic and negative roles, never got her due from the Hindi film industry. Now when, seventeen years after her death, memes are devoted to her comic virtuosity. It is emphatically tragic that she died in penury.

Hema Malini, who was ‘tortured’ by Manorama in Ramesh Sippy’s Seeta Aur Geeta, remembers the senior actress fondly. “She was so convincing as my wicked aunt; the audience hated her for torturing poor Seeta, and that was me. I remember there was a scene where she makes me undrape my saree. I was shaken after that scene. So evil on screen! But such a warm, friendly human being in real life.”

Sadly, the Indian moviegoing audience largely confuses the actor for the character and the character for the performance. Another brilliant actress, Shashikala, was hated by the public as she largely played negative characters. Sharmila Tagore once...

To celebrate the day of pyaar, Valentine’s Day, Subhash K Jha shares his picks for the 10 films he believes are the most romantic Hindi films of all time!

1.Amar Prem (1971): The underrated director Shakti Samanta created two timeless odes to love Aradhana and Amar Prem both featuring the charismatic couple Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore. My Valentinian pick is Amar Prem. There is not even an embrace between the lead pair. He is a married man seeking comfort in his loneliness. She, a prostitute mothering him, nurturing his heart as though he were her child. Never seen love so sublime in any film. Never felt more happy to know love lives.

2.Bobby (1973): Every generation has its favourite love story. I pity those who think Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaynege are the acme of amour. Excuse me, Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia in Raj Kapoor’s rugged,...

Everything in Rakesh Roshan’s Karan Arjun looks incongruous, at odds with contemporary cinema. Both Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan look like ancient clones of their current selves. They are not really the backbone of the plot.

Raakhee Gulzar and Amrish Puri are. Their embarrassing over-acting bordering on an incurable hamminess, could inspire an entire thesis on how good actors were coerced to go over-the-top in the 1990s, as it was believed that audiences of the past eras really wanted their favourites to Act.

Directors who scream, “Aur acting aur acting!” from behind the camera until the actors fainted and feel to the ground. This actually happened to Twinkle Khanna during the shooting of Dharmesh Darshan’s Mela.

Karan Arjun is all about acting at gravity-defying decibel. The film moves at a rapid pace often at the cost of continuity. Rationale is not even a consideration. We are supposed...

With the success of “Kgf,” Kannada cinema has opened a floodgate of films that are set in the era just after Indian independence, which is the 1960s and 1970s. “Kgf” has allowed Kannada cinema to flourish and enter the pan-Indian cinema club, where most of the commercial films are released in all the South Indian languages and Hindi. “Kabzaa” comes under that category, and with the advent of action-oriented commercial films, this movie does not stay behind and makes maximum use of the genre. Directed by R. Chandru, the film is all about a man who is on a revenge spree after goons kill someone close to him. Will he be able to exact revenge, or will he die trying?

Spoilers Ahead

The Story Of Arkeshwara

“Kabzaa” begins with a police commissioner named Bhargav Bakshi making an entry to a local park and being welcomed on his new appointment. The...

The Criterion Channel has unveiled their March 2021 lineup, which includes no shortage of remarkable programming. Highlights from the slate include eight gems from Preston Sturges, Elaine May’s brilliant A New Leaf, a series featuring Black Westerns, Ann Hui’s Boat People, the new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi.

They will also add films from their Essential Fellini boxset, series on Dirk Bogarde and Nelly Kaplan, and Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and Death in Venice, and more. In terms of recent releases, there’s also Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century and Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In.

Check out the lineup below, along with the teaser for the Black Westerns series. For weekly streaming updates across all services, bookmark this page.

The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917

Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963

Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916

Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979

Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972

Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen,...

FilmEver wondered what happens to onscreen couples after the end credits roll?Tnm StaffMovies across languages have given us some iconic onscreen couples, letting the viewer follow their journey from adorable meet-cutes to climatic breakups to tearful reunions. And when the couple (unsurprisingly) gets back together in the end, the credits roll and we’re left with the assumption that their blissful union lives on. But what if it doesn’t? We, at Tnm, love romantic movies but we’re also left wondering whether all those happily-ever-afters really made it. Here are a few couples from south Indian films whose relationships may not have stood the test of time. Spoiler warning! Aju and Sarah — Bangalore Days (Malayalam) A well-meaning meet-cute kickstarts the romantic journey between Arjun, or Aju, (played by Dulquer Salmaan) and Rj Sarah (Parvathy) in the 2014 hit Bangalore Days. Their whirlwind romance hits several roadblocks, mostly thanks to...