After Naagzilla with Kartik Aaryan, Karan Johar sets up another creature universe with Rajkummar Rao

Rajkummar Rao is on a roll, signing films left right and centre after the success of Stree 2. While Maalik is all set to release on July 12, we have exclusively learnt that Rajkummar Rao has signed a one of its kind creature film for Karan Johar to be directed by Sandeep Modi. Reliable sources confirm that the film will go on floors towards the end of 2025, with a start-to-finish schedule. "Rajkummar Rao has signed on for Karan Johar's next with director Sandeep Modi. It's a creature-based thriller, to be mounted on a big scale and the makers are looking to create a franchise out of the same," a source shared with Bollywood Hungama. The source further informed us that the film will go on floors around November 2025, and the director, Sandeep Modi, has already begun pre-production. “Rajkummar Rao has signed the film for an agreed sum of Rs. 12 crores, which is his biggest pay cheque to date. He is excited to partner with Karan Johar on the project,” the source added....

Michael Haneke films – ranked!

The Austrian auteur has made his name with disturbing and superb studies of the violence and repression of bourgeois life. As he turns 81, we rate his finest films

An early, and relatively minor, Haneke showing 71 “fragments” – or glimpses of apparently unrelated scenes and people – set in present-day Vienna. These involve a security guard, a troubled young man, a depressed retiree and a Romanian illegal immigrant. So what’s tying them all together? The answer is partially given at the beginning and fully at the end, and the movie gives us Haneke’s keynote themes: the nature of violence, urban alienation, the abolition of compassion and community in capitalism and western hypocrisy in primly looking away from injustice and desolation in other parts of the world. But the backstory twist ending – similar to the one Krzysztof Kieślowski in effect gave us the same year in Three Colours Red – is a bit pat.

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