Month: May 2018

Filmmaker Karan Johar is in mood to take up full-fledged acting jobs. The director-producer, who made his acting debut in Hindi films with Anurag Kashyap’s box office debacle, “Bombay Velvet”, believes he is a “big flop actor”. Karan was recently seen in “Welcome to New York” and the film, featuring Sonakshi Sinha and Diljit Dosanjh, also bombed. When asked if he would like to take up acting offers in Marathi cinema, Karan said, “I am a big flop actor. None of my films run. I did ‘Bombay Velvet’ and ‘Welcome…

A dramedy that delivers a worn-out social message as it trundles along on the back of the antics of an odd father-son pair with divergent approaches to life, Umesh Shukla’s 102 Not Out has moments that strike a chord. But these are too few and far between to make this Amitabh Bachchan-Rishi Kapoor starrer an unforgettable cinematic outing. This is patchy fare that is only mildly diverting despite the best efforts of two veteran actors at the top of their game. Based on a Gujarati play of the same name by Saumya…

If you’ve seen the trailer of Sanju then you’ll agree that Ranbir Kapoor greatly resembles the film’s subject – Sanjay Dutt. Prosthetic artist Dr Suresh Murkey told mid-day how he altered Ranbir’s appearance to match the different stages of Sanjay Dutt’s life. Dr Murkey also revealed that he altered Ranbir’s appearance without meeting Sanjay Dutt and mostly by looking at the pictures given to him for reference by director Rajkumar Hirani. “It was based on the pictures that I designed Ranbir’s prosthetics. I took four sets of measurements of Ranbir’s face in order to minimise any…