"Very few people know that Aamir didn't like the way the song Aati Kya Khandala was shot. He scrapped the song's first shooting and they had to re-shoot the song and this time it was mind blowing."
Reader Atishay Agarwal tells us about a Bollywood blooper that he spotted.
'(Mahesh) Bhattsaab had wisely recommended him for the lead role, but I was young and stubborn then, and would instinctively push back against a producer's suggestion. I insisted on casting Shiney Ahuja as Daya Shankar. While he was excellent, in retrospect, I realise Irrfan would have taken the character to a different level altogether.'
There are as many as 22 movies at the Aamir Khan Film Festival in theatres, celebrating the actor's 60th birthday.
'Not all of are like Saif Ali Khan who fought back when his family was threatened.'
Tamil-English song Kolaveri Di has taken the entire nation by storm!
No one wants to be home on New Year's Eve right? But would you instead want to be at one of these places? We should doubt it. Presenting the most overrated New Year's Eve destinations! Take a poll and tell us which one tops the list:
'I had not even realised I had done almost 100 films.'
Amitabh Bachchan did not make an appearance in The Great India Kapil Show, featuring Rekha as its special guest, but his presence was felt throughout. Even though she never once mentioned his name, Rekha shared her thoughts quite clearly.
'Mrs shows a dark side to the son and the father.' 'I had to do things that I wouldn't dare to do in real life.'
'One genre cannot survive 365 days of the year. It can be the flavour of the season.'
Good looks, good acting chops, and now good voices!
'What will happen to players who are there right now? They know they don't have anywhere to go if they don't perform.'
For over two decades, Wajid Khan, one half of the composer duo Sajid-Wajid, regaled listeners with infectious compositions and eclectic range.
Since debutant Yuvan Shankar Raja brings in a new sound with this album, he deserves a few hearings.
In the beginning was Salman Khan and the word was Dabangg. Ever since Sallu bhaiyya outdid every other star's box-office record with his brother's film, by playing the buffoon and dumbing down to hitherto unimagined levels , every other actor worth his namak has had his Dabangg moment: Shah Rukh Khan with Chennai Express, Ranbir Kapoor with Besharam and Shahid Kapur with Phata Poster Nikla Hero.
Sukanya Verma offers an onscreen recap of this onscreen wild child.
Anees Bazmee has spent 43 years in the film industry and knows all its stories.
Celebrating Aamir Khan and his 55 popular songs on his 55th birthday
'I want to show that we are also part of this society and want to participate just as much, whether it is for security or whatever community work there.'
'The fact that all the charges against my son are baseless and concocted, in itself, gives me all the hope.'
A lesson for Jeetendra from Raaj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor delivering gas and Susan Sarandon-Jessica Lange's caustic retelling of the infamous Bette Davis-Joan Crawford feud, Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week turned out to quite a blast from the past.
Suresh Prabhu is trapped in the 'rhetoric of his own government'.
The best analysis of politics does not come out of air conditioned newsrooms, but from the voices on India's streets. Rakesh Kumar Singhal -- once an army jawan, then an ONGC employee, then a tea shopwallah -- reveals why he left the Congress for Modi.
Himesh Reshammiya, the only valid reason for Teraa Surroor's existence, does not show any expression. Not even one. Not even a quarter, notes Sukanya Verma.
Some cool tips, right here!
'Madhubala told me that of all the addictions, the biggest addiction is make-up; once you put it on, you can never leave the limelight even if you want to,' Tabassum tells Patcy N.
'Working with Papa was the toughest,' confesses Varun Dhawan.
There are no two views on which way the 'hawa' is blowing. It's Akhilesh Yadav -- with or without his father. Akhilesh, with or without the Congress Party.
Hema Malini goes back in time, and recalls some beautiful moments from her life.
'This was our country, after all, our India, humara Hindustan -- why would we go anywhere else?'
Banning beef (and not cow) slaughter, not renewing education quota for Muslims. What next from the Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra, a ban on azaan, asks Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'My parents once went to watch Rajkumar Kohli's Insaniyat Ke Dushman. In the film, I "rape" Anita Raaj. My father was very upset. My mother left the theatre. Years later, my father asked me to do a positive role with a heroine like Hema Malini. Unfortunately, I never got to do that. I played her brother-in-law in Satte Pe Satta. Now in Ramesh Sippy's Shimla Mirch, I am romancing her but my father is not alive to see it.' Shakti Kapoor, straight from the heart.
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