As a uniquely multi-hyphenated writer-director-lyricist-author, Gulzar has built a reputation across multiple spheres of film-making and literary creative endeavours. Dinesh Raheja salutes the Master who turns 90 on Sunday.
A lot of time is spent on giving us the background of the story and establishing the characters but the film is named Kalki and the man is not even born, notes A Ganesh Nadar.
After covering the biggest wedding of the year, Rediff.com's Hitesh Harisinghani was invited to the reception specially held for the media.
Be it Dhoom, Singham or the Munnabhai franchise, there are certain stories that have tons more to say or solid cash cow potential and Bollywood is all for it.
When Anya, one of Farah Khan's daughters, launched a laudable initiative to feed stray dogs during the lockdown, AB Jr helped her cause with a grand gesture.
Raveena's positive attitude... Shanaya enjoys the sunset... Adah has a question...
'We used to give these boxers a hammering in the ring and now they are teaching youngsters how to defend. Come on man!' 'People like Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar were among the top boxers in the world, but instead of choosing them to train young boxers they are picking people who are yes men.'
Raashii, Divya shoot...Bipasha celebrates a birthday...
Amitabh Bachchan's birthday is no less than a festival.
Vijay has a lot of young and middle-aged women fans, but as voters, they are possibly now with the DMK, or remain with the AIADMK. Recapturing this constituency would have helped Vijay's political launch and the GOAT script and dialogues could have gone a long way in helping out. But the kind of script and screenplay and the unusually and equally unnecessary long run-time (3 hours, 3 minutes) that GOAT offers takes the film experience over the heads of those that are not familiar with secret agents and uranium theft in Tamil cinema, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
India's biggest superstars are now working together.
Meanwhile, the grand pre-shaadi celebrations continue.
Days after announcing her joining the BJP party, Kangana Ranaut is taking her political stint rather seriously.
'Just to know him (Amitabh Bachchan) makes you a better artist,' revealed Amit Sadh on Instagram.
We celebrate 50 years of Amitabh Bachchan by testing you on how well you actually know him!
The Kalki Universe might just take off, but it will still owe its gee-whizery to Hollywood movies, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Students from schools and colleges on Thursday staged a protest outside megastar Amitabh Bachchan's residence in Mumbai over his tweet supporting the Mumbai Metro project.
From Kishore Kumar posing as a Half Ticket running riot to Raj and Simran's super filmi reunion in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, train journeys in Hindi movies have formed the backdrop for both romance and comedy. But it's the action scenes where the railgaadi's daredevil attributes lie.
Stars lit up the evening with their gorgeous avatars on Day 2 of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani's pre-wedding celebrations.
Quite a few film folk attended the pran pratishtha ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Look who turned up to watch the CSK-MI game on Sunday night.
The consistently heavy downpour of films, shows, events, videos and whatnot is causing economic disruption.
Bollywood has a history of making heads turn -- theirs and everybody else's -- in shiny hair accessory.
Celebirites wish Big B on his 75th birthday.
Many of our leading men and women are also all for dramatic physical transformation for the sake of artistic authenticity.
Though Bachchan did not take any names, her remarks come a day after BJP's Lok Sabha MP and Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan said there was problem of drug addiction in the film industry and also actor Kangana Ranaut's recent remarks calling Bollywood a 'gutter'.
Soon after her arrival at the Mumbai airport for attending the two-day meeting of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on August 31 and September 1, Banerjee drove to Bachchan's residence 'Jalsa' in suburban Juhu.
'We are just waiting for the right script.'
Farhan has revealed that Kiara Advani will join the cast, opposite Ranveer Singh.
Forty four years after Mohammed Rafi's untimely demise on July 31, 1980, at the young age of 55, the singer's work continues to enjoy a musical afterlife on radio, television and modern streaming channels.
So, do take the final segment of Sukanya Verma's four-part quiz.
Gadhvi, who was three days shy of his 57th birthday, is best known for helming two blockbuster hits in the Yash Raj Films' Dhoom franchise -- Dhoom (2004) and Dhoom 2 (2006).
Tabu binges on bread... Kajol drools over bun-maska... Sidharth pushes his limits...
Migrants hailing from Gonda, Ambedkar Nagar, Unnao and other parts in Uttar Pradesh were looking forward to reach their homes.
Sanjana makes memories in Colombia... Neha seeks blessing at Golden Temple... Janhvi visits her mommy's favourite place...
After bringing in his 81st birthday with fans at midnight, Amitabh Bachchan stepped out in the afternoon once again to greet them.
When he left his job in Calcutta to go to Bombay to become a film actor, Amitabh Bachchan took his driver's license along.
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