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The nominees are in! The International Indian Film Academy (Iifa) Awards has revealed its 12 Popular Category nominations for the 22nd edition in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi on May 20th and 21st, 2022.

What is cool is that you can vote! Global Voting is open to everyone at https://gvote2022.iifa.com/

‘Shershaah’ leads the way, amassing the highest number of nominations, 12 in total, ‘83’ and ‘Ludo’ with 9 and 6 nominations respectively followed by ‘Thappad’ and ‘Atrangi Re’ with 5 and ‘Mimi’ with 4 nominations.

The top picks for the Best Picture category are Shershaah, 83, Ludo, Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior and Thappad.

The nominees are…

Best Direction

Kabir Khan (83), Anurag Basu (Ludo), Shoojit Sircar (Sardar Udham), Vishnuvaradhan (Shershaah) and Anubhav Sinha (Thappad)

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female)

Vidya Balan (Sherni), Kriti Sanon (Mimi), Sanya Malhotra (Pagglait), Kiara Advani (Shershaah), and Taapsee Pannu (Thappad).

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male)

Ranveer Singh (83), Vicky Kaushal...

Grown adults behave like horny kids in this ill-judged comedy, meant to start discussion about contraception in India

The eyebrow-raising title is intentional: Satramm Ramani’s comedy has been fashioned after 2017’s Toilet: A Love Story and 2018’s Pad Man, Hindi films designed to initiate conversations around subjects deemed taboo in 21st-century India. The national reticence addressed in this case is condom use: an urgent matter, given the country’s explosive population growth and Std rates. Ramani’s cheerfully flimsy farce means to be to the India of 2021 what Madness’s House of Fun video was to 1980s Britain, with its nudging innuendo and nervy approaches to the pharmacist. Yet the film’s leads aren’t red-faced teens, but 30-plus. The problem being dramatised is clear, but one of Helmet’s weaknesses is that it demands we watch grown adults behaving like dumb, horny kids.

The national conversation is summarised by a prologue,...

Helmet, a social, quirky comedy is all set to release on 3rd September on Zee5. Produced by Sony Pictures Networks Productions and Dino Morea’s Dm movies, Helmet is directed by Satramm Ramani with Screenplay & Dialogues by Rohan Shankar.

Starring Pranutan Bahl, Aparshakti Khurana, Abhishek Banerjee and Ashish Verma the film is a quirky depiction of the entrenched taboos and diffidence surrounding the simple act of buying condoms in the nation’s heartland.

The film is a hilarious exploration of small-town naivety and offers insight into a milieu where even accessing a birth-control device is wrought with multiple social challenges and psychological hang-ups.

Check out the trailer!

Archana Anand, Chief Business Officer, ZEE5 Global, says, “South Asia is full of fascinating narratives and from the heartland of India comes yet another one. We’re thrilled to launch the trailer of Original social comedy film Helmet. A strong entertainer that also carries a subliminal message,...

Abhishek Sharma is back with a satire, and he loves being deliberately scatterbrained about it -- we know from his two 'Tere Bin Laden' films. Being goofy and caustic at the same time can be tricky business. While he sailed with 'Tere Bin Laden', he struggled with its follow-up, Tere Bin Laden: Dead And Alive.

Abhishek Sharma's latest is positioned as a rom-com meant to take a few jibes that are served purposely ditzy. In focus is Bombay of the nineties (which becomes Mumbai over the course of the story) as well as its locals-versus-outsiders conflict that had started gaining prominence in that era. The film also makes some noise about women and curbs on their freedom of choice, in career as well as marriage, which would often dictate many middle-class households of the era.

These are all subject that have been dealt with numerous times on the Bollywood screen.

Released today Luka Chuppi this is our critic?s movie review of the Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon starrer directed by Laxman Utekar.

Best part of Luka Chuppi

Kartik Aaryan, finally comes out from the Punchnama prison and is not against any women.

What is the plot/storyline of Luka Chuppi?

Vishnu Trivedi (Vinay Pathak) a powerful politician in Mathura is running a morality crusade against living-in relationships. What happens when the daughter of the powerful right wing crusader Rashmi (Kriti Sanon) desires to have a living-in relationship with her colleague Guddu (Kartik Aaryan) - the popular local cable TV news channel anchor/reporter?.

Analysis

What happens when Shuddh Desi Romance wants to say Badhaai Ho to living-in relationships but also continue its Salaam Namaste to traditional clich?, and buffoonery? Tapaal fame Laxman Utekar?s Luka Chuppi had a tickling time bomb of an idea that could have exploded many...