National-award winning actor, producer, hotelier, ex-politician, cricket team owner, philanthropist, highest tax payer, reality show judge, animal lover and, above all, people's hero -- Mithun Chakraborty -- who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -- is truly a force of nature, notes Sukanya Verma.
Meenakshi Sundareshwar is a Basu Chatterjee slice-of-life packaged in a glossy ad film whose source of heart are its two genuinely likeable leads, feels Sukanya Verma.
West Bengal is home to 43,000 Durga Pujas, and the business around it is a major economic driver.
Ntasha Bhardwaj recounts her first few days in the film industry, and her first leading role.
'Here are 25 stories special to me for one reason too many,' says Sukanya Verma who scored 25 years writing about the movies last week.
'Bapi's characters looked and spoke like people we know.'
Subhash K Jha remembers the dear departed.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker and expelled Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Somnath Chatterjee on Monday said Jyoti Basu, whom he considered as his 'political guru', had asked him to preside over the crucial trust vote debate in the lower house in 2008, saying that the party cannot give any direction to him as he held a constitutional office.
Apparently, the number and the style in which it will be shot will echo the chiffon-in-the-snow style of Karan's mentor, Yash Chopra.
'Then suddenly, I was out, Jaya was doing Guddi instead.'
The political heat in West Bengal has been giving the rising mercury levels serious competition since the high court order.
Sukanya Verma remembers the star in some of her significant movies.
Not so hatke after all, but no reason to stay bachke either, notes Sukanya Verma.
"Journalists are not terrorists," the Supreme Court said on Monday, as it deprecated the Jharkhand police knocking on the door of a scribe of a local Hindi news channel at midnight and dragging him out of his bedroom before placing him under arrest in an extortion case.
After being marginalised by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, the Left parties have appealed the prime minister to issue a commemorative stamp in the late leader's memory. Anita Katyal reports.
Subhash K Jha selects his favourite rain songs. Do list your favourites in the message board below!
'We have to find a way out of this confrontational politics.'
From melodrama to mockery (remember Amar and Prem's phony separated-at-Kumbh Mela reunion in a gag of Andaz Apna Apna?), there are numerous instances of its presence.
The writers have smartly targeted several politicians without mentioning them, says Ramesh S.
Moushumi Chatterjee, one of the biggest stars of her time, gives us a peek into her life.
IFFI hosted a screening of Ajay Devgn's big hit Drishyam 2, along with premieres of other Hindi films.
Sunil Khetarpal to remake Thoonga Vanam in Hindi with Kamal Haasan.
We celebrate the brilliant actor by looking back at his classic works.
After another hiatus that lasted a decade, the actress makes a comeback once again, this time in JugJugg Jeeyo, where she taps into her comic side to play Anil Kapoor's wife.
As Jaya Bachchan turns 73 today, Subhash K Jha remembers her lesser known performances.
Tanuja could do practically anything on screen, applauds Subhash K Jha, as he salutes the actor on her 80th birthday on September 23.
In a special series, we will put YOU to the test everyday!
Monsoon is here, and time to bring out the chhatris.
As the Lok Sabha debates a no-confidence motion brought against the Narendra Modi government by the opposition, the 28th such motion to be admitted in the Lower House, data compiled by a think tank shows all previous ones have either been defeated or remained inconclusive.
'I would rather focus on the good rather than what didn't happen.'
No confidence motions have been moved in the Lok Sabha 27 times in the past, and all of them have either been defeated or remained inconclusive, data compiled by a think tank shows.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
'The scenario today, whether in 'Everybody is concerned only with 100 crore films... If our starting point is going to be "How much money will it make? Will it go into the 100 crore club?" then I am not interested.'
Sukanya Verma toasts the man, the movies and the many, many, MANY memories he's made on big screen through 80 Amitabh Bachchan moments.
Actresses who weren't exactly high up in the popularity charts this year.
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