6th Jagran Film Festival opens its call for entries

The festival that created a furore with its vast span and a wide spectrum of never before presented cinema is back with a bang. This time, the Jagran Film Festival presents...

Priyanka Chopra, Frieda Pinto Launch Girl Rising India Campaign In LA

Multi-talented superstar Priyanka Chopra and beautiful actress Frieda Pinto together launched a new campaign “Girl Rising India” in Los Angeles. The main object...

Amitabh Bachchan on mission to save cinematic marvels

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he feels privileged to be the face of an initiative by The Film Heritage Foundation and working towards saving cinematic marvels from getting...

Twinkle to Tabu: 10 Women Making Bollywood Look Good

God knows that Bollywood, with its casual sexism and perpetuating of stereotype, badly needs all the PR help it can get. The Khans are too busy. One is otherwise occupied i...

Sex and sensibility: Bollywood erotica in the time of Censor curbs

From Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978), Utsav (1984), Anubhav (1986) and Kama Sutra (1996) to the more recent Jism (2003) and Murder (2004), you can hardly call erotica novel i...

Bollywood Hits That Passed And Failed Gender Test In 2014

Another year, and another assortment of blockbusters, pulpy B-grades movies and the oddball-character-driven pieces passed us by. On the bright side, 2014 was a breakthroug...

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt launches debut novel at World Book Fair

Acclaimed Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt says his debut novel ‘All That Could Have Been’, which is based on the screenplay of his forthcoming film ‘Hama...

Is A Number Crunching Agency Needed?

Vinta Nanda, Filmmaker-

Box office figures should be accurate. Yes, Bollywood should take help of agencies like Rentrak a...

Online portal signs up 300 celebrities for charity

An Indian online firm primarily catering to the cause of charity has recently signed up 300 celebrities, including Bollywood personalities Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padu...