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Bollywood stars graduating – From Acting to Direction

April 4, 2025April 4, 2025 Editorial

A new trend is fast catching up in Bollywood film industry. Bollywood stars graduating – From acting to direction. Feature by PARESH B. MEHTA Many Bollywood actors have turned towards direction now and during the past, there are quite a few established stars who will soon be donning the directors hat. The transition from acting to directing is a move…

R. Madhavan and Bipasha Basu feature in leading roles in Jodi Breakers, while Omi Vaidya, Mazhar Sayed and Mrinalini Sharma in ‘supporting roles’ that actually support the leading pair when they are in distress. There is also the married pair of Milind Soman, Dipannita Sharma in the film who are the target of Jodi Breakers. A major part of the film is shot in the scenic locations in Greece. Jodi Breakers movie review... There are many films about how a girl and a guy fall in love, but here is one flick which is unusual where the lead couple specialize in separating the couple. So, here is a hindi movie which appears to be an original story line, with impressive performances by R. Madhavan and Bipasha Basu. Jodi Breakers is a tale about Sid (R. Madhavan) and Sonali (Bipasha Basu). The duo, who play the divorce experts, which in hindi means ‘Jodi Breakers’. Sid is a divorcee ....
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Tanu Weds Manu – movie review

Tanu Weds Manu is a romantic-comedy directed by Anand L. Rai and it stars R. Madhavan and Kangana Ranaut in lead roles. Manoj Sharma 'Manu' (R. Madhavan) is a seedha saadha NRI Doctor arriving from London to India on being pressurized by his family to find an Indian bride to be and get married. He is intelligent, temperate and from a respectable family, the perfect groom which every parent wants for their daughter. So begins the task of seeing the prospective girls with his parents and his friend Pappi (Deepak Dobriyal). Tanu Weds Manu movie review.... ‘Family pressure’ leads Manu to Kanpur to meet Tanu the quintessential small town girl who has studied in Delhi. Tanu is a smart, intelligent girl who will do everything that her parents will disapprove. With a mind of her own and a love for rebellion, Tanu is dead against an arranged marriage. Manu is a smart intelligent cari ....
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3 idiots – movie review

3 idiots is the most remarkable film of 2009, which touches the right chord in people's heart with its witty story telling, marvelous acting and the incisive look which the film takes at the education system in India. Inspired by Chetan Bhagat's novel, ‘Five Point Someone’ chronicles the tale of three friends the 3 idiots who are room mates in student's hostel in an engineering college. Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan), Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi), and Rancho or Rancchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan) are three engineering students who share the same room in a hostel in one of the best engineering colleges in India. Farhan and Raju are average students from modest backgrounds; Rancho is a wealthy genius who studies for the sheer joy of it. He has a passion for knowledge and his gift for creating machines that incurs the wrath of Professor Viru Sahastrabudhhe (ViruS) played ....
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Sikandar – movie review

Piyush Jha’s Sikandar has a refreshingly different story. The film looks at the conflict in Kashmir, without taking sides. The story focuses on a kid who becomes a pawn in a dangerous game played by politicians and terrorists. Sikandar movie review... Quite smartly the director draws attention to the present day newspaper and television clippings that highlight the truth that kids are being used in wars waged in the name of religion. Sikandar (Parzaan Dastur) is a 14-year-old schoolboy whose parents were killed by militants 10 years back. Since his early childhood, he has lived with his aunt and uncle, in a small town in Kashmir. It happens so, one day, on his way home from a school football match, the young boy Sikandar finds a gun lying on the path. Despite admonishments by his newly made school friend, Nasreen (Ayesha Kapoor), Sikandar picks up the gun unleashing the darker ....
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13B – movie review

13B is a supernatural thriller which is released simultaneously in Hindi and Tamil. In today’s world of unrelenting pressures, challenged survivals and super fast life styles, the major source of Relief, Information and Entertainment is... the TV. So much so, that it has moved up from its modest position of being just another ‘house hold appliance’ to actually determining the power equation in a family. It is easy to identify the hierarchy in the family depending on who controls the Remote Control. So what happens when the TV realizes this power and begins to take control. What happens when instead of showing you the facts, the TV, begins to show you what it wants you to see. The protagonist of this film - 13B, Manohar (R Madhavan), is a hard working Civil Engineer. Aged 31 and happily married, he is the embodiment of the typical urban Indian male. For him family comes first ....
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Mumbai Meri Jaan – movie review

Mumbai Meri Jaan is truly an exceptional movie which touches your heart, which can make you cry. It salutes the spirit of Mumbai and does it so effectively that the viewer can relate through the lives of ordinary persons in the film. Director Nishikant Kamat’s film explores the aftermath of a terrorist attack on the mindset of people. It is about the infamous July 11, 2006 Mumbai train blasts and how these incidents affect the lives of different people in the city. The film simply presents the facts and reality of life and it does not try to be judgmental at all. It is upon the viewer to make his own opinion. The film has five different stories running parallel to each other which are bound by the same incident. Nikhil (R. Madhavan) is software professional and a responsible citizen. Incidently, on the fateful day of July when there are serial blasts on different trains throughout ....
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Saala Khadoos – movie review

R Madhavan plays a failed, disheartened retired boxer who now, is a coach of women's boxing for the Indian Boxing Federation. Being true to his profession and the country, this nutty coach has the uncanny ability to spot budding talent. He comes up with a convincing and extremely realistic performance of a true and honest coach who puts all his efforts, time (and money) in nuturing raw talent. Being a true boxing coach, he cannot accept anything mediocre in his budding women boxers. Nothing less. Adi Tomar (R. Madhavan) is a Senior Boxing Coach for Women's Boxing Federation of India. The federation chief (Zakir Hussain) is a typical babu type who keeps his personal motives and benefits in mind while selection of the women boxer to represent the country. Adi's outspoken and blunt behaviour leads to him being transferred to Chennai, where he finds the selected women boxers belo ....
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Tanu Weds Manu Returns – Hindi movie review

A sequel to 'Tanu Weds Manu', the couple leads a happy married life in Europe. It is nearly 4 years of their marriage, that Tanu (Kangana Ranaut) and Manu (R. Madhavan) loose interest in living together. She is ruing the loss of romance, while he too, is struggling to figure out what exactly has gone wrong. They visit a counselor, who makes the matters worse and next we see that they are separated. Their marriage is on the rocks with Tanu at one juncture accusing Manu of being devoid of any spark. To which Manu retorts "I am not a lighter." Tanu wants to seperate and so she returns to her hometown in Kanpur, India where she feels free and is back to her wild ways. Manu comes to Delhi for a change in his life, until he meets the Haryanvi athlete Kusum aka Datto (Kangana Ranaut in a double role) - who resembles Tanu. Manu gets interested in this different yet a look-alike girl and come ....
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