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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicFilm review

Topic: film review

There are no winners in Tiger Shroff’s Student of the Year 2 & audience is the only loser

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Punit Malhotra-directed Student of the Year 2 also stars debutantes Ananya Pandey and Tara Sutaria.

BR Chopra’s Naya Daur is still relevant for an India fighting age-old labour problems

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Naya Daur remains a classic for it captured the lower income groups’ sentiment in the 1950s — not totally anti-machine, but wary enough.

Even Sunny Deol’s dhai kilo ka haath cannot fill in this Blank

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Patchy acting and direction remind you of the good old Sunny Deol films and why they must remain in the past.

Devdas: The tragic hero act that made KL Saigal a household name

Sharanya Munsi -
On actor-singer KL Saigal's 115th birth anniversary, a look at PC Barua's iconic 1935 film that first put tragedy in Indian cinema’s romance.

Vivek Agnihotri’s Tashkent Files adds confusion to many conspiracies over Shastri’s death

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Characters and plot lines aren’t sketched out well in Tashkent Files, and seem to appear out of thin air, just like ‘facts’ about Shastri’s death.

Sahir’s poetry in ‘Kabhi Kabhie’ and our forever connection with them

Amit Upadhyaya -
Yash Chopra’s ode to complicated relationships was made immortal by the man behind its poetry – Sahir Ludhianvi.

Has the Internet killed the film critic in India?

Apurva Asrani -
In this age of 'fastest finger first', do critics have the time to digest a film before they put out their reviews, asks editor-screenwriter Asrani.   

Tipu Jayanti may be in the soup, but film ‘Johar-Mehmood in Goa’ placed him with Nehru & Gandhi

Sharanya Munsi -
I.S. Johar’s celebrated 1965 comedy with Mehmood delivered a message on secularism that has been followed by Bollywood ever since.

As CBI investigates CBI, the movie to watch is Special 26

Sharanya Munsi -
Neeraj Pandey-directed and Akshay Kumar-starrer Special 26 is a con artist drama based on a real-life incident.

‘Seeta Aur Geeta’ is the legacy of Hema Malini, the actor

Amit Upadhyaya -
Hema Malini ruled the film from start to finish, which also starred reigning superstar Dharmendra and Sanjeev Kumar.
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Chinese chatter on Delhi-Shanghai flight — ‘normalisation’ needs more than linking the skies

Sana Hashmi -
Chinese commentators consistently portray India as the driver of rapprochement. New Delhi’s outreach is framed as a pragmatic, reluctant choice shaped by multiple pressures.

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Nuapada byelection may change Odisha’s political landscape. It should not be ignored

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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