'When films resonate with the audience, it gives you the confidence to take more risks.'
Deepika, Sonam, Aishwarya, Sridevi, Hema Malini...
One of the most attractive things in a movie romance is to watch two people fall in love over a date or two.
Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand.
'As soon as the plane touched down and we emerged, barricades came down and his fans rushed towards us.' 'Then, before my astonished eyes, they had lifted him up and he was being passed along over the heads of people.' 'It was an incredible sight!'
'If you look at its melody, it's nothing.'
Apart from the super stardom, there is something else common between Priyanka and Deepika.
Like there's no dearth of memorable bus scenes and train imagery in Hindi movies, planes are equally prolific on silver screen.
'As a family, we were not going through a very good time financially.' 'I wanted to be an interior designer, but I didn't have enough money to join the polytechnic.' 'I was about 15-and-a-half, 16, so I said okay, let me just try (acting).'
Here's looking back the Bollywood's judges over the years.
'Who wouldn't want to rub shoulders with the neighbouring country's premier's childhood confidante?' asks Kishore Singh.
Sukanya Verma lists her favourite episodes from Koffee With Karan over the years.
This episode doesn't reach the heights of the one with all the Kapoor siblings; Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman's blast from the past or Ranveer-Arjun's raita rendezvous but amply underscores SRK's reputation as the superstar we love to hear talk, writes Sukanya Verma.
From being siblings in one film to sweetheart in the other, these actors have done it all.
Do you know Ashaji crooned a seductive night club song, Zooby Zooby Je L'aime Vous for An Evening In Paris?
What do you have to say about their style?
Raza Murad has featured in over 500 movies till date, and he's not slowing down anytime soon.
'We will never really lose him because in death, his spirit, trapped in a frail body, has been set free and will surround us like the air we breathe.'
As Mumbai almost came to a halt after overnight rains, netizens and Mumbaikars took a dig at the Shiv Sena for the plight of their beloved city.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
Warm or warring, back home too Bollywood has depicted many, MANY faces of sisterly love.
Veteran actor Vinod Khanna passed away on Thursday after battling cancer. He was 70.
'Other designers take empty suitcases and go shopping for the actors's clothes in New York.' 'To me, this is bankruptcy of imagination.'
Sukanya Verma presents the changing faces of Shashi Kapoor.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities
Sukanya Verma looks at the jhoola, and how it's an unforgettable part of many a Bollywood imagery in celebration, romance, frolic and, sometimes, even menace.
'Panipat has all the meat for a political drama meets war movie. But in Ashutosh Gowariker's failure to process its complexity, the material never rises beyond a mediocre hurray to the Maratha manoos,' says Sukanya Verma.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Saddled with glaring plot holes, caricaturish supporting cast, unintentionally funny punchlines, and Himesh Reshammiya, The Xpose is like Gunda, with better production values.
Veteran actress Waheeda Rehman remembers Nanda, her friend of 55 years who passed away on March 25.
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
'For the past year, people have been asking me about my wife, Sonali, who suffered from cancer. It was a tough year but I have seen worse in my life.'
Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra's Kar Gayi Chull is the latest song to praise Bollywood's heroines.
Chandra Barot's cult film turns 40.
Looking at the Hindi film heroine at her thrilling best.
From Awaara to Deewar to Junoon to In Custody, Shashi Kapoor leaves us many movies to love and remember him by.
What if these old classics were made in today's times? Sukanya Verma figures it out.
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