A look at the current contenders International Bank Note Society's Banknote of the Year
Here looking at 10 of Bollywood's best-known crime movies.
Joginder Tuteja lists the biggest box office successes with stars in uniform.
Valentine's day is nerve-wracking only because people make it so; stop putting pressure on yourself to make it perfect, suggests Ravi Mittal, CEO, Quack Quack, an online dating app.
In a year of overwrought spectacles that slavishly sucked up to the audience, I found refuge in a bunch of 'mainstream' Indian films that espoused such old-fashioned values as dedication to craft, close observation and casual bravery, explains Sreehari Nair.
Comfort and chemistry go hand in hand, so Tabu's versatile vigour and Devgn's brooding intensity has regularly complemented their working styles in solidarity and conflict.
Sukanya Verma takes a look at all the strange ways Hindi films has dealt with the memory loss syndrome.
The fact that Gehlot has stayed relevant these five years with his populist schemes is one reason why he may beat incumbency in a state that votes for change every election, observes Ramesh Menon.
Sreehari Nair reviews Ayyappanum Koshiyum.
Modi wants the BJP to gets an additional 10% of the vote share from what it won in 2019. Plans are afoot to get new faces to replace MPs with poor chances of winning. Sources say more than 100 MPs are like to be axed, notes Modi biographer Ramesh Menon.
'If I don't act for a week I become edgy, restless and moody.' Subhash K Jha salutes Manoj Bajpayee, actor extraordinaire, on his 53rd birthday.
The 92nd Annual Academy Awards hardly had any surprises up its sleeves. Here's a quick look at the winners.
Joginder Tuteja lists the Web series and films coming up this month.
Hyderabad-based Anshul Sinha is making hard hitting films on important social issues, but there are no takers.
All Is Well spends two hours desperately tickling the audience but the overall impact is one of torture, says Raja Sen.
A red carpet crush du jour, ARH looks her best in a sari.
Any move of the present government to appease the Marathas may boomerang. Eknath Shinde is a worried man with the agitation not having an easy solution, notes Ramesh Menon.
Here's what caught our eye at the movies this year.
Shamjibhai Ahir, a Kutchi truck driver by profession, can't understand such hullabaloo over India's official Oscar entry of the Gujarati film The Good Road in which he is playing an important role.
Check out the impressive line-up at the International Film Festival of South Asia.
'Just the fact that the biggest language at the box office was Telugu and not Hindi is startling.'
Here's celebrating Dilip Kumar by re-visiting his best movies.
'There were many experts around me,' A Ganesh Nadar discovers at the India-Pakistan hockey game. 'One of them was explaining to his neighbour, that fellow is a good dragger and flicker, that fellow is a penalty corner specialist, that fellow is a penalty specialist, that fellow is a very good defender, etc, freely dispensing with his expert knowledge.'
'If you sit collar turned up and tell yourself, you are great, you will never evolve as an actor.'
In photos: Friends Jacqueline Fernandez & Shraddha Kapoor join the Raabta team at a special screening.
'How can so many misfortunes fall on one beautiful family?'
Rishi Sunak speaks at a Conservative Friends of India event at the Dhamecha Lohana centre in Harrow, London.
Sukanya Verma lists 10 of her favourite songs of the year, in no particular order.
'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.' 'Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.'
Lonely Planet has also come up with a list of 10 best places to seek silence.
The two obvious best choices are to combine OTT viewing time with some good eating, because Joe, Rishi and Co don't have to be the only ones dining well.
How films under the YRF banner have fared at the box office in the last five years.
In Khufiya, a mother's journey, a lover's vendetta and a country's mission, skewed patriotism and moral disengagement coalesce and highlight the nature of the spying business, notes Sukanya Verma.
Lovers of good cinema should not miss this opportunity to watch one of the best Indian films of 2016, raves Aseem Chhabra.
'He said, "There was nobody to help me. I came from Kolkata to Mumbai to make a career of my own".' "'I have my own journey, and you need to experience that to value what you will have in the future.".'
Their number is dwindling, but single-screens believe they have a place in the entertainment space
Swaroop Kanchi, the Bangalore-based film-maker tries his hand at Hindi film, Yeh Dil Ramta Jogi.
16 years after The Warrior, Asif Kapadia and Irrfan Khan will team up once again for the cinematic adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke.
'It is about the fight between two families, why they fight, how they fight and what they feel.'
'My film will not only be a reminder for all of us who have gone through these hellish two years, but also a reference point for future generations and for the four-five year olds who would have forgotten everything by the time they grow up.'
