We caught up with leading designer Aki Narula recently and he had some suprising but sensible advice for fashonistas. Check it out.
With her mother and father's celebrated acting genes, are you surprised that Shweta Bachchan looks a natural on screen?
'Till a cheque comes into my account, I don't feel like a professional actor.'
In India, it is par for the course. A visitor cannot set foot in the country without seeing on every television channel or city billboard the monarchs of the country's movie industry, Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan, backing almost any product willing to pay their fees. That trend is extending ever more strongly to the country's other national passion, cricket. The launch of a new competition based on a popular short form of the game.
Brahmastra is a work of star-struck ambition and high-octane energy whose razzle-dazzle hits many happy notes, observes Sukanya Verma.
Quite a few superstars are bringing their big releases to the big screen this month.
Desi sightings in Western fare are no longer a rarity.
Sukanya Verma looks at all the wonderful, wacky and woeful ways Bollywood has portrayed blindness on screen.
Bachchan agreed to be a brand ambassador for Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Gujarat this week and blogged appreciatively about state Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
'To see India being recognized at a global level at a platform like this... 'I think it says a lot about where we are as a nation and the road ahead for us as a nation.'
'I'd define my personal style as comfy, timeless and easy going.'
On his 90th birth anniversary, Sukanya Verma lists 20 of her favourite scenes that reiterate his extraordinary grasp on the language of cinema and connect with the viewer.
Runway 34 is a clumsy cocktail of Hollywood movies spiked with the Bollywood brand of God complex, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Madhuri Dixit Nene, Shilpa Shetty, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kiara Advani are some of the celebs who have worn designs by Prerna Rajpal.
'I was getting paid great money.' 'I was a part of some wonderful films, which I loved making, but I was becoming very complacent with my approach to my work.' 'And I did not want that.'
'In the early years of this century, barely 10 years after liberalisation, drinking Coke was still cool,' notes Uttaran Das Gupta.
It's party time for these stars this weekend.
Joginder Tuteja lists more never-seen-before jodis coming up in the movies.
Advertising agencies admitted that conversations had begun with their clients to exercise restraint while using brand endorsements featuring film actors whose names appeared in the probe.
Be it scenic Kashmir or majestic Swiss Alps, Bollywood's trendsetting winter wear is the A to Z of style and snug. Sukanya Verma looks at its winter fashion over the years.
Beg, borrow, steal or adopt, fake parents share a history of coming to the hero or heroine's rescue ensuing in much mirth and masala.
Or does Priyanka Chopra's love for Assam go beyond that?
Spy dramas, social comedies, star-studded delights, new seasons of beloved series -- Sukanya Verma lists a fun, fun weekend for you on OTT.
Sukanya Verma looks at some stunners rocking the trend.
Medieval heroes, cursed heroes, monsters, scamsters, there's no dearth of action on OTT this week, Sukanya Verma tells us.
With Scooters India shutting down, the brand that launched the PSU in India finally rides into the sunset.
Vakeel Saab is an out-and-out Pawan Kalyan show, where he makes his point sometimes with a pen and at times with a punch, observes Joginder Tuteja.
The Aishwarya advertisement that created all the furore has been pulled down.
After Sanju's success, Ranbir has been charging Rs 6 crore to Rs 8 crore per brand per year.
Take a look at the stunning pictures inside!
The smartphone category as a whole was expected to spend around Rs 1,000 crore on marketing and promotional activities over the next six months, even as India unlocks gradually, said media industry experts. This spending is expected to come down, as firms temper their launches.
With Kareena Kapoor pregnant with her second child, and Anushka Sharma with her first, Joginder Tuteja looks at the careers of the newer generation of mums over the years.
'Then, one fine morning, I returned to my first love.' 'All the top directors of the time were waiting for me.' 'In one day, I signed 12 films.' 'Prosenjit Chatterjee was back!'
Stars lead a busy life and travel the world frequently -- either for work or pleasure.
Sukanya Verma raises a toast to the man and his movie magic.
With any luck, Bollywood will get back on its feet again and give us much to awe and amaze about.
At least 1,100 postcards with a small message and tagline 'Badbu Gujarat Ki (stink of Gujarat)' were sent on Tuesday to state tourism's brand ambassador and Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan by Dalits as part of a campaign to highlight "atrocities" against them in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
