Ghayal
Sunny Deol: The Enduring Power of Hindi Cinema’s Great Mass Hero
Hindi cinema has witnessed countless stars rise, reinvent themselves and, eventually, fade with changing tastes. Few, however, have sustained a bond with audiences as instinctive and enduring as Sunny Deol. In an age where celebrity is often built through constant visibility and meticulous image management, his stardom continues to rest on something far rarer: emotional credibility. Right from his debut in Betaab (1983), Sunny has charted a path unlike that of most mainstream stars. He began as a sensitive romantic lead before gradually evolving into Hindi cinema’s definitive embod | Click Here...
Ghayal Versus Dil: 31 Years After The Boxoffice War
On June 22, 1990 Raj Kumar Santoshi’s Ghayal and Indra Kumar’s Dil released simultaneously, much against the advice of boxoffice experts who thought it was suicidal to release two potential blockbusters side by side.Miraculously both worked wonders at the boxoffice. One more than the other.Here are some facts about the two simultaneous blockbusters. 1. Ghayal was definitely a much better film than Dil. But Dil was a bigger hit. While Indra Kumar’s film occupied first position at the boxoffice, Raj Kumar Santoshi’s film was the second biggest | Click Here...
Trailer Review of Baaghi 3: Looks like Ghayal re-loaded
Tiger Shroff is on a winning spree. And what better way to bolster his brand than another Baaghi film? Having nailed the action in the first two films Tiger, with choreographer-turned-director Ahmed Khan at the helm unleashes what looks like a millennial version of Raj Kumar Santoshi’s Ghayal. Tiger plays the street-smart, fist-friendly, rebooted version of Sunny Deol, while Ritesh Deshmukh is the doting brother who gets kidnapped in, ahem, Syria (the film is actually shot in Serbia). The Baaghi franchise is characterized by a kidnapping incident. In the first Baaghi film it was Ti | Click Here...
Some 10 select production houses have destroyed the soul of Indian TV: rants Sudesh Berry
Veteran film and TV actor Sudesh Berry, who is playing an important role in Life Ok show Chandrakanta, is very happy at his king role. “I have never played a ruler before who exercises extra ordinary powers.” Sudesh, who has been around the entertainment industry for thirty odd years (Ghayal, Vansh) laments the current state of Bollywood, “There is no system worth the name, few families rule the roost, and ironically even the maths does not add up. If you even invest 100 crores andonly make 150, what is the big deal? “The answer to them is a Bahubaali which i | Click Here...