Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
A childhood favourite turned silver. A childhood icon passed away. And a childhood heartthrob from Hollywood showed up to surprise a movie screening. Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week.
Nutan was the kind of woman Shammi got drawn to -- sensitive, aware and erudite, yet seductively feminine.
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Prepping for the Baahubali juggernaut, remembering a toddler Vinod Khanna and making Deepika Padukone dance to Jennifer Lopez's tunes, Sukanya Verma's super filmi week was pretty eventful.
Shaadi ke side effects and how you can avoid them
There are many who don't mind leaving more than claw marks on people around them in their march to the top.
The very filmi Valentine's Day Special!
Romance died, came alive and lives on forever, off screen or on it, in Sukanya Verma's fabulously filmi week.
Bombay Velvet paints a pretty postcard but not the soul of its decade, feels Sukanya Verma.
Can Sidharth Malhotra and Sonakshi Sinha bring back the magic created by Rajesh Khanna and Nanda in the 1969 original?
Veteran actor Vinod Khanna passed away on Thursday after battling cancer. He was 70.
Intolerance toward the minority communities or attempts to humiliate them or the refusal to go the extra league to build an inclusive society -- these are all evident today in our society, says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Handling anger can be like handling the devil -- you've got to be careful, patient, and above all, innovative, to be successful in nailing it down
Relive your childhood or enrich your kid's but revisit The Jungle Book you must, stresses Sukanya Verma.
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The characters drawn for the 2016 film have an edge that wasn't present in the 1967 version. This is perhaps why The Jungle Book has been given an U/A certificate in India. For once, Pahlaj Nihalani may be right, feels Aseem Chhabra.
'Khaike Paan Banarasiwala doesn't sound like a Hindi song,' Kishore Kumar said. 'I don't think I can sing this song.' We pleaded with him. Finally, he relented on one condition...
The gifted actress passed into the ages on January 21, 1965.
We celebrate Farah Khan's 50th birthday by re-visiting some of her best choreography.
'Don't let anybody tell you that Kadvi Hawa is a manifesto for the fight against climate change or that it's an austere, unforgiving movie.' 'This is an intensely felt, beautifully expressed piece of cinema,' says Sreehari Nair.
The traditional male dancers of Rajasthan produce seductive movement that has colour and beat.
Every year, Mehrangarh Fort comes alive with folk music from across the world. The author soaks in the lilting melodies of Jodhpur RIFF.
Sukanya Verma talks about her yet another fun filmi week!
Here's profiling movies with a similar premise -- when two women fell for the same man on silver screen not too long ago.
'Castro's huge appeal lies in the fact that he stood up to the Americans.' 'However, it becomes difficult to be judgmental about his legacy, because there are huge uncertainties about the future of the Cuba that he built,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
In the World Bank's rankings on the "Ease of Doing Business" India stands at 139 out of 189 economies surveyed in 2014; its position has in fact dropped from 131 last year.
From being siblings in one film to sweetheart in the other, these actors have done it all.
'As the burkha-clad beauty Husna in Mere Mehboob, she inspired Shakeel Badayuni to compose Mere Mehboob Tujhe Meri Mohabbat Ki Kasam/Phir Mujhe Un Nargisi Aankhon Ka Sahara De De. Hasrat Jaipuri showered epithets like Nargis-e-Mastaana and Phoolon Ki Rani, Baharon Ki Malika on her in Arzoo.'
The key to every Daniel Day-Lewis performance was a big theme and a thousand details. And in the final phase of his acting career, says Sreehari Nair, America became his big theme, and the details... well, he just popped them out like waffles.
Regardless of Phata Poster Nikhla Hero's uneven pace and indecisive disposition, Shahid Kapoor, armed with a kooky grin, gives it his best shot.
Democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for rooting out corruption
And no, the list doesn't start and stop with Boman Irani!
Total Siyappa is so insipid, it implores your mind to wander off every few minutes.
One of the most prolific filmmakers of his time, VB turns 50 August 4!
'It is impossible to pin down the genius of David Bowie, to distill any kind of essence of that singer-songwriter-visionary-buccaneer-icon into a line or several.'
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Ram Leela is a lavish visual spread and is filled with moments of thrill, ingenuity and splendour.
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