
She was and has been the quintessential young woman next door whom an intelligent man would love to take to his mother. Playing a quintessential ‘bhartiya naari’, whether belonging to the classical mould (Parineeta, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Eklavya – The Royal Guard) or the modern times (Paa, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Salaam E Ishq) with a brain [...]

Vishal Bhardwaj has done it again. After the success of “Kaminey”, his rustic “Ishqiya” has beaten the Amitabh Bachchan starrer “Rann” at the box office, thanks to its appealing content. Both movies released Friday and had star-studded red-carpet premieres in the capital Thursday, but “Ishqiya” took the cake with almost 80 percent collections in the [...]

Get ready for tangy, pungent, sizzling and spicy stuff. Be forewarned, ISHQIYA isn’t the fluffy, candyfloss, saccharine sweet story of lovers breaking into songs in mustard fields. In ISHQIYA, you just don’t know what turn the story may take next. Not just the story, even the characters here are so impulsive and unpredictable. You need [...]