Tag: Piku

  • Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ Bows on Amazon Prime as India Embraces Streaming Era

    Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ Bows on Amazon Prime as India Embraces Streaming Era

    Hindi-language dramatic comedy “Gulabo Sitabo,” starring veteran Amitabh Bachchan (“Piku”) and hot Bollywood A-lister Ayushmann Khurrana (“Andhadhun”), will release directly on Amazon Prime Video worldwide on June 12. The film’s theatrical release in April was scuppered by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.“At Amazon we’re listening to our customers, and working backwards from there.” said Vijay Subramaniam,…

  • Sony Pictures Networks India Backs Campaigning Drama ‘T For Taj Mahal’

    Sony Pictures Networks India Backs Campaigning Drama ‘T For Taj Mahal’

    Sony Pictures Networks Productions, part of Sony in India, is backing campaigning social drama “T For Taj Mahal.” The film is directed by Kireet Khurana, a six-time winner of the National Film Award.The film examines social entrepreneurship and challenges the paucity of education in India. Social dramas have repeatedly shown themselves as box office winners…

  • Cake review – Karachi sister act ditches melodrama for real

    Asim Abbasi’s assured debut about a pair of siblings reunited around their father’s sickbed is richly realisedPakistani cinema has long struggled to match its Indian cousin’s commercial reach, but this impressive debut from Asim Abbasi feels like a sound bet, and even quietly revolutionary in places.Abbasi here revitalises a trope beloved of mawkish Bollywood melodrama…