'Calmness and stability has come into my life after being married to Vicky Kaushal.'
Veteran actor Tabassum, known for her work as a child artiste in several Hindi classics and also as host of popular Doordarshan talk show Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, her son Hoshang Govil said on Saturday. She was 78.
'Every woman should believe she is a lady killer because that's the only way she can gain the confidence to achieve whatever she wants in life.'
On his 50th birthday on May 25, Sukanya Verma celebrates the man and his movies.
'Richard Corliss started loving Bollywood late in his career, but he gave everything he had in his power as a critic to promote India's Hindi cinema.'
He died in a hospital in Ludhiana.
This isn't a compilation of his best films, biggest blockbusters or important milestones but moments that swept Sukanya Verma off the floor, blew her heart into smithereens, regaled her with their sheer silliness, made her laugh till her sides hurt and look at phenke hue paise in disdain.
Singham 3 will be his most politically sensitive film and he can't afford to get it wrong.
It means more tickets sold and therefore more revenues and hastens the recovery of the devastated-by-the-pandemic film business.
There is a kind of audacious large-scale experimentation which is admirable, even if the novelty and potential of the idea are not fully realised, notes Deepa Gahlot.
'We like to look at a screenplay as a spiral staircase.' 'You never know what awaits at the next turning.'
Crediting megastar Amitabh Bachchan of being a "guiding light" of sound recordists in Hindi cinema, Oscar winning sound engineer Resul Pookutty has said that he owes his international recognition to the Big B.
Renowned playwright Lolita Chakrabarti's stage adaptation of the story of 16-year-old Indian boy Pi (Piscine) Patel stranded in the ocean on a lifeboat with a Royal Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker opened at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on March 30.
'Mahesh Babu is not too keen on doing a costume drama or a period film at this stage of his career.'
From Rs 191 billion in 2019, the world's largest film producing industry now stands at Rs 72 billion thanks to the pandemic.
'Almost everyone in the team favours a digital release for RRR except Raja sir (Director S S Rajamouli), who won't hear of it.'
'Just because a subject is uncomfortable for some and doesn't suit their political ideology, should a film not be made?'
Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com brings us scenes from the Jug Jugg Jeeyo trailer launch.
The 10-member jury was headed by filmmaker Vipul Shah. The awards were announced by jury member Dharam Gulati.
UTV Motion Pictures is entering the Tamil and Telugu film market in a big way. The company has signed three of the biggest superstars from the Tamil and Telugu film industries -- Surya, Vikram and Mahesh Babu -- for their forthcoming films. After producing Hindi films like Jodha Akbar, Rang De Basanti, Life in a Metro, etc and co-producing Mahesh Babu's Athithi in Telugu and Kannamoochi Yennada in Tamil, UTV Motion Pictures has a lineup of four Tamil and two Telugu films.
Some highly anticipated big budget films of top actors failed miserably at the box office.
Avatar: The Way of Water feels like a poorly chosen present -- the wrapping is beautiful, but the gift inside is a disappointment, observes Mayur Sanap.
'I asked him once, 'You are such a big superstar, why are you always on time? I don't see the other stars being on time.' 'He said, 'If you learn how to respect time, time will respect you. Time will never wait for you and you will regret it'.'
Neither DC nor LSG look like outfits that give you the vibe of a champion side
'I am a slave to my instincts.' 'My instincts are determined by how impactful the script has been on my soul.'
'We would love to have more players entering the market because that is how the business will grow.'
Amitabh launches book Adhunik Yugacha Vishwakarma: Nitin Chandrakant Desai written by Mandar Joshi
Subhash K Jha picks songs to celebrate Maha Shiv Ratri.
With the Rs 100 Crore Club assuming so much importance, the biggest commercial successes are the ones where action is the central element.
'We didn't know where the story was going. But I knew I was telling the story of an extremely lonely journalist.'
'They are expecting a larger viewership for Dhamaka than any of the fictional Indian content on the major OTT platforms so far.'
'I used to be embarrassed and think what will my friends say if I wiggle my hips.' 'I used to seek comfort in the fact that Meena Kumari and Nutan couldn't dance.' 'I think that was a mistake.'
Siby Malayil's new film, starring Mohanlal, is not worth a watch.
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Gokhale, an artist equally at home in theatre, television and movies, acted in several Marathi and Bollywood films.
'In the last seven years or so, many reigning heroes have stopped working with him because no matter how popular a star they are, irrespective of whether they are playing the lead, it eventually becomes an Amitabh Bachchan film!'
Abhishek Chaubey talks about Udta Punjab, his actors and how the drug-themed film happened.
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.
As Sachin turns 50, Rediff brings you 50 fascinating facts about the God of Cricket.
'Even after Awaara Hoon and Mera Joota Hai Japani, between 1946 to 1963, there were plenty of upheavals in his career. My parents had moved into two rooms of a chawl, with an attached bathroom, by then, but life was hard, and often there was no food at home.'