A still from 'Avatar: Fire and Ash', 'Ikkis' and 'Dhurandhar'
Columns

Lights, Camera, Scoop: 'Dhurandhar' Holds 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' at Box-Office; How Sriram Raghavan Prepped For War Film 'Ikkis'

The Hollywood Reporter India's weekly column 'Lights, Camera, Scoop' unravels the behind-the-scenes madness of the big Bollywood machinery.

BY Justin Rao
Sreenivasan
Insight

Sreenivasan, Acclaimed Malayalam Actor-Writer, Passes Away

The Malayalam cinema icon had acted in over 220 films in five decades, and is survived by his wife, Vimala Sreenivasan, and sons, Vineeth Sreenivasan and Dhyan Sreenivasan

BY Team THR India
Rahul Ravindran; a poster of 'The Girlfriend'
Insight

Rahul Ravindran Recalls Scene in ‘The Girlfriend’ That Shook Rashmika Mandanna: ‘She was Broken, She was Sobbing Uncontrollably’

The filmmaker recalls the sequence that pushed Rashmika Mandanna to confront years of buried hurt

BY Team THR India
Neeraj Ghaywan
Insight

Neeraj Ghaywan on India's Box-Office Obsession: ‘Only Country Where Trade Analysts are More Famous Than Critics’

The 'Homebound' director on why trade figures now dominate conversations around cinema.

BY Team THR India
Rohan Kanawade
Insight

Rohan Kanawade on Making a Love Story Without Music in ‘Sabar Bonda’: ‘It was a Difficult Decision — Not to Make, but to Explain’

The filmmaker explains the decision to strip his love story of songs and background score.

BY Team THR India
Reema Kagti
Insight

Reema Kagti on Box-Office Performance of 'Superboys of Malegaon: ‘I’m The Most Successful Failure'

The writer-director reflects on box-office disappointment and why she has no interest in making engineered hits

BY Team THR India
Mohit Suri
Insight

'Zeher,' 'Saiyaara' and More: Mohit Suri Explains How He Uses Music As A Storytelling Tool

The filmmaker explains why songs are built into his scripts from the writing stage

BY Team THR India
Dominic Arun
Insight

Dominic Arun on 'Lokah': ‘We Wrote Around 23 Drafts Before We Shot the Film’

The writer-director reflects on why finalising the script was the hardest part of making 'Lokah'

BY Team THR India
Jaideep Ahlawat; Rukmini Vasanth; Ahaan Pandey
Insight

2025 Screen Crushes: Ahaan Pandey, Rukmini Vasanth, Jaideep Ahlawat — and Others Who Made Us Lose the Plot (Briefly)

Actor feeds the character, the character feeds the fantasy — call it transference, call it desire, call it momentary weakness. Here’s a roll call of performances that made us stop scrolling, stop analysing, and simply… feel things.

BY Team THR India
A poster of 'Happy Patel: Khatarak Jasoos'
Insight

'Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos' Trailer: Vir Das Plays an Unlikely Spy in Debut Directorial

The comedy, produced by Aamir Khan and Vir Das, follows a chronically unsuccessful intelligence recruit sent on an unlikely mission to India.

BY Team THR India
A still from 'Champion'
Insight

'Champion' Trailer: Roshan Meka Leads a Historical Action Epic

The trailer launch of 'Champion' was graced by the likes of Ram Charan and Nag Ashwin.

BY Team THR India
Transmedia
Insight

Lights, Camera... Gameplay: Is India Ready for The Magic of Transmedia?

Indian cinema’s unpredictable future has an unexpected solution — and it lives in our gaming consoles.

BY Anushka Halve
Varun Sandesh
Interviews

Varun Sandesh On Turning Mad Scientist In ‘Nayanam’ and The Perpetual Nostalgia of ‘Happy Days’

The actor will next be seen as an ophthalmologist who loves to peep into people’s lives in ‘Nayanam’

BY Sruthi Ganapathy Raman
Madhuri Dixit
Interviews

Madhuri Dixit on 'Mrs. Deshpande' and 40 Years of Cinema: 'When I Walk Into My House, the Fame Stays Outside'

Madhuri Dixit discusses her ever-expanding screen legacy, and her latest JioHotstar series 'Mrs Deshpande', directed by Nagesh Kukunoor.

BY Justin Rao
A still from 'Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri'
Insight

'Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri' Trailer: Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday's Romance-Comedy Is All About Modern Relationships

The Christmas Day release, directed by Sameer Vidwans, follows two strangers on an impulsive holiday that turns into an emotional reckoning.

BY Team THR India
Mohanlal in 'Karmayodha'
Insight

Court Rules Mohanlal’s 'Karmayodha' Script As Plagiarised, Orders ₹30 Lakh Compensation for Writer

The Commercial Court in Kottayam upheld a suit filed by screenwriter Reji Mathew claiming authorship over the 2012 film’s story, screenplay and dialogues.

BY Team THR India
A still from 'Dacoit'
Insight

'Dacoit' Teaser: Adivi Sesh and Mrunal Thakur Go Rogue

The Telugu-Hindi film also stars Anurag Kashyap, Prakash Raj, Sunil and Atul Kulkarni.

BY Team THR India
A still from 'Ikkis'
Insight

'Ikkis' Moves From Christmas 2025 Date; Sriram Raghavan Film To Now Release on January 1

'Ikkis' was initially gearing up to open on December 25 and clash with 'Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri'.

BY Team THR India
To celebrate the birth centenary of Ritwik Ghatak, Westland Publications has released 'Unmechanical: Ritwik Ghatak in 50 Fragments'.
Columns

'Unmechanical: Ritwik Ghatak in 50 Fragments': A Document of Revolutionary Imagination

Long before parallel cinema became fashionable, Bengali auteur Ritwik Ghatak proposed a film about Vietnam shot entirely in Bengal. This 1968 essay reveals the vision of the director who changed Indian cinema.

BY Ritwik Ghatak