A look at the winners of the Global Excellence Awards 2019.
'I've spoken to Gangubai's soul.' 'I've had long conversations with her in my mind.' 'I understood her suffering, anger, joys and sorrow.' 'I had to connect to the soul of this amazing woman.' 'I think I did.'
Amitabh Bachchan has been awarded the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award.
Ajay Devgn, NTR Jr, Ram Charan release the RRR poster. Pooja Hegde releases the Acharya poster...
'The thought of death doesn't scare me, but the possibility of becoming an invalid does.'
Jennifer mingles with Lopamudra at an awards function.
At a time when many women were forbidden by their caste-conscious families from taking up acting assignments in an industry not deemed respectable, Phalke wanted to cast his wife as the female lead in Raja Harishchandra.
From Rs 191 billion in 2019, the world's largest film producing industry now stands at Rs 72 billion thanks to the pandemic.
'We like to look at a screenplay as a spiral staircase.' 'You never know what awaits at the next turning.'
'I am glad people are talking about Atrangi Re, good or bad. I'd be worried if they had nothing to say.'
B R Chopra was a reformist film-maker, way ahead of his times, says Subhash K Jha.
The President and the Prime Minister led the tributes for Mangeshkar who spent close to a month in the hospital before her demise.
The death of the veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor a huge loss for the Indian film industry.
Irrfan never stopped being hopeful about the endless possibilities open to actors and film-makers in Indian cinema.
Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand.
'This is the best time to do a pan-Indian film.'
'The whole state is very proud of me.' 'I have been home twice after the release of the movie and I could feel the pride in the people's eyes.'
'Satyajit Ray is most relevant even today.'
'After the audience watches the film, if they say Rakul stood her ground in front of Ajay Devgn and Amitji.' 'That's what will be important.'
The closing ceremony of the 10th edition of the Jagran Film Festival was a glamorous affair in Mumbai.
'In our days, we used to write letters and then there used to be phone calls.' 'We would give blank calls.' 'Now, just listen to the songs.' 'Romance has changed.'
KPAC Lalitha's specialty was evoking on screen people that the audience felt they knew intimately, and evoking them through telling details that tore down the boundary between the audience and the performer, observes Sreehari Nair.
'I don't know how Jayaji could ever think I am not on the same page as her.'
'I think my performance in Ray's Devi still ranks as my best,' says Sharmila Tagore.
'I am sure he will get it now.' 'In our country, we value our most valuable people after they are gone.'
President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and other political leaders across the country on Wednesday mourned the demise of actor Irrfan Khan, calling him a 'rare talent' who will be greatly missed.
'Mrinal jethu gave a new perspective to Indian Cinema.'
The legendary actress will be the first figure from the classical world of Indian cinema to be displayed at the waxworks museum.
Dear Friend is for those who idealised Dil Chahta Hai all out of proportion, and then warmed up to the premise that friendship could be a lot more complicated, and transient, observes Sreehari Nair.
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'Of the people here in Europe who have watched The Story of Film: A New Generation, the most talked-about clip is the one from Ram Leela.'
'Everybody is losing money as interest costs keep piling up.' 'Some films will wait for a theatrical release and some won't, keeping their profit and loss situation in mind.'
'Foreign exchange is being squandered.' 'Every top star is given tickets for his spouse, children, parents, ayahs, bodyguards, friends, friends of friends...' 'I've heard stars are even given shopping money.' 'Who is paying for all this?'
With the game-changing success of Hrithik's Super 30, Yash Raj now has the confidence to pump up the adrenaline level higher than earlier conceived.
Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.
Kajol misses being on the sets... What's Anupam Kher doing with John Travolta?
''In this 100th year of Indian cinema,' says Amitabh Bachchan, 'when the history of Indian cinema is written, it will be Before Kochadaiiyaan and After Kochadaiiyaan.'
Rajinikanth is the third cinema personality after the late thespian Sivaji Ganesan and the late director K Balachander, also Rajinikanth's mentor, to have been chosen for the award from Tamil Nadu.
R Madhavan comes away charmed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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