Vidya Balan's biggest challenge is to look, sound and act like poetess Kamala Das, voice coach on board.
Sukanya Verma feels wonderment for Dil Se's fabulous, flawless frames, and she tells us why.
Here's looking at some more top earners from the movies.
'Discussions of favouritism and the #MeToo movement really unearthed a lot.' 'I really hope that these movements force people to look inwards and be nicer to each other.' 'But it's definitely not as bad as it's made out to be.'
In Jaipur, the combination of lopinavir and ritonavir, both second-line HIV drugs, was administered was administered on an elderly Italian couple undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at the SMS Hospital.
'He was capable, concise, calm, sublime, and profound, and perhaps that's also why Irrfan's passing felt 'personal' to many.'
Which Malayalam film will you watch this week?
From the boys who used to hand out tickets to people on the streets and invite them to their concerts free of charge to the men selling out Wembley Stadium in less than a day, having about 20 songs on Billboards #1, BTS have come a long way, says Maya Dominic, a fan of the Korean pop band.
This piece is a tribute to that corner of film criticism that they call subtextual film criticism.
'...but from those who control the narrative.' Powerful nations have mastered this art of narrative building. Those nations who aspire to become global powers must do so, observes Shanthie Mariet D'Souza.
'Mulk gets a lot of things right, including its vision of the country as a place where underneath the punctilious, forced-secular surface there are volatilities waiting to go off,' says Sreehari Nair.
Over the years, amfAR's annual Cinema Against AIDS benefits have helped raise more than $140 million for amfAR's AIDS research programmes. Here's who showed up this year!
Sukanya Verma lists significant memories in our 1996 recap.
Rajini's call may now force other political parties, including the DMK and the Congress, who are in alliance talks already, to come up with water proposals of their own in their poll manifesto. In a way, this may be a 'tactical victory' for Rajinikanth, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Why is the BJP upset about the dialogues in a Tamil movie, wonders A Ganesh Nadar.
At the young age of 15, Wang joined the People's Liberation Army as a guard.
Baahubali Director S S Rajamouli's next... R Madhavan in hospital... All this and more in Subhash K Jha's Bollywood Buzz.
Check out the impressive line-up at the International Film Festival of South Asia.
Unlike his The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra's Photograph fails to engross us, feels Ritwik Sharma.
'The real problem that has affected Tarantino's films is not their amorality. On the contrary, it's their misplaced morality.' 'The basic pitches for his movies, off late, tackle such pre-resolved issues, that they don't quite allow his pop-culture sensibilities to hit a crescendo and instead reduces them to trinkets in service of broad movie prototypes.' 'Which means that neither history nor cinema triumphs.'
The total number of establishments sealed since the drive was resumed on November 8 has reached 1,822.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
'Does Deepika not have the right to raise her voice in a democratic and peaceful manner on an issue she considers important?' 'Why should one view her only as an actor and not appreciate her role as a concerned citizen of the country?' ask Aftab Alam and Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
Agneepath, Hum and Khuda Gawah are a testament to the Bachchan-Mukul Anand actor-director chemistry. Of the three, Hum is a natural crowd-pleaser, says Sukanya Verma.
Sreehari Nair is *not* impressed by this lot of films at all.
On Kareena Kapoor's 40th birthday on September 21, Sukanya Verma handpicks 25 of her most stunning frames from various movies to highlight how she draws our attention in big and small ways.
Cheran and Navya Nair star in a very realistic film.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
'While writing the script, I had shared it with some Indie filmmakers and they had asked me who I wanted for this part. I had said Shah Rukh Khan and we had all laughed because we had no access to Shah Rukh Khan!' But director Rahul Dholakia did swing it and cast the superstar in his new film Raees.
'I would've been the first butt of Bollywood onscreen.'
'Mumbai is very different from the rest of India. It can be ruthless if you don't have work or friends. The struggle time and times of disappointment are horrific and can break you.'
He had no airs about his talent, he did not intellectualise it, he just lived and breathed acting.
Writer-director Ranjith gets subtle with his latest effort.
'When you don't have food to eat, will you be worried about the virus or the next meal?'
Funny how a woman can fall in love with another woman and still need a man to ensure she gets her happy ending, notes Sukanya Verma.
'I used to mimic my friends, my teachers, my relatives and that's how it started.' 'But yes, it obviously takes some effort to be funny while performing in character.'
The duo gave Humans of Bombay a glimpse into their adorable love life.
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