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For those who came in late, Applause Entertainment’s Undekhi on SonyLIV, is about the arrogance of wealth. This affliction makes the Atwal family believe no law of the land is applicable to their lives.

The arrogance of unlimited wealth is on full display as the Atwal family prepares in scenic Manali for the Big Fat ‘Greed’ Wedding of their heir apparent Daman to his girlfriend Teji (Anchal Singh), who before the series clambers to a kickass climax, will display unexpected pluck in taking on her socio-pathic in-laws. More of the same, and yet at the top of the game…That just about sums up the second season of 2020’s well-played cat-and-mouse crime thriller about a super-rich wedding, a murder, and the affluent arrogance of a family that thinks crime is the only way to stay wealthy.

It’s a world where people get shot randomly, remorselessly. The patriarch of...

A lawyer, a detective, and a chameleon taking on cases that will make sure you’re at the edge of your seats! Disney+ Hotstar is bringing you a thrilling new show, Reeta Sanyal, starring the fierce and fabulous Adah Sharma. Join Reeta as she dives into a whirlwind of cases navigating through complex waters of justice. With her sharp mind and chameleon-like skills, will she be able to steer through the tumultuous game of justice? Produced by Rajeshwar Nair and Krishnan Iyer under the banner of Keylight Productions and directed by Abhirup Ghosh, the series is based on the character created by the acclaimed writer Amit Khan. Reeta Sanyal will stream from October 14, 2024 exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar, free on mobile.

Rajeshwar Nair , producer and co-founder of Keylight Productions said, “Reeta Sanyal is a series that’s filled with intrigue, emotion, and thrilling moments. It’s everything I love about storytelling it’s entertaining,...

No confirmation yet on Four More Shots Please! Season 4, but the cast's Instagram bios hint at possible developments. Key characters like Anjana, Damini, Umang, and Sidhi are poised for further exploration in potential new stories. Ankur Rathee's optimism about returning suggests a continuation of past relationships and male characters like in Sex and the City.

Following the season 3 finale in 2022, fans have been left wondering if season 4 of Four More Shots Please! will ever happen. Four More Shots Please! has been a revolutionary series for the Indian audience, showcasing the vibrant lives of four unapologetically flawed women navigating their friendships, careers, and love lives in Mumbai. Four More Shots Please! has been compared to Sex and the City, as it too has garnered a loyal fanbase with its bold narrative and stylish execution. Four More Shots Please! season 3 left fans eager for more with their favorite characters experiencing unresolved personal dilemmas.

Acclaimed actor Dibyendu Bhattacharya, who was recently seen in the streaming series ‘Poacher’, is set to return as Dsp Barun Ghosh in the upcoming season 3 of ‘Undekhi’.The actor revealed his fondness for portraying police officers, citing their valour and selflessness as qualities that have always intrigued him.

The trailer for ‘Undekhi 3’ was recently unveiled, heightening audience anticipation once again.

Dibyendu, who previously portrayed a cop in ‘Jamatara’, spoke about playing a cop again in this popular franchise.

The actor told Ians: “Well, I must confess that I really enjoy playing a cop! Police officers always fascinated me, their valour, their selflessness. If you see, the character arcs in both the shows (‘Jamatara’ and ‘Undekhi’) are strikingly different. As Dsp Barun Ghosh, there’s an innate need to prove the devious ‘papaji’ guilty.”

“As we delve into the next chapter of Barun’s journey, I can promise fans that the...

The makers of ‘Undekhi’ starring Harsh Chhaya, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Surya Sharma, and Ankur Rathee unveiled the trailer for Season 3 on Friday, in which ‘Papa Ji’ delves deeper into the realm of darkness and deception.

The show features Harsh as Papa ji, Dibyendu as Dsp Barun Ghosh, Surya as Rinku Atwal, and Ankur as Daman.

This trailer takes viewers on a massive ride of emotions and thrill as the story progresses spine-chilling bloodshed. As the Atwal family unleashes chaos, grappling with family politics and confronting their concealed past becomes a massive challenge.

Thrilling encounters, a battle for ultimate supremacy, and long-buried mysteries resurfacing to haunt them, this season promises to showcase an electrifying fight for power amidst a relentless force of revenge.

Sharing the trailer, the makers wrote: “Papaji is back and so is his past! As he fights to reclaim his power, new predators emerge from the shadows. With every ally turned adversary,...

Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan, whose latest film ‘Shehzada’ released on February 17, has looked back at his film ‘Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety’ on its fifth anniversary. The actor shared a sweet throwback on the occasion.

Taking to his social media, Kartik on Thursday shared the climax scene of ‘Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety’, and further added a glimpse of the extremely popular friendship song, ‘Tera Yaar Hoon Main’ from the film, marking its five years.

As he re-lived the memories of the film, he wrote in the caption: “5 years ago, this day turned into Friendship’s Day. And Sonu became an inseparable part of our lives. Thank you Sonu ko apne dil se lagaane ke liye #5YearsOfSonuKeTituKiSweety.”

Meanwhile, ‘Shehzada’, which also stars Kriti Sanon, is the official remake of Allu Arjun’s Telugu blockbuster ‘Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo’.

The film also stars Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala, Ronit Roy, Rajpal Yadav, Ankur Rathee and Sunny Hinduja.

Kartik Aaryan starrer ‘Shehzada’ is an action-packed family entertainer, a remake of the Allu Arjun starrer 2020 Telugu film ‘Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo’. Shehzada has elements of everything from romance to drama, comedy to emotion and lots of Kartik’s swag. Kartik Aaryan is rapidly taking strides stepping into larger shoes and tasting super success with films like Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 (Akshay Kumar), Allu Arjun’s character in Shehzada and also Salman Khan in the ‘Character Dheela’ song in Shehzada. No wonder he is a darling of the teens. With this film Kartik could earn the moniker as Bollywood’s ‘Shehzada’ (Prince) after having a ‘Badshah’ (Shah Rukh Khan) and a Shahenshah (Amitabh Bachchan).

Plot

A nurse informs birth of two baby boys – one of Randeep (Ronit Roy), a millionaire business tycoon and another of Valmiki (Paresh Rawal), Randeep’s friend and now an employee. The babies are exchanged and only two people are witness to this.

Shehzada

Directed by Rohit Dhawan

From the first frame to the last, Kartik Aaryan has himself a blast. He makes sure we forget the original as he launches into a celebration of pure tomfoolery.

The original Telugu film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo was very 1980s in theme. Writer-director Rohit Dhawan retains the flavour and energy of the original allowing Kartik Aaryan plenty of room to improvise. Kartik elbows out nearly all the characters. Except for Paresh Rawal, who plays the scummiest father on this earth, and not the least embarrassed about it. The rest of the characters are a blur in Kartik’s showmanship.

He is required to be a one-man show and still hold the show together. The orchestra conductor’s avatar suits him well. He is effective in both the comic and melodramatic moments.

Rohit Dhawan’s direction is fuelled by bombast. He creates a world that his father the...

Actor Ankur Rathee, who plays Daman in the series ‘Undekhi’, says he would be thrilled if the series was picked up for a third season. The actor said, “Given the audience response, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was another season. I was especially pleased to hear how many enjoyed Daman’s character arc this time. […]...

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Get ready for a new series to binge! Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, set to premiere on Netflix, is a joint production with Tiger Baby and Excel Media. Created and directed by Rahul Nair, the quirky series stars Vihaan Samat, Rahul Bose, Suchitra Pillai, Jim Sarbh, Ankur Rathee and Dalai. Eternally Confused and Eager for Love is a offbeat look into the life of Ray, a confused twenty-four-year-old boy who takes all the wrong turns in the hope of finding love! The series is all set to stream on Netflix starting March 18, 2022.

See, Ray is an awkward young man who is navigating adulthood and the daunting world of romance in the 21st century. He does this with the help of ‘Wiz’, a personification of Ray’s inner voice, who tells us what Ray cannot say out loud. In a quest to understand if he wants sex,...

Streaming giant Netflix has come together with production houses Tiger Baby and Excel Media for their first joint series titled ‘Eternally Confused and Eager for Love’, which is all set to stream from March 18. Starring Vihaan Samat, Rahul Bose, Suchitra Pillai, Jim Sarbh, Ankur Rathee and Dalai, the series is created and directed by […]...

Ankur Rathee, who we last saw in Nagesh Kukunoor’s City of Dreams has been receiving strong feedback for his most recent performance in Amazon Prime’s Inside Edge, Season 3. The young actor plays the role of Allen Menezes, a gay rights lawyer and activist in love with a cricketer (Akshay Oberoi) who is afraid of […]...

Inside Edge Season 3(Amazon Prime Video, 10 Episodes)

For fans of the cricketing franchise that kicked off in 2017, Inside Edge is still likely to hold some interest, no ifs and ‘bats’ about it.

Batting and betting remain the series’ patent preoccupations. The characters, all 155 of them(no I wasn’t counting, just guessing) remain locked in a self-serving vault where they can only see the world asa place to mint money, and more money. Sporting ethics be damned.

The ten episodes of Season 3 have their high points. But the low points sadly exceed the high. There are many loose ends in the plot: for example, why is Richa Chadha(who gets top billing) missing in the first 5 episodes? Even after she makes a belated entry her character Zarina Mehta seems uncertain about her presence and her future. Flashbacks of her mother’s humiliation as a junior artiste are too perfunctory to...

Actor Ankur Rathee has an interesting anecdote recalling his experience of working with Jim Sarbh.

Ankur played Jim's brother in Bejoy Nambiar's recent release, "Taish", which dropped digitally as a web series as well as a film.

"In rehearsals, we would think of something mischievous, smile at each other and throw the scene on its feet and test it out! Such exploration continued on set. We would constantly go off script, and as Bejoy kept rolling we would bounce off each other's absurd impulses. Jim reminded me that in our search for authenticity and spontaneity we can have so much fun," said Ankur.

It has been an eventful year for him so far, having worked with filmmakers like Anubhav Sinha, Nagesh Kukunoor and Bejoy Nambiar. The common factor among these creative artistes, he says, is that they welcome new ideas.

Ankur worked in Sinha's critically-acclaimed "Thappad" besides Bejoy Nambiar's "Taish...

Taish (Zee5)

Starring Harshvardhan Rane, Jim Sarbh, Pulkit Samrat, Sanjdeeda Sheikh, Kriti Kharbanda

Directed by Bijoy Nambiar As I finished watching this lengthy masterpiece, indeed a masterclass in adroit storytelling with room for every character to breathe even when they are destined to die, I thought not for the first time… Oh Frog, what am I doing watching this at home???!!!

Taish is a big-screen experience in every sense: big emotions, big egos, big fights, big vendetta, big screams, big silences…This is the kind of internecine vista of continuous bloodshed and vendetta that would end up being no more than an exercize in gratuitous violence in lesser hands. Not Bejoy Nambiar. I’ve watched his work closely and admired it since he started with Shaitaan.

Today Nambiar has leapt far ahead of his mentor Anurag Kashyap. Taish is proof of it. It is so sinfully engaging that I couldn...

Filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar is excitedly looking forward to the audience reaction to his latest effort.

Bejoy Nambiar's upcoming project, the revenge drama "Taish", releases on Thursday in the form of a feature film as well as web series. This is an unprecedented experiment in Indian showbiz.

"With every new release, the count of butterflies in my stomach increases, and right now I feel tensed, eager to know what the audience feels. There is a sense of double pressure because we are releasing 'Taish' in two formats, as a full-length feature film and as a web series. Both formats have their target audience. Having said that, there is relief because there is no weekend collection and box office pressure," the filmmaker told Ians.

"Also, in the film we have tried to touch upon a topic that hasn't been done in films before, so I am interested to know how people connect with it,...

ZEE5’s Original film and web-series ‘Taish’ review is here. Directed by Bejoy Nambiar, the movie stars Pulkit Samrat, Harshvardhan Rane, Jim Sarbh, Kriti Kharbanda, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Saurabh Sachdeva, Abhimanyu Singh, Saloni Batra, Zoa Morani, Ankur Rathee and others. Produced by EaseMyTrip in association with Soham Rockstar Entertainment Taish is A Getaway Pictures Production. Taish premieres on 29th October as a film and web series on ZEE5 Premium.

Taish synopsis

Rohan Kalra (Jim Sarbh) a medical professional in the UK is in a relationship with his colleague from Pakistan Arfa (Kriti Kharbanda). The traditional up-country Punjabi Hindu Rohan attends the wedding of his younger brother Krish Kalra (Ankur Rathee). Hell breaks loose when in a party - part of the wedding celebration, another violent criminal family headed by Kuljinder (Abhimanyu Singh) with his two brothers Pali (Harshvardhan Rane) and Jassi (Armaan Khera) attend the party. A brutally violent encounter results...

What a time it is turning out to be the world of Indian web series on the Ott platform. Considering this is the lockdown period, thankfully the ones which are deserving are indeed finding quite some eyeballs and attention for themselves. Undekhi is one such web series that spreads across 10 episodes and turns out to be such an engaging dramatic thriller that you don’t have a choice but to binge watch it from start to finish.

Inspired by the true events from a few years back when during a celebratory event a drunk man shot a female dancer from a close range, hence taking her life, Undekhi covers a lot more distance than what the premise may suggest. An excellent mix of fact & fiction, it goes beyond picking up from the headlines that stunned the nation and actually brings to fore the sheer audacity of a section of rich...

Four Mores Shots Please (Amazon Video)

Starring Kirti Kulhari, Maanvi Gagroo, Bani J, Sayani Gupta

Directed by Anu Menon, Nupur Asthana

In a series sparkling with chic quips and sparkling one-liners, there is not one happy protagonist at the end. Season 2, one of the best streaming series in India, concludes with a major twist!

Don’t look at me. Life itself serves up such a supreme spoiler for those who care to lunge forward in pursuit of self-satisfaction. Four More Shots Please says it’s okay to be selfish, that being a woman doesn’t mean you have to be constantly caring, giving, sacrificing, etc. Not surprisingly there are many talented women involved with this smart sassy series. And they ensure a life of unfettered pleasure pursuit, a lot of it in bed, for our ladies.

So in case you haven’t already met them, meet the four female heroes...

Thappad movie review is here. Directed by Anubhav Sinha and written by Mrunmayee Lagoo and Anubhav Sinha, the movie stars Taapsee Pannu. The movie releases on 28 February 2020. After terrorism (Mulk), casteism (Article 15), Anubhav Sinha tackles sexism in Thappad (meaning slap). Does Thappad falls tightly on the face and surface of its target?!. Let?s find out in the movie review of Thappad.

Immediate reaction when the end credits roll

Thappad is Anubhav Sinha?s biggest and most excellent contribution to cinema. This unforgettable, unmissable, triumph of humanity and womanhood is a masterwork of great symbolic art on screen, with Tapsee Pannu in a role to die for.

The Story of Thappad

Amrita ((Taapsee Pannu) underlines the word ?routine? with her life as a housewife. She loves her husband Vikram (Pavail Gulati), who is not willing to even put the alarm off in the morning. Amrita does that but before doing so,...