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4 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Hrishikesh Mukherjee loved telling the truth about people who lied. In Anand Rajesh Khanna makes up a friendship with strangers on the road pretending to have met them in fictitious encounters. In Khubsoorat Rekha circumvents Dina Pathak’s authority by sneaking fun sessions on the terrace with the oppressed family members. Hrishida later made a whole film on the art of lying Jhoothi with his favourite Rekha in the lead. Gol Maal is a very popular portrait of deception.

5 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Do you believe in the supernatural? Even if you don’t, this effective though compromised take on the wages of renewable evil would prompt you to look nervously over your shoulders the next time you pass through a dark shadowy corridor. So right away, a round of applause to producer Vishal Bhardwaj and first-time director Kannan Iyer for a scare fare that goes way beyond the mundane terror gimmicks of Indian cinema’s much-abused horror genre to search out the very core of human nature.

5 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Kill star Laksh Lalwani brought in his birthday today with close friends. “Last night, a couple of my friends came to my house. They brought a cake. They’re my very close friends. So, I did a bring-in with them on my birthday. But we couldn’t do much because I had a shoot the next day. So, I’ll go today and party with them. Simple, sweet. A lot of things have changed after my first film. The kind of validation and the kind of confidence boost that I was looking for came through Kill.

5 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Hrithik Roshan and Amisha Patel together for the first time since Kaho Na…Pyar Hai. And the audience said, “No thanks!”A shocking apathy grips the narrative of Vikram Bhatt’s long-in-the-making love story. Shocking, because after Ghulam, Kasoor and the recent Raaz we expect a certain storytelling freshness and a technical polish in Bhatt’s cinema. What we get instead is a fagged-out film feverishly trying to pass off star power as absorbing cinema.

5 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Surekha Sikri never thought of herself as a brilliant actor. I first became aware of Surekha Sikri in a film called Parinati way back in 1989. Before that, she was in Govind Nihalani’s monumental Partition saga Tamas, where she didn’t have much to do.