Anish Mohanty, Author at Planet Bollywood

Back home in Lucknow, Shruti Sharma was dreaming of becoming an actress but had not found the right outlet yet. She finally got a platform to showcase her skills and…

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Book Review: Rakesh Anand Bakshi’s Directors’ Diaries Volume 2 is a good follow-up to the first book in the series

Anish Mohanty

After the success of ‘Directors’ Diaries – The Road To Their First Film’, author Rakesh Anand Bakshi recently came out with the second volume in the series. Just like the…

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Deepika Padukone’s Chhapaak serves as an inspiration to children and adults alike

Anish Mohanty

Chhapaak is one of the most impactful movies of all time and carries a very strong social message. The movie opened up to the audience last week and it is…

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Karan Nath gets ready for his Bollywood comeback with Polladhavan remake Guns Of Banaras

Anish Mohanty

Karan Nath, son of former star secretary and producer Rakesh ‘Rikku’ Nath, begin his journey in films as a child artiste in Shekhar Kapoor’s Mr. India (1987). Years later, in…

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Chhapaak Day 2: Film shows decent growth but the big turnaround is missing

Anish Mohanty

The Deepika Padukone – Vikrant Massey starrer ‘Chhapaak’ showed similar growth as ‘Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior’. The film’s collections grew in the range of 35-40% which is decent but not…

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Tanhaji Day 2: The film shows excellent growth, all set to register a solid weekend figure

Anish Mohanty

The Ajay Devgn – Saif Ali Khan starrer registered excellent growth on Saturday. The film grew in the range of 35-40% and collected close to Rs. 20 crores on its…

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“I plan to come up with a lot of films in the near future” – Suneel Darshan

Anish Mohanty

Suneel Darshan started his career as a producer with ‘Intaqaam’ in 1988 and then, became a director with ‘Ajay’ in 1986. During his journey in cinema, spanning more than three…

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Chhapaak Day 1: After a decent start, the film now needs a big turnaround

Anish Mohanty

The Deepika Padukone – Vikrant Massey starrer ‘Chhapaak’ was expected to open in the 5-6 crore range. There was also an outside possibility off the film going higher than that…

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Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior Day 1: The film has registered a good first-day number coupled with growth on Saturday

Anish Mohanty

The Ajay Devgn – Saif Ali Khan starrer ‘Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior’ collected Rs. 14.50 crores on its first Friday. This is a good number, though slightly lower than the…

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5 lesser heard compositions by Mithoon which deserve more attention!

Anish Mohanty

Mithoon burst into the film music scene with “Woh Lamhe” (‘Zeher’). Mukesh and Mahesh Bhatt bought the rights of the song, originally composed by the Pakistani music band Jal, and…

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Friday Prediction: A double-digit opening is in the cards for Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior

Anish Mohanty

The one factor that has remained common in a majority of the films produced by Ajay Devgn – right from ‘Hindustan Ki Kasam’ to ‘Shivaay’ – is scale. ‘Hindustan Ki…

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Friday Prediction: Chhapaak expected to take a fair opening at the box-office

Anish Mohanty

Meghna Gulzar, who got a huge shot in the arm as a director with the success of ‘Talvar’ (2015), delivered an even bigger success in the form of ‘Raazi’ (2018).…

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Shankar Ehsaan Loy and Javed Akhtar celebrate 20 years of professional association with Panga

Anish Mohanty

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s debut album was Dus (1997). Though the film remained incomplete due to the unfortunate demise of director Mukul Anand, the soundtrack was released and one of the songs from…

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Panga Title Track: The first song from the film has thump and energy

Anish Mohanty

‘Panga’, director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwary’s new film which features Kangana Ranaut in the central role, is a sports based drama. At least one (if not more) inspiration track is mandatory…

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Shikara Trailer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra tells a story closer to his heart and home

Anish Mohanty

The exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the early 90s is one of those incidents that continue to remain a blot on the history of independent India. This is one event…

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Pritam’s A&R company Jam8 gets its breakout album in the form of Bhangra Paa Le

Anish Mohanty

With Jam8, Pritam did something which no other composer in the Hindi film industry had done before. Jam8 is an A&R (artists & repertoire) company, which was founded in 2016…

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Malang Trailer: After Aashiqui 2, Aditya Roy Kapur reunites with director Mohit Suri for this film which seems to be a cocktail of romance and thrills

Anish Mohanty

In summer 2013, ‘Aashiqui 2’ released and gave its leading actors Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor a super-hit. Both of them had made their film debut a couple of…

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Movie Review Bhangra Paa Le

Anish Mohanty

Though music and dance play integral roles in Hindi cinema, dance as a genre was not explored very well by filmmakers in the Hindi film industry. The success of ‘ABCD’…

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17 Years of Tujhe Meri Kasam – Memories of watching the film in a jam-packed theatre in Jharkhand where it ran for 100 days

Anish Mohanty

‘Tujhe Meri Kasam’, a film which marked the debut of Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia Deshmukh (then D’Souza), completes seventeen years of its release today. The film released on 3 January,…

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Bhangra Paa Le Music Review

Anish Mohanty

Where there is dance, there has to be music. So, a film, which has dance as its core theme, is expected to have music as one of its key elements.…