Laxmii

2021 Queer Roundup: Unassuming gayness of ACP Khan in Aarya over laboured representation in Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui

My hope for queer storytelling as we step into a new year is to be more irreverent, to see more easy queerness, more desire, and more queer authorship as opposed to only queer characters.

Bell Bottom: Akshay Kumar on his love for spy films, shooting amid pandemic, and opting for theatrical release over OTT

"It is very difficult to get a good spy drama. It is not easy to make one. To play a spy one has to balance the wit of the character and the physicality and action," says Akshay Kumar.

The Family Man's Sharad Kelkar requests producers to invest in his talent as an actor

"It is a humble request to all producers, consider me and put some money on me," Sharad Kelkar said

With muted reception to event films on OTT platforms, release of Salman Khan's Radhe is a high-profile litmus test

The argument can be made that event films like Laxmii and Coolie No. 1 were never meant to belong in homes and laptop screens. But the counterargument is that perhaps they were never meant to belong at all.

Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2021: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone announced Best Actor, Actress

Sushant Singh Rajput was posthumously honoured with the Critic’s Best Actor award at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival 2021.

Production slowdown, hybrid releases, PR crises: How mainstream Bollywood coped with 'the year from hell'

Trade analysts put the overall loss to the Hindi movie business anywhere between Rs 5000 crores and Rs 9000 crores depending on who one speaks to, but in all of this it’s important to remember those who have been the hardest hit – the daily wage workers, junior artists, and the single screen owners.

By crafting a careful saintly image, Akshay Kumar has lost the goofy, comedic quality that made him a superstar

In pretending to care for the world, Kumar has chosen to play to the gallery of sainthood, rather than to his strength. Even his purported risks, like playing a transgender character in Laxmii – are employed towards manufacturing consent for his ‘do-good’ image.

As Laxmii releases, revisiting Raghava Lawrence's Kanchana franchise and how well it represents the marginalised

Raghava Lawrence's franchise is successful because he normalises vulnerability. While we can debate if the representation is truly positive or a crude caricature, one would find it difficult to argue that he has any malice or is misguided.

Akshay Kumar's horror-comedy Laxmii to only have OTT premiere, despite reopening of cinemas

Laxmii is among the seven major Hindi movies to get a direct-to-digital release on Disney+ Hotstar.

The Friday List: From a workshop on picking locks to Raghava Lawrence's horror comedy Laxmii, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.