Manav Vij
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Vadh movie review: Sanjay Mishra and Neena Gupta's film is both heroic and heartbreaking
Vinamra Mathur •The veterans pull off the miseries of a middle-aged couple with a near-haunting effect, and make their undeserving loneliness worthy of empathizing with.
Tanaav review: Serviceable Indian adaption of Fauda lacks spunk
Manik Sharma •Tanaav is a tepid adaptation of a cult show and fails to import to Indian shores, the chaos and humanity of the original.
EXCLUSIVE! Arbaaz Khan on Tanaav maker Sudhir Mishra: He has a very uncanny knack of telling a story in a different way
Ganesh Aaglave •In an exclusive interaction with Firstpost, Arbaaz Khan opens up about his character in Tanaav, working with Sudhir Mishra and more.
Laal Singh Chaddha movie review: A remake that does some things better than Forrest Gump, some things mindlessly worse
Annavetticad •Laal Singh Chaddha completely avoids commenting on the divisive forces pervading India today. Instead, it panders to those very forces in its representation of Muslims.
Laal Singh Chaddha is better than Forrest Gump - here’s why
Subhash •Without touching the inviolable essence of innocence in Forrest Gump, Laal Singh Chaddha outdistances the original, not because Aamir Khan runs faster than Tom Hanks (he does!), but by shifting the focus of the original from universal compassion to a specific love-interest
Samrat Prithviraj: Akshay Kumar’s historical action-drama gets OTT release date
Fp Staff •Akshay Kumar's Samrat Prithviraj presents an inspiring and entertaining saga of one of the greatest kings and fearless warriors in Indian history — Prithviraj Chauhan of the Chahamana dynasty.
Sudhir Mishra to direct Tanaav, Indian adaptation of Israeli drama series Fauda
Fp Staff •Tanaav features Manav Vij, Sumit Kaul, Rajat Kapoor, Shashank Arora, Arbaaz Khan, Zarina Wahab, Ekta Kaul, Waluscha De Sousa, Danish Hussain, Satyadeep Mishra, Sukhmani Sadana, Sahiba Bali, Amit Gaur, Arslan Goni, Rockey Raina, M.K. Raina, Sheen Dass, Aryaman Seth among others in prominent roles.
Akshay Kumar is distressfully inadequate as Samrat Prithviraj
Subhash •While Akshay Kumar is distressfully miscast, Manushi Chhillar’s raw inexperience shows in every frame of Chandraprakash Dwivedi's Samrat Prithviraj.
Samrat Prithviraj movie review: Akshay Kumar’s film puts all its might behind a Hindu rashtra
Tatsam Mukherjee •Samrat Prithviraj unfolds like a straightforward sequence of Wikipedia entries: early childhood, first battle, marriage, second battle, death, legacy.
With Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, Janhvi Kapoor finally takes the flight she has longed for
Devanshsharma •Like Gunjan Saxena, Janhvi Kapoor has had battles to fight of her own. But she has combated the allegations of nepotism with quiet, dignified determination.