2017 began on a dull note for Malayalam cinema with a spate of releases being stalled owing to a strike by theatre associations. Soon with the releases coming one after the other, Malayalam cinema skyrocketed itself to the annals of big box office moolah and ample praise from the critics. […]
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Top 10 Bollywood Films of 2017 | YEARLY ROUNDUP
2017’s Bollywood films manage the impossible. Because 7 out 10 films on the list are made by directors who are making their feature film debut in Hindi cinema. The remaining filmmakers have made not more than 3 films with only Vikramaditya Motwane being a well-known name. So the question remains […]
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Top 10 Bollywood Actors of 2017 | YEARLY ROUNDUP
2017 was an eye-opening year for Bollywood’s leading men. This was a year when tried-and-test recipes turned out stale. Certain superstars who took their erstwhile competent directors for granted bit the dust too. The ones who survived and made a massive impact are a handful of competent actors who held […]
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Top 10 Bollywood Actresses of 2017 | YEARLY ROUNDUP
Ranking. That was quite a task when it came to compiling the list of 2017’s finest female actors. With each one of them putting their best feet forward in films that demanded them to be anything but pretty wallflowers, the year also saw the stereotype of the classic Bollywood heroine […]
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Top 10 Bollywood Soundtracks of 2017 | YEARLY ROUNDUP
Well, I will be honest and confess how eagerly I was awaiting Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati to arrive in 2017. Not because of the fact that the costume drama is entangled in needless controversies but Bhansali’s sensibility for music is to die for. After the film’s postponement, I had a relook at what […]
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Top 10 Supporting Actors (Male) | 2017 ROUNDUP
Subtle, loud, hilarious, vengeful, conniving, adorable, street-smart – men in 2017’s Bollywood films flaunted myriad shades. Some ably supported their main protagonists while a few of them made turned their fleeting cameo tracks into wonderful individual stories. 2017 saw no dearth of fantastic supporting actors who shone as much as […]
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Top 10 Supporting Actors (Female) | 2017 ROUNDUP
Small roles – sometimes even the minuscule ones – have often been scene stealers in films that are filled with superstars. You might not even be aware of the actors’ real names but their performances will certainly entrench a mark in your mind. Here goes the list of 2017’s finest female […]
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Up for a Bollywood playlist revamp? Here’s the top 25 from 2017…
2017 is closing the curtains and talks are abound on how the year was particularly terrible for the industry. Supplementing this popular statement, one must also concur with the fact that the year saw receding standards of Hindi music as well and markedly so. We saw a sudden surge or […]
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“Tiger Zinda Hai” is a tug of war between ‘Bhai’ and nationalism!
Having relished the other-worldly experience of watching a Salman Khan film in a single screen cinema, I observe an obvious trajectory of how our audience’s taste has evolved. Clearly, we are done with the nonchalant days of munching popcorn and watching Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’s National Anthem scene or Lagaan’s […]
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When “Saathiya” sparked chemistry and realism in the cliché-driven Hindi romance territory…
Saathiya. A film that marked the debut of director Shaad Ali is a remake, as we all know. A prototype of the much-admired subgenre called ‘The Mani Ratnam Romance’, the film is unlike umpteen misled Tamil features by somewhat clueless filmmakers who repeatedly failed in emulating this winning formula. This formula […]