Duma member Vitaly Milonov didn’t mince words when asked four years ago about the international ban against Russian athletes. “There’s no point in humiliating ourselves and begging to be let in,” said the St Petersburg deputy, a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. “We have our pride.” International events had been corrupted by the … Read more
The pandemic brought to the mainstream knowledge of film budgets, box-office collections, and niche terms like overhead costs and recovery. Suddenly, everyone on Twitter and Reddit was a box office expert. But expertise or not, any follower of Indian cinema could see the wide divide between the haves and the have-nots. The bigger films with … Read more
Even as the row over the title of Manoj Bajpayee’s upcoming film Ghooskhor Pandat’s title has erupted, the film’s makers have now received a notice from a film body alleging that they cannot use the title as it is not registered. Film Makers Combine (FMC), a Mumbai-based organisation, has written to the film’s production house, … Read more