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4 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

How Amrish Puri married his beloved is a story that his grandson, actor Vardhan, tells. “Dadu and my Dadi Urmila Divekar met at ESIC (Employee State Insurance Co.) where they both worked as clerks. Dadi was very shy and preferred not speaking to men. My grandfather was a strapping Punjabi munda and was attracted to her. One day post work he asked her to be his badminton partner for the day as his regular partner was absent.

4 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha |Karthik Subbaraj

Movie name:Retro Director:Karthik Subbaraj Movie Casts:Suriya, Pooja Hegde, Joju George, Shriya Saran, Vidhu, Kaarthekeyen Santhanam, Santhosh Narayanan, Jayaram Actors who attain the pinnacle of fame tend to fumble in finding projects which challenge them. Suriya is at a place where he needs to flex his performing muscles. But the scripts he is choosing betray his aspirations. Retro is a kind of blinkered joke on itself. It thinks it is ultra-cool, as it doesn’t know any better.

4 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Vikram, Awara Paagal Deewana was fun to shoot. Was it as much fun to shoot? Awara Paagal Deewana was a party that just can’t be repeated. We did have a great time shooting it, but it was also a very tough shoot. We went to quite a few places: New York, Spain, and then Oman for the climax. Firozbhai had an action comedy in mind and he went out of his way to produce it, leaving no stone unturned. But APD was also Neeraj Vora, who is not with us anymore.

4 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Bleeding brilliance in almost every frame, breathing fire through every available orifice that the characters possess, and whipping up a kind of frenzied flamboyant bloodshed that was once associated with the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, Gangs Of Wasseypur is, briefly, one huge gang-bang. No protection provided.

5 days ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Sekhar Kammula’s Kuberaa (Telugu) is a bit of a conundrum. It can’t be faulted for originality, and the interest level is kept alive right till the end, although at three hours the running time does feel like a bit of a stretch, especially towards the end, when the chaos of covetousness catches up with the entrepreneur villain Neeraj Mitra, played by the interesting Jim Sarbh, who really likes to let us know he is a good actor. Noted.