As it celebrates 50 years of being in business, Joginder Tuteja looks at the big hits in the first part of this special.
While he awaits an exciting 2021 with Mumbai Saga, Satyameva Jayate 2, Attack and Pathan, Joginder Tuteja takes a look at his top 10 hits.
With T20 franchises potentially becoming players' primary employers, and most boards finding Test cricket financially not viable, the format's future remains a concern for the purists.
159 dismissals in 36 Tests, 149 dismissals in 89 ODIs, and 89 dismissals in 70 T20s are very good by any standards. And yet they don't speak to Bumrah's true value and his special appeal, notes Sreehari Nair.
Many of them were expected to cover a reasonable distance, but audiences gave them the cold shoulder.
As it celebrates 50 years of being in business, Joginder Tuteja looks at YRF's biggest hits.
Has Thanos killed all the superheroes? *This* man has the answer!
So far, only one major series and another original film have been announced for release. Rest are all digital releases of films that have already arrived in theatres.
Joginder Tuteja goes back a decade, and looks at the big movies that flopped from 10 years ago.
About Rs 35 crore (Rs 350 million) was required over the second weekend to register good numbers. But the film did even better and registered Rs 40 crore (Rs 400 million), resulting in an estimated Rs 213 crore (Rs 2.13 billion)
'We accept EVMs cannot be hacked because it is not connected, but can they be manipulated?' 'Are you allowing us to check if EVMs can be manipulated?'
Buoyed by Sooryavanshi's success, the Hindi film industry is banking on 25-30 big movies lined up with a collective cost tag of Rs 2,000 crore.
Mithun Chakraborty started from scratch in bit roles and had no Godfather backing him. Yet, remarkably, his career now straddles six decades and he continues to win acclaim, observes Dinesh Raheja.
'I'm better now. A ceramic pot fell on me while rehearsing for a next scene to shoot. And I got a deep cut on my right-hand knuckle.'
From Kishore Kumar posing as a Half Ticket running riot to Raj and Simran's super filmi reunion in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, train journeys in Hindi movies have formed the backdrop for both romance and comedy. But it's the action scenes where the railgaadi's daredevil attributes lie.
'Our research shows that 60 per cent of the growth and interest in anime will come from India for the next few years.'
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.
'Everybody has their bit of struggles and learnings. It will only end when you stop breathing.'
'In the audience's mind there is no urgency to go see a film in the theatre.' 'If you pay for social media buzz it does not convert into bums on seats.'
PTI introduces the team, who is aiming for medals when India's campaign at the Tokyo Games commences on July 24.
As Sonam, Ranveer gear up for cricket movies we take a look at other hit cricket movies.
'To attribute motives to the individual election commissioner or the Election Commission as a group is very unfair.'
The actor arrived in Lucknow on Friday night for the screening of his film 'Jailer'.
Where do Vijay and his TVK expect to get their votes from? Vijay has a huge fan following among women, but will they automatically become his voters like they had done for MGR's AIADMK, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
At the Leo fete, Vijay had this also to tell his fans: 'I know you all are in my heart. But today, I also know that I am also in the hearts of all of you...' A typical politician's line, did you say, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Bunny gave the audience at the India Day Parade a riff on his memorable line from Pushpa, to thunderous applause of course.
The film was criticised heavily for its pedestrian language upon its release last month.
More than 157 million Indians watched at least one film in the theatre in 2023.
Arjun's fee for the Pushpa sequel is around Rs 85 crores.
'Trump's disregard for norms and institutions could prove very costly for America's social fabric.'
Tokyo-bound AFI medical commission chairman AK Mendiratta dies of COVID-19.
Film folk like Akshay Kumar, Chiranjeevi, Jr NTR and Sunny Deol congratulated the country and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on the historic achievement of Chandrayaan-3's landing on the Moon.
It means more tickets sold and therefore more revenues and hastens the recovery of the devastated-by-the-pandemic film business.
'The world needs Gandhi now more than any other time in history.'
'People have got into the habit of sitting at home (and watching films).' 'They don't want to watch movies in theatres because they do not want to waste as much as Rs 1,000 on tickets.' 'They feel there is no point in watching a film on the big screen because it will anyway come on OTT in a month's time.'
Yet another week of Hollywood movies doing very well at the Indian box office.
Rehana Sultan was all set to be a path-breaker. The time was right. Hindi cinema had emerged from the 1960s musicals era. But somehow, leading film-makers of the time did not believe Rehana had that cachet. It was Zeenat Aman who ended up being the definitive taboo-trasher of the era. Dinesh Raheja salutes the trendsetter of the 1970s, Rehana Sultan.
Joginder Tuteja looks at 10 flawed characters through the years -- and we're not talking villains here -- and how successful they have been at the box office.
'People's expectations were very high.' 'We felt both sides had understood each other.' 'But the removal of Article 370 triggered apprehensions within the Naga people.'
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