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₹100 crore box office collection can’t be the new benchmark: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari | Bollywood

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari has said that filmmakers must adapt to the changing content consumption and the ‘language of the audience’, adding that earning ₹100 crore at the box office cannot be the new benchmark for every film. She was talking about how the consumption of content has changed over the past few years. (Also read: Amitabh Bachchan calls Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari ‘maalkin’ as she directs him on KBC) Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari is known for making content that works with the audiences, and also highlights the reality of our society. Some of her films include Nil Battey Sannata and Panga. In a recent interview, Ashwiny told ETimes, “At one point of time, we were telling slice-of-life stories and small-town films were working. Maybe, now we have grown beyond that and there are new ways of telling stories. Lots of unconventional stories are being told, and also a lot of technology has come into play and changed the way we are making films. It helps in the way the audience sinks into a story. Yes, it’s important …

Faadu A Love Story review: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s series is a stumbling misfire | Web Series

Early on Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Faadu- A Love Story, streaming on SonyLiv, the protagonist Abhay (Pavail Gulati) pens a poem in a couple of minutes, and recites it to Manjari (Saiyami Kher) late at night. She’s late to return to her hostel and doesn’t mind. Manjari tears up listening to the poem, but the next second Abhay tears up the paper instead and tells her that poetry doesn’t attract him at all. Why, she asks. Because there’s no money in it, he says. Tiwari lets the shot stay a second longer on Abhay’s face and it tells us how Abhay’s circumstances have forced him to become this mercenary, even though he would want to explore other interests. (Also read: CAT review: Randeep Hooda shines in this thrill-a-minute ride from the Punjabi heartland) Faadu- A Love Story reflects this pensive deliberation of its protagonist. Here is a work that purposefully tries to stop you in the tracks and consider these people who are trying to rise above their present circumstances. It is a template that has …

Emily in Paris 3, Jack Ryan 3, CAT, and More: December Web Series on Netflix, Hotstar, Prime Video

What are the biggest web series and TV shows in December? The third season of Jack Ryan and Emily in Paris lead an otherwise sad month of December. For the former, much of the hype is generated by the fact that it’s been a full three years since the last time we saw John Krasinski breathing life into the titular CIA spy. This time, Jack Ryan takes you to Europe, putting Ryan in line of sight as a falsely implicated fugitive. Jack Ryan season 3 is out December 21 on Amazon Prime Video. On the same day, head over to Netflix and catch up on social media strategist Emily Cooper’s (Lily Collins) antics in Emily in Paris season 3. She’s sporting bangs this time! On the local end, we’ve got another spy thriller in Randeep Hooda’s CAT, the story of a former police informant, who is summoned back into the force to uncover a local drug operation. CAT releases December 9 on Netflix. Then there’s Faadu: A Love Story, where an ambitious, young poet (Pavail …