'When Rahman reached the studio, he heard Sukhwinder fooling around on the mike. Rahman liked what he heard and incorporated it into Jai Ho.'
'He surprised us by telling us he wanted to make a career in acting.' 'We were scared since we knew nothing of this profession but then, he landed a role in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding.' 'After seeing him holding his own on screen, we decided to let the boy pursue his passion.'
While Satya's pleasures are palpable -- among them the poetry of the coarse language, the mercifully rough-hewn texture, the oh-so-familiar underdog story -- these pleasures hit you at a completely different speed. The movie is charged with a sense of discovery, and every shot is a cornucopia of details existing independent of the main story. It's touching, notes Sreehari Nair.
Capital punishment brings the state, the highest invention of humanity, down to the level of the barbarity it is supposed to rise above, says Mihir S Sharma
A Rajkot resident has charged the makers and cast of Bhoot with mental torture.
'With Chhaava, we had to look from a different lens.' 'We had to write it in such a way that apart from the sacrifice, the fight and the war, there's a lot more to understand about the history of the Marathas.'
One waits to see where Munjya land though rest assured, a lifetime score of over Rs 50 crores is guaranteed from this point on.
'He was a visionary who redefined storytelling and inspired generations.'
Bollywood doesn't need fire-breathing dragons when it has Bhai.
The two-part trend for blockbuster films was started by S S Rajamouli.
After getting a seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes, Sunny Leone gave her friends at home a special preview of her new film, Kennedy.
'Raju sir has a classical approach to cinema and it's paid rich dividends for him. I suppose I'm a bit edgy and non-conformist.'
'I have always been attracted to the dark side of human beings.'
'The maximum struggle that I have gone through in this industry was to try to get a film made which had a female action star.' 'And that film never got made, despite reaching out to some of the biggest actresses.'
Joginder Tuteja lists April's theatre releases.
'Randeep Hooda's a very bossy kind of person.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at how successful the genre has been in recent times.
'You're going to have your own journey and that can be very beautiful.' 'It can also be very terrifying because there is no precedence.'
Jacqueline prays... Rakul goes river rafting... Saiyami feels the heat...
'If you ask me where I want my career to go, I have been saying this for a long time: I want to do a K-drama. I want to be in Korea doing a love story, full of romance.'
'D Company is obviously not a registered company, but the way he organised it, with his kind of vision, which finished the Pathan gang and the older members.'
Radhika gets vaccinated... Amitabh makes a revelation...
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'Elections and audience interest in specific movies are often independent factors.'
In a career spanning 30 years, Urmila Mantodkar has played everything from a killer to a stalker to a rape survivor.
The menfolk of Bollywood are celebrating their women in the sweetest way possible!
Joginder Tuteja looks at films set in the jungles.
Megastar Rajinikanth turns 70 on December 12.
'There must have been some wonderful genetic disorder due to which I was attracted towards filmi songs.'
Ajay Devgn, not Karthi, will be playing the lead in the Hindi remake of Kaithi entitled Bholaa.
Sukanya Verma recaps all those events from 25 years ago.
Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag fails to live up to the original.
What if Sajid Khan, who recently gave us Humshakals, touched our classics? Would cinema be as good? We take a look.
Merry Christmas has a breathtaking climax that will have you sighing like you've never sighed in a Sriram Raghavan movie before, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Interview with Mohanlal on his third Bolywood film Tezz.
Sanjay Gupta's Mumbai Saga and Ram Gopal Varma's DCompany are all set to release this week, and add to the gangster movies made in Bollywood.
Deepa Gahlot lists Hindi biopics about Indian political leaders: Some worked, some did not, but they managed to avoid controversy.
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