'My first film put me in the spotlight as a commercial heroine. After that, I kept getting such films and I enjoyed them. Whatever I have learnt, I have learnt on the job through these films. I have also made mistakes like everyone but I have learnt from them and moved on.' Sonakshi Sinha gets us ready for Noor.
With so many releases in 2023, not all got their due. Subhash K Jha picks his underrated films of the year.
'It's been an up and down journey and every actor has to go through it.'
Aliens, serial killers, time loops, disasters, Sukanya Verma gives you your OTT fix of the week.
The duo, who are playing a couple in their latest film, Gehraiyaan, seem pretty close in real life too.
The latest updates from Hollywood.
'Or because I am getting a s**tload of money.'
Many films and shows go back in time to bring alive so many fading and forgotten memories.
'And it always should be.' 'I believe nothing should come easily to anyone because then there is no thrill in it.'
There is nothing of the level of Yes Minister, House Of Cards, Madam Secretary or Veep but there are at least 10 Hindi series and an OTT-released film or two, to whet the viewer's appetite for power-mongering, corruption and intrigue.
Every week, we bring you fascinating videos, chosen by you, through your likes.
'There's this presence, a sense of patrolling and surveillance. And it's not coming from a place of safety.' 'It's coming from a place of 'You don't belong here'.' 'It's a malevolent force, the society at large is observing them.'
Namrata Thakker digs deep into his Instagram feed to give us a closer look into him.
An evening celebrating the best of what medicine has to offer.
Glimpses from the Christian Dior Womenswear Fall 2023 show which took place at the Gateway of India, Mumbai.
'Sex is such a healthy thing that your first encounter with it should be good, otherwise it scars you for life, it disturbs you for life.'
'I go to shoots on a cycle; it saves so much time!' confesses Saiyami Kher.
'A lot of what you see on screen, particularly the night of the massacre, is pretty close to what really happened as it is based on survivor stories.'
'... I didn't have an Instagram account!' 'I was told that the actor who's being considered in my place has a lot of followers, and that will help the producers.'
On his sixth visit this year to Karnataka, where assembly elections are due by May, he also asserted that the 'double engine' government is a necessity for the fast-paced development of the state.
Lovingly made, heartfelt stories that speak the truths about our lives.
'How do you stay so energised? So young?' 'Dev Anand flashed that familiar crooked grin and told me, "The mind never grows old. It urges you to surge ahead".'
Jubilee's irresistible celebration of cinema and all its good, bad, ugly ways lives up to its title, applauds Sukanya Verma.
'The ending Vijay Tendulkar had written was different.' 'According to him, the film ended with Anant Welankar's suicide.' 'I felt such an ending would be too nihilistic.' 'Bahut zyada defeatist ho jaata.'
A social activist, with whom call centre employee Shraddha Walkar had participated in a Mumbai beach clean-up drive, has claimed the deceased suspected her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala of cheating on her and appeared quiet and aloof during the cleanliness campaigns.
The question 'Who was/were behind Aditha Karikalan's killing?' will continue to remain a historic mystery despite Mani Ratnam setting out to unravel it in his own way, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
'I think we can agree she was the lucky one there?'
To name your movie after Bollywood's most dhinchak hero and craft something so dull borderlines on sacrilege, feels Sukanya Verma.
The decision to pull out of the contest and support BJP was taken in the larger interests of Telangana and Hyderabad, a Jana Sena release quoted Kalyan as saying.
The news of his passing is sad and sudden but the body of work he leaves behind will neither fade nor be forgotten.
Sukanya Verma lists the best mystery movies this past decade.
'Manushi's trip was very last minute.' 'I did not have her (red carpet) outfit with me. It was already in Cannes.' 'We didn't know what she was going to wear.'
'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!'
Against whom, dear readers, does Varun share a roaring chemistry?
When Rinku Singh won the Million Dollar Arm show in 2008, the Indians' 'Great American Dream' of playing professional baseball became a reality and now the promoters of that very contest want Americans to realise the 'Great Indian Dream' of playing in cash-rich Indian Premier League T20 cricket tournament.
'The real India lives in the villages where everyone is trying to improve the other.'
Had he not taken his final curtain call on April 23, 1992, Satyajit Ray would still, undoubtedly, have been making movies.
'I sing to myself when I'm flying my plane and when I write, I dream of the sky.'
Anoushka Chauhan from Dehradun talks about her modelling journey.
'I never thought the European audience will love this film, but we had over 2,000 people at the screening.'
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