Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict for the week.
So many movies are coming up for release in 2025!
It's the season of star kids, and it continues with Chunky Pandey's nephew Ahaan Pandey getting ready for his Bollywood debut with this Friday's release, Saiyaara.
How did the box office fare? Well, the second half of the year looks much better than the first!
Ajay Devgn and Tabu promote Drishyam 2 on the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhla Jaa 10.
While Emergency has managed some sort of traction, Azaad is absolutely dull.
July has so many interesting films to choose from!
Sickness on screen is a sure shot way of seeking audience sympathy and turning on the waterworks.
With 17 films crossing the Rs 100 crore mark in the first six months, this year relied less on big-ticket blockbusters.
Singham's character is based on Ram, Kareena's based on Sita, Tiger's on Lakshman, Ranveer's on Hanuman, Akshay's on Jatayu and Arjun takes up the Ravan role.
There are so many first-time jodis arriving on the big screen this year.
'When I did Bhoot we got a lot of appreciation. After that I didn't get any script that was good in this genre.'
Rajkumar Gupta's hammy treatment and bombastic score strips the realism to turn Raid 2 into another hail the hero exercise, observes Sukanya Verma.
Kriti Sanon invited film folk over to watch her debut production, Do Patti, where she has a double role.
The actor's friends from the film industry came out to support him after his sentencing in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.
'Pahlaj Nihalani came to my rescue. There was no Instagram in those days so I didn't recognise him.' 'I almost fainted when he told me he was Pahlaj Nihalani, the producer of Ilzaam, the hit film that had just made Govinda a star.' 'I told him I was a model and an aspiring actor, and he responded, "You have an interesting face. Come and meet me in the office tomorrow".'
Producer Anand Pandit invited Bollywood's A-listers for a grand get-together, and they arrived in their glamorous avatars.
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 is going full throttle with its creeps and cackle, which marks the addition of Madhuri Dixit and re-entry of the OG Manjulika, Vidya Balan.
These six male megastars have formed popular pairs with two starkly different leading ladies. Dinesh Raheja compares and contrasts the chemistry between the onscreen couples, and asks you, dear reader, to vote for your favourite jodi.
'Vinod Khanna asked Mehmood if I could play his heroine in a film.' 'He asked Mehmood if we were married.' 'Mehmood just looked at me, smiled and didn't say anything.'
2003's Kal Ho Naa Ho is still winning hearts!
After Ajay Devgn sought blessings at the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, Abhishek Bachchan made a stopover there as well.
Durga pujo celebrations continue, and this time, Alia Bhatt joins the Mukherjees at the the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal.
After being in theatres for 10 days, Crew and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire have similar box office collections.
If there's one thing the full-of-beans star knows, it's how to stay happy, observes Dinesh Raheja.
On Kajol's 50th birthday on August 5, her family and friends came forward to wish her on social media and share adorable pictures and touching messages.
If Naam was made today, there wouldn't even have been enough audiences to boo it out of the halls, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Maidaan's special screening was quite a star-studded affair, as film folk arrived to watch Ajay Devgn's new sports biopic.
Sukanya Verma shows you everything you can expect from the Rohit Shetty brand of film-making.
Diwali releases Singham Again and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 scored big and entered the Rs 200 Crore (Rs 2 billion) Club before the close of the second weekend.
'Story-telling is at the core of everything I do.'
'When you try to do something that's not been tried before, nobody likes that.'
Just when it seemed that Bollywood had recovered with multiple big hits in 2023, it all came down in 2024 with a flurry of flops, disasters and mega disasters.
Stars Walk the red carpet of The Bollywood Hungama OTT India Fest and India Entertainment Awards
There was a sprinkling of warmth and respect when former World boxing champion MC Mary Kom bumped into Bollywood star Ajay Devgn at an airport on Friday.
Will Salman's latest endeavour finally mark a pulpy return to form? Sadly, no, answers Mayur Sanap.
Kajol and Ajay Devgn's son Yug becomes a teenager today, and his proud parents took to Instagram to wish him.
Kajal Aggarwal talks about her second Hindi film, Special Chabbis, set to release on February 8.
If Singham was a biryani, with all the flavours coming together seamlessly, Singham Again is a desi thaali, full of scrumptious dishes, but a tad in excess, discovers Sonil Dedhia who watched the film in New Zealand.
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