Govinda announces comeback with self-produced film Roopa; says, “People kept saying, ‘Now he won’t appear in films anymore’”

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Veteran Bollywood star Govinda is all set to return to the big screen with a brand-new project. The actor recently hosted a press conference to officially announce his comeback film, Roopa, marking his return to cinema after a prolonged gap. At the event, Govinda unveiled the first poster of the film, introduced newcomer Rani Swarankar as the leading lady, and revealed that he is also producing the project. Once among the biggest superstars of the 1990s, Govinda has largely stayed away from films in recent years after a string of releases failed to leave an impact at the box office. However, the actor appeared confident and optimistic as he spoke about embarking on a fresh journey with Roopa. Opening up about the challenges he has faced over the years and his determination to keep moving forward, Govinda said, “Maybe it was destiny that I was written off so many times. People kept saying, ‘Now he won’t appear in films anymore.’ But I always started again. I pray to God that this film ...
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Bread and Salt review – clarity and rigour as a talented Polish pianist returns to his hometown

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Real-life pianist Tymoteusz Bies and his younger brother Jacek star in Damian Kocur’s extraordinary and intriguing debut

There’s an icy, unforgiving clarity and compositional rigour to this arresting feature debut from Polish film-maker Damian Kocur, made using non-professionals and partly inspired by a violent incident from real life; it won the special jury prize at Venice in 2022.

Real-life Polish pianist Tymoteusz Bies plays Tymek, a high-achieving young man studying piano at Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music. He’s returned for the summer break to his drab home town, perhaps based on Ełk in the north-east, where all the kids he grew up with are heading for useless jobs and humdrum lives. He’s happy to be back with his music teacher mum and his brother Jacek (played by his actual brother Jacek Bies) but is perplexed and irritated by the fact that Jacek, despite his own piano talent, isn’t really working hard to get a musical scholarship, like him.

Jacek seems lazily content to live his life with a local girlfriend in this grim dead-end town, with all its racism, Islamophobia and homophobia, which is directed at a nearby Tunisian kebab shop; its hardworking owners tell Tymek that the traditional Polish welcome of “bread and salt” has not been forthcoming. And Tymek is also coldly resistant to answering Jacek’s questions as to whether he has a girlfriend in Warsaw. But something strange happens; we see how Tymek is rather gratified by his celebrity status here with his old pals; he’s quite content to hang out with them all summer long, playing basketball, listening to them freestyle rapping, and he even laughs along to the racist jokes over the endless beers. He certainly wants to get closer to his brother, but it ends in catastrophe.

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