'He was a fighter, a stunt man and an action director, the master of all things rugged. Yet, he had the softest heart.'
Bappida's softer more creative work got buried in the noise, rues Subhash K Jha as he picks the late lamented composer's most soulful songs.
''This body is mine. And bearing its burden has become quite a task,' Dilip Kumar once told Subhash K Jha.'
The veteran filmmaker passed away in Mumbai. He was 88.
'My kids think it's very cool they will see me on Netflix.'
'I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.'
It is largely due to his vision and efforts that we have almost quadrupled our per capita milk availability in the last 40 years, points out Shailesh Dobhal.
No longer, Virendra Kapoor points out, are these awards given on the recommendation of ministers, or the Delhi-based liaison men who had ruled the roast till 2014.
'She was gutsy and rebellious enough to take on roles other more conventional actresses wouldn't dare and she excelled in them.'
Coming down heavily on the UPA government, Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi accused the Congress of having broken its promise. Modi also lambasted the Congress for avoiding media.
'Full credit goes to the aam junta of India, the common man for bringing this amazing change of governance in the country.' the Nightingale raves.
Renuka Shahane celebrates the movie's silver anniversary.
B R Chopra was a reformist film-maker, way ahead of his times, says Subhash K Jha.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'To keep laughing is the most important thing in life.'
'If I don't act for a week I become edgy, restless and moody.' Subhash K Jha salutes Manoj Bajpayee, actor extraordinaire, on his 53rd birthday.
The legend talks about her favourite singers. Syed Firdaus Ashraf listens in.
"Manna Dey sang some of the most soulful songs for my films" is how late actor Raj Kapoor described his association with Manna Dey.
As we celebrate his 92nd birthday today, we asked members of the film fraternity to list their personal favourites.
Bollywood is doing all it can to keep busy during the national lockdown.
'It is nice to know I am remembered even now,' Lataji tells Subhash K Jha.
Bihar education minister asked if the 'media person who posed queries to the topper is himself a great musician?'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'Which one of us would give up our flats for development?' 'We insist that others, who are unwilling but weak, make all the sacrifices on our behalf and then we are puzzled when there is violence against the State,' says Aakar Patel.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'The very idea that Kamal Haasan would retire from active acting for active politics is as ridiculous as to suggest that Lataji would give up singing to weave handloom dupattas for destitute girls in Muzaffarpur,' declares Subhash K Jha.
'Nobody is sustaining and the movie goers are responsible for it.' When Rishi Kapoor lets loose, all you can do is listen.
Because it's all about loving your siblings.
'Let us stand together in displaying our utter and complete lack of spine, in safeguarding our hundreds of crore rupees of income and in supporting this military-style mobilisation against the very masses who have practically treated us as gods and to whom we owe everything we enjoy.'
Veteran music composer Khayyam revisits Umrao Jaan.
'In the film she played a chirpy bubbly character. But in person she was quite the opposite. Very dignified, graceful and quiet,' Dharmendra, who starred with Jayalalithaa in her only film, tells Subhash K Jha.
Kumkum, who featured in some of the most memorable songs in Hindi cinema, passed away on Tuesday. She was 86.
Amrita Rao talks about her television debut, co-star Deepti Naval and films.
'The death of Tulsi Ramsay signals the end of an era.'
'I don't believe that it beholds democracies like us who claim to be the largest democracy in the world, to have such a thin skin about the possibility of foreign commentary.'