'Once Mohanlal's ever-swelling entourage grasped his enormous worth, once it realized that the innate Mohanlal appeal could be profited from, it set about to exploit, to make uproars, to create the Mohanlal brand.' 'And he wasn't meant to be a brand. He was meant to be an artist, a tireless explorer of the unique seas inside him,' asserts Sreehari Nair.
'Other designers take empty suitcases and go shopping for the actors's clothes in New York.' 'To me, this is bankruptcy of imagination.'
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The maverick filmmaker's latest offering Gangs Of Wasseypur has been a hit with the discerning audience.
And the reason has everything to do with box office collections, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
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'Some people get really angry when I talk about nationalism or when I share my opinion on farm laws.'
The raids were carried out across 23 locations in the state and involved around 200 sleuths, they said.
DAM 999 will enter the library even before its theatrical release later this month.
'The day I am bored with acting, I will shift to something.'
Thugs of Hindostan may not have as easy a run at the box office as previous Hindi films did during Diwali.
Rajinikanth is yet to identify a filmi platform to be able to launch his political career from the celluloid platform as only MGR had done, successfully and in the pre-IT era, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Though he went back to writing "beautiful scenes" for other Bollywood directors, his deep interest in the lives of ordinary citizens never slackened, evident from the way he made himself available to human rights groups whenever they called him.
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The difference between watching a movie on a laptop in your apartment and watching it on a big white screen is almost spiritual, notes Sreehari Nair.
The Telugu film industry reaches out to Chennai.
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Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict for the week.
'I feel like I came to the industry just day before yesterday, even though it's more than 30 years now.'
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There's much more than talent to Rajkummar Rao.
Judwaa 2 has given Varun Dhawan his biggest opening day, and his biggest opening weekend.
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With an annual box office collection of 160 core last year and only 10 per cent of these being hits, the 72 films made in Marathi don't make business sense for multiplex and cinema owners to screen on peak time, a demand being made by political parties in the state.
Exciting times ahead at the Malayalam box office.
'There is a lot of money coming into the business, people are consuming a lot of content, there is no dearth of new films and shows coming out of India and being available worldwide.'
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance, applauds Sukanya Verma.
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Prithviraj and Nivin Pauly stole the show this year.
'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air. It was a professional hazard but I was not scared.'
'It was a rare year when all three Khans -- Shah Rukh, Aamir, and Salman had a release each -- failed to deliver.' 'The performance of their films at the box office reflected the dwindling magnetism of the star when it came to getting people to the theatres.'
Rimple and Harpreet, the designers for the lead cast of Padmavati, tell Rediff.com's Archana Masih that it will be quite a task to replicate the fragile and elaborate costumes.
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