'I received many threatening calls and letters.' 'A fatwa was issued against me.'
There's a new actor in town, and Shraddha Kapoor is particularly excited about it!
Vasan Bala's ability to jolt our Bollywood conditioned brains into experiencing new forms of menace, turning a John Woo-style prison riot into a Chinese communist movement and showcasing Alia in a savage new light won Sukanya Verma's dil and jigra.
'I went to meet him and he asked me, "Are you Maharashtrian?" and I said yes.' 'He said you are absolutely different in Batla House, but when I meet you, there is this freshness about you.'
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We celebrate Kishore Kumar's 90th birth anniversary on August 4 with Amit Kumar's 10 favourite Kishore Kumar songs.
When Aamir Khan parties, he makes sure the entire film industry parties with him!
Alia Bhatt won hearts when she wore her wedding sari at the 69th National Film Awards at the Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi. The ivory embroidered drape was designed by Sabyasachi Mukherjee.
These films, even at their saddest, darkest and grossest, retain their sense of humour, their sense of proportion, which again is something you associate with a Malayali.
Uzbekistan lives comfortably in several centuries but is also a forward-looking nation, Deepa Gahlot discovers on a visit to this Central Asian country.
Pancham, like his father, was besotted by Lata Mangeshkar's voice and his career's finest songs were reserved only for her.
'We bonded over the fact that we are both from Delhi and he spent a lot of his childhood in the same neighbourhood as me.'
The Zone Of Interest is technically flawless but lacks emotional pull, observes Mayur Sanap.
'Here are 25 stories special to me for one reason too many,' says Sukanya Verma who scored 25 years writing about the movies last week.
The New York Film Festival served an amazing plate of films. Aseem Chhabra picks the best ones.
'Finally it was S D Burman who brought us together.'
'No small artistic film can even hope to win, except, maybe, as random tokenism,' asserts Deepa Gahlot.
A highly respected figure in the field of music, Balamuralikrishna featured in the popular national integration song "Miley Sur Mera Tumhara" in which he rendered Tamil lyrics.
'Personal reasons required me to take some time off.'
'If you look at my work, you would probably like my songs in other films more than Baahubali or RRR.'
'It hasn't wrinkled because truth doesn't wrinkle. It's like fire; it burns every time you touch it.'
Going behind the scenes with director Mira Nair.
'He had a lovely, lovely, sense of humour, very subdued and very, very subtle, but it was very, very, prominent.'
Aseem Chhabra lists the films that won his heart at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
'To this day, women, especially housewives, come up to me to tell me how much Arth matters to them.'
'The music was so good that I felt that it would be a great way to bring it back to life.'
After a dry, dreadful, spell of darkness and desolation, it looks like Bollywood love stories are ready to rock the silver screen again.
Today, Anirudh Ravichander's name on a film's poster is enough to pull in audiences, notes Arjun Menon.
Entertainment may be its raison d'etre but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant.
'During this dry despondent period I understood that I needed to do something extraordinary to get the focus of people on me and my music.' 'I worked and worked and composed Munni badnaam hui.'
On her 72nd birthday on September 18, Sukanya Verma gives three cheers to the legend and lists 20 of her stellar performances.
'A face like this cannot go wrong,' Salman Khan endorses Punjabi actor Gippy Grewal at the trailer launch of the latter's new film, Maujaan Hi Maujaan.
On Shashi Kapoor's 83rd birth anniversary, Subhash K Jha looks at his top five productions.
The closing ceremony of the 10th edition of the Jagran Film Festival was a glamorous affair in Mumbai.
The awards season has started in full swing, and the weekend saw Bollywood step out in style for the 26th Star Screen Awards.
Veterans Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks lost out to Frances McDormand and Gary Oldman at the Golden Globes 2018.
'I've spoken to Gangubai's soul.' 'I've had long conversations with her in my mind.' 'I understood her suffering, anger, joys and sorrow.' 'I had to connect to the soul of this amazing woman.' 'I think I did.'
