Author: Shantanu Kumar Poddar

Film review of The Legend: The only thing that stands out for The Legend film has Harris Jayaraj’s songs and background results, but they just aren’t sufficient to save this cringe-fest. The amazing side of The Legend film is the absolute lack of self-awareness of the filmmaker JD-Jerry, who is behind some of the understated films like Whistle and Ullasam. Upon sitting down to plan a star vehicle for well-known entrepreneur Saravanan Arul, for some reason, the two were convinced that they were on to something big.  However, the filmmaker duo JD Jerry has been only aiding a usual star…

Film Shamshera starring Ranbir Kapoor failed at the box office and the filmmaker Karan Malhotra wrote a note after its flop and said that he “can’t handle the anger and hate”. Actor Ranbir Kapoor’s recent movie, Shamshera, failed to gather the sort of responses that he expected from the critics and audience.  After a massive round of advertisements and promotions, the movie, which marks Ranbir Kapoor’s comeback to the silver screen after 4 years, earned only Rs 31.75 crore during its first week.  The film also received some disastrous reviews, and now, director Karan Malhotra has written a note saying…

Locked in an EC battle with Shinde, Uddhav receives an ‘affidavit’ of military loyalty on his birthday. Given the political developments that rocked the Thackeray-led army in the past month and a half, the atmosphere and atmosphere that prevailed in and around Motoshree on Wednesday was celebratory but calm. Nearly a month after he was forced to resign as the chief minister of Maharashtra in the wake of a rebellion by the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction, due to the collapse of his Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has turned 62 on Wednesday.  Crowds thronged…

Maharashtra is yet to get a cabinet even after 25 days of taking oath as the Chief Minister and Deputy CM. Eight former ministers in the Shinde Sena faction, among other candidates; The opposition alleged delay in flood relief. It has been 25 days since Devendra Fadnavis (Deputy Chief Minister) and Eknath Shinde (Maharashtra Chief Minister) took the oath but did not get into the cabinet.  Since then, the two have visited Delhi four times and talked to top BJP leaders about the expansion of the Council of Ministers.  But, in view of the rebel Shiv Sena camp and the…

Michael Mann plans to make one more Heat movie but he has selected to portray his new narrative through words only, Heat 2 the novel. Ten years after the release of Michael Mann’s Heat film, it is the classic crime thriller that continues to spook the minds of fans, peers, critics, and the filmmaker himself. He had much left to say “There is every time a sense of being small,” during a Zoom interview Michael Mann said from his residence in Modena, Italy, where Mann is currently working at Ferrari, with driver Adam as a race car driver-auto magnate has…

From La Ganesan, the Bhartiya Janata Party’s temporary replacement for Jagdeep Dhankhar at the West Bengal Raj Bhavan, Jitin Prasada, who has a spot-on Yogi’s PWD action, is here the newsmaker of the week. West Bengal minister and close ally of Mamata Banerjee, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate, veteran Congress leader who is now the opposition candidate for vice-presidential election,  the new governor of West Bengal, and Uttar Pradesh minister and Dalit leader who Offered to resign this week – we bring you the News Producer of the Week. Partha Chatterjee- Trinamool Congress On Saturday for his supposed…

Oppenheimer’s first poster depicts the destruction caused by the atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy have previously gotten together on The Dark Knight films, Dunkirk and Inception. For the first time, Murphy is leading a project for Nolan. The first poster of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie is released, and it depicts the destructive impact of the atomic bomb.  Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy, the movie is the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led project Manhattan during World War II.  The movie banner depicts the silhouette of a man, possibly Murphy, as he walks through smoke and a cloud…

MP Congress spokesperson Abbas Hafeez called AAP and AIMIM “BJP’s B-team”, alleging that they were “active” by the BJP to “divide Congress votes” as the ruling party feared defeat in the elections. In Madhya Pradesh ruling BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) captured nearly 100 of the 133 municipalities in the first phase of urban local body elections and the main opponent, Congress won three mayoral seats. And the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) won. And the AIMIM (Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen)– which debuted in the state civil election– opened its account and influenced the elections in a significant…

The Michelle Yeoh-starrer film Everything Everywhere All at Once will be released in India by Mumbai-based Influence Films, a major provider of foreign language films in the subcontinent. American absurd comedy-drama Everywhere All at Once starring famous actor Michelle Yeoh will soon hit Indian theatres.  The movie was directed and written by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, and in March, the movie premiered at the South by Southwest Festival and in April it was followed by a wider theatrical release in the United States.  Everything Everywhere All at Once movie will be out in India and it is a Mumbai-based…

Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh’s 37th birthday here is witnessing the actor Ranveer’s decade-long career and his rise as a true modern actor of Indian cinema. The number of Box office and critical reception alike is adequate evidence of the reality that over the last half-decade, the star-system-fueled machinery of our Indian cinema landscape is no longer a feasible, sustainable model for the survival of the film industry. While the three Khan-starrer movies have failed to perform as per expectancy, the gradual failure of the superstar system has given rise to different kinds of stars. Young Indian actors like Raj Kumar…