'Playing a rape survivor can't ever be compared to actually being one.'
'Women have always been given titles like 'mother' or 'housewife'. 'These tags put so much pressure on a woman to be a certain way.'
'Your family doesn't want you to come to this field because there's no direction, no formula.' 'It's not as if your career is settled and you will get work consistently.'
'People ask me about my biggest action sequence; this is it, because it involved two giants of Indian cinema.'
The four-day CIFF was packed with so many other new projects, like Radhika Apte's first directorial effort Koyta, with Vikramaditya Motwane as the producer, Venkatesh Maha's Ko Ko Ko, Jeo Baby's Punishment and Shonali Bose's Black Mountain Monpa.
'The National award that Dibakar has returned for Khosla Ka Ghosla belongs to the producer of the film. So, basically Dibakar is protesting with a gesture over which he has no claim,' says Nihalani.
'Ekta has evolved to the extent that she understands the fight to keep the cinemas alive, to keep collective viewing alive.'
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! debutante Swastika Mukherjee on her Bollywood innings.
Instead of sitting back and basking in the glory, the director takes all the critical acclaim with a sense of responsibility.
We looked at some bold instances of Bollywood's beautiful appearing in the buff.
Film folk attended a special screening of this week's release, Do Aur Do Pyaar, starring Vidya Balan, Pratik Gandhi, Ileana D'Cruz and Sendhil Ramamurthy.
There is startling accuracy to Dibakar Banerjee's portrayal, notes Sukanya Verma.
Filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee says how we feel about sex is effected by advertising and consumerism.
After the super success of Love, Sex Aur Dhoka, the acclaimed filmmaker is ready to make a political thriller called Shanghai.
Sukanya Verma recommends watching CTRL on a computer for an eerie, immersive, real-time experience.
It was a dull weekend at the box office.
The Shanghai director responds to criticism directed at Kalki Koechlin's portrayal in the film.
Films that turned out to be box office disappointments.
There's a whole slew of sequels coming up, and Joginder Tuteja lists them for us.
It's turning out to be a double whammy season for Rajkummar Rao. Raj ended Bollywood's box office drought with Srikanth and followed it with Mr & Mrs Mahi.
We take a look at 10 recent awe-inspiring prosthetic aesthetics that actors have rocked for their respective roles in films.
There aren't many original Web series or movies announced for June, but quite a few Bollywood films will have their digital premieres.
'My mom used to tell me that I should accept films where they would not make fun of me or my religion.' 'It's a conscious decision to stay away from such films.'
'Salman wanted to do the interview properly. That's why he was nervous, you know, that dad should be happy.'
"My father and uncles are no more, our family is devastated," said an inconsolable Avijit, the son of Haran.
Joginder Tuteja lists April's theatre releases.
'When Bad Newz was given to me to direct, the first thing I did was go back to my childhood.' 'It's an ode to Hindi cinema.'
India internationals Shardul Thakur and Shivam Dube starred with the ball and the bat respectively as 41-time champions Mumbai took an upperhand over Assam on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match in Mumbai on Friday.
The OTT boom has proved a boon for a lot of hibernating '90s beauties as they rediscover themselves in exciting new avatars.
Cheteshwar Pujara continued his good form in Ranji Trophy as he slammed his second successive century as Saurashtra dominated their Elite Group A match against Manipur.
The original idea was to make a series of Byomkesh films based on the stories by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. But after the cold reception to the film, Producer Aditya Chopra dropped the idea.
Sukanya Verma looks at how one of the seven primal human emotions is usually treated in Hindi movies.
Ayushmann Khurrana is ready to repeat the flirtatious woman deed second time around in Dream Girl 2.
'Agra is about sexuality and sexual repression, and the relationship of sexuality to the physical spaces that we are in.'
Sunny practices archery... Shraddha shares the view from her home...
'Whatever I have directed has been so far from my world.'
'It was my first day on the sets of Jab Tak Hai Jaan and we were shooting the very first scene that you see in the film.'
'Till a cheque comes into my account, I don't feel like a professional actor.'
Bollywood stars spent the weekend in Dubai as they attended the Filmfare Middle East Achievers Night 2022 on Saturday.
Lust Stories releases on June 15.
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