Women fighting patriarchy and challenging socio-cultural norms seem to be the talking points again, going by the ‘#JointheREBELution’ in the poster of Alankrita Shrivastava’s next. (Photo: Instagram/Akshay Kumar)Īyan Mukerji returns seven years after the success of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, with his biggest film that’s being mounted as a trilogy.Īmitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Mouni Roy star in this fantasy.Īyan Mukerji's latest packs in a lot of star power. Also starring Akshay Kumar and Sharman Joshi.īoth the cast and the subject are interesting. The presence of Vidya Balan, Nithya Menen, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Sonakshi Sinha in this drama, based on India’s mission to Mars, is reason enough to be excited. Here's listening to you, kid: Gully Boy has an unusual subject. Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Kalki Koechlin, Vijay Raaz, Amruta Subhash and Vijay Verma star in the drama, which will have its world premiere at the Berlinale in February. Inspired by Mumbai’s rap scene and its most popular practitioners like Divine and Naezy, Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti write a tale that looks at the fraught lives of youth and the power of music to heal and liberate.
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The movie has an impressive ensemble cast. (Photo: YouTube screengrab) Comparisons with Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen are inevitable, but the cast Chaubey has assembled - Manoj Bajpayee, Ranvir Shorey, Sushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi Pednekar and Ashutosh, to name a few - and the trailer suggest that he’s up to the task.
In his fourth feature, he takes viewers to Chambal, to look close up at dacoit life. Udta Punjab confirmed that Abhishek Chaubey ( Ishiqya and Dedh Ishiqya) is one of the most talented filmmakers in Bollywood. The standard love story formula seems set for a progressive twist. (Photo: YouTube screengrab) Father-daughter duo Anil Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor Ahuja act together for the first time, with Rajkummar Rao and Juhi Chawla as co-stars. In Gazal Dhaliwal and Shelly Chopra Dhar’s film of the same title, the line gets an unexpected, much welcomed twist as they make the case that love has no boundaries, including that of gender. Written by Javed Akhtar, this memorable track from 1942: A Love Story illustrated in detail how a young man felt about the woman he loved. The world premiere is at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival on January 27. The latest from the maker of The Lunchbox. (Photo: YouTube screengrab) (Photo: YouTube screengrab)Īfter directing two English features, Ritesh Batra ( The Lunchbox) returns home to Mumbai to set another unexpected romance between a struggling photographer (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and a woman (Sanya Malhotra) who pretends to be his fiancée. Ivan Ayr’s debut venture has already won awards on the international film festival circuit. The Delhi-set drama follows “a short-fused policewoman and her level-headed female boss” fighting crime against women, even as they grapple with gender issues in their own lives. Ivan Ayr’s debut feature is already collecting acclaim and awardson the international film festival circuit.
Here’s a line-up of 10 films to look forward to. From offbeat love stories to projects by directors who have given us quality cinema in the past, there is a lot to look forward to for movie-lovers in 2019.