Joginder Tuteja looks back at her career, and looks at her top films.
'They don't make stars like Bachchansaab anymore. Or film-makers like Prakash Mehra.'
'Of the people here in Europe who have watched The Story of Film: A New Generation, the most talked-about clip is the one from Ram Leela.'
Today, Anirudh Ravichander's name on a film's poster is enough to pull in audiences, notes Arjun Menon.
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu presented the National Film Awards to the year's winners with actors Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana and Keerthy Suresh receiving top honours.
The best films are not necessarily the most successful -- that would be another list altogether -- although sometimes quality and commerce do converge.
There will be work today, there will be work tomorrow, there will be work the day after, but nothing will make up for the eternal regret of not seeing a friend when he was dying.
'He underwent angioplasty. He is fine now.'
Shah Rukh Khan's weathered intensity, grizzly charisma and trademark wit lends Pathaan's all-out, devil-may-care antics a sense of purpose that evades mindless acts of mayhem, cheers Sukanya Verma.
Some movies of 2021 excelled in content but yet, they did not do well.
While the sympathy vote for Sushant Singh Rajput's tragic demise must have played an important part in tilting the scales in Chhichhore's favour, the qualitative difference between the two films is so high that it could not have been a close shave, argues Subhash K Jha.
'Luka Chuppi is my Hum Aapke Hai... Koun! type of film.'
Sonam Kapoor likes to mix and match movie genres but picks comedy as her favourite.
The untitled film is directed by Vinod Sukumaran.
'I don't want my life to be a rat race. I want it to be an adventure.
A year marked by more lows than highs for Hindi cinema, here's a recap of the best and worst in 2021.
Bengali film Antaheen by director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury was chosen as the best film while Tamil filmmaker Bala won the honour of best director for his film Naan Kadavul at the 56th National Film Awards announced in New Delhi on Saturday.
Here's a look at the winners of the 60th National Awards.
Sukanya Verma's OTT recommendations for the week.
Haider is a remarkable achievement and one of the most powerful political films we've ever made, a bonafide masterpiece that throbs with intensity and purpose.
'I'm very, very happy.' Winners react after the 64th National awards announcement.
"From a very early age, I imagined myself playing powerful characters," she says, and she proves it with her filmography.
Several parts of Drishyam work but the film is more tackiness than craft, says Raja Sen.
Shaitaan's wickedness may be its calling card but relies on age-old formulas to do the trick, observes Sukanya Verma.
Rediff's film critic Sukanya Verma lists her top best actors of 2015.
After being off the air for five years, celebrity dance reality show is all set to return on September 2.
If Rajesh Khanna was the greatest star of Hindi cinema, the songs played a major part in his superstardom.
'At a time when there's a lot of conversation happening around how AI has made art directors and production designers jobless, we will simply say that if your work speaks for you, you will never be out of work.'
'With the media and social media pulling them down every second day, there are no heroes left.' 'What we have are actors and we want to see them play characters which are real, human and identifiable.'
Meena Kumari's classic film released 50 years ago, on February 4, 1972.
The two National award-winning film is directed by Geetu Mohandas.
In this special series, we re-visit great Hindi film classics we look back at Mahesh Bhatt's 1989's critically acclaimed film Daddy.
'In our Indian content, you always see the mother is presented a bit differently.' 'But in this show, the mother is the one who's most glamorous and she is the bombshell of the show.'
Here are Sukanya Verma's favourite female performances of 2021.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the patriotic movies coming up in 2022.
As the curtain come down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's newsmakers and events.
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan is a light glimpse into healthy young lives ready to soar in their own sweet skin, applauds Sukanya Verma.
'This is a film that speaks to the spirit of women who have been cast into the bottom of India's social hierarchy, and how they have navigated their way to redefine the meaning of power.'
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