Jigar Shah

Over the past few days, I have had the opportunity to talk to a cross-section of actors, producers, directors in the Hindi film industry. All their stories had one common thread: Abhishek Banerjee. I learnt that a producer had hired him as a casting director, the actor was cast through his company Casting Bay, and [&hellip;]

Abhishek Banerjee

Dream Girl

Mirzapur

Paatal Lok

Stree

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Anniversary Special 2021: Abhishek Banerjee, The Actor’s Acting Chops Are Finally Getting Recognised

Mayank Shekhar

The best of movies and OTT serials are not about stars anymore. It is invariably about writing, casting, production and of course, the director. Movies Prateek Vats’ Eeb Allay Ooo! About a man (Shardul Bharadwaj) monkeying around India’s power centre—areas surrounding Parliament Street in Lutyens’ New Delhi. What’s he up to? Taming monkeys. No, literally—that’s [&hellip;]

Best OTT shows 2020

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Choked

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The Best Of Hindi Movies And OTT Serials Of 2020

Mayukh Majumdar

This year has definitely been Anushka Sharma’s year. The actress entered the boy’s club of producers and made some serious courageous choices. This year, she served as an executive producer on Amazon Prime Video’s uber-successful crime thriller series, Paatal Lok which has been ranked the best Hindi-language series of 2020 by both HuffPost India and The Indian Express. Starring Jaideep [&hellip;]

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Bollywood

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Anushka Sharma Opens Up On Taking Risks As A Producer

This year has definitely been Anushka Sharma’s year. The actress entered the boy’s club of producers and made some serious courageous choices. This year, she served as an executive producer on Amazon Prime Video’s uber-successful crime thriller series, Paatal Lok which has been ranked the best Hindi-language series of 2020 by both HuffPost India and [&hellip;]

Anushka Sharma movies

Kareena Kapoor Khan

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Anushka Sharma Earns High Praise From Kareena Kapoor Khan

This year has definitely been Anushka Sharma&#8217;s year. The actress and her husband, Virat Kohli made it to a list of the world’s top Instagram influencers which was compiled by global data collection and analysis platform, Hype Auditor. Earlier this year, Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma had announced that they are expecting a baby. The [&hellip;]

Bulbbul

Tripti Dimri

Anushka Sharma Shook Up The Boys Club With Paatal Lok And Bulbbul

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every industry in the world and one of the industries that was affected the worst was the film industry. With films stalled and theatres effectively out of business, many producers had to resort to OTT releases of their movies. Even biggies like Vidya Balan and Akshay Kumar have opted [&hellip;]

Delhi Crime

Janhvi Kapoor

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Pratik Gandhi

Shabana Azmi

Taapsee Pannu

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Bollywood’s Top Actresses Pick Their ‘Performance Of The Year’

Actor Asif Basra, known for his role in thriller series Paatal Lok and his films, Black Friday and Parzania, was found dead in Himachal Pradesh&#8217;s McLeod Ganj, the police have said. As of now, a forensic team has arrived and investigations are underway as to how he died. The police are also investigating if it [&hellip;]

Asif Basra

Black Friday

Parzania

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Asif Basra Found Dead In Himachal Pradesh’s McLeod Ganj

Having shone bright in back-to-back hits, Abhishek Banerjee still believes he doesn’t have the correct judgment to pick a character. Perhaps, it is good then that fantastic roles come to him and not the other way round. &nbsp; Way back in 1991, when a young Abhishek Banerjee entered a cinema hall for the first time, [&hellip;]

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Hathoda Tyagi

Vishal Tyagi

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Destiny’s Child: Paatal Lok’s Abhishek Banerjee Talks About Getting Inside The Mind Of A Killer

Arnesh Ghose

With a middle-finger to stereotyping, Paatal Lok wins big with Imran Ansari — a law-abiding, soft-spoken Muslim gentleman —a not-so-commonly seen phenomenon in Indian depiction of Muslim characters If you didn’t pick up on his name in the first episode of Paatal Lok, you almost miss the fact that he is Muslim. To rub it [&hellip;]

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A Different Muslim Man: Why Paatal Lok’s Imran Ansari Is A Breath Of Fresh Air

Amazon Prime Video today announced the trailer launch of its third Indian Original of 2020, the much-awaited series Pataal Lok. Produced by Clean Slate Filmz, the unsettling crime-drama revolves around Inspector Hathi Ram Chaudhary, a washed-out Delhi cop who is put on an extremely high profile case. Four suspects are nabbed in the assassination attempt [&hellip;]