Author: Princy Jain

By Princy Jain Is Ajay Devgn a better actor or is he a better director? That is the question, I was left with, soon after the last scene of Runway34. Produced and directed by Ajay himself, the film is loosely based on the eventful landing of a Jet Airways flight, flying from Dubai to Kochi, back in the year 2015. In the film, Ajay Devgn plays Captain Vikrant Khanna – a feted high-flying pilot, who is confident and clearly arrogant about his skills & photographic memory. What starts as a routine flight from Dubai to Cochin, becomes the plot of…

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Meet IRA – India’s first very own Artificial Assistant. And she has chosen none other than the charmer-who-remains-as-hot-as-ever, John Abraham as her boss. Put the two together, and we get India’s first true-superhero character a-la Iron Man. But with some loopholes!! John Abraham’s Attack- Part I, is an honest attempt to make India’s first true sci-fi super-hero thriller. Indeed, it was a pleasure to be able to comprehend the process of transformation of a solider to a super-soldier, and that too in my native language – Hindi. Replete with high-octane action sequences & slick cinematography, Attack does provide its viewers…

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What happens when a dreamy filmmaker like Sanjay Leela Bhansali gets a daring and very hungry performer like Alia Bhatt? The viewers and the world gets a cinematic insight into the luxuriously sleazy world of Gangubai Kathiawadi, the popular Madame or ‘Garhwali’ of Mumbai’s redlight area Kamathipura, from the 60s era.

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On Nov 25th, 2021, Brooklyn based software engineer, Josh Wardle tweeted from his handle, “Wordle, a daily word guessing game I made, got a shoutout in the NYT newsletter today”. Fast forward to February 1st, 2022, the same engineer, tweeted a personal note, a-la a fancy celebrity, “I’m incredibly pleased to announce that I have reached an agreement with the New York Times for them to take over running Wordle going forward”. The NYT bought Wordle for more than $ 1 million, reportedly. If you are alive in the world of social media, you’d probably be aware of this new…

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You really don’t have to be a gamer to enjoy this latest video-game adaptation. Uncharted, presented by Sony Pictures, is based on PlayStation video game series by the same name. Nathan Drake played by Tom Holland, a charismatic, carefree gold-hunter & fortune lover is lured into finding the 500-year-old treasure. He is smart-witty-agile and ‘Too Good’ to pull this off. The film opens to a much-advertised cargo-plane fight from Uncharted: Drake’s Deception Game when Nathan free falls from an aeroplane with cargoes air crashing on him. Tom Holland, trailing on the success of Spider Man – No Way Home pulls…

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For the last two days, #SaniaMirzaRetirement is the most trending hashtag across social media. In her 17-year-long illustrious career, Sania is known for her game and the gift of gab. Never to mince words, be it the length of her skirt or marrying a Pakistan born, she has always expressed herself with conviction. This time, she is in news for announcing her retirement by the end of 2022. She reasoned it out well. Sania proclaimed that her body is failing her and she is “no more enjoying the grind”.

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