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Pooja Entertainment: Can Bollywood’s Former Hit-Machine Break Its 16-Film Losing Streak?

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

Once a powerhouse of Bollywood blockbusters, Pooja Entertainment is now facing an alarming dry spell at the box office. The production house, which delivered hits like Sarbjit (2016), has since struggled to recapture its former glory, with 16 consecutive films failing to strike gold. Despite banking on big names, star-studded casts, and ambitious projects, their recent ventures have struggled to leave an impact.

The Beginning of a Downward Spiral

Pooja Entertainment’s struggle began post-Sarbjit, as films like Coolie No. 1 (2020), Bell Bottom (2021), Cuttputlli (2022), and Mission Raniganj (2023) failed to resonate with audiences. Even projects featuring Bollywood’s biggest names, including Ganapath (2023) and the much-hyped Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (2024), failed to turn the tide in their favor.

Their latest release, Mere Husband Ki Biwi (2025), was expected to be the much-needed hit to break the streak. However, its box office fate seems to be following the same trajectory as its predecessors. Despite promotions and pre-release buzz, the film hasn’t managed to pull in the numbers required to label it a success.

Will Pooja Entertainment make a grand comeback? Or will its struggles continue in an industry that waits for no one? Only time will tell.

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Director Neeraj Singh making films on prostitution and religion.

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Mumbai, Where it is the dream of every parent to make their children a doctor or a good officer by giving them a good education, there is also a society where their daughters are pushed into a business like prostitution by the family. And that society is barren and fetters. Two films were announced in Mumbai by film directors Neeraj Singh and Shraddha Srivastava, both films are based on very sensitive issues, one film depicts the oppression of women in the name of tradition in the Banchhada community, while the other film is the story of religious conflict.

Director Neeraj Singh making films on prostitution and religion

Regarding the issue of conversion taking place in Film director duo Neeraj Singh and Shraddha Srivastava, who is in a discussion about their films, have already made Bikroo Kanpur Gangster together, while now together with filmmaker Dharmendra Singh, they are making a film on these two sensitive subjects. Talking about the story of the film, the story has been written about the background of Uttar Pradesh and Neeraj Singh, Shraddha Srivastava and Amit Chaturvedi have written it after doing a lot of research.

The shooting of the film Banchhra will be held in Lucknow from March 28, while after finishing the shoot of Banchhra, the team will go out to shoot Dharma Dvd.

The film is being produced by JD Film Production House Pvt Ltd and Waft Studios. The co-producers are Kunal Srivastava and Amrik Singh Mann, while the film’s creative directors are Sanjeev Trigunayat, executive producer Avi Prakash Sharma, associate producer Rajkamal Singh Tarkar, cinematographers Rajkamal Gupta and Rajkiran Gupta.

Director Neeraj Singh with the team of Banchhada – Journey of a Prostitute movie

Both films of film director Neeraj Singh are based on sensitive issues.
In the Banchhada community, there is a celebration of the birth of a girl child, while no special interest is shown in the birth of a boy. Where every community has its own special ancestral work, the girls of the Banchhada community are still forced to do prostitution. Film writer and director Neeraj Singh and Shraddha Srivastava are writing and directing a film named Banchhada- a journey of a prostitute about this business of prostitution, which is running in the name of false practice in the Banchhada society. Neeraj Singh told that he is working on two films together. Film director Neeraj Singh said that the story of both his films is based on sensitive subjects, one exposes the prostitution taking place in the name of tradition, while the other film, whose name is Conversion, shows the religious conversion taking place in the world. The film shows how religious conversions are taking place globally. There are many states in India itself where people of different communities incite to convert to another community saying that they are not safe in their religion.

Director Neeraj Singh

Film director Neeraj Singh said that he has co-written the story of the film with his co-writer and director Shraddha Srivastava, while the film is being produced by Neeraj Singh and Dharmendra Singh himself, with Rajkamal Singh Tarkar co-producer of Banchhada. Neeraj Singh is known for making films on sensitive subjects, before this, he directed Bikru Kanpur Gangster which was based on the life of gangster Vikas Dubey. He had to face many threats for the film Vikas Dubey. Nimai Bali, Mithilesh Chaturvedi and Javed Haider are in the lead roles in the film Banchhada, while the casting for the conversion is still going on. Banchhada – Journey of a Prostitute is being produced by JD Films Production House Pvt Ltd and Waft Studios, whereas the Dharmantran itself will be produced by Neeraj Singh’s home production house Waft Studios.

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How tall were the actors in long kiss goodnight?

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

Renny Harlin co-produced as well as helmed The Long Kiss Goodnight, a 1996 American spy action thriller movie directed by Shane Black and Stephanie Austin, with a script written by Black. Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Amandes, Yvonne Zima, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide, Craig Bierko, and David Morse feature in the movie, which follows an amnesiac schoolteacher who embarks on such a journey to learn who she seems to be with the assistance of a private detective until they uncover a terrible plot.

The Long Kiss Goodnight, which was released on October 11, 1996, by New Line Cinema and made over $95 million against such a budget of $65 million, has a cult following.

Shane Black’s script was purchased for such a record $4 million by New Line Cinema.

Mitch Henessey dies inside an early edit of the movie, although at a test screening, an audience member exclaimed, “You can’t kill Sam Jackson!” As a result, Harlin altered the final edit to keep Jackson’s character alive.

A fire broke out again on February 27, 1996, during filming at the 127-year-old Windermere House in Ontario, Canada, leaving just the stone verandah standing. The fire was thought to have been started by high-intensity lights, although it might have been sparked by such a short circuit. Filming was taking place on the ice-covered lake at the time of the fire, and the house was illuminated from the inside so that it could be shown in the background of the photos.

It’s unclear whether the fire was caused by filming, although the structure was otherwise closed for the winter. Ironically, some of the sequences they were supposed to film there featured fire, but the fire stopped them from filming the remaining scenes. Although the fire did not spread beyond the solitary structure, film crews assisted in the evacuation of surrounding residences.

The reviews for The Long Kiss Goodnight were mostly favourable. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 70% approval rating based on 56 reviews. “Smart, sharp-witted, and powered by enjoyably over-the-top action, The Long Kiss Goodnight makes up for what it lacks in steady aim,” the site’s consensus says. The film received a median grade of “A” on an A+ scale from audiences polled by CinemaScore.

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Why weren’t black actors and actresses’ names mentioned in the casting?

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

“Through most of the twentieth century, images of African-Americans or black actors in advertising were primarily limited to slaves much like pancake-mammy Aunt Jemima as Rastus, the chef upon that Cream of Wheat box.”

“Research constantly reveals that even in western representation white massively and disproportionately dominate, have the major and developed roles, and above all are put as the norm, the usual, the standard,” writes Richard Dyer in White: Essays on Race and Culture.  This portrayal has been the standard in Hollywood films, which has resulted in problematic concerns such as narrative concepts of racial representation in ideology, stereotypes, racism, oppression, representation, and conceptions of the Other. “Race is not simply due to non-white people, nor is the imagery of non-white people the only racial imagery,” Dyer adds.

Racism may be depicted as a central issue in movies through narrative structure, camera angles, as well as dialogue, particularly in the assertion of power and authority by white characters. Its location in Hollywood cinema orchestrates its lack of recognition, specifically since the Hollywood movie industry is always dominated by persons of tremendous power, who are almost always white, as mentioned above. “National self-consciousness, which is often seen as a prerequisite for nationhood – that is, desperate individuals’ shared sense that they have common origins, position, location, and goals – became closely associated with cinematic fictions.”

It emphasises the fight between unsurprising values that don’t translate to any ethnic exactitudes, despite full awareness of a dearth of representation. “The sensitivity around stereotypes and distortions stems primarily from historically marginalised groups’ inability to regulate their own image,” says the author. As a result of the lack of control over the portrayal of cultures, particularly people of colour, more ethnic voices within Hollywood are needed to advocate on behalf of their culture. “Furthermore, because the Hollywood system favours big-budget blockbusters, it is not just classist but also Eurocentric, in effect if not explicitly intended; to play this game, one must have financial power.”

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Why were comedy movies popular in the 1930s?

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

During the 1930s Great Depression, viewers craved an escape out from the harsh reality of daily life. Silent comedians began dying out at once as talking films became more popular, and humour, as well as comedy, were required more so than ever.

As a younger breed of writers recognised a chance to incorporate snappy discussion into movies, silent slapsticks became swiftly supplanted by fast-talking humour. The most significant comedy genre of both the 1930s was screwball humour. Actually, that’s the next essential step towards comedy after silent slapstick.

Screwball comedies were indeed a wild new genre of fast-talking romantic fiascoes that mingled comedy and elegance which first debuted within the 1930s.

It contained sex disputes and also was set in society upon that edge of chaos, with hapless men caught up inside the whirlwinds of ferocious women.

The bulk of screwball comedies had two huge performers inside the primary romantic roles, together with a host of talented supporting cast members. Many of these movies functioned as vehicles for romantic romances among two of Hollywood’s hottest newcomers.

They were generally too preoccupied with verbally as well as occasionally physically attacking one other onstage to notice that they were all in love, at least until the last scene. Inside the 1930s, screwball comedy was indeed a prominent genre, but there are many others too though.

Throughout the decade, comedy luminaries like the Marx Brothers as well as Charlie Chaplin released a flood of comedies, giving moviegoers a range of reasons to go out to the cinema.

So, while there was a lot to talk about when it pertains to 1930s comedy, this piece will concentrate on the best 21, so let’s just get started. And besides, the greatest way to learn about such a period’s on-screen comedy is really to marathon its greatest movies.

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Why did TV shows like Perry Mason reuse actors to play extra characters?

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

Perry Mason is indeed an American legal drama television series that aired on CBS from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. Raymond Burr plays the title character, a Los Angeles criminal defence lawyer who had first featured in Erle Stanley Gardner’s detective novels. Many of the episodes were modelled on Gardner’s tales.

Perry Mason was the very first weekly one-hour television series produced in Hollywood, and it has become one of the most popular and profitable legal dramas. It was nominated for just a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Dramatic Series during the first season, so it quickly has become one of television’s top five series.

For her depiction of Mason’s confidential secretary Della Street, Burr earned two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, while Barbara Hale got an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Best supporting actress. During the first two TV Guide Award readers’ surveys, Perry Mason, as well as Burr, were named Favorite Series and Favorite Male Performer, respectively. The series won the inaugural Silver Gavel Award for television drama from the American Bar Association in 1960.

Ever since discontinuation, Perry Mason has broadcast in syndication inside the United States and overseas, and then the whole series has indeed been released on Region 1 DVD. According to a 2014 research, Netflix customers choose Raymond Burr as their favourite actor, with Barbara Hale coming in at number seven.

The New Perry Mason, a 1973 relaunch of the series with such a new cast, got mixed reviews and lasted for 15 episodes. Burr returning to the role of Mason in a popular series of Perry Mason television movies that aired on NBC in 1985. There were 30 movies created in all, with Burr starring in 26 of them until his death in 1993.

Perry Mason’s production team worked hard to really be technically precise and appropriate to a legal and judicial audience. Prior to joining show business, producer Ben Brady practised law in New York; storey editor Gene Wang attended law school in Florida; and executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson studied law for two years before being an actor.

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Are film producers showing the movies free during the pandemic?

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

It was meant to be the year of female superheroes, with a little help from James Bond, a gritty street-racing Vin Diesel, and a jet-soaring Tom Cruise. Instead, movies like “Wonder Woman 1984,” Disney’s “Mulan” remake, and others that were expected to be among the year’s biggest ended up streaming online, while others were moved back in the hopes of avoiding the coronavirus epidemic.

It’s a reality that would have been unfathomable only a few years ago when these films were approved. After all, conventional Hollywood studios don’t invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a film just to see it for the first time at home with their viewers.

However, with cinemas shuttered for much of the year, Hollywood companies have been forced to recalculate a movie release schedule that has been completely thrown off by the ongoing worldwide health crisis. However, industry experts believe that the current juncture is a turning point that will not be erased by the epidemic.

Streaming has never been more popular, and movie theatres are confronting an existential danger unlike any other. It’s hardly an exaggeration to suggest that until the globe has recovered from the COVID-19 epidemic, the film landscape will never be the same.

Studios appear to have limited alternatives for their greatest films owing to the pandemic-related closure of most theatres across the country.

“You either sell to the streamer or die inside a theatre,” explains Schuyler Moore of Greenberg Glusker, an entertainment legal firm. “Select one.”

As a result, the cinema landscape in 2020 has been coloured by eye-popping, often head-scratching transactions. To deal with the epidemic, each one of the big Hollywood studios has adopted a different approach.

The studio does not have a streaming service through which to distribute its films. As a result, the studio has become one of the more aggressive sellers, selling “Coming 2 America,” the long-awaited sequel to the Eddie Murphy classic, to Amazon Studios in a $125 million deal as well as sending Aaron Sorkin’s newest “The Trial of the Chicago 7” to Netflix.

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Do movies release more than three teaser trailers?

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

I looked at the duration of movies trailers last week. I discovered that the average trailer is 114 seconds long, with documentaries and historical films having the longest trailers. While I was doing my study, another issue sprang to mind: how early do trailers come out?

I recall viewing the super-early teaser trailer for what would become the 1998 version of Godzilla as a teenager. Due to the fact that it was completed before the main movie had even been shot, the teaser trailer had a production budget of $600,000 and contained no footage from the final film! Teaser trailers are still plentiful, despite the rarity.

I focused on 1,000 movies released between 2000 and 2016, inclusive, using data from my prior trailer database and publicly available release statistics. I looked at the first internet trailer release date for each film and compared it to the film’s ultimate US theatrical release date.

The average duration between the first trailer as well as a theatrical release for these films was 126 days (i.e. around four months). Within six months of their theatrical debut, four-fifths of films received their initial trailer. Only 4.5 per cent of films had their debut trailer broadcast more than a year before they were released in theatres.

There were considerable variances per genre, with the first trailers focused on families and normally costly genres like adventure and fantasy being the most expensive. The first trailer for animated films was generally published 217 days before the film was released, compared to just 101 days for romance films.

I compiled my movie trailer dataset using a variety of public resources, including YouTube, Trailer Addict, Movie List, IMDb, and Wikipedia. I looked up theatrical release dates on IMDb and double-checked them with additional sites like The Numbers and Wikipedia. All trailers, including teaser trailers, were included as long as they contained more than simply a logo and the words “coming soon.”

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All that you must know about the DC Universe – Tap to read details

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

The DC Universe is an American media franchise and shared universe centred on a series of superhero films produced by DC Films and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, based on characters that first appeared in American comic books published by DC Comics. Comic books, short films, novels, and video games are all part of the franchise. The DCEU was created by combining narrative concepts, locales, actors, and characters, much like the original DC Universe in comic books.

Since 2002, when Wolfgang Petersen was supposed to helm a crossover of the Batman and Superman film series, Warner Bros. had planned to bring other DC Comics superheroes together in movies. Following the cancellation of a planned Justice League film and the success of The Dark Knight in 2008, Warner Bros. opted to focus on individual brands while attempting to compete with Marvel Studios’ Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The DCEU was supposed to revolve around five movies helmed by Zack Snyder, but DC Films downplayed the shared aspect of the universe in 2018 to give individual directors more liberty.

Man of Steel (2013), a reboot of the Superman movie franchise, was the first DCEU movie, followed by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), a remake of the Batman movie franchise. Suicide Squad (2016), Wonder Woman (2017), Justice League (2017), Aquaman (2018), Shazam! (2019), Birds of Prey (2020), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), and The Suicide Squad (2020) were the films that followed (2021). In 2022, Black Adam, The Flash, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will be released, followed by Shazam! Fury of the Gods in 2023. In addition, with Zack Snyder’s Justice League in 2021, the DCEU extended to include exclusive releases on HBO Max.

Blue Beetle, Green Lantern Corps, Static Shock, and Supergirl are among the movies set for release between 2022 and 2023 on the studio’s roster.

With approximately $5.8 billion in global box office receipts, the DCEU is indeed the eleventh-highest-grossing movie series of all time. Aquaman, the company’s highest-grossing picture, grossed over $1.15 billion globally, making it the highest-grossing DC Comics-based movie ever. The DCEU has had a mixed reception from critics.

Following the naming tradition of the already existing Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans and the media dubbed the universe the “DC Cinematic Universe” upon the introduction of the movie franchise (MCU). On July 1, 2015, in a storey about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice for Entertainment Weekly, Keith Staskiewicz playfully invented the term “DC Extended UniverseTM.”

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The Hunger Games: All you should know about this movie

by Ratan Srivastava
written by Ratan Srivastava

The Hunger Games is indeed a 2012 American dystopian action thriller film directed by Gary Ross as well as based on Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same title from 2008. This was produced by Nina Jacobson as well as Jon Kilik, with such a screenplay by Ross, Collins, and Billy Ray. This is the first episode in The Hunger Games movie franchise. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland are among the cast members of the movie. The Hunger Games is set inside a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in Panem, wherein each year, a boy and a girl of each of the nation’s 12 Districts are selected as “tributes” as well as forced to engage in The Hunger Games, a televised battle to the death. When her younger sister, Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence), is chosen as a tribute, Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) offers to take her place.

Katniss flies to the Capitol with Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson), her district’s male tribute, to train as well as participate in the Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games started construction in March 2009, when Lions Gate Entertainment signed a co-production deal with Color Force, who had only bought the rights a few weeks before. The script was co-written by Collins, Ray, and Ross. Seneca Crane’s role was developed in the screenplay to allow for many events to be displayed to the public, and Ross included additional sequences between Crane and Coriolanus Snow. Between March and May of 2011, the key characters were cast. Principal photography for the film began in May 2011 and was completed in September of that year, with shooting in North Carolina.

The movie was released in various European nations on March 21, 2012, and in the United States and the United Kingdom on March 23, 2012, in both conventional and digital IMAX cinemas. The film broke records for opening day and opening weekend for a non-sequel when it was released. The film’s opening weekend gross was the third-highest in North America at the time of its release. It’s the first picture since Avatar to hold the top spot at the North American box office for four weekends in a row. The film grossed approximately $694 million worldwide against a budget of $78 million, making it the third-highest-grossing picture in the United States and the ninth-highest-grossing movie of 2012. On August 18, 2012, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray.

Critics praised The Hunger Games because of its concepts as well as messages, and also Lawrence’s portrayal of Katniss; nevertheless, considerable criticism was made at the movie’s use of shaky cam, particularly during action moments, and its parallels to previous works. The track “Safe & Sound,” performed by American singer Taylor Swift with The Civil Wars for such a movie’s soundtrack, received a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Lawrence was nominated for such Saturn Award for Best Actress, the Broadcast Movie Critics Association Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie, the Empire Award for Best Actress, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for her performance.

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