'I've not been doing much work because I was not getting the kind of roles I want to do.'
'With passage of time, Kamal did move away from the humdrum of commercial cinema, using it only as a peg to launch a new concept or new technology, as no other actor/film-maker has done in Indian cinema.' N Sathiya Moorthy assesses the career and politics of movie legend Kamal Haasan on his 70th brthday.
Forget smarts or cheek, there's little novelty to be found in Jewel Thief's juvenile script, barring its now free usage of the F-word to make it sound all hip and adult, observes Sukanya Verma.
When Sonakshi Sinha got married to Zaheer Iqbal on June 23, 2024, eyebrows were raised when her brothers Luv and Kush Sinha did not attend.
Fashion takes a front seat this awards season, as the Style Icons and OTTplay Changemaker Awards make way to the fifth edition of the Critics Choice Awards, 2023.
The Night Manager, starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Anil Kapoor and Sobhita Dhulipala, lost out to the French show Les Gouttes de Dieu at the International Emmy Awards 2024.
'A Lufthansa crew member reached a hotel in the middle of night and slept.' 'The next morning, something fell and she bent to pick it up.' 'She saw a dead body under the bed!'
The Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2023, held at Mumbai's Taj Land's End hotel, saw some Bollywood and television stars in attendance.
'I knew I wouldn't be offered hero roles anymore. That is why when I accepted this show.'
Vijay said the TVK respected all languages but would not give up its self respect for another language.
'As a parent, it had me terrified. As a human being, it compelled me to look at people with greater empathy, to understand life with greater nuance, and to see beyond the black and white. I wanted to hug my kids. To tell them it's alright. To tell myself I can do better.'
'I didn't like doing jhatak-mataks. I would subconsciously start feeling, 'Oh my God, my makeup man and my driver will be watching this.''
'He has always let us do our own thing but if we ever need anything, he is there with the best advice.'
'When there is a money crunch in the industry, actors like us are the ones who face budget cuts. Not the big actors.'
'It's no more just art and skills, it's a business.'
Jee Le Zara needs three A-listers actors to go with the three female superstars, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt, in the film.
'Sudip sir keeps telling me that what I have done is very Hollywood.'
Steadily marching ahead for almost a decade now on the strength of his unassuming versatility, the 35 year old is ready to showcase his mettle in one of the most challenging roles of his career as India's first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw in Meghna Gulzar's biopic, Sam Bahadur.
Madhuri shines brighter than the stars...Kalki goes retro... Neha's bravest shoot....
'...just be neutral about everything.' 'I will just take life as it comes.'
Action, romance, comedy, it's raining masala entertainment on OTT this week.
'When The Mehta Boys was offered to me, I wasn't very sure.' 'I was doing Bambai Meri Jaan and Khakee at that point. I felt I should do something bigger.' 'I felt a soft film is not what I would want to do.'
Quite a few film folk attended the 22nd Indian Television Academy awards ceremony.
'Sunny sir keeps me distracted from my morning sickness.'
'We have to keep knocking on it before we get a response.'
Film and telly folk attended the 29th Lions Gold Awards, which honoured extraordinary achievements in film, television, OTT, music and social welfare commitment.
Bollywood stars sashayed down the red carpet at the Zee Cine Awards in Mumbai.
Take a bow Prabhas, Mahesh Babu, Nani, Sudheer Babu and Varun Tej.
'An animal behaves out of instinct...'
'When you try to do something that's not been tried before, nobody likes that.'
Chennai-born Indian-American businesswoman and musician Chandrika Tandon, 71, won a Grammy in the Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album category for her album Triveni, a blend of ancient chants and world music, at the 2025 Grammys.
In the biggest surprise of the night, Emma Stone grabbed the Best Actress trophy for the complex portrayal of a Frankenstein-like character Bella, in Yargos Lanthimos' electrifying and most original film Poor Things. Aseem Chhabra recaps the 96th Annual Academy Awards.
'I hope to serve stories and characters to the best of my ability.'
'I was blessed to earn a lot of fame and money, more than I ever expected, and the time has come to share what I have earned with others.'
Stars dazzle at the Zee Cine Awards 2019.
Sacred Games Actor Kubra Sait recently went to the Maha Kumbh Mela, and penned a beautiful diary of her experiences.
'We have loved Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and Apocalypto.' 'The thought was 'When are we going to do such films?''
The 10th edition of South Indian International Awards took place in Bengaluru over the weekend.
'Pakistan's only concern has been while they were on the FATF watch list was to distance their State institutions and organs from any direct connection with the actual execution of militancy inside Kashmir.'
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