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Nov 9, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Mohini Chaudhuri
As the comedy turns 30, a look at how it lives on through dubsmashes, reels, memes and merchIt is not a surprise that everyone’s beloved movie Andaz Apna Apna, which celebrated its 30th birthday this week, had no takers when it released. With the exception of Hum Aapke Hain Koun!, 1994 mainly belonged to blood-thirsty action heroes seeking revenge. Some of the top grossers of that year were Mohra, Krantiveer, Main Khiladi Tu Anari and Suhaag.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Mohini Chaudhuri
Cinema Perils of social media and technology make it to the big screen A scene from CTRL (Control) Earlier this month, Amazon Prime Video released their reality show The Tribe that centres around five Mumbai-based women influencers who are asked to pack their bags and move into a fancy home in Los Angeles to ‘live their best lives’. The assignment is simple. They must churn out regular social media content about their aspirational lives.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Mohini Chaudhuri
Sold-out global concerts, top grossers, viral cooking videos…there’s not much Diljit Dosanjh can’t do. But the paggwala munda is not just a hitmaker, he is a symbol of Punjabi prideDiljit Dosanjh was already a phenomenon when he became the first Punjabi artist to perform at the Coachella music festival last year.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Carlo Pizzati |Mohini Chaudhuri |Kaveree Bamzai
2634 Carlo Pizzati Seeking a sacred homeland among the high peaks Between Motion and Emotion Tejinder Singh Khamkha captures the making of movies. Mohini Chaudhuri speaks to the on-set photographer Border Lines Ancient maps reveal the changing contours of India Following Uorfi Javed How a girl from Lucknow got her own reality show and became a pop culture phenomenon Walking with Gods and Queens The Kerala Story Through Heritage Tours Stories of Our Scars Autobiographical medical conditions on...
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Mohini Chaudhuri
When photographer Tejinder Singh Khamkha is on a film set, he takes an average of 700 photographs a day. As a still photographer, his days are long, and a film is shot over months. A typical day involves moving around the set with his camera, keenly observing everyone at work. He keeps an eye on proceedings as actors get into costume and rehearse, the director briefs his crew, until it all culminates in the big scene of the day.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
t.ly | Mohini Chaudhuri
When photographer Tejinder Singh Khamkha is on a film set, he takes an average of 700 photographs a day. As a still photographer, his days are long, and a film is shot over months. A typical day involves moving around the set with his camera, keenly observing everyone at work. He keeps an eye on proceedings as actors get into costume and rehearse, the director briefs his crew, until it all culminates in the big scene of the day.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Mohini Chaudhuri
Uorfi Javed: Decoding the rise of India’s Kim KardashianJaved, who now has a reality show, represents a new kind of celeb. Love her or hate her, she, like Orry, is redefining fameUorfi Javed loves a good scandal. She was thrilled when she got her first death threat. “I felt like a star,” she says. She thinks throwing a party for her haters would be great fun. May as well “monetise the hate.”
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
openthemagazine.com | Mohini Chaudhuri
IN THE 2018 film Stree, men from the town of Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh start to vanish. The culprit is a female ghost they call Stree. We are told she visits the town every year during a major pooja celebration. Stree abducts men at night, leaving their clothes behind, so that they can be identified. During this time, the men of Chanderi live in fear. They walk around in saris and don bangles hoping Stree mistakes them for women. They can’t go out alone at night because it’s unsafe.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
t.ly | Mohini Chaudhuri
IN THE 2018 film Stree, men from the town of Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh start to vanish. The culprit is a female ghost they call Stree. We are told she visits the town every year during a major pooja celebration. Stree abducts men at night, leaving their clothes behind, so that they can be identified. During this time, the men of Chanderi live in fear. They walk around in saris and don bangles hoping Stree mistakes them for women. They can’t go out alone at night because it’s unsafe.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
filmcompanion.in | Mohini Chaudhuri
At any point in time, Priyanka Chopra is always doing multiple things. At present, her latest Hollywood film Isn't It Romantic has just released on Netflix, her movie The Sky Is Pink just got an October release date, and she's writing her memoir. Chopra says she has many other announcements that she's about to make soon, other than the one she recently made on The Ellen Show about playing Ma Anand Sheela in a film about spiritual guru Rajneesh Osho.
