Which film are *YOU* looking forward to?
Looking at the latest posters of Tamil film, Arasan the Don, you may wonder what US President Barack Obama and Rajnikanth have in common.
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.
The satellite rights are the hefty amount paid by TV channels to producers for the right to show the film for the next 99 years.
'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'.'
'I am a slave to my instincts.' 'My instincts are determined by how impactful the script has been on my soul.'
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.
On his 50th birthday on May 25, Sukanya Verma celebrates the man and his movies.
Debutant director Caarthick Raju talks about the success of Thirudan Police.
'We didn't know where the story was going. But I knew I was telling the story of an extremely lonely journalist.'
Audience turnout is crucial to most exhibitors, since their discussions with film producers hinge on how many people will return to movie halls in the weeks ahead.
'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.'
'Just because a subject is uncomfortable for some and doesn't suit their political ideology, should a film not be made?'
With the Rs 100 Crore Club assuming so much importance, the biggest commercial successes are the ones where action is the central element.
'We would love to have more players entering the market because that is how the business will grow.'
'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!'
Sarika talks about her Club 60 co-star, who passed away this morning.
Neither DC nor LSG look like outfits that give you the vibe of a champion side
Gokhale, an artist equally at home in theatre, television and movies, acted in several Marathi and Bollywood films.
Subhash K Jha picks songs to celebrate Maha Shiv Ratri.
RIL is setting up infrastructure for a full-fledged horizontal e-commerce offering - internally called the New Commerce - to simultaneously launch pan-India by October-November.
Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
Mutliplexes want the gap between a film's release in theatres and on OTT to be doubled from 4 to 8 weeks.
The Big Sick is packed with delicious details, moments and scenes that makes the film stand apart as a smart rom-com, says Aseem Chhabra.
Seven of Bollywood's big stars (Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh, Ajay Devgn, Varun Dhawan, Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham and Shahid Kapoor), who had 10 movies released with a collective budget of Rs 1,100 crore since December, could rustle up only around a third of that money at the box office.
'Whenever we were low in energy and wanted support, we turned to him.' 'He has done a lot for me.' 'He did not leave any stone unturned to launch me.'
It was a quiet reopening with few people venturing warily to watch a mix of regional, English and Hindi reruns such as "Chhichhore", "Thappad", "Tanhaji" and "The Spy".
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.
At Rs 2,000, you can gift yourself an awesome sensory experience for Diwali.
'I wasn't getting the roles I wanted to play and the respect I thought I deserved as a senior actor, so I cut myself off from the industry for a while and moved to the US.'
Television actor Tunisha Sharma was founding hanging on the sets of a serial in Mumbai on December 24, one more instance of a showbiz aspirant allegedly taking the extreme step.
Kamal Haasan's controversial film Vishwaroopam is one of the biggest blockbusters in 2013.
Touted as the most expensive film in Malayalam cinema, the film offers little scope for Mohanlal to perform.
'We have to scale down our theatre's seating capacity by tweaking the arrangement of seats.' 'We have to stop screening back-to-back shows to ensure that people do not bump into one another.'
It is worth thinking about the deeper reasons that make people depend, often against their wishes, upon substances that ruin their health and their relationships, observes Chintan Girish Modi.
The cinema industry is staring at a loss of at least Rs 5,000 crore at the box office over the next six months if Omicron proves to be a spoiler.
Smriti Mundhra's documentary The Romantics has many, many, gems about one of Bollywood's most successful film-makers and more importantly, his iconic father, Yash Chopra.
'Amitji is not integral to my cinema, he is integral to cinema.'
'Apart from being total eye-candies, Saif and Shahid are very good actors. Saif is that classy man, who would open the door for you and pull chairs for you. Shahid would come to the sets with headphones on. He had a boyish charm.' Kangana Ranaut gets in Rangoon mode.
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