Devansh Sharma
Chief Content Producer at Hindustan Times
Film critic and Entertainment journalist. Chief Content Producer at Hindustan Times Previously: TV9 | Firstpost | Times of India
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1 week ago |
indianexpress.com | Devansh Sharma
Rami Malek paints a whole new spy in James Hawes’ vigilante film The Amateur, which is currently playing in cinemas. Firstly, he doesn’t start off as a spy, but as a regular cryptographer working at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Secondly, after his wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan) dies, he can’t help but mourn his heart out.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Devansh Sharma
Rajkummar Rao is collaborating again with producer Dinesh Vijan of Maddock Films after the blockbuster success of the Stree franchise. This time, it’s for Bhool Chuk Maaf, another comedy (sans horror), helmed by debutant director Karan Sharma. At the trailer launch of the film, Rajkummar recalled his first collaboration with Dinesh and Maddock Films. “Some matches are made in heaven. Dinoo (Vijan) and I are also one of them.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Devansh Sharma
It’s pitch day in the writers room of this streaming original. Laptops come to life. Green teas and black coffees are brought in. Colour-coded sticky notes peep out of scripts fresh out of oven. The suits enter, smiles are flashed, and customary corporate pep talk is passed around. An hour or so later, after the first draft is presented, the markers and highlighters are taken out.
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2 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Devansh Sharma
Emraan Hashmi is all set to serve the nation on screen, five years after Ribhu Dasgupta’s Netflix India spy thriller show Bard of Blood. He’ll be seen as Border Security Force (BSF) officer Narendra Nath Dhar Dubey in Tejas Vijay Deoskar’s military action drama Ground Zero. Based on the operation that followed the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Parliament in New Delhi and Akshardham Temple in Gujarat, Ground Zero is co-produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment.
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3 weeks ago |
indianexpress.com | Devansh Sharma
Anjum Rajabali has been spearheading a movement to get screenwriters their due. The writer of Ghulam (1998), Pukar (2000), and Rajneeti (2010), he has been instrumental in fetching writers both fair credit and fair pay in the Hindi film industry. As the head of the Screenwriters Association of India, he also holds the SWA Annual Screenwriting Workshop in India, the latest edition of which took place in Mumbai this week.
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Talked to screenwriters about the phenomenon of writing for the second screen -- for viewers who are glued to their phones and consume shows in the background -- and how streaming giants have surrendered to reducing attention spans.
As the audience watches shows in the background, treating their smartphones as the first screen and TV as the second, streaming platforms have started to reverse-engineer scripts and settle for enabling good ambient viewing, instead of crafting great television, reports https://t.co/LL4f01CD7k
Anjum Rajabali , the head of Screenwriters Association of India, tells me he sees today's Hindi cinema as a good ol' Hindi film hero, who will step out of its current crisis only when all options run out, forcing it to take a leap of faith.
"Kya writer baap hota hai? Hota hai. Kya usey uss tareeke se treat kiya ja raha hai? Nahi. All the 300 people working for the film are primarily working for him. We’ve become to fatally lose sight of that basic truth," Anjum Rajabali tells @inkedinwhite https://t.co/U2wGQVYejK
Went full Akashvaani in this interview with @GippyGrewal and Nimrat Khaira on Akaal, collaborating with Karan Johar , their journey from music stars to film stars, and whether Punjabi cinema will get pan-India acceptance like the South. https://t.co/ULl6NW0WfP
