Things are off to a good start when a lead movie character appears for the first time against strategic music or swaggering drama and the audience bursts into wholehearted whistles and applause.
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'Don't do it if you only want to wear good clothes and drive a flashy car. Get into banking, then.'
'Lagaan and Talaash are among his best films.' 'He did some really bad films after QSQT. He was doing those films without thinking. He realised that, stopped and changed his approach.'
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'It's nice that so many different visionaries can imagine me in their stories.' 'I feel proud of that.' 'Ultimately, only a director can add value to your career.'
"I believe in all of them. I believe in the pain and trauma behind every single complainant," Maneka Gandhi said.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Sukanya Verma looks at the debutants of that year and how they've fared since.
Major Somnath Sharma was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his bravery in the Kashmir operations on November 3, 1947.
'I don't say no to Salman Khan. He is a very important part of my life. He is my in-case-of-emergency-please-contact person,' Nikhil Advani tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com
A special word for Ayushmann: Hey Mogambo, your acting rocks!
A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation in Ahmedabad on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Additional Director General of Gujarat Police Prithvi Pal Pandey, paving the way for his arrest in the 2004 fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
'The movie seeks to strike a long-awaited conversation. A story that the screen should have told long ago.' 'It is an attempt to cure that epidemic of social media opinion and provoke us to leave our rhetorical positions for once and see the issue purely as a great tragedy which happened for more reasons than we give to ourselves,' says Utkarsh Mishra.
Akshay Manwani traces Aamir Khan's fascinating journey to stardom.
PV Sindhu, Depika Padukone ensured Indian representation on the global front.
'I had to jump from the ninth floor, breaking through the glass. The timing went wrong and instead of landing on my feet, I landed on my head. People thought I was dead, but I stood up.'
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Love does conquer all in Bollywood.
Yash Chopra on the inside tale of Veer-Zaara.
'Two years ago, people said I was making smart choices -- making films with the likes of Vishal Bhardwaj, Milan Lutharia... But what happened? Nothing. The choices were intelligent but we went wrong in making the films.' Imran Khan talks about his big learnings, and more.
Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar, considered a close confidante of army chief Gen Raheel Sharif, was appointed on Monday as the new head of Pakistan's powerful spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence.
Bollywood doesn't care for the fading star, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
If an FIR had been registered by the Pen police -- instead of a mere entry in the station diary -- an investigation could have taken place and the body might have been identified as Sheena's, leading to the case being cracked much earlier.
'If Murad's Mozziness doesn't strike us in the eye, if we see the film as a youth's struggle to break free of the shackles holding him back and not as a Muslim fighting the system, it is because not once in the film does Zoya show him blaming his religion for his low social status or struggle, a temptation many 'progressive' film-makers may have yielded to for it sounds so politically correct,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
The new kid on the block, Sooraj Pancholi, speaks about his debut film, Hero and the importance of Salman Khan in his life.
Meet Bollywood's finest casting director Mukesh Chhabra.
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