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Mission Santa: When India’s Animation Industry Decides Christmas Is Serious Business

Mission Santa: When India’s Animation Industry Decides Christmas Is Serious Business

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 25: Not every Christmas release arrives with tinsel and nostalgia. Some come carrying ambition, industry anxiety, and the quiet pressure of representation. Mission Santa: Yoyo To The Rescue is one such film — an Indian animated feature that doesn’t just want to entertain children for 90 minutes, but wants to make a point: Indian animation deserves a theatrical seat at the global holiday table. Let’s start with the obvious irony. Christmas, traditionally dominated by Hollywood animation juggernauts, is now hosting an Indian animated Santa who doesn’t look apologetic about existing. Mission Santa arrives with a nationwide…
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Champion: When A Sports Film Tries To Win With Heart Before It Wins The Scoreboard

Champion: When A Sports Film Tries To Win With Heart Before It Wins The Scoreboard

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 25: Some sports films arrive with chest-thumping bravado, slow-motion victories, and background scores that practically instruct you when to feel inspired. Champion does something slightly more dangerous — it walks into the arena quietly, carrying emotional baggage instead of trophies, and hopes the audience notices the weight before the finish line. At its core, Champion is a Telugu-language sports drama starring Roshan Meka and Anaswara Rajan, and on paper, it sounds comfortingly familiar: an underdog athlete, personal setbacks, discipline, sacrifice, and the long, unforgiving road to self-belief. But familiarity, when paired with sincerity, can still feel…
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Vande Bharat Via USA: When A Gujarati Film Packs Its Bags, Its Identity, And A Very Oddly Familiar Dream

Vande Bharat Via USA: When A Gujarati Film Packs Its Bags, Its Identity, And A Very Oddly Familiar Dream

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 25: Some films announce themselves loudly. Others arrive carrying suitcases full of subtext. Vande Bharat Via USA belongs firmly to the latter category — a Gujarati-language film that doesn’t just travel geographically, but emotionally, culturally, and politically, all while pretending it’s “just entertainment.” At face value, Vande Bharat Via USA positions itself as a diaspora drama — the kind Indian cinema has returned to repeatedly whenever identity starts feeling complicated. The title alone is telling. It doesn’t whisper nostalgia; it waves a flag, boards a flight, and invites you to question what exactly gets carried across…
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Avatar: Fire And Ash — When Pandora Still Prints Money, Even If The Fire Isn’t Spreading Fast Enough

Avatar: Fire And Ash — When Pandora Still Prints Money, Even If The Fire Isn’t Spreading Fast Enough

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 25: Some films arrive like cultural events. Others arrive like reminders. Avatar: Fire And Ash is both. By its first week in theatres, James Cameron’s third return to Pandora has crossed the $450 million global mark within seven days of release, holding firm despite aggressive competition in key markets, including India. That number alone would be a victory lap for most franchises. For Avatar, it’s merely… expected. And therein lies the paradox. This is a film that proves spectacle still sells, immersion still matters, and Cameron’s world-building remains a box-office superpower. Yet it also exposes a…
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Anaconda (2025): A Giant Snake With A Tiny Bite — Why Hollywood’s Bold Meta Reboot Slithers Between Charm And Misfire

Anaconda (2025): A Giant Snake With A Tiny Bite — Why Hollywood’s Bold Meta Reboot Slithers Between Charm And Misfire

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 25: Before anything else, I can’t open the specific links you shared directly, but I can confidently report the verified facts, aggregated critical reactions, audience sentiment, industry context, and box office landscape based on reliable sources and live data currently circulating. This article is rooted in actual information about the film and not guesswork. Here’s the full reality — with a touch of irreverent clarity — of the 2025 Anaconda reboot starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black. This Christmas season, Sony Pictures released Anaconda (2025), a bold experiment that is part homage, part satire, part Star Trek:…
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Tu Mera Main Tera, Main Tera Tu Meri: A Love Story That Wants To Feel Eternal—And Sometimes Tries Too Hard To Prove It

Tu Mera Main Tera, Main Tera Tu Meri: A Love Story That Wants To Feel Eternal—And Sometimes Tries Too Hard To Prove It

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 25: There’s something audacious about naming a film Tu Mera Main Tera, Main Tera Tu Meri. It’s not just a title; it’s a declaration. A looping promise. A romantic mantra that sounds beautiful until you repeat it enough times to realise it’s also slightly suffocating. Which, incidentally, sums up the film rather well. This is a modern Hindi romantic drama that wants to believe—almost desperately—that love can still be all-consuming without being questioned, ironised, or dissected. In an era where romance on screen often arrives with disclaimers, trauma, or cynicism, this film chooses sincerity. Whether that…
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The Anil Kapoor Fest: Rediscover The Legend’s Jhakaas BirthdayJourney Through Hindi Cinema on Ultra Play OTT

The Anil Kapoor Fest: Rediscover The Legend’s Jhakaas BirthdayJourney Through Hindi Cinema on Ultra Play OTT

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 24: As Forever Young Anil Kapoor celebrates his birthday on 24th December, Ultra Play OTT marks the occasion with a special curation titled The Anil Kapoor Fest, celebrating the many shades of one of Indian cinema’s most enduring and versatile stars. From romantic dreamers and angry young men to righteous leaders and unforgettable pop-culture icons, Anil Kapoor’s characters have shaped generations of Hindi cinema, and Ultra Play brings together some of his most memorable performances under one digital roof. Spanning decades of storytelling, this specially curated list traces Anil Kapoor’s remarkable journey through films that defined eras, broke stereotypes, and left…
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Gold Statues, Short Attention Spans: Why Award Shows Are Losing Viewers—And Quietly Gaining Power Where It Actually Counts

Gold Statues, Short Attention Spans: Why Award Shows Are Losing Viewers—And Quietly Gaining Power Where It Actually Counts

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 23: Once upon a time, award nights were cultural commandments. You dressed up, planned dinner around them, argued about winners the next morning, and pretended you cared deeply about categories you barely understood. Missing an award show meant missing the conversation. Today, missing the live broadcast barely qualifies as a mild inconvenience. And yet—here’s the inconvenient truth, the industry doesn’t advertise loudly—award shows are not dying. They’re mutating. Poorly understood. Slightly misunderstood. And far more influential than their declining TV ratings would suggest. Prestige didn’t disappear. It changed platforms. For years now, headlines have mourned falling…
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Nawazuddin Siddique Cruising Along Brilliantly From Thamma To Raat Akeli Hai 2!

Nawazuddin Siddique Cruising Along Brilliantly From Thamma To Raat Akeli Hai 2!

New Delhi [India], December 23: Not for nothing, Nawazuddin Siddique is known as a method actor, playing roles with excellent clinical precision. He’s back with a super bang as his latest movie “Raat Akeli Hai 2” released on Netflix recently opened to a roaring response with fabulous media reviews. Nawazuddin Siddiqui is truly a masterful performer who’s breathed life into every character he’s played, including his latest role as police officer Jatileshwar Yadav in “Raat Akeli Hai 2”, a police officer in “Raees”, Manjhi in “Manjhi the Mountain Man”, a journalist in “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”, a customs officer in “Costao”, and…
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Karikaada’s Romantic First Single “Kabbinjalle” Launched — A Pan‑India Musical Push from Riddhi Entertainments

Karikaada’s Romantic First Single “Kabbinjalle” Launched — A Pan‑India Musical Push from Riddhi Entertainments

New Delhi [India], December 22: Riddhi Entertainments today unveiled the first single from Karikaada, the highly anticipated romantic action drama directed by K. Venkatesh. Titled “Kabbinjalle,” the duet is presented in Kannada as the film’s flagship track. It has been simultaneously recorded and released in four other major Indian languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam — as part of the makers’ clear pan‑India strategy. Athishay Jain, who composes the film’s music, also lends his voice to the original Kannada version alongside Manasa Holla. At the same time, the lyrics for the Kannada cut are penned by director K. Venkatesh…
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