Veteran socialist leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister the late Mulayam Singh Yadav, and medical professional Dilip Mahalanabis, known globally for his work on Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), were among those conferred the Padma Vibhushan award by President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday.
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Aseem Chhabra lists his favorite 2023 films -- a healthy blend of Bollywood, Hindi indies and some of the best work that is being done in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali cinema.
An evening celebrating the best of what medicine has to offer.
'I have no idea as to what Lucky Ali is singing but to me, it sounds great and gels with what I sing.'
Aruna Viswanatha grew up in New Jersey but worked in New Delhi as a reporter from December 2007 to May 2009. She is currently a reporter in Washington, D.C. Aruna offers her take on working in Indian offices.
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Sri Lankan beauty Ghamya Wijayadasa will be seen in an item number in the film Aalaap, releasing this Friday.
Mahira Sharma creates her own Bollywood style tunes.
Ganga, whose ancestors were from India before migrating to Trinidad, revealed in an interview to Rediff.com in March 2020, that his family was brought up on a steady diet of Bollywood.
Was descending into the telling of only Diana's tale in four long, slightly-draggy soap-opera-ish episodes of the last season the original premise of The Crown? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Some of Bollywood's top directors started very young.
More than the jingoism overkill, it's the tedious tone of telling stories of this genre that hurts Pippa, observes Sukanya Verma.
'The first time we actually got to meet a Bollywood star, it was Salman Khan.' 'We met him at his farm house.' 'For Pia, an actor is just an actor. There is no such thing as a star in her world, and that may or may not go down well with some people.'
Here's what your favourite celebrities have been up to.
'A very emotional connect has happened.'
'Towards the late '60s and early '70s, it was a given that if it was Shankar-Jaikishan, it had to be Sharda for Shankar.'
If clothes indeed make the man, of the numerous characters SRK has essayed in a career spanning over three decades, he's created a series of iconic looks and sartorial trends.
We remember some of Nitin Chandrakant Desai most influential works.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
One can only pray he finds his peace while we take comfort in the knowledge of having a true friend and the therapeutic power of humour. Sukanya Verma mourns the passing of Matthew Perry.
Producer Ramesh Taurani hosted a musical get together for the singers and composers of Bollywood, and they made sure to attend.
'I don't trust these days. Like now, everyone likes Mimi and my phone is constantly ringing. But tomorrow if I make a flop, the opposite will happen.'
In the upcoming Super Nani, 59-year-old Rekha transforms into a glamorous grand mom.
This Woman's Day, we celebrate the woman of substance in Bollywood.
Ishq Forever is an ordinary soundtrack by Nadeem Saifee and one expected a lot more from him.
'We shot in minus 8 degrees, and Ranbir and Bobby were bare-bodied. That was very tough!'
'Earlier, it was four songs and four fights, and some story. That was enough.' 'Maybe we are in a box then and the audiences were not prepared for anything new.' 'Now we have got bigger scope.'
'Film shooting is a long process, and it is important to have a good bonding with the person you are going to spend six to eight months of your life.' 'Baaki, film toh bann jaati hain.'
'It is early days as yet and what is certain is that like all technology Web 2.0 will irrevocably and irreversibly change the way we interact with the Web and with each other.'
Some songs off the Gabbar Is Back album will keep you hooked.
Even though 2019 turned out to be a good year for Bollywood with a record count of films in the Rs 100 crore club -- there's an average of at least one major success every month -- quite a few films emerged as big disappointments commercially.
As Sonam, Ranveer gear up for cricket movies we take a look at other hit cricket movies.
Before Akon, a considerable number of artists have come forward to work on the Hindi music scene. Take a look.
Vidya Balan plays an overbearing Punjabi housewife in Raj Kumar Gupta's Ghanchakkar.
Singer Kailash Kher talks about his life, his films, and his process.
Singer Kailash Kher talks about his life, his films, and his process.
Sukanya Verma gives 10 ways our stars engaged in them.
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