SaReGaMa mentors, VishalShekar, the duo behind some of Om Shanti Om's music are optimistic of the album doing well.
Optical storage maker Moser Baer is extending the price war in the home video market to new titles and films.
Subhash K Jha lists five relatively unknown Asha Bhosle classics on her birthday.
'Many have tried to imitate her. They've fallen flat on their faces.'
This isn't a compilation of his best films, biggest blockbusters or important milestones but moments that swept Sukanya Verma off the floor, blew her heart into smithereens, regaled her with their sheer silliness, made her laugh till her sides hurt and look at phenke hue paise in disdain.
In this series, InstaStories, we let pictures on social media tell their beautiful back stories.
'With his going, my relationship with the Kapoor family has ended.'
Remembering the Eternal Charmer. Remembering an Awesome Human Being. Remembering an actor and film-maker, the likes of whom we will not see again.
'It's this swag and body language that convinces you that he can pound 10 men to dust with his bare fists.'
Smriti Mundhra's documentary The Romantics has many, many, gems about one of Bollywood's most successful film-makers and more importantly, his iconic father, Yash Chopra.
'Songs are a commercial compromise.' 'I had to invent tricks to fit songs into my films.'
They were married for 40 years till Rishi Kapoor's death did them apart.
'He made me feel like a crorepati even without sitting in the hot seat.'
'Some months before his death, when I had inquired about his health, he was annoyed that people assumed the worst.' '"I am not going anywhere," Rishi snapped as only he could.'
'This man changed the mindset of a generation.'
Though he went back to writing "beautiful scenes" for other Bollywood directors, his deep interest in the lives of ordinary citizens never slackened, evident from the way he made himself available to human rights groups whenever they called him.
Bollywood says goodbye to Shashi Kapoor.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
'He fondly addressed me as 'babbua' .. and with him have gone many incredible unread chapters of his and my life.'
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Sukanya Verma raises a toast (he'd like that very much) to the magnificent Rishi Kapoor and his 25 essential performances.
Sukanya Verma looks at the jhoola, and how it's an unforgettable part of many a Bollywood imagery in celebration, romance, frolic and, sometimes, even menace.
A peek into the Big B's life.
'Prayers are magic that can help you pull through anything.'
Sukanya Verma salutes the legend and celebrates some of the finest soundtracks of his career.
'During this dry despondent period I understood that I needed to do something extraordinary to get the focus of people on me and my music.' 'I worked and worked and composed Munni badnaam hui.'
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