'All the actresses we approached for the role of Sakeena were demanding a lot of money. After a point, we collectively decided that we would cast a new face opposite Sunny Deol and the money that we would save by doing so, we would give it to Amrish Puriji and get him onboard for the role of Mayor Ashraf Ali. I was completely okay with signing a new heroine but there is no alternative to Amrish Puriji in the industry.'
Gowri Ramnarayan explores the world of Kalki Krishnamurthy whose magnificent novel Ponniyin Selvan has inspired Mani Ratnam's latest film PS I.
Check out the second batch of hotties from down south!
'When I watched KGF, I was like, 'What kind of world are we living in? Who are these people'?'
'Narendra Modi is single-handedly changing the formula to win elections. With money, human resources, mobile technology, the Internet, advance planning and tremendous confidence, he has spread his image more in UP villages than in urban areas.' Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt reports from Lucknow on how Team Modi is changing the rules of the election game.
The Indian Coast Guard apprehended a Pakistani fishing boat with ten crew members in Indian waters in the Arabian sea off the Gujarat coast, it said on Sunday.
'She brought so much craft, skill and spontaneity to her songs, it was almost impossible for me to match up to her voice on screen.'
If Rahul's yatra makes a political statement from the other side of the aisle and Shah Rukh's success underlines a more relaxed popular mood, Mr Modi and Mr Bhagwat's cues to their followers are coming from another place, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Here's a look at ten actresses who aren't spending enough time on our screens.
Actress Richa Panai talks about her debut movie Vaadamalli.
Mili establishes Janhvi Kapoor as an actor striving to be taken seriously, observes Sukanya Verma.
'He was a man of immense conviction.' 'Whenever I'd question him, he would say, "Leave aside your logic-wogic. Just do what I tell you".' '"Just trust me. It will work".'
Karan Johar is all set to direct two of his favourite young stars Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt in a a quirky love story.
Amid a row over the extension of the territorial jurisdiction of the Border Security Force in Punjab, a top officer of the border guarding force on Saturday said the powers of the state police remain intact and the BSF is only there to complement it.
As the talented actress celebrates her 47th birthday on August 5, Namrata Thakker brings you some of her best fashionable appearances.
The best films are not necessarily the most successful -- that would be another list altogether -- although sometimes quality and commerce do converge.
Sukanya Verma offers some diversion in in the form of Bollywood's typical torture tactics.
'My mom said when she was in college, her classmates said they want to marry somebody like Vallavaraiyan Vanthiyathevan.' 'That's the kind of pressure I had the moment Mani sir said you have to play this part.'
The top court said that the amount of neutral substance in a mixture has to be included along with the actual weight of the banned substances for determining whether it is a 'small or commercial quantity' under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
In the film, he is called Asif and the heroine Kiara Advani is called Priya.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Cadbury's ad girl Preetika in Tamil film Chikku Bukku.
