'When you're an outsider, the journey to make it to your first film is a movie by itself.' 'It has struggle, pain, rejection, transformation...'
'People have access to the internet and, if they want to see pornography, they will visit other sites and watch it there. Why will they watch it in a film or a web series?'
'I like the fact that people think I am a funny guy and can make them laugh.'
'The first time we actually got to meet a Bollywood star, it was Salman Khan.' 'We met him at his farm house.' 'For Pia, an actor is just an actor. There is no such thing as a star in her world, and that may or may not go down well with some people.'
Titled The Lies We Tell, the film also features Om Puri, playing a Pakistani character.
These lovebirds can't get enough of each other.
Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End. She kept her distance from the film crowd, seeking refuge in the 'protective' company of her two life-long collaborators, Director James Ivory and Producer Ismail Merchant.
Here's what your favourite Hollywood stars have been up to.
'I'd love to work in India again, but it seems there isn't much for me to do there right now.'
'A live-in is complicated in metro cities as well. In Mumbai, even bachelors doesn't get a house on rent -- I didn't get one for the longest time. To add to that, if the house-owner gets to know that you're an aspiring actor, things become even more difficult.'
What happens when Ranbir throws a party? All the A-listers arrive!
Ageing is a funny process. After rebelling and exploring, the human being drifts to the ordered arrangement, he/she once left. As a youngster I outgrew ABBA while my mother continued to like them. In September 2021, when ABBA's first single in 40 years was launched, I sent the video link to my mother. Meanwhile, now in my fifties, I find myself curious to hear ABBA's new songs, notes Shyam G Menon.
Count among The Light of Asia's many, many admirers over 132 years: Gandhi, Tagore, Vivekananda, Nehru and Ambedkar, Tolstoy and Kipling, Yeats and Eliot, Alfred Nobel, Dmitri Mendeleev and C V Raman. Jairam Ramesh reveals why he decided to write a book on Edwin Arnold, who wrote The Light of Asia.
Deepika Padukone, who makes her Hollywood debut with him in the film xXx: The Return of the Xander Cage, also arrived with him.
Historically, Mumbai has been the cinema capital of India and for her to have a film museum of this kind was perhaps a natural happening.
Happy Hardy And Heer is an extended music video, says Moumita Bhattacharjee.
The film's stage version has already taken London by storm.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Given how everything has played out, Mehul Choksi, now 62, achieved all that he wanted but for all the wrong reasons, says Pavan Lall.
Kangana biopic takes shape... Ayushmann's new film... Why Oscar winner Olivia Colman visited Bihar...Subhash K Jha's Bollywood Buzz...
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Akshay Kumar is back with the Housefull franchise but this time with a twist!
The Queen arrived at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in spectacular style on Friday, greeted by a huge roar from the crowd as she appeared in the stadium to help officially open the London Games.
Nostalgia in the time of Covid is proving to be big business, observes Aditi Phadnis.
Stunning looking, Bulbbul keeps the scares to a minimum, observes Moumita Bhattacharjee.
The film is directed by Maneesh Sharma.
We bring you *that story*, and a lot more, in this fascinating excerpt from Roshmila Bhattacharya's Matinee Men: A Journey Through Bollywood.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'Fox makes films worth millions and millions of dollars. Fudging a few crores doesn't make much difference.'
Amy attended the Cannes Film Festival this year.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
"From a very early age, I imagined myself playing powerful characters," she says, and she proves it with her filmography.
She can't quite recollect the names of either the films or the actors but Ethiopia's World and Olympic 10,000m champion runner Almaz Ayana says Bollywood movies are her favourite indulgence whenever she gets some time to herself.
'If you are playing someone whom Shah Rukh loves in the film, that's enough for me!' 'I am obviously not his phone texting buddy, but I'd like to believe we are friends!'
Yorgos Lanthimos's royal drama has 12 nominations!
IMG Models, the agency behind most supermodels & Hollywood stars, to represent the Bollywood star.
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