Taapsee is super. But that's not to say that the rest of the cast isn't tremendous, says Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
'I have never got special treatment. My school and hostel was free for everyone, not just me. The training that I get in school is given to everyone, not just me. I want to be a sportsperson and go to the Olympics. I want to represent India there. But I am not training now.' India's youngest marathon runner Budhia Singh looks back at his success.
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
The film, starring Manoj Bajpayee, will release as scheduled.
Budhia Singh: Born To Run is not so much a film as it is a passionate appeal to remind and regain an opportunity for Odisha's erstwhile Wonder Boy, now a forgotten teenager, writes Sukanya Verma.
The filmmaker is working on his new film, Shootout at Wadala.
This is the first time that Amitabh Bachchan is in Patna to promote a film.
Raja Sen analyses the year so far.
'Sushant Singh Rajput, a bright young lad who had a life beyond films, was probably too good for Bollywood.' 'To blame his death by suicide on a gang of Bollywood bullies is stretching the point too far,' argues Saibal Chatterjee.
The hits and misses of the week.
Here's a look at the top five movies of the year.
Celebs pay tribute to Girish Karnad.
'We wanted people to love Stree and that has happened.' 'It is a unique, one-of-a-kind movie.'
Check out what's been happening in Bollywood, right here!
'These days you are the main inspiration for a lot of young film-makers. They are mimicking your films.'
'People are already talking about what my character will do in Mirzapur season three.'
'You are not going to find success all the time and you will feel insecure when your film fails at the box office, but that's a part of the game.' 'You just deal with it and move on.; 'Maybe the problem was something else and not so much about his career.'
'There's zero emotion and logic in anything about Baaghi 2,' says Sukanya Verma.
A look at the star arrivals.
A 16-year-old Delhi school boy on Saturday had a brief tryst with destiny, equaling the world record of being the youngest to step atop the world's highest peak, only to have his feat overturned hours later by a 13-year-old American. Arjun Bajpayee, became the youngest Indian to climb the 8,848 metre Mount Everest early today morning via the traditional South Col route in Nepal. He equaled the record of Nepalese boy, Sherpa Temba Tsheri, who also climbed the peak.
'Of all artists who openly support the current political dispensation, she is far and away the finest,' argues Sreehari Nair. 'With the exception of perhaps Tabu, no Indian actress has done more to extend the range of the feminine mystique in Hindi cinema.'
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
The hits and misses of the week.
'Love Sonia is a motion picture with the ambitions of a novel.' 'When I walked out of Love Sonia this Monday night, I walked out with a hushed audience that seemed too overcome by the raw power of the film to even pause for applause,' notes Sreehari Nair.
Director Suparn Verma chats with his fans about his second flick.
'Of the people here in Europe who have watched The Story of Film: A New Generation, the most talked-about clip is the one from Ram Leela.'
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Prakash Jha delivers a potion that is but a terrible hodgepodge of his earlier films.
Celebrating one of Bollywood's finest cult classics, as it turns 20.
Say hello to John Abraham's new co-star, Aisha Sharma.
Isn't It Romantic is about a New York woman hit on the head during a mugging. The impact leaves her feeling that she is in a rom-com.
Where a few film-makers are sensitive in their treatment as noted in the depiction of lesbian love in Hindi movies, a significant number is prone to poking fun for cheap laughs.
The hits and misses of the week.
Rukh may be lit like a YouTube Short Film, and may have its share of other technical problems, but there's something disturbingly original about director Atanu Mukherjee's vision, Sreehari Nair feels.
The hits and misses of the week.
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