Priyanshu Painyuli

U-Turn movie review: Alaya F's film is the weakest remake of a done-to-death story

There’s a twist you won't see coming, but by that time, the remake has missed the bus. It fails to reach its destination; maybe it took that very U-Turn that made the makers make this film.

Priyanshu Painyuli: 'People keep telling me some of my projects haven't been successful but I look at the good side'

In this exclusive interview with Firstpost, Priyanshu Painyulli chats about his journey as an actor so far, the difference in the working style between Hollywood and Bollywood, what the pandemic taught him, and which audition made him stay awake for two days.

Unpaused: Naya Safar movie review — Pandemic tales with remarkable elements and unfulfilled promise

Each short in this anthology is set in the COVID19 pandemic. Nagraj Manjule confronts the pandemic full-scale in Vaikunth. COVID is the setting, significant even if not central, to the remaining four films.

With Rashmi Rocket, Taapsee Pannu, Akarsh Khurana explore gender testing in sports: It's not the story of just one athlete

"Gender discrimination is so prevalent, it comes up in every story in one way or the other," says Taapsee Pannu, whose next film Rashmi Rocket also addresses a women's issue, like previous hits Pink and Thappad.

Taapsee Pannu's sports drama Rashmi Rocket to release on ZEE5 on 15 October

Taapsee Pannu says "the result of Rashmi Rocket will affect me a lot more than my other films."

Ishaan Khatter's war drama Pippa kicks off filming in Amritsar

Based on Brigadier Mehta's book The Burning Chaffees, Pippa also stars Mrunal Thakur, Priyanshu Painyuli and Soni Razdan.

AR Rahman to score music for Raja Krishna Menon’s war film Pippa, starring Ishaan Khattar

Pippa will see Ishaan Khatter as Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron who, along with his siblings, fought on the eastern front during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971

Mrunal Thakur, Priyanshu Painyuli join Ishaan Khatter for Raja Krishna Menon’s war drama Pippa

Pippa, produced by RSVP and Roy Kapur Films, is scheduled to be released in 2021.

Extraction movie review: Chris Hemsworth's Netflix film marries Hollywood grandeur with localised aesthetics

Extraction embraces linguistic and ethnic diversity but fails to be a true-blue 'global' film by giving most of the Indian actors the shorter end of the stick.

'Chris Hemsworth has a kickass sense of humour': Randeep Hooda on working with the Avengers actor in Extraction

While Chris Hemsworth headlines Extraction, an action drama about a mercenary hired to extract a kidnapped Indian boy from the clutches of a Bangladeshi drug lord, the film stands out for the meaty parts played by Indian actors