Entertainment

Shekar Kapur's cross-cultural romcom 'Whats Love Got To Do With It? starring Shabana Azmi and Emma Thompson premieres at TIFF

Toronto: Touted as a cross-cultural British romcom, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur's 'What's Love Got to Do With It?', which also stars two powerhouse actors like Shabana Azmi and Emma Thompson with a screenplay by Jemima Khan, was premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

by Trans World Features September 17, 2022

Most difficult part was directing myself in Rocketry: The Nambi Effect: R Madhavan

Actor-director R Madhavan plays former scientist Nambi Narayanan in his upcoming film Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. Apart from acting, he also wore the director's hat in the film releasing this Friday. In an interaction with the media, Madhavan spoke about the making of the film. IBNS-TWF correspondent Shriya Biswas brings excerpts

by TWF September 03, 2022

Films are not NGOs, can't be responsible to improve society always: Taapsee Pannu

After Manmarziyaan, Indian actor Taapsee Pannu was reunited with popular filmmaker Anurag Kashyap for their second film together, Dobaaraa, which released Friday. IBNS-TWF correspondent Souvik Ghosh interacts with Taapsee who was in Kolkata for her promotional tour

by TWF August 29, 2022

My life has been a saga of one responsibility after another: Lata Mangeshkar

Social and cultural activist Sundeep Bhutoria shares with IBNS-TWF an unpublished interview of Lata Mangeshkar taken during a Kolkata-Mumbai flight as a co-passenger nearly two decades ago

by IBNS-TWF March 05, 2022

Marathi movie Jayanti addresses the issue of casteism, set for screening in Toronto

Marathi movie Jayanti, directed by Shailesh Narwade, produced by Meliorist Film Studio and starring Ruturaj Wankhede, Titeeksha Tawde and Milind Shinde, has been making records in Maharashtra, despite a strong competition from the Bollywood, and pandemic-induced constraints. Ahead of its screening in Toronto, IBNS Canada writer Debarati Mukherjee reports

by Trans World Features December 04, 2021

An artist tends to flow with art: Jackie Shroff

by Trans World Features September 21, 2021

Educating Boomba

Biswajeet Bora, who won the Best Director award for his film God in the Balcony at the 26th Kolkata film festival last year, is out with his new film Boomba Ride in Mising, a tribal language of Assam. The director in conversation with Shoma A. Chatterji

by Trans World Features July 30, 2021

I can make choices now: Manoj Bajpayee

Manoj Bajpai, with three National Awards in his kitty besides other awards, is happy with the thumping success of The Family Man 2. The versatile actor, who is also seen in Netflix's new Satyajit Ray inspired anthology Ray, in conversation with Shoma A. Chatterji

by Trans World Features June 10, 2021

The characters I choose should stand out: Paoli Dam

Paoli Dam is a versatile actress who now has made her mark beyond Tollywood, and on the OTT platform. She is ready to jump into any film or role that challenges her courage to do the unusual and her talent. She opens up to TWF correspondent Shoma A. Chatterji on her journey from television to Bengali cinema to Bollywood films

by Trans World Features May 25, 2021

A Bengali web series that revolves around a dog and comes with the message of loving animals

by Trans World Features April 30, 2021

Satyajit Ray: A secret bond with children

On the Birth Centenary Year of Satyajit Ray, the maestros work will be revisited again and again by admirers and critics. Among others, an area worth exploring is how the creative genius portrayed, and treated, children in his films and stories, writes Shoma A. Chatterji

by Trans World Features April 20, 2021

Rishav Ghosh directed Hindi film Dekho But Pyaar Se slated for April OTT release

Delhi: 'Dekho But Pyaar Se', a Hindi film directed by Rishav Ghosh and produced by Power Publishers & Motion Pictures and Amity School of Film & Drama, is slated for its OTT launch in April this year.

by Trans World Features March 30, 2021

First person: Documentary filmmaker Anupriya Dutta on her work

Anupriya Dutta talks about how she entered the field of documentary film making while heading the book publishing division of Power Publishers & Motion Pictures and about her major projects

by Trans World Features February 28, 2021

Cinema is part of my acting career, not my life: Anupam Kher

Veteran Indian actor Anupam Kher, who has mastered his art onscreen, was the guest at Ek Mulakat Visesh session organised by Prabha Khaitan Foundation and Shree Cement late last month. In a conversation with Ina Puri, Kher spoke not just about his films but his two books. India Blooms correspondent Souvik Ghosh brings excerpts

by Trans World Features February 16, 2021

India didn't love what I wanted to do, Sri Lanka has been amazing: Deepa Mehta

Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, whose film Fire had stirred a controversy in the late 1990s for depicting lesbianism, was the guest at Ek Mulakat Visesh organised by Prabha Khaitan Foundation and presented by Shree Cement. Her latest film is Funny Boy, set in Sri Lanka during the violent Tamil-Sinhalese conflict telling the story of a young boy and his sexual awakening. India Blooms correspondent Souvik Ghosh brings excerpts of her conversation with Ehsaas Woman of Delhi Archana Dalmia

by Trans World Features February 13, 2021

India gives me stories and Canada freedom to express them: Filmmaker Deepa Mehta

Kolkata/TWF: Filmmaker Deepa Mehta has recently said Canada gives her the freedom to express the ideas which she used to get from India.

by Trans World Features February 09, 2021

Scam Leela, Director Rishav Ghoshs thriller comedy is ready for OTT Release

Kolkata: 'Scam Leela', a short film directed by Rishav Ghosh, and a cast which includes popular actors such as Suvosmita Mukherjee and Judhajit Sarkar, is ready for release in a OTT platform.

by Trans World Features January 29, 2021

Bollywood 2020: A pandemic, death of an actor and the rise of OTT

Bollywood in 2020 wilted under the raging pandemic like any other industry. While movie theaters remained out of bound, what shocked the cine-goers is the yearlong news of deaths - from coronavirus to unnatural ones like the demise of Sushant Singh Rajput opening a Pandora's box of movie world open secrets. IBNS-TWF correspondent Supriyo Hazra looks back alphabetically with a heavy heart.

by Trans World Features December 13, 2020

The courtesan is iconic part of Indian society...but it was different for me to explore her in new territory: Tabu

During one of the conversations series organized by the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Geoff Macnaughton of TIFF catches up with Tanishka Maniktala playing Lata, Ishaan Khatter playing Maan, and Tabu playing Saida Bai in the film A Suitable Boy, a primetime presentation recipient of the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media. The director of the film, Mira Nairs six-part drama series is an adaptation of Vikram Seths famous novel about a young Indian woman's struggle to create a balance between family duty and personal independence in post-partition India. IBNS Toronto correspondent Asha Bajaj brings you the excerpts:

by Trans World Features October 15, 2020

Enacting delicate same-sex relationship with Ronan every day terrified me: Kate Winslet

During one of the conversations series organized by the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), thed iconic fest's executive director and co-head Joana Vicente catches up with Hollywood stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in Francis Lee directed 'Ammonite'. The romantic drama is inspired by the life of 19th century British palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) who was in an all-consuming same-sex love with geologist Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan). Asha Bajaj brings you excerpts:

by Trans World Features October 09, 2020

Synthetic Sati director confirms new film: A social comedy road-film set in pandemic-hit rural India

Kolkata: Director Rishav Ghosh is set to film his new short Dekho But Pyaar Se, part of a two-city venture, with NCR based Saakshi Khare producing it on behalf of Kolkata-based Power Publishers & Motion Pictures production banner.

by Trans World Features September 30, 2020

Power Publishers & Motion Pictures developing new crime-thriller web series, slated for national release

Kolkata: Power Publishers & Motion Pictures is developing a new action crime thriller web series, titled Ransom: Price of Freedom, aimed for national release.

by Trans World Features September 30, 2020

I want Hollywood with talent influx from across the world: Priyanka Chopra Jonas at TIFF

A favourite of Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for over a decade now, international actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas had a virtual interaction with Cameron Bailey, the artistic director and co-head of the festival this month. Chopra, who was the ambassador of Share Her Journey at the 45th edition of TIFF, spoke about the festival, Hollywood, Bollywood and her days in quarantine amid Covid-19 pandemic. India Blooms Canada special correspondent Asha Bajaj beings excerpts

by Trans World Features September 17, 2020

Dance, dance, dance away

by Trans World Features July 19, 2020

One should not be on a film set if he or she is not loyal to the film: Sujoy Ghosh

by Trans World Features June 08, 2020

Synthetic Sati bags Best Director and Best Actress awards in Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2020 student film category

Kolkata/TWF: Actress Sauraseni Maitra received the Best Actress Award and Rishav Ghosh received the Best Director Award for the film Synthetic Sati, in the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2020, in the student film category.

by Trans World Features May 27, 2020

Abhishek Singh plays a street con in Rohosyo Romancho series Season 2

Recently voted one of the most desirable men by Calcutta Times, actor Abhishek Singh is riding a crest and garnering a reputation as a versatile actor with gorgeous looks.

by Trans World Features March 12, 2020

Film Review: Sin Sister, a mind boggling dark mystery around sibling rivalry

Kolkata: Sin Sister, directed by Subhabrata Chatterjee is a Bengali language murder mystery, crime thriller woven around two identical twin sisters and their love for the same person.

by Trans World Features March 05, 2020

Abhishek Singh plays a rough-neck cop in new Zee5 thriller, Judgement Day

Kolkata: The rising Tollywood hunk Abhishek Singh, now a familiar face in national commercials, Bengali films, theatre and web series, will be seen next as the rough-neck cop - ACP Javed Khan in the forthcoming Hindi web series, Judgement Day, exclusively on Zee5.

by Trans World Features January 29, 2020

Rishav Ghosh directed Agamani to be released on Addatimes soon

Kolkata: Young film director Rishav Ghosh has recently said that his new film Agamani will be releasing soon on the popular OTT (over the top) platform Addatimes.

by Trans World Features November 26, 2019