'Low-hanging ambitions and straightforward conflict between negotiators of harm and reform renders Lucknow Central a surprising watchability,' says Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Farhan in a never seen before avatar!
Both films have so much in common.
The hits and misses of the week.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav alleged in a post on X that the woman had arrived in Lucknow for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's "janata darbar" but her failure to be heard forced her to take the step.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Besides Defence Minister Singh (Lucknow), Minister of Women and Child Development Irani (Amethi), those in the fray are Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishor (Mohanlalganj) and Minister of State of Consumer Affairs Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (Fatehpur).
Besides the picture of Akhilesh Yadav, the poster also carries the picture of party state spokesperson Fakhrul Hasan 'Chand', who earlier in July on the birthday of the SP chief had put up a similar banner outside the SP office.
Sticking with the Brahmin-OBC combination for deputy chief ministers, Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya took oath on Friday as deputies of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Most of the candidates of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen have not been able to cross the 5,000-mark in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, according to poll trends on Thursday.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Of the 59 seats, the BJP had won 51 in the 2017 Assembly elections, four had gone to the Samajwadi Party, and three to the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Akshay Kumar was spotted at Mumbai airport as he headed out to shoot his next film, Bell Bottom, in Scotland.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
It was curtains down on the high-decibel campaigning for the fourth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls as sparring among political rivals intensified during the last-minute canvassing on Monday.
Living up to the party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's promise to give 40 per cent of the tickets to women candidates, the Congress fielded 148 of them, of which only one -- Congress Legislature leader Aradhana Mishra Mona -- secured victory.
Unusual means of connecting with the electorate are also being adopted by ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government, who are doing their bit to reach out to the voters.
The Congress has turned over a new leaf by bringing into electoral politics those who have struggled for justice, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Thursday after releasing the party's first list of 125 candidates, including 50 women, for the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Instead of wasting your breath on badly recycled versions of beloved classics, listen to Sukanya Verma's pick of 15 under-rated Bollywood numbers.
Did you know what scares this pretty actress?
Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
The SP candidates in these seats include Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav and three ministers, one of whom was recently sacked.
'In the mist of all the hungama created on screen, we should not lose sight of the fact that it's about the story.' 'The audience is telling us we are spending a lot of money to watch a film, give us something that is worth it.'
Besides Singh, who makes his electoral debut from Noida, Rita Bahuguna Joshi's name also featured in the list.
'I come from a film family so I guess people will say it will be easier for me.' 'But people don't know how hard I worked to get a film.'
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
'I was completely not prepared for what happened post Cocktail.' 'I took some time off, travelled for a while.' 'I said I was not in any particular hurry. I wasn't running out of time.' 'I don't want to do films just for the heck of it.'
Varun Dhawan's winning streak at the box office continues.
The hits and misses of the week.
Savouring Spielberg's fierce, fine movie; salivating over MAMI's line-up; gobbling a Shrek cake; visualising a desi Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants with Alia, Bhumi and more in Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
'One cup of tea brings me so much happiness.' 'You take that away from me and I know I'm going to have a really bad day.'
Sukanya Verma lists her top 15 songs of the year.
"I believe that I should have also been listed as an accused by the CBI," says Hazaari Lal, one of the thousand karsewaks, who pulled down the mosque on December 6 1992, a day that shook India.
The situation is worse in the Gandhi family pocket borough -- Amethi and Raebareli.
And you thought Bollywood was just about making movies!
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