Gangubai Kathiawadi Release

The Fame Game release or Alia Bhatt's Gangubai Kathiawadi? Here's what's making Karan Johar anxious and nervous

“I don’t know what I am more nervous about. The Fame Game or Gangubai.I haven’t seen Gangubai as yet. But I know the magic Sanjay Bhansali is capable of creating with Alia. The girl is blessed. I am so proud of her. I have been waiting for the two of them to work together,” Karan Johar says.

Gangubai Kathiawadi could give wind to the sails of change in Bollywood’s hackneyed representation of sex workers

Films like Mandi, Dev.D, Begum Jaan, and Anaarkali of Aarah empowered their women with agency. Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming Gangubai Kathiawadi could be the latest addition to this formidable list.

How big will Gangubai Kathiawadi be at the box office, here's what trade experts have to say

To understand if Gangubai Kathiawadi will work on the box office, we got in touch with the leading trade analysts. Here's what they have to say.

Alia Bhatt on navigating Gangubai Kathiawadi: Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted to keep it both entertaining and intense

"Sanjay Leela Bhansali and I have great synergy. Nobody has wanted me to do so well before. I was being pushed to do my best,” says Alia Bhatt about her Gangubai Kathiawadi director.

Humbug litigation against Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Gangubai Kathiawadi, a nasty trend that must stop

The point is about nuisance litigation against films whereby an effort is made to block a release just weeks or days before the scheduled Friday. This must stop. It is nothing but a form of extortion.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali on completing 25 years in Bollywood: I'm much more in control of my craft now

Sanjay Leela Bhansali says Alia Bhatt's Gangubai Kathiawadi is his most personal film yet. "I spent the first 30 years of my living just one lane away from Kamathipura. Every flavour, colour, and texture that I remembered from my childhood has gone into this film."

Explained: Who was Gangubai Kathiawadi, and why the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film on her is being opposed

A controversial but formidable figure in the 1960s, Gangubai's story was also documented by author and journalist S Hussain Zaidi in his book Mafia Queens Of Mumbai.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali opens up on Gangubai Kathiawadi's warm reception at Berlinale: 'Deeply moved'

"Gangubai Kathiawadi is set in Mumbai of the 1960s, a very specific culture. But the Berlin audience saw the film the way we wanted it to be seen: as a humane, emotional, warm, and funny story of a woman who lived life on her own terms," says Bhansali.

Gangubai Kathiawadi: Ajay Devgn shares his first look poster from Alia Bhatt starrer

In this poster, we can see Ajay posing by a car. He looks dapper in white pants and a shirt with a grey blazer. He completed the look with a black cap and sunglasses.

Alia Bhatt to stay out of RRR publicity; here’s why

Alia has only a 10-minute cameo role in RRR whereas she is seen in almost every frame of Gangubai Kathiawadi. She has therefore decided to stay out of the publicity and marketing of RRR.