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Do Aur Do Pyaar Director Shirsha Guha Thakurta. (Photo Credit – Youtube)

Do Aur Do Pyaar, starring Vidya Balan, Pratik Gandhi, Sendhil Ramamurthy, and Ileana D’Cruz, was released in theatres on April 19, 2024. This romantic comedy, directed by Shirsha Guha Thakurta, mostly received positive reviews. It tells the story of a married couple in Mumbai who have forgotten what it’s like to love each other. The husband and wife find comfort and affection in someone else, but circumstances remind them of how much they were in love in the past, reigniting their romance.

Suprotim Sengupta, Amrita Bagchi, and Eisha Chopra wrote the film’s story. What makes “Do Aur Do Pyaar” such an endearing watch is the rawness in its execution and how authentic the emotions of love and heartbreak feel. Vidya Balan and Pratik Gandhi’s chemistry is also a winner. Koimoi spoke to the film’s director, Shirsha Guha Thakurta,...

Do Aur Do Pyaar

Starring Vidya Balan, Pratik Gandhi, Ileana D’Cruz, and Sendhil Ramamurthy

Director: Shirsha Guha Thakurta

Set aside half a star extra for Vidya Balan’s sterling performance. That apart, Do Aur Do Pyaar is a far superior work to almost every film you’ve seen this year. It is breezy and lighthearted, but never frivolous. Director Shirsha Guha Thakurta dives deep into a marriage in crisis. Miraculously, she finds a lot of laughter and humour in the crisis. This in no way trivializes the marital conundrum.

The writing is clearly the star of the show. When you add an actor of Vidya Balan’s calibre to what’s from the outset, a screenplay woven from the threads of real life, the end result is bound to be something special.

That, Do Aur Do Pyaar (why the bland title for such a grand film?) is. It is a...

Festival ran from April 28-May 1.

Once Upon A Time In Calcutta and Jaggi have triumphed at 2022 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla).

Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Once Upon A Time In Calcutta won the grand jury prize for best feature film while Anmol Sidhu’s Jaggi took the inaugural Uma da Cunha Award for best feature film debut as well as the Audience Choice Award for best feature.

In the short film category, the grand jury prize went to Amrita Bagchi’s Succulent and the grand jury prize for best short in the inaugural Spotlight on South Asia section...

The 2022 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) has announced the winners of its annual filmmaker awards, with Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta” winning the grand jury prize for feature film. Anmol Sidhu’s “Jaggi” was the recipient of the Uma da Cunha Award for feature film debut, as well as the audience choice award for feature.

“This year’s edition of the film festival was wonderful in so many ways,” said Iffla executive director Christina Marouda. “The excitement felt by the reunion of so many of our filmmakers, patrons, and film fans back in the theaters was something we all shared. The months and weeks leading to the festival, we weren’t sure whether people would show up after a three-year break from an in-person festival. We were overwhelmed to see everyone coming back, eager to reconnect with the community and the Iffla family,...

After being mentored by Werner Herzog at the Rogue Film School in Munich, Faraz Ali now presents his debut feature, which evokes nostalgia in order to present a series of social comments.

Shoebox is screening at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

The death of her mother in a car accident when she was a child altered Mampu’s life forever, and even more so, her relationship with her father, Madhav, who was already a man intently focuses on the single-screen theatre he owns. Years later, Mampu returns to Allahabad from Pune, where she is studying, to help her father with his illness. The trip, however, is also one down memory lane, as, through flashbacks, the young woman remembers her childhood and the days she spent in her father’s cinema, and her relationship with a deaf classmate, Kaustabh, who was frequently bullied due to his situation while she acted as his protector.

IFFKThe film, which brings together stories of a city once called Allahabad, a father-daughter relationship, nostalgia and politics, was screened at the 26th Iffk in Kerala.CrisIt is a little strange that one man, obsessed with running an old movie theatre in his city, should be so angered by his little daughter’s creation of a shoebox version of it. The girl, with a friend, expertly cuts out holes in the box, uses the laws of refraction she just picked up at school, sticks in toy chairs inside, and projects drawings onto a screen. For a science project, it looks admirably executed. The passion for cinema has seemingly passed onto the little girl from her father, who had spent so many of his waking hours in his theatre that his family barely got to see him. This is only one aspect of Shoebox, featured in the 26th International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) in Thiruvananthapuram.

Leesa Gazi’s Bengali-language A House Named Shahana won the feature award in the Film Bazaar Recommends section.

Kannada-language drama Shivamma, directed by Jai Shankar, and Baghjan, an Assamese and Moran-language drama from Jaicheng Zxai Dohutia, were presented with the Prasad Labs and Qube Moviebuff Appreciation Awards in the Works-in-Progress (Wip) section of Film Bazaar Online 2021.

A special mention by the Wip Lab Mentors went to A Space Of Our Own (Ek Jagah Apni), a Hindi-language drama directed by the Ektara Collective. The mentors said in a statement that they wanted to recognise the film “for challenging the conventional structures...

Nepalese project “Ek Mutthi Badal” (My Share of Sky) by Sahara Sharma has won the Rotterdam Lab Award at India’s Film Bazaar virtual co-production market.

“Ek Mutthi Badal” producer Abhimanyu Dixit is the emerging South Asian producer chosen to attend the Rotterdam Lab Program at the 2022 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Roya Sadat’s “The Forgotten History” won the Institut Francais and Produire Au Sud Award, which provides support for script translation to French and two script consultations.

The Bazaar’s Work in Progress lab includes two awards, the Prasad Lab Digital Intermediate Award and the Moviebuff Appreciation Award. Jaicheng Zxai Dohutia’s “Baghjaan” and Jai Shankar’s “Shivamma” won the awards, while Ektara Collective’s “Ek Jagah Apni” (A Space of Our Own) scored a special mention.

The Prasad Lab Digital Intermediate Award and the Moviebuff Appreciation Award are also given out at the market’s Film Bazaar Recommends section.

Mumbai, March 1 (Ians) The Vinay Pathak-starrer Dust has dropped digitally only now, but the actor proudly recalls how the indie film, written and directed by Udita Bhargava, made waves when it was screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival in 2019.

"I remember our screening at the Berlinale where barring me, Udita and her parents, the rest of the audience in the screening theatre, which was a full house, was an entirely international audience. The way the audience reacted to the story after the screening was overwhelming. 'Dust' is an Indian film with a global appeal and perhaps that is why we touched the right chords," Vinay recalls, speaking to Ians

The story of the film revolves around David, a young German who visits Indore after the death of his Indian photojournalist girlfriend Mumtaz and embarks on a journey to the troubled heart of India. As he...

Hasmukh

Starring Vir Das, Ranveer Shorey, Manoj Pawa, Suhail Nayyar, Ravi Kissan

Directed by Nikhil Gonsalves

It’s like Lata Mangeshkar being hired to play a bad singer. It takes a very brilliant actor to play a bad actor. Vir Das, a first-rate stand-up comedian, plays an inept pathetically cheerless stand-up comedian in Hasmukh who needs a strong impetus to make him come alive on stage.

No, a shot of that strong beverage won’t do. Something far more potent…like murder perhaps?

It is a tempting premise for a crime thriller. Something like Sonam Kapoor playing a couture queen who kills to kill it on the ramp. And Vir Das, who really should be seen more often, simply nails it. He is an innocent, virginal wannabe comic virtuoso bullied by his abusive uncle, and sexually molested by his aunt who gropes him while he makes the tea.Chai-ld abuse?...

Netflix Hashmukh review is here. The dark comedy web television series directed by Nikhil Gonsalves is streaming on Netflix from April 17, 2020. The series stars Vir Das, Ranvir Shorey, Ravi Kishan, Inaamulhaq and Manoj Pahwa.

Immediate reaction when the end credit rolls

If idea would have been the only criteria to judge a moving pictures content than Hashmukh gets 10/10.

The Story of Hashmukh

An aspiring comedian in Saharanpur, Hasmukh Sudiya (Vir Das) is assisting the famous local stand up artiste Gulati (Manoj Pahwa). One day the fumbling Hashmukh gets into an argument with Gulati for a chance, break on stage, resulting in Gulati getting killed accidently. Hashmukh replaces Gulati on stage and the incident transfers the fumbling Hashmukh into a confident stand up who knows how to win over the audience with his jokes. Gulati?s manager Jimmy (Ranvir Shorey) knows what has happened and both Hashmukh and Jimmy form a...

What starts off seeming to be a take-off on Mani Ratnam's most recent political drama "Chekka Chivantha Vaanam" turns into an engrossing crackling cat-and-mouse drama about a political empire in Maharashtra where siblings squabble for power after the patriarch (Atul Kulkarni) is gunned down.

Straightaway, "City Of Dreams" encircles a cluster of power-hungry characters whose motives are never cogent, let alone comprehensible. There is always a sense of more going on here than meets the eye.

Writers-directors Nagesh Kukunoor, Rohit C. Banawlikar peel off layers after layers of subterfuge to reveal a system of governance that thrives on corruption and deception.

Deftly inter-woven, the plot moves in mysterious ways embracing characters who are at once cunning and naive. The aforementioned wounded politician's daughter Poornima (a very lovely and emotionally empowered Priya Bapat) fights it out with her out-of-control debauched brother Ashish (Siddharth Chandekar).

The two actors play off against one another with controlled acerbity,...

Not all that looks somber, subdued and layered at the top is what it seems. Sometimes you peel the layers, and what do you get? A yawning nothingness.

Watching this vacuous film, I felt terribly betrayed by the sheer pretentiousness and amateurishness of material that, outwardly, seems promising. A music teacher's lost in the bewildering beauty of scenic, serene, still and stunning Shimla, pines to get back the life that he once dreamt of, but never achieved.

This could have been that film about big dreamers from the mountainous anonymity which we have all been waiting for. Specially since the accomplished Manav Kaul plays the musician Beni Madhav Singh. Sadly, Manav is saddled with a role of a man on a constant losing streak who does nothing to stop his freefall except complain, scowl, lash out at everyone, from his best friend to his mother, and sing R.D Burman songs in solitude.

Udita Bhargava's Dust starring Morten Holst and Vinay Pathak will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival 2019. The film will be screened in the ?Perspektive Deutsches Kino (New German Cinema) section.

The film, with the backdrop of the Maoist conflict that affects large parts of India, is a German Indian co-production shot entirely in India with an international crew.

Bhargava is an Indian filmmaker who has previously worked on films like Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Mira Nair's The Migration. Dust is her first feature film as a director.

"We are delighted to start our journey at the Berlinale. It feels like a homecoming for many of us, since a large part of our team is from Berlin. Also, as an Indian, I am looking forward to watching Zoya and Rima's films and hope they too can watch mine,...