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'Vishal told me he envisioned me while writing (the script), but I was not well.' 'He called me and said, 'Navindraji, hum aap ka dhyaan rakhenge set par.' 'That's how I got on board, and they really pampered me.'
Allu Arjun is the first Telugu actor to receive a National Award for Best Actor.
Gems you can enjoy from the time he was at his handsome and magnetic best.
Bollywood stars sashayed down the red carpet at the Zee Cine Awards in Mumbai.
As the legendary actor turns 70 this October 11, we look at his finest films as part of a special series.
'It's all that pain that makes you the artist you are.'
This is the film festival's third edition.
Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
If Pitroda's blunder cost him his office, what should the BJP's unrepentant attitude cost it?, asks Shyam G Menon.
'My father would have liked Piku and PINK.' 'I don't think he would have liked item songs though.'
Aseem Chhabra is impressed by Rima Das's Bulbul Can Sing, Ritesh Batra's Photograph and eight other outstanding films.
'Everyone's looking for the next best thing. Everyone is ready to give up too easily.'
In our special series re-visiting great Hindi film classics, we look back at Sunny Deol and Dimple Kapadia starrer Arjun, 1985.
Here are Sukanya Verma's favourite female performances of 2021.
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.
Neil Nitin Mukesh did one of his career-best films with Pradeep Sarkar, who passed into the ages on March 24.
Mira's films are alive, rocking and so true to the reality I know. They are gifts that I keep revisiting, and I cannot wait for what more she will share with us, notes Aseem Chhabra.
ZEE5 has launched a short film festival. Joginder Tuteja tells you what's on offer.
'He underwent angioplasty. He is fine now.'
Sukanya Verma recaps all those events from 25 years ago.
In the world of harebrained Bhai films, Kick is the best made and the most fun, says Raja Sen.
There is no plot, no central story line or theme. It appears Atlee felt if he put a Shah Rukh Khan (there are two of them actually!) on screen doing just about anything, the film would sell, sighs Nitin Sathe.
In Maqbool, Vishal Bhardwaj did a Godfather; in that he took something that was pulpy and fast and gripping, and made out of it something timeless and grand, feels Sreehari Nair.
'Alia's chemistry with Shefali was great, and you can't rehearse chemistry.'
Deepa Gahlot picks 10 Web series that was worth the viewer's while.
The Vaccine War leans towards stoking nationalistic fervour, but that shouldn't stop you from watching a film that is solemn about the Indian scientific community's achievement, notes Mayur Sanap.
The Birmingham Games will break new ground with more medals awarded to women (136) than men (134), a first for a multi-sport event.
OTT has been flooded with a number of film and Web series releases, and many of them are very entertaining.
'Kriti tells me to be candid and real, just the way I am at home. I've applied that in my first film just to take that nervousness out of me.'
'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma.
'Priyanka has done very well in Bollywood and Hollywood. But had she joined politics, it might have been a different story altogether. Given how ambitious she was, she would have made a good youth leader. She might even have launched her own party,' says Sathya Saran
'It is not easy to pull off a seven-part show because it is almost like making four films at once.'
Mrs and Mrs Malhotra attended their first post-shaadi event, the News18 Showsha Reel Awards.
Heath Ledger steps into Jack Nicholson's shoes. And makeup.
Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries on Wednesday announced signing of binding pacts to merge their media operations in India to create a Rs 70,000 crore behemoth. Reliance and its affiliates will hold 63.16 per cent in the combined entity while Disney will hold the remaining 36.84 per cent, the companies said in a statement.
Director Gnana Rajasekharan on his forthcoming project Ramanujan, on the life of the great mathematician.
'He was an extremely naughty child, always in trouble and creating trouble.' 'He wanted to fly a kite at night, and sometimes, bunk school.' 'When I insisted on sending him, we could get a call from school that he had fainted.'
Raja Sen analyses the contenders for the Best Director category at the Oscars.
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