'Being a chocolate lover boy, I wouldn't last long. So I decided to get rid of the tag as soon as possible.' 'That's why I started doing films like Haasil and Munnabhai MBBS.' With films like Yahaan, A Wednesday and Tanu Weds Manu, I was trying to break an image.'
'I'm getting to play different characters now, from the ones in my earlier years, when I was a leading actor. Then, you fought with the villain and got the girl at the end of every film. Today, we have different shades of characters -- a man on wheelchair, a 13-year-old child, a mad character like mine in Shamitabh. The roles are wonderful.' Amitabh Bachchan gets ready for Wazir.
'You put crores of rupees making films, so I don't think any producer or studio would back you because you know a relative in the industry.' 'They will back talent, either from within the fraternity or outside.'
'I don't have a family member in the industry and haven't been launched opposite a superstar. I don't have multiple film deals with any studio. It's difficult because I have to prove myself with every film.' Yet, Taapsee Pannu is one of the the busiest actresses in Bollywood.
Dil Dhadakne Do joins the debate over the role of women in India.
Amitabh Bachchan talks on Piku about his children and forthcoming films.
HUL is keen to redefine the way in which brands tell their stories to consumers.
'If you can tell the quality of a movie-watching experience, only and only by referring to set standards, you *aren't really* going to the movies,' argues Sreehari Nair.
'Everything about you and your precious relationships spoke to me, stirred me and I wish you could hear how deeply you touched me,' Sukanya Verma says in her letter to Piku.
Giving up cricket isn't easy for a cricketer especially when you are the son of a cricket legend.
Aseem Chhabra picks the scenes that left him impressed this year.
'Why do we feel our parents are not human? That our mother is not a woman?'
Piku is a film with tremendous heart, raves Raja Sen.
'I compare Rocky Handsome to Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Bajrangi (trailer) did not tell you much but when you came out of the theatre, you said it was a beautiful film and felt that emotion. What's different in the two films is that Bajrangi did not have action. Rocky Handsome has action that hasn't been seen before.' John Abraham on Rocky Handsome.
Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade.
'I've watched Farhan Akhtar's films, and admired him. Then when I saw him in person, I was overwhelmed.' Candid confessions from Aditi Rao Hydari.
'I have experimented a lot with my acting, now I want to get into the commercial heroine space.' 'I am toning myself up to live up to the hotness standards of Varun and Jacqueline.' 'I am trying to get there.'
Amazing stories about some of our best loved movies from Bhavani Iyer who wrote them.
Rediff.com celebrates 40 years of the beloved movie classic.
Putting together a play about the Father of the Nation is no easy task. But when that play is a musical, the challenges increase.
'I barely manage to be in front of the camera and act.' Amitabh Bachchan gets shockingly modest.
'We still look at films with A-listers.' 'There is change, but it's minor.' 'We still haven't learnt how to invest in stories.'
Irrfan Khan's fascinating interview with Savera R Someshwar/Rediff.com.
'My mother has one complaint -- I die in all of my films. She has told me to stop dying now.'
'A friend of mine was going through a midlife crisis with me, so we sat down and talked it out.' 'He said, you know, we are going through a midlife crisis. I asked him for how long it would last. He didn't know, so we tried to Google it but nobody had an answer.' Saurabh Shukla fields questions in his signature witty way.
Pulkit Samrat and Yami Gautam have some fun, as they promote their latest film, Sanam Re.
'The best Indian movies today are ones that portray life as "something that doesn't end when the movies do".' 'There's no real arc to traverse or easy lessons to learn. And Irrfan and Nawazuddin -- who can both swerve a movie purely on the strengths of their instincts -- are just the perfect actors for this kind of movie sensibility,' says Sreehari Nair.
The gulf between Hindi cinema's finest current actor and his contemporaries widens with each film. But even Irrfan Khan, in Mick Jagger's words, can't always get what he wants. Raja Sen tells us why that's not a bad thing.
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