'Any Muslim who shows even the slightest hint of revolutionary thought is marked as 'infected'.' 'At that point, he is taken to the nearest Detention Centre where a procedure called Reconditioning awaits him.' 'Areas with a high Muslim population have been designated as Scheduled Religion Zones.' 'To be an active participant in this social cleansing ritual, there is only one prerequisite: You have to be an undying patriot whose friend and family is his country.'
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum is a thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable film
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Dibakar Banerjee delivers his finest work to date, and Sreehari Nair makes sure to applaud him.
'I will be present for a few matches, but I won't be doing that on a daily basis like I used to do.' 'A lot of people ask me why I am not doing films. I say I can do only one thing well at a time.' 'Right now, I am back into the entertainment business because I truly wanted to return to it.'
'I had seen Waqt, starring Balraj Sahniji, and I can never forget it. There is a happy family and an earthquake later, everything is gone. That movie got stuck in my head. How one man loses his entire family and becomes a pauper. The same thing happens in Airlift.' Akshay Kumar, and his lovely leading lady Nimrat Kaur discuss their latest film.
Here's what caught our eye at the movies this year.
'You put crores of rupees making films, so I don't think any producer or studio would back you because you know a relative in the industry.' 'They will back talent, either from within the fraternity or outside.'
2 States, for all its modern touches, is a very regressive film, deeply rooted in old fashioned values that surely make no sense in the India of 2014.
Welcome 2 Karachi is a sad excuse for screen space, says Paloma Sharma.
Chaitanya opens up about his new film and also explains why he decided to produce it.
'But practically speaking, I have to feed myself and pay my bills, so I have to do a few commercial films too', Sruthi Hariharan tells Praveen Sundaram/Rediff.com
Institutions will wait till there is more clarity on Budget.
It's election season in Tamil Nadu and all political parties are tying themselves in knots over the banned jallikattu but none more than the BJP, says R Ramasubramanian.
Happy Ending, at its core, is pretentious and doesn't quite live up to expectations, save for Govinda, who lights up the screen with his mere presence.
Aseem Chhabra's recommendations for the Mumbai film festival.
'I want to do Hindi and Telugu films now.' Actress Rakul Preet Singh tells Radhika Rajamani.
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Manoj Bajpayee confides in Rediff.com's Ronjita Kulkarni about his 'long journey filled with rejection, betrayal, misery, failures and disillusionment.'
Beautiful glimpses into Dilip Kumar's life with Saira Banu.
Sukanya Verma talks about her yet another fun filmi week!
Abhishek Chaubey talks about Udta Punjab, his actors and how the drug-themed film happened.
'They will have to give proper security to Kim Kardashian even when she is inside the house!' Aarya Babbar tells Rajul Hegde.
Total Siyappa is so insipid, it implores your mind to wander off every few minutes.
'We wanted to make a true coming-of-age story since all of us have been through adolescence.' 'Most people are afraid of commenting on what these boys go through behind closed doors.' 'We just wanted to bring out that truth. People know what adolescents do, but they do not know how they do it.'
Rediff.com gives you a lowdown on the net neutrality issue that is today part of the national discourse.
Director Gareth Edwards delivers a satisfactory reboot of the iconic monster movie, Godzilla.
Udta Punjab truly soars when being its own madcap beast, profane and powerful and preening.
Finally to end the dispute, Sharma threatened to show her shoes. Pasbola declared regally that he would like to forgo that particular honour. Sharma ignored him. Instead, she bent down, took off her shoe and triumphantly held her prize aloft, and said delightedly, "Yeh dekhiye! (Have a look!)"
Protests demanding Jallikattu swelled on the streets of Tamil Nadu after agitators rejected statements by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and the state braced for a shutdown on Friday.
'We are caring and sweet to each other.' 'We do have our tiffs, arguments on everything; neither of us agrees to be wrong.'
Vijay Nair, CEO and co-founder of Only Much Louder, released a statement about what exactly went wrong, leading to the show's cancellation.
Nargis Fakhri is really fun to be around, discovers Patcy N/Rediff.com.
'Even though Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Sathiyon was not a hit, people still remember me. I must have done some really good acting in it. I met Akshay (Kumar, her co-star) recently and he told me 'tu toh director ban gayi hai' (you've become a director). I told him you can never predict where life takes you.' Divya Khosla Kumar prepares us for Sanam Re.
'The dark side is not me; I am a mama's boy,' Ganesh Venkatraman tells S Saraswathi.
'I'm ruled by emotions. I think women are generally more emotional than men. I believe love is like what we see in movies or what we read about.' Love talk from Katrina Kaif.
Kalki Koechlin talks about her upcoming projects, marriage and much more!
'In Vishal Bhardwaj's now fully set world of manufactured poetry, characters wear their emotions at their most prescribed anatomical positions -- courage on their chins, pride over their chests, and innocence in their faces,' observes Sreehari Nair.
Amitabh Bachchan talks about Te3n, Aaradhya and actors he would love to work with!
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