After comedies like Bhool Chuk Maaf and Stree, National Award-winning actor Rajkummar Rao tries hard core action in the gangster film, Maalik.
Shweta Basu Prasad, the 11-year-old lead actor in Vishal Bhardwaj's 2002 film Makdee --- a performance that won her the National Film Award for Best Child Artist -- was arrested on Sunday after the police caught her in a prostitution racket at a Hyderabad hotel.
'I've not been doing much work because I was not getting the kind of roles I want to do.'
'Indian life is full of chaos. So it captures the cultural chaos quite beautifully and lightly.'
Andhra Pradesh bagged the Best State award for overall growth in tourism category.
'Editor M S Shinde deserves full credit because, I'm told, Ramesh Sippy had shot 300,000 feet of footage, which was brought down to 18,000. 'He died in 2012, in a 126 square foot flat in Dharavi, penniless, a forgotten hero.'
'On this happy occasion, I wish Sonam more work and another National Award.'
Sukanya Verma's super filmy week was high on emotions.
Aamir Khan-starrer 3 Idiots was chosen as The Best Popular Film, as Amitabh Bachchan won The Best Actor award for his role in Paa and Malayalam film Kutti Srank won the award in the Best Feature Film category as 57th National Awards were announced in New Delhi on Wednesday.
'I had not even realised I had done almost 100 films.'
National Award winner Prakash Raj talks about his first Best Actor win.
'Shah Rukh is such a generous person, such a giver, that I can only wish for life to give him all the love and happiness he deserves.'
Among the finest Indian actors, voices and smiles to grace the stage and screen, Om Puri's uniqueness, always so fluid and natural, cannot be summed up in a few words, feels Sukanya Verma.
The veteran actor passed into the ages in the early hours of Friday, April 4, 2025. Sukanya Verma looks back at his most memorable performances.
The video shows Dhanush running through dark alleys with a Molotov cocktail in his hand.
The award for best director went to Aparna Sen for Mr and Mrs Iyer, while Buddhadeb Dasgupta's Mondo Meyer Upakhyan was adjudged best film
Though Zanjeer is credited as Amitabh's breakthrough film, it didn't immediately enthrone him. Rajesh Khanna countered with a huge hit in Daag that year. But Deewar upended audience's cinematic taste and filmland hierarchies at the very start of 1975. Bachchan emerged as a one man industry, the angry young man who could regulate the thermostat of the entire film industry, recalls Dinesh Raheja.
Director P N Ramachandra talks about the National Award winning film Putaani Party.
The cinematographer-turned-director has quite two projects lined up.
'God can you get work, but once you get it, you have to do it with honesty and put your 100 percent into it.'
'When India opened its doors to the world, moving away from an agrarian to a market economy, everything, whether life or love, was commodified.'
From Awaara to Deewar to Junoon to In Custody, Shashi Kapoor leaves us many movies to love and remember him by.
'Prior to release, we heard only exemplary things about the film, so the failure came as a complete shock to my father.'
National Award winning director S P Jananathan talks about his new film, E.
'The way the anticipation is built up for Gabbar Singh's introduction scene with sound, image and details of his personality, like the combat boots he wears.' 'The camera comes so close -- not a tele lens shot, but a wide-angle close-up -- that you can almost smell Gabbar's breath.'
'I have no family (in the industry), no network, no mentor.' 'Still, I'm consistently working since 20 years and now I have a National Award.' 'It may take time, but if you're consistently at it, nothing can stop you.'
'If people think that films that are happy or light, or comedy or romance are not substantial, that's not true.' 'I was really happy when this award was given for Thiruchitrambalam because it highlights that.'
'I never imagined that a boy from the footpath could receive such a big honour.'
Usha Uthup and Mithun Chakraborty were among those who were conferred with the prestigious Padma Bhushan award for their outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
'Now, because of Pushpa and with the love of the Indian audience now, I am a more familiar face, and everyone knows me.'
'I've never done anything cliche and I've never got anything cliche.'
Shahana Goswami's Santosh has been shortlisted for the best foreign film Oscars.
The National Film Awards were presented on May 3 in the national capital, but many recipients decided to "boycott" the ceremony over the president handing over the honour to only a select set of winners.
Here's our pick of the maverick director's best works.
'I am glad Aranyer Din Ratri is being shown at Cannes.' 'The film was better appreciated outside India even when released originally.'
Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies has been picked as India's official entry for Oscars 2025.
The film has been selected for the '19th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival' to be held at Jiangyin City in China from October 11 to 16.
'It's a tremendous accomplishment to have a father like Amitabh Bachchan and still be so sorted, to not taste the kind of success that he should have and yet be so balanced.'
