The chemistry between the lead pair Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra is infectious and Habib Faisal’s direction is first-rate. Arjun Kapoor makes a fantastic debut. Parineeti Chopra shines again in a complex and intense role, feel critics.

Despite being the youngest director nominee for the Oscars for his film Little Terrorist (2005), and a National Award winner for Inshallah Football (2010), director Ashvin Kumar’s thriller The Forest, has cleared certification for release only in English.

Ishaqzaade lead actor Arjun Kapoor pulls his co-star Parineeti Chopra’s leg, as the duo argues, fights, laughs hysterically and entertains a roomful at the HT office.

Hours before the film releases and a day before the reviews appear, here’s what you can expect from this week’s release(s)…

Being one of the top actors in Bollywood is not an easy position to maintain, but for Kareena Kapoor, it’s just a way of life. After completing Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine, she will begin work on Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram Leela, which will be shot in the interiors of Gujarat.

Ishaqzaade actor Arjun Kapoor has been in the headlines lately for a strange reason —Salman Khan has reportedly refused to promote him through his Twitter account. But Arjun isn’t amused with such speculation.

Actor Arjun Kapoor, awaiting the release of his debut film "Ishaqzaade", polished his acting skills with several street plays. After the release of his film, he might feature in another such play as Yamraj.

While Arjun Kapoor makes his debut with YRF's Ishaqzaade, Karisma Kapoor marks her comeback with Vikram Bhatt's Dangerous Ishhq today. Here's a look at other movies releasing on Friday.

Filmmaker Ratan Jain, producer of recently released film Tezz, has reacted strongly to its director, Priyadarshan, who alleged that the film was taken away from him and the producers edited the flick, leading to its failure.

Portraying the role of a secret agent in Ek Tha Tiger, Salman Khan is back in the action mode. And there's a good news for people who were waiting for Salman to break his Dabangg image. He has acquired brand-new mannersisms for his latest avatar.
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Vikram Bhatt's Dangerous Ishhq has an attention-grabbing plot, but the screenplay gets taxing and boring after a point. You could watch the film for one or the other reason. Karisma makes a fair fist of it. Read on.

Producer Mahesh Bhatt confirms that Randeep Hooda will replace the Bhatt camp’s blue-eyed-boy Emraan Hashmi in the third installment of the Murder franchise.

He claims to be the scriptwriter of Ram Gopal Varma's upcoming film Department, but the director says he doesn't remember who he is. Danish Raza, the screenplay-script writer, has now filed a police complaint against Ramu on May 7 for not paying him dues for the film.

Anurag Kashyap's two-part movie Gangs Of Wasseypur will compete with international films at the Sydney Film Festival June 6-17.

He is tasting success film after film, but Emraan Hashmi is not willing to fit into the category of Bollywood's A-list stars. He doesn't want to play it safe and says he is ready to take risks just as he has done with every project so far.