Anurag Basu drops exciting update on Kartik Aaryan and Sreeleela starrer untitled romantic musical

Director Anurag Basu has finally shared a much-awaited update on his upcoming untitled film starring Kartik Aaryan and Sreeleela. While promoting his recently released film Metro In Dino, Basu spoke about the progress of his next project, which has already sparked curiosity among fans. Speaking to News18 Showsha, Basu said, “Half of it is done, half is remaining. The shooting will begin very soon, and the film will be completed within a month. We’ll announce the title and release date soon. I’m just focused on wrapping it up well." The film, which is reportedly a romantic musical in the style of the iconic Aashiqui films, marks the first collaboration between Kartik Aaryan and Sreeleela, with the latter making her much-anticipated Hindi film debut. The pairing of these two young stars has already generated excitement among fans, especially after the film’s announcement video dropped earlier this year. The video was backed by the hauntingly beautiful melody of the 90s chartbuster...

Kill the Jockey review – a mercurial, skittish crime drama whose hero is a drug-fuelled rogue

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Luis Ortega’s film veers off the racetrack as jockey Remo drifts around the city streets, pursued by a pregnant girlfriend who wants him back and a gangster who wants him dead

People ride horses for all sorts of reasons, explains the jockey hero of Luis Ortega’s offbeat and stylish Argentinian crime drama. They ride to arrive at their destination more quickly, or to wage war more effectively. Mostly, he says, they ride to escape. This jockey is familiar with the nagging urge to take flight. He is a study in motion, a figure in flux. Show him a fence and he will promptly jump it – or die trying.

There is much to relish in Kill the Jockey, not least Nahuel Pérez Biscayart’s wonderfully stone-faced performance as Remo Manfredini, the rider who absolutely, positively has to win his next race in order to keep a gangster off his back. Biscayart plays Remo as though he is the soulful clown in a silent movie, Buster Keaton with a riding crop. He gives the impression of being the bemused lightning rod for events, as opposed to what he really is: an unruly, drug-fuelled rogue agent who is a danger to himself and pretty much everyone else around. “We know all about your unquenchable thirst for disaster,” says leathery Sirena (Daniel Giménez Cacho), the mob boss, in the brief moment of calm between the scene in which Remo performs a slapstick somersault at the starting gate and the moment when he gallops full-tilt at the race-track’s barricades.

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