Even with an ongoing pandemic, theatres in many states functioning at 50 per cent occupancy, a quieter social life and fewer movies, Bollywood still managed to pack in plenty of drama and trauma, fun and festivity, love and war into the year.
Yami Gautam's career is flying high. Her latest film Article 370 is a superhit and adds to the list of successes to her credit, right from her debut film, Vicky Donor.
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
If the trailer is any indication, Ranbir Kapoor's Animal will be one of the most violent films of 2023.
On that note, Sukanya Verma lists 10 times when Bollywood assembled a bevy of evil-doers to make life hell for its leading man.
Sukanya Verma lists significant memories in our 1996 recap.
Baahubali leads non-Bollywood grossers of 2015.
No Bollywood release nor any holdover release from last week were pitted against James Cameron's sci-fi action drama.
Welcome To New York is a mishmash of IIFA footage that intermittently targets Bollywood's vanity, feels Prasanna D Zore.
These men will have you believe that a grey-haired head really is the height of hotness!
'Karan Johar has made the Telugu star a promise that his Bollywood debut would be spectacular.'
Cricket climate change to medical practice, dropped candidates have their non-political life sorted.
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The sheer mayhem created in the very first weekend did the trick.
Bollywood inspired weddings, Dharmendra's cringe-worthy attempt at realism, Sridevi and Aishwarya's painful connection and more in Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
Ram Gopal Varma's Veerapan to hit the screens this Friday.
Rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty.
As we enjoy his thrilling The Night Manager series, Deepa Gahlot looks at 10 Anil Kapoor films on OTT that shows off his versatility and star power.
Salman Khan also make it to the Top 10 list.
Along with Salman Khan's Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan and Keanu Reeves' action blockbuster John Wick: Chapter 4, we have Nawazuddin Siddiqui's rom-com Tiku Weds Sheru releasing on OTT this week and much more.
Business is better than usual in Bollywood.
There is a superhero, a super woman, a super solider and a super ghostbuster arriving in theatres!
Though tragic stories traditionally been avoided by Bollywood, there have been a few instances of this genre resulting in audiences making them commercial winners as well.
A messy masala about an antihero bolstered by tons of whimsy, controversy and high drama, Khalnayak's hype is stuff of history. Sukanya Verma celebrates 30 years of this blockbuster.
'There are enough LGBTQ people in the industry, so I don't feel like a misfit.'
Bollywood loves a kiddie party!
An aide of the sixth shooter arrested in the Sidhu Moosewala murder case had conducted reconnaissance in Mumbai to draw up a strategy to kill actor Salman Khan at the behest of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, Punjab Police chief Gaurav Yadav said on Sunday.
What was Bollywood up to on Maharashtra Day?
Sukanya Verma lists SRK's special avatars in the movies.
'When people would tell me that any actor would give his left arm to be seen in a single frame of a Marvel project without even a single line of dialogue, I would laugh them off.'
'I will pick Bollywood stars to play Indian superheroes.'
10 Ways Bollywood has kidnapped in the movies.
What is noticeable in both movies is the willingness with which both the ageing stars -- Kamal is 68 and Rajini, four years older at 72 with a kidney transplant that he has not shied away from acknowledging -- have learnt to respect their age and bodies, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Sreehari Nair reviews Ayyappanum Koshiyum.
Shamshera's problem is a shocking inability to support its bombastic ideas with gripping drama. The result is the wastage of not one but two Ranbir Kapoors, observes Sukanya Verma.
Deepa Gahlot lists the most popular Yash Chopra films -- the ones he directed, not produced (yes, so that means no DDLJ) -- that can be watched on OTT.
'The Maharashtra government diktat is another meddling example in an industry where politics or language has no role to play.' 'Cinema has a universal language. Filmmakers are divided across regions, but united in their passion for films,' says director Suparn Verma.
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'It was because of the strength of Helenji's performance that I was even called on stage to present her with the coveted Black Lady.'
