The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
'I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.'
Legendary actress Suchitra Sen is in a serious condition after she was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata following a respiratory tract infection, doctors said on Sunday.
Kriti makes you smile and cry through her unexpected journey, notes Sukanya Verma.
Here's the lowdown from the Tamil film industry.
'My father gave his life trying to elevate the art of acting in the adverse conditions of noughties Bollywood.'
'Here we're exploring a different relationship which is better, cooler.'
'Never in the history of Indian cinema did we have a distribution system for 240 countries, but we have it now.' 'And if we still keep catering to the B and C-tiers of our country, and not the whole world, then we are really being losers.' 'The visionaries of the industry must pull up their socks and say that now we will create for the world.'
'I've always been choosy because I'm not a one-size-fit-all actor.'
'My mom said when she was in college, her classmates said they want to marry somebody like Vallavaraiyan Vanthiyathevan.' 'That's the kind of pressure I had the moment Mani sir said you have to play this part.'
As much as we enjoy and write reams and reams about our amazement at the Kantara climax, 30 years on from now, will we remember these portions more fondly or the ones where Shiva is simply hanging out with his friends, mulls Rohit Sathish Nair.
Popping the question to Nandita Mahtani, Commando style at an army camp while rappelling down a wall. Surrounded by 300 army men...
As Soumitra Chatterjee turns 80 on January 19, we look back at his best movies.
'I'm trying to move away from what I've done before, not because I'm not happy with what it was, but because I have already done that.'
Rediff's film critic Sukanya Verma lists her worst Hindi movies of 2014.
'When he saw a few unedited scenes, he blasted me.' 'I was completely destroyed that night.' 'But when he saw it the second time, he said it was not that bad.' 'Now that he has seen the entire film, he is satisfied.'
The late legend would have turned 90 today.
'It was one of the greatest learnings in my life to see someone like the great Amitabh Bachchan go through such a tough phase.' 'He had been there, done it all and really didn't need to prove himself.' 'Yet, he channelised it all and came out with one of his best performances,' Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra tells Savera R Someshwar/Rediff.com in a fascinating conversation about the films he has made and the actors he has worked with.
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.
'There will be artists and megastars and celluloid masters in Indian Cinema but there will never be another AMITABH BACHCHAN.'
The question 'Who was/were behind Aditha Karikalan's killing?' will continue to remain a historic mystery despite Mani Ratnam setting out to unravel it in his own way, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
'I just want to keep on working till they have to shoot me down.'
Looking at the best movies made by the veteran filmmaker.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the big November hits in the past decade.
While Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar follow, there's no sign of Aamir Khan, whose latest film Dangal is one of the most successful Hindi films ever made.
'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.' 'Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.'
Sukanya Verma looks at how one of the seven primal human emotions is usually treated in Hindi movies.
'Nayanthara's Koko is so different from Janhvi's Jerry. Janhvi is a newcomer, just four films old.'
Raja Krishna Menon, who had directed Airlift before he moved to Chef, shares his movie experiences.
The actress still cannot get over the tragic news.
Are we living in those primitive times when same-sex relationships qualified as stone-pelting offences, asks Subhash K Jha?
Kareena Kapoor is all set to play an expecting mum in Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine.
Here's your lowdown on what's going on in the world of Telugu films.
There have been several instances of cop films doing quite well at the box office.
It was Dev Anand's dream to put Indian cinema on the world map and he thought Guide was the perfect film for it.
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