Bihar poll: A pot boiler of a movie

Who will walk away into the sunset at the end?The reigning superstar who has given three mega blockbusters in 2005, 2010 and 2015?Or the fresh faced son of a former star trying to make a mark for......

Peter Parker becomes an Indian

Can you imagine Spiderman clad in white dhoti, red kurta, cummerbund, and red jootis? Battling a rakshasa instead of the Green Goblin? Or spinning his web across the Taj Mahal or the Gateway of......

Alert: Pencils to Pixels 2004

Pencils to Pixels2004The Academy Of Digital Arts and Communications has organised a competition, Pencils to Pixels2004, with several scholarships to encourage budding talent in animated films.Those......

How Mahindra developed XUV500. The true story

Bruce Lee, Russell Crowe in The Gladiator, Spiderman, a waterfall, combat helicopters and the cheetah are unlikely to ever be on the same storyboard, not even in a comic book. Yet, they were all......

Mac vs. PC: What you don't get for $699

I'm a sucker for a well-made TV ad. Inspired by the Nike "Just Do It" and "Air Jordan" campaigns of decades past, I mentally mapped out storyboards of the spots I wanted to produce. Nowadays I......

Sachin joins Superman league

India will have a new comic hero. A character based on Tendulkar is set to hit bookstores - games and merchandise to follow. Imagine Sachin Tendulkar as the saviour of the world -- fighting the......

Government allows surrogate ads

The government has lifted the strict restrictions on surrogate advertisements, which did not allow tobacco and alcohol companies to advertise their brands on any medium.It has now allowed tobacco......

'Katrina was very much against doing a Tamil version'

'It would have made (Producer) Ramesh Taurani very happy if I taken two Bombay stars, but the reason why I kept mentally rejecting the regular sort of casting was to discover this excitement, you......

The Archies Review: Return To Innocence

The Archies is an evergreen thought passed on from generation to generation. But Sukanya Verma wishes it had some of the comic's tee-hee humour and hyuk hyuk too. Long before there was cable TV,......

'Today's heroes do anything they want'

'Earlier, it was four songs and four fights, and some story. That was enough.''Maybe we are in a box then and the audiences were not prepared for anything new.''Now we have got bigger scope.'......

Shaakuntalam Review: Too Much CGI

The love story of Shakuntala and Dushyant is so familiar, from textbooks, comics, stage and screen versions, that it has become part of our cultural DNA.If a film-maker thinks he can make it his......

Coming soon: Biopic on Leander Paes

Leander Paes laments state of Indian Davis Cup, says will take a decade to lift standard Photograph: Kind Courtesy Leander Paes/Twitter Indian tennis icon Leander Paes is pained by the relegation......