The title of Akshay Kumar's horror comedy was changed from Laxmmi Bomb to Laxmii only a few days before its release on November 9. But this has happened many times before.
Ayushmann Khurranna is riding the success wave with Bala being his seventh consecutive hit.
The hits and misses of the week.
These movies may or may not have got critical acclaim, but when it comes to sheer eyeballs, these films did their job rather well.
The hits and misses of the week.
Bollywood's original box office queen Vidya Balan cannot seem to get it right again.
'There were initial hiccups with Ayushmann as Mr Bachchan has an aura; he isn't called a legend for anything.'
'Varun did Karan Johar's films at whatever price Karan wanted to pay him.' 'But in a film Varun will do with his mentor in 2018, Varun will get his full market price.' 'His new market price.'
Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho fails to impress at the box office.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the most successful female-centric movies in the last five years.
There is no 'remix version' for any of the songs, as the music deserves to be heard unadulterated.
Prernaa Arora lets go of Kedarnath... What Varun Dhawan insists on... Check out Subhash K Jha's Bollywood Buzz.
'It is the biggest release for me.'
'The digital release is part of cinema's ongoing process of evolution.' 'One shouldn't avoid change. I wouldn't.'
The film has run into trouble with pro-Tamil outfits.
Quite a few Hindi movies have explored different shades of the landlord-tenant relationship in passing or purposefully.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'It's a performance that puts the Bachchan hysteria to shame,' observes Sreehari Nair.
'I worked as a cleaner at a store.' 'I worked as a security guard...' 'I have slept on footpaths.' '[I came to Mumbai with great difficulty.' 'I have not seen better people than I have in the film industry.' 'Nobody has helped me the way people have done for me here.'
A look at the potential blockbusters this summer.
Here's looking at some popular Bollywood movies shot in Kashmir.
'Apart from being total eye-candies, Saif and Shahid are very good actors. Saif is that classy man, who would open the door for you and pull chairs for you. Shahid would come to the sets with headphones on. He had a boyish charm.' Kangana Ranaut gets in Rangoon mode.
Shoojit Sircar takes Rediff.com's Ronjita Kulkarni behind the sets of October, and right inside his beautiful mind.
'Katrina gives a lot of inputs, like the colours that suit her skin tone.'
With four back to back hits, the shy lad from Chandigarh is an unlikely movie star. Ayushmann Khurrana tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com how it all came together and how he prepares to confront the toughest three months of his life.
'There were certain ideals and morals that I had started bending as I was climbing up in the industry.' 'I was unknowingly hurting people close to me, unknowingly treating people the way I wouldn't want to be treated myself.' 'But I am not that person and I didn't start off like that.' 'Then the introspection began.' 'Very rarely does that happen when you do a film.' 'I was feeling unhappy as a person. Now I am much happier.'
A big part of October's charm is in its taking of a cinematic tragedy and presenting to us how we may experience it in real life, says Sreehari Nair.
Giving up cricket isn't easy for a cricketer especially when you are the son of a cricket legend.
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