It’s only while watching Famous, I realised, that golden phase was merely between 2012-2014. Badshah perhaps became the new Honey
21 December,2024 07:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Went over to watch the BTS/making of 12th Fail, wondering aloud, “What am I doing in a frickin’ theatre?”
18 December,2024 01:47 PM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Spoke to writers with the toughest job in Colombia, or Latin America, even the world—adapting Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred of Solitude for the screen. Imagine!
11 December,2024 12:54 PM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
As a God-like sandalwood smuggler, perhaps modelled on Veerappan, Pushpa plays his cards well, inevitably outsmarting his OG nemesis, i.e. Shekhawat, while taking the pants off politicians
06 December,2024 10:08 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Hung out with blokes working in entertainment to figure what they believe is ailing with a relatively new industry that was once pegged as the harbinger of change
04 December,2024 07:34 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
What can one say about Payal Kapadia’s Cannes-winning debut feature, except that you probably haven’t seen it yet, because top awards often alienate regular audiences?
27 November,2024 07:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
The Abhishek Bachchan-starrer isn’t so much about suffering as survival, really—for a man who’s tricked his brain into believing that he can physically overcome
23 November,2024 07:31 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
If the web-series is indeed the new novel, then history as narrative non-fiction got seriously interesting for everyone
20 November,2024 07:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Think of Kanguva as an SS Rajamouli tentpole (Baahubali, RRR). More likely, Magadheera, given reincarnation for the subject. Only, without Rajamouli’s master-writer K Vijayendra Prasad’s scripts
16 November,2024 07:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
With all the darkness around, glad that the worst that can happen in a movie is an old man who may not complete a triathlon!
13 November,2024 07:19 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank ShekharADVERTISEMENT
