Will these December theatre releases also bring in good cheer in keeping with the Christmas spirit?
Akshay can take solace from the fact that Ram Setu will emerge his biggest grosser amongst all his theatrical releases of 2022.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
There's so much entertainment coming up in the first three months of 2023!
Are Emraan Hashmi's thrillers popular?
'Today, the risks have risen.' 'So stars need good content and good content needs stars.' 'It is now X+Y (star + content) not that X is greater than Y or Y is greater than X.'
It means more tickets sold and therefore more revenues and hastens the recovery of the devastated-by-the-pandemic film business.
There are hundreds of fan clubs -- in Jalgaon, Beed, Chennai, Kolkata, Akola, Yavatmal, Bengaluru, Sitamarhi, New York, Canada, Nigeria etc. Every Indian city/town or a major country has a fan club for the man whose fan base has been estimated at 3.5 billion by Time Magazine.
As 2022 readies to bid adieu, Sukanya Verma raises a toast to the 10 high points of the year.
As the curtain come down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events.
'That will happen and we shall overcome sooner than we expect.'
Many more friends and colleagues visited the Devgans to condole with them.
The best films are not necessarily the most successful -- that would be another list altogether -- although sometimes quality and commerce do converge.
'This is the best time to do a pan-Indian film.'
Here's looking at five Malayalam films that made the biggest impact at the box office.
Trade pundits and quick think piece experts can speculate all they like, but what works at the box-office is a mystery as always.
In a year of overwrought spectacles that slavishly sucked up to the audience, I found refuge in a bunch of 'mainstream' Indian films that espoused such old-fashioned values as dedication to craft, close observation and casual bravery, explains Sreehari Nair.
Initially we sit tight in our seats expecting something very gripping to happen but, nothing of that sort happens.
In reel life, folks. Meet bubbly Ishita Dutta.
'My main ambition is to be on the sets everyday for the rest of my life.'
'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.
Take a bow Kamal Haasan, Vijay Sethupathi, Arvind Swamy, child actors Ramesh and Vignesh and Jayam Ravi.
'I have done a lot of films for friendship and, whenever I have done that, I have suffered.' Ajay Devgn gets candid about his career, and Drishyam.
A lowdown on all the goings-on in the Malayalam film industry.
Check out the star arrivals.
We haven't seen them on the big screen yet, but these stars are working *very* hard!
Music composer M Ghibran talks about his experience of working with Kamal Haasan on Uttama Villain.
Oppam is a must watch, raves Paresh C Palicha.
'Salman has changed a lot in the past few years. He was totally different when I shot with him for Jai Ho. He has mellowed down, but I don't like him like this.'
A look at Tamil films which earned critical acclaim and also commercial success!
A look at some of the most anticipated films of 2015.
'Madaari is a very strong film for the younger generation. If they understand this film correctly, it would be great fun. It is serious cinema and our youth want to see that too; they don't just want entertainment.' Madaari director Nishikant Kamat discusses his new film.
As the legendary actor turns 60 today, we look at his finest performances in the last six decades.