P. Ramnath’s Ambasamudhiram Ambani looks at ambition and dream within the ambit of honesty, sincerity and hard work in a country where wealth has been largely amassed through unlawful means.

After Hollywood and Bollywood, now it is the turn of Nepal’s film industry, dubbed Kollywood, to face the anger of ruffled Hindu groups.

The Marathi version of the film Lalbaug Parel  has got an extremely good response from the movie goers. The collections for the first week in Maharashtra are between Rs. 1.6 - 1.8 crore.

Mahesh Manjrekar is still game for a Hindi film, but feels there’s much to be gained in regional cinema.

Paiyya could have been a delightful spin, a breezy romance. But N. Lingusamy, who has written and directed it, appears to have got caught in a 1970s time warp.

An expatriate Punjabi community, reconnecting with its roots and spreading the message of peace.

The movie is intensely disturbing, and a very bold effort by the helmer to document a notorious social practice, overlooked by a corrupt administration. Read on for the full review

Mundhinam Paartheney is sadly, a good theme that has not been crafted with care. Indeed, a classic case of an interesting plot spoilt by an awful narrative style.

Although the English title, Love Story 2010 is not a literal translation for the Tamil film, Yathumaagi, it captures the essence of the story. In some ways, Balakumar’s work underlines a certain callousness that has crept into modern relationships.

As much as cinema is an extraordinary form of entertainment, it is also a source of knowledge and a platform for provoking debates. Without these, a film may well remain unfulfilled in a certain sense.

Thiru’s latest work, Theeratha Vilayattu Pillai (a term used in Tamil mythology for Krishna) may well be a repackaged Dev Anand starrer Teen Deviyan, where he cavorted with Nanda, Kalpana and Simi, falling in love with each.

After a decade-and-a-half, Marathi cinema has got a new lease of life when the tamasha-based Natrang on the life of Ganpat Patil, grossed over Rs. 6 crore in just two weeks.

Rs 4 crore, Harishchandrachi Factory is the most expensive Marathi film ever made. Keeping this in mind, director Paresh Mokashi knew that it would take a while for his movie to recover its investment.

Indian mythology, folklore and even literature present a mindboggling canvas of beguiling stories, and the most common are those that talk about step-sibling enmity and the conflict between moral right and wrong. Saran-helmed Tamil work, Asal, tosses these themes into...