SHOCKING: PVR Inox puts advance booking of Jolly LLB 3 on hold across the country

In a shocking development, PVR Inox, the largest multiplex chain of India, has put the advance booking of the big release this Friday, Jolly LLB 3, on hold. The exact reason is not yet known though sources claim that the makers are asking extensive programming and the multiplex chain hasn’t agreed to it. Nevertheless, it has sent shockwaves across the industry, trade and even a section of moviegoers. The bookings started getting suspended from the evening of September 17. At the time of writing this article, at 8:00 am of September 18, the ticket sales of Jolly LLB 3 continue to be on hold. Barely a few screens of PVR Inox in India are still selling tickets but a majority of them have stopped. Many of them have opened plans for the weekend; however, Jolly LLB 3 can’t be seen in the schedule though it's clear that a screen or two have been kept blocked for the courtroom drama. The good news for the fans is that the team of Star Studuo18 and PVR Inox are determined to get a solutio...

The Kitchen review – high-energy drama of near-future rundown housing estate

Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya co-direct a drama about a funeral-service worker looking for a way out of the chaotic housing block of the title

There’s a rich mix of ingredients in this heartfelt and likably acted film from co-directors Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya, set in a chaotic, favela-type London housing estate of the near future, nicknamed “the Kitchen”. It takes something from the French banlieue movies of Mathieu Kassovitz and Ladj Ly, while running a seedier and more downbeat version of the postmodern alienation of Total Recall or Blade Runner. But it is also a slightly sentimental-realist family drama, and I felt that for all its high-energy pyrotechnics, in its final moments The Kitchen paints itself into a bit of a narrative corner.

The Kitchen setting itself is tremendously fabricated on screen, with top-notch special effects work; it is a spectacularly rundown housing block surrounded on all sides by glitzy new apartment buildings for the heartless better off. The city authorities have in fact decided on the Kitchen’s demolition and high-handedly ordered residents to leave, but the people are refusing on the grounds that this is where they have built their community and homes – for all its poverty, there is a bustling, vivid atmosphere.

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