The latest updates from the film industry.
Sukanya Verma looks at all the significant bald imagery of Bollywood through the years.
Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood.
At Rs 21 crore, the film recorded the lowest Eid release opening figures for the star since 2012.
The hits and misses of the week.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities:
It's not just the aam aadmi who has been feeling the corruption heat.
Smita has left behind a rich haul of films that showcase her enormous ability to offer us a glimpse into her soul each time she performed a role.
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
'Suddenly, a deafening silence surrounds us. Broken occasionally by the sighs of those who admired this consummate actor, this splendid human being, and trying to grapple with the impermanence of mortal life.' Rinki Roy Bhattacharya, legendary filmmaker Bimal Roy's eldest daughter, celebrates Farouque Shaikh's life.
The hits and misses of the week.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Aam Aadmi Party leader should answer whether he believed in the Indian Army or not.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro mixed comedy with themes of corruption and unemployment that lifted the modest NFDC production into one of the best dark comedies in Indian cinema.
'I did a small role in Masoom.' 'Do you remember the scene where an old man brings Jugal Hansraj to Naseer's house?' 'I put on the full make-up of an old man and stood in front of Shekhar.' 'He had no choice but to take me.'
'I regret not showing my grandparents the man I am today.' 'I was battling with drug and alcohol addiction when they were alive.' 'They were struggling to see me deteriorating my life and destroying it.'
Ranbir Kapoor's larger-than-life daku depiction in and as Shamshera is old school at its spectacular best. While we wait to watch the actor in one of the most raw, rough and rustic outings of his career, here's Sukanya Verma's list of 25 daku roles we love, ranked in an ascending order.
Subhash K Jha picks five unforgettable Hindi films that capture the inequality of the caste system.
The latest updates from Bollywood!
Here looking at 10 of Bollywood's best-known crime movies.
'Smita had it all planned out. She was pregnant then and planning to leave Raj Babbar after the baby was born. In an enthralling new book Smita Patil, A Brief Incandescence (HarperCollins), Maithili Rao reveals the many fascinating facets of the incomparable actress whom we lost too young.
We take a look at the stars, and their big breakout roles.
Some of the greatest stars attended Anamika Khanna's show at the Lakme Summer/Resort grand finale.
'God gave me a second chance to live and I had to make the most of it.'
To mark World Whiskey Day, a toast to its memorable imagery in Hindi films.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'After pack-up, Sridevi took a shower in the studio itself, changed, and returned to the set with a wad of notes.' 'She distributed it amongst every technician who had worked on the song Na Jaane Kahan Se Aaye Hai.'
Kay Kay Menon gets candid about the film industry.
A year has passed since Shashi Kapoor passed into the ages. His movies live on on television, but Shashiji's greatest legacy must remain Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre, where people came to be entertained, informed and, perhaps, also enlightened.
The Ghazi Attack tells the story about one of the 'last unsolved greatest mysteries of the 1971 war.'
The actor, who passed away this morning, has given us many superb movies.
Sukanya Verma celebrates the acting legend.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali looks back at his movies.
Veteran theatre personality Dolly Thakore, who made her film debut as a casting director with Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, kept in touch with him till much after work on the multiple award-winning biopic was over. Distraught upon hearing the unfortunate news, the Indian thespian revisits her long and 'wonderful' association with Sir Richard Attenborough.
Bollywood has seen many iconic villains but it seems to keep returning to the ultimate baddie, Raavan.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is one of the best and most uncompromised films of Indian cinema, says Sukanya Verma.
The marketing spiel for the Hindi version has been around Shah Rukh Khan's inclusion as Pride Rock's patriarch and his son Aryan Khan's debut as Simba's voice.
The Disciple is an ode to music and a salute to Mumbai. The city can be harsh, but it also lets the voices of struggling classical musicians exist, although often they live on the edge of society, observes Aseem Chhabra.
'Gajendra Chauhan may be a good administrator, or even a good leader, but he lacks the basic quality of inspiring others.'
