Anish Mohanty

Whenever a Hindi filmmaker thinks about remaking a Tamil or Telugu film, he opts for a commercial potboiler or actioner which a big star could fit in. In the recent…

Two years back, producer-director Aanand L Rai had green-lit a film called ‘Manmarziyaan’ which was to be directed by Sameer Sharma and feature Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar and Vicky Kaushal…

Laila-Majnu, Romeo-Juliet, Heer-Ranjha, Shirin-Farhad – these are the names of some mythical couples whose names have become firmly entrenched in our collective consciousness because of the countless times they have…

It is common practice for actors and filmmakers to make films to launch their children as actors. While some like Sunil Dutt and Rakesh Roshan have managed to do it…

‘Yamla Pagla Deewana’ (2011) was the first comedy in which the three Deols (Dharmendra, Sunny and Bobby) appeared together in. The success of the film encouraged them to come up…

When a horror film is made badly, it turns into a comedy and evokes laughter. On a serious note, the Hindi film industry did not really explore horror comedy as…