‘Bigg Boss 17’ contestant Soniya Bansal will be seen sharing screen space with actor Vardhan Puri in a music video called ‘Ishq Hua’ set to release ahead of Valentine’s Day on Feb 12. Soniya shared her experience working with Vardhan and said: “My experience working with Vardhan Puri was really wonderful. I knew him before, but we met for the very first time at the collaboration of the song ‘Ishq Hua’ because his grandfather was one of my favourite villains in movies. So, I thought collaborating with him would be great, as he might inherit some of his legacy traits.”
She emphasised on Vardhan’s humble nature and cooperative demeanor on set.
“It was a great experience on set. He has a very humble nature and is too cooperative as an actor. He brings the person to a comfortable place so that different moods of acting can be shown.
Under the esteemed banner of T-Series,...
She emphasised on Vardhan’s humble nature and cooperative demeanor on set.
“It was a great experience on set. He has a very humble nature and is too cooperative as an actor. He brings the person to a comfortable place so that different moods of acting can be shown.
Under the esteemed banner of T-Series,...
- 2/8/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Closing Box Office Collection Of Animal (Picture Credit: Facebook)
It’s the end of a theatrical run of Animal! Yes, the record-breaking journey of Ranbir Kapoor’s monstrous blockbuster has come to a standstill at the worldwide box office. This journey could have been more memorable with the 1000 crore milestone. Nonetheless, what the film has achieved is something way beyond imagination. Keep reading to know more!
Reception of Animal
Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, the film was released on 1 December 2023. It opened to mixed reviews from critics, but word-of-mouth was extraordinary among the targeted audience. While there was already a ground-level buzz, controversies over objectionable content and social media discussions further triggered a wave of curiosity, which eventually helped the film’s box office to grow.
Animal at the worldwide box office
Coming to the collection update, Animal has ended its journey at the Indian box office by earning a staggering 554 crores net,...
It’s the end of a theatrical run of Animal! Yes, the record-breaking journey of Ranbir Kapoor’s monstrous blockbuster has come to a standstill at the worldwide box office. This journey could have been more memorable with the 1000 crore milestone. Nonetheless, what the film has achieved is something way beyond imagination. Keep reading to know more!
Reception of Animal
Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, the film was released on 1 December 2023. It opened to mixed reviews from critics, but word-of-mouth was extraordinary among the targeted audience. While there was already a ground-level buzz, controversies over objectionable content and social media discussions further triggered a wave of curiosity, which eventually helped the film’s box office to grow.
Animal at the worldwide box office
Coming to the collection update, Animal has ended its journey at the Indian box office by earning a staggering 554 crores net,...
- 1/26/2024
- by Shalmesh More
- KoiMoi
Animal: Anurag Kashyap Reacts To The Criticism! ( Photo Credit – Instagram )
It’s been over 10 days since Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal has hit the big screens, but the buzz around the film doesn’t seem to die down. Be it its massive collection at the box office or controversies around its plot; the film has kept the buzz alive for days now. While we saw a section of the audience bashing the film and slamming the director, filmmakers like Anurag Kashyap and Ram Gopal Varma were seen voicing in support of Animal.
Recently, Rgv took to his social media platform to pen a series of tweets slamming the film critics and people criticizing the Rk starrer. Before that, the Gangs Of Wasseypur director was seen lending his support to Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s directorial after the release of the film, asking people not to teach filmmakers how to make a film.
It’s been over 10 days since Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal has hit the big screens, but the buzz around the film doesn’t seem to die down. Be it its massive collection at the box office or controversies around its plot; the film has kept the buzz alive for days now. While we saw a section of the audience bashing the film and slamming the director, filmmakers like Anurag Kashyap and Ram Gopal Varma were seen voicing in support of Animal.
Recently, Rgv took to his social media platform to pen a series of tweets slamming the film critics and people criticizing the Rk starrer. Before that, the Gangs Of Wasseypur director was seen lending his support to Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s directorial after the release of the film, asking people not to teach filmmakers how to make a film.
- 12/11/2023
- by Oshine Koul
- KoiMoi
Animal: Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Success Story Is Anything But Toxic! (Photo Credit –Instagram/IMDb)
After Kabir Singh, Sandeep Reddy Vanga has again become the talking point for all the same reasons post Animal’s release. Headlined by Ranbir Kapoor, the film stars an ensemble cast of Rashmika Mandanna, Triptii Dimri, Bobby Deol, Anil Kapoor, and Saloni Batra among others. Despite making a monstrous collection of over 550 crore globally, he has also been at the receiving end for glorying misogyny, toxic masculinity, and violence, just like he did in Shahid Kapoor starrer and Arjun Reddy.
But did you know, that the filmmaker once revealed that he didn’t have much money to spend on Vijay Deverakonda starrer after others backed out of the project? A Reddit user recently took the platform to share Vanga’s old video where he’s seen opening up about selling 36 acres of Mango garden for 1.5 crore,...
After Kabir Singh, Sandeep Reddy Vanga has again become the talking point for all the same reasons post Animal’s release. Headlined by Ranbir Kapoor, the film stars an ensemble cast of Rashmika Mandanna, Triptii Dimri, Bobby Deol, Anil Kapoor, and Saloni Batra among others. Despite making a monstrous collection of over 550 crore globally, he has also been at the receiving end for glorying misogyny, toxic masculinity, and violence, just like he did in Shahid Kapoor starrer and Arjun Reddy.
But did you know, that the filmmaker once revealed that he didn’t have much money to spend on Vijay Deverakonda starrer after others backed out of the project? A Reddit user recently took the platform to share Vanga’s old video where he’s seen opening up about selling 36 acres of Mango garden for 1.5 crore,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Oshine Koul
- KoiMoi
ZEE5 Global, has always presented meaningful and relevant content in many different languages and genres. Now, they have announced an addition to their list of originals, the Hindi film titled 200.
200 is a compelling narrative chronicling the oppression and injustice suffered by Dalit women and the circumstances which led them to take a drastic step.
Set in the context of atrocities against women, the film captures an incident where 200 women took law and justice in their own hands and lynched a gangster, robber, serial killer, serial rapist, in open court.
Produced by Yoodlee Films, the film production arm of Saregama and directed by Sarthak Dasgupta, 200 has an ensemble cast comprising Amol Palekar, Barun Sobti, Rinku Rajguru, Sahil Khattar, Saloni Batra, Indraneil Sengupta and Upendra Limaye.
Commenting on the announcement, Nimisha Pandey, Head, Hindi Originals, ZEE5 said, “ZEE5 has always believed in the power of content to bring about a positive change in the society.
200 is a compelling narrative chronicling the oppression and injustice suffered by Dalit women and the circumstances which led them to take a drastic step.
Set in the context of atrocities against women, the film captures an incident where 200 women took law and justice in their own hands and lynched a gangster, robber, serial killer, serial rapist, in open court.
Produced by Yoodlee Films, the film production arm of Saregama and directed by Sarthak Dasgupta, 200 has an ensemble cast comprising Amol Palekar, Barun Sobti, Rinku Rajguru, Sahil Khattar, Saloni Batra, Indraneil Sengupta and Upendra Limaye.
Commenting on the announcement, Nimisha Pandey, Head, Hindi Originals, ZEE5 said, “ZEE5 has always believed in the power of content to bring about a positive change in the society.
- 7/28/2021
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Uljhan / The Knot, directed by Ashish Pant and Produced by Kartikeya Narayan Singh, will have its Asian premiere in Shanghai International Film Festival as official selection in the Siff Gala section. The Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), is one of the largest film festivals in Asia. Siff this year is from June 11th to June 20th and Uljhan / The Knot will be screened at the festival on 13th and 14th June.
Uljhan / The Knot was recently screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Sbiff) and Indian Film Festival In Los Angeles (Iffla) where it received positive reviews from media as well as the audience.
Siff press release describes Uljhan / The Knot as "A middle-class couple drove and knocked down someone. The two had completely different attitudes towards the accident, which caused an unbridgeable crack in their relationship. The film uses a realistic style to discuss issues such as class...
Uljhan / The Knot was recently screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Sbiff) and Indian Film Festival In Los Angeles (Iffla) where it received positive reviews from media as well as the audience.
Siff press release describes Uljhan / The Knot as "A middle-class couple drove and knocked down someone. The two had completely different attitudes towards the accident, which caused an unbridgeable crack in their relationship. The film uses a realistic style to discuss issues such as class...
- 6/10/2021
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Like many Asian countries, India has also been through an increase in social issues as a result of many developments, such as globalization and digitization. While the country has the foundation to be one of the world’s leaders in politics and technology, many aspects, for example, the growing gap within society, hold it back and have been the cause of much unrest within its population, a process which has only grown worse in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. When director and cinematographer Ashish Pant came up with the idea for his first feature film “The Knot”, or “Uljhan”, he was inspired by a personal memory of growing up in Lucknow, a city in northern India and the place where he spent his childhood, which was the starting point for a story exploring the theme of class within Indian society, and how it affects human relationships.
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- 5/26/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Taish (Zee5)
Starring Harshvardhan Rane, Jim Sarbh, Pulkit Samrat, Sanjdeeda Sheikh, Kriti Kharbanda
Directed by Bijoy Nambiar As I finished watching this lengthy masterpiece, indeed a masterclass in adroit storytelling with room for every character to breathe even when they are destined to die, I thought not for the first time… Oh Frog, what am I doing watching this at home???!!!
Taish is a big-screen experience in every sense: big emotions, big egos, big fights, big vendetta, big screams, big silences…This is the kind of internecine vista of continuous bloodshed and vendetta that would end up being no more than an exercize in gratuitous violence in lesser hands. Not Bejoy Nambiar. I’ve watched his work closely and admired it since he started with Shaitaan.
Today Nambiar has leapt far ahead of his mentor Anurag Kashyap. Taish is proof of it. It is so sinfully engaging that I couldn...
Starring Harshvardhan Rane, Jim Sarbh, Pulkit Samrat, Sanjdeeda Sheikh, Kriti Kharbanda
Directed by Bijoy Nambiar As I finished watching this lengthy masterpiece, indeed a masterclass in adroit storytelling with room for every character to breathe even when they are destined to die, I thought not for the first time… Oh Frog, what am I doing watching this at home???!!!
Taish is a big-screen experience in every sense: big emotions, big egos, big fights, big vendetta, big screams, big silences…This is the kind of internecine vista of continuous bloodshed and vendetta that would end up being no more than an exercize in gratuitous violence in lesser hands. Not Bejoy Nambiar. I’ve watched his work closely and admired it since he started with Shaitaan.
Today Nambiar has leapt far ahead of his mentor Anurag Kashyap. Taish is proof of it. It is so sinfully engaging that I couldn...
- 11/6/2020
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
ZEE5’s Original film and web-series ‘Taish’ review is here. Directed by Bejoy Nambiar, the movie stars Pulkit Samrat, Harshvardhan Rane, Jim Sarbh, Kriti Kharbanda, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Saurabh Sachdeva, Abhimanyu Singh, Saloni Batra, Zoa Morani, Ankur Rathee and others. Produced by EaseMyTrip in association with Soham Rockstar Entertainment Taish is A Getaway Pictures Production. Taish premieres on 29th October as a film and web series on ZEE5 Premium.
Taish synopsis
Rohan Kalra (Jim Sarbh) a medical professional in the UK is in a relationship with his colleague from Pakistan Arfa (Kriti Kharbanda). The traditional up-country Punjabi Hindu Rohan attends the wedding of his younger brother Krish Kalra (Ankur Rathee). Hell breaks loose when in a party - part of the wedding celebration, another violent criminal family headed by Kuljinder (Abhimanyu Singh) with his two brothers Pali (Harshvardhan Rane) and Jassi (Armaan Khera) attend the party. A brutally violent encounter results...
Taish synopsis
Rohan Kalra (Jim Sarbh) a medical professional in the UK is in a relationship with his colleague from Pakistan Arfa (Kriti Kharbanda). The traditional up-country Punjabi Hindu Rohan attends the wedding of his younger brother Krish Kalra (Ankur Rathee). Hell breaks loose when in a party - part of the wedding celebration, another violent criminal family headed by Kuljinder (Abhimanyu Singh) with his two brothers Pali (Harshvardhan Rane) and Jassi (Armaan Khera) attend the party. A brutally violent encounter results...
- 10/29/2020
- by Vishal Verma
- GlamSham
Soni(Netflix)
Starring Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Saloni Batra
Directed by Ivan Ayr
Netflix’s prized find of this year opens with a girl cycling down a deserted road in the dead of the night. She is being followed by ….for the want of stronger word…an eve-teaser who cycles lasciviously behind and beside her, pelting with his perverse chant.
I won’t reveal how this terrifying sequence on Delhi’s horror roadway concludes. Suffice it to say, this unheard-of masterpiece with a cast of completely new actors, brings an experience from the lives of the women in Delhi’s police force without exaggerating, dramatizing or sentimentalizing their thankless work.
Dammit, this gem of a film (where the sparkle is never a showroom sales pitch) doesn’t even get judgmental about those high-handed elements on the roads of Delhi who think they own it. They have their own code of conduct to follow.
Starring Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Saloni Batra
Directed by Ivan Ayr
Netflix’s prized find of this year opens with a girl cycling down a deserted road in the dead of the night. She is being followed by ….for the want of stronger word…an eve-teaser who cycles lasciviously behind and beside her, pelting with his perverse chant.
I won’t reveal how this terrifying sequence on Delhi’s horror roadway concludes. Suffice it to say, this unheard-of masterpiece with a cast of completely new actors, brings an experience from the lives of the women in Delhi’s police force without exaggerating, dramatizing or sentimentalizing their thankless work.
Dammit, this gem of a film (where the sparkle is never a showroom sales pitch) doesn’t even get judgmental about those high-handed elements on the roads of Delhi who think they own it. They have their own code of conduct to follow.
- 1/25/2019
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Netflix'Soni' forces you as a viewer to introspect how easily we have normalised patterns of male violence and aggression. Saraswati Datar“Why don’t you wear sindoor?" a caring neighbour asks Soni (Geetika Vidya Ohlyan), the eponymous character, a cop on night duty for a special operation. A Muslim herself, the neighbour says she has used this trick to keep herself safe while walking back and forth from a sewing class. “It’s not even in our religion, but it ensured that the harassment stopped,” she quips, with absolutely no anger or malice in her voice. Soni, directed by debutant Ivan Ayr, now streaming on Netflix, has many such conversations and moments that can occur in any of our homes. Unlike most mainstream films featuring cops or ‘women’s issues’, this slice of life cop drama has no rhetoric, no bombastic declarations of revenge or melodrama of any kind.
- 1/22/2019
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
Ivan Ayr’s indie feature debut “Soni” is a gentle but assertive work of social realism and a character exploration on the background of women problematic day-to-day life in India. After being well accepted at the Venice Film Festival for the “Orizzonti” section, “Soni” is having a god run in some of the major festivals and it competes in the First Feature Section at the BFI London Film Festival.
Soni is screening at BFI London Film Festival
The first scene immediately sets the mood of the movie. A woman at night cycles home, passing through the dark back-alleys of a suburban area of New Delhi. Another cyclist – a man – starts the catcalling routine and when harassment goes from verbal to physical, the woman teaches him a lesson and beats him quite viciously. At the arrival of the police we soon discover that the victim is the undercover police sub-inspector Soni...
Soni is screening at BFI London Film Festival
The first scene immediately sets the mood of the movie. A woman at night cycles home, passing through the dark back-alleys of a suburban area of New Delhi. Another cyclist – a man – starts the catcalling routine and when harassment goes from verbal to physical, the woman teaches him a lesson and beats him quite viciously. At the arrival of the police we soon discover that the victim is the undercover police sub-inspector Soni...
- 10/13/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
When Alfred Hitchcock decided to shoot his parlor mystery-thriller Rope in what appeared to be one long, continuous take he unknowingly opened Pandora’s box. After Rope, filmmakers spanning the globe would copy the long take technique in hopes of capturing something resembling art. Today, it exists mostly in two forms: the elongated action sequence, which is supposed to capture gritty realism and the back and forth rhythm of a fight, and the long take masquerading as an entire movie, like in Rope. The problem with this, however, is that Rope is closer to an interesting failure than a document of great filmmaking innovation. The long take mostly exists as a crutch to hide the weaknesses of filmmakers among viewers who think it must be great because it’s loud. Enter director Ivan Ayr’s Soni, the new Indian film out of the Venice Film Festival that attempts and fails...
- 9/11/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Two policewomen in New Delhi rub up against sexual harassment, gender expectations, and the exhaustion of the job’s constant pressures in Ivan Ayr’s understated gem of a debut, “Soni.” With an intelligent, subtle script and camerawork so organically natural one doesn’t immediately realize that each scene is shot in one take, the film draws on a subject much in the news and spins it into a multilayered yet low-key study without preaching or sensationalizing. When indie Indian films make a splash away from home they tend to be sentimental feel-good dramedies; with the right marketing, “Soni” could break the pattern and become an international art-house sleeper.
Undercover cop Soni (Geetika Vidya Ohlyan) works the night shift as part of a decoy operation targeting violent crimes against women. Naturally no-nonsense and under considerable strain from personal issues (not fully revealed until near the end), she’s quick to anger when pushed,...
Undercover cop Soni (Geetika Vidya Ohlyan) works the night shift as part of a decoy operation targeting violent crimes against women. Naturally no-nonsense and under considerable strain from personal issues (not fully revealed until near the end), she’s quick to anger when pushed,...
- 9/8/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
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