Sreehari Nair attempts to bring you up-close the pleasures of Javed Akhtar's poetry.
Inferno is a yawn, warns Raja Sen.
Koothara in colloquial terms means something despicable. Luckily, this film does not live up to its title.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'I know this movie will be a superhit -- not because it's a Rs 600 crore budget or because we worked hard for more than three years on it.' 'It's because some movies have magic and some don't.' 'This one has that magic.'
'I feel so happy. I wanted my career to go like this,' Layanya Tripathy tells Radhika Rajamani.
'The entire journey was beautifully nourished and I was very lucky that Lion came out the way it did. Otherwise, I would have really regretted it.' Priyanka Bose is ready to take her film Lion to the Oscars.
'Article 15 is not the work of a hack, or of someone merely scooping a plot out of newspaper headlines.' 'It is a well-researched, clear-headed movie; but its findings have a purpose,' says Sreehari Nair.
The actress-filmmaker and UN ambassador turns 40 on June 4.
'The real problem that has affected Tarantino's films is not their amorality. On the contrary, it's their misplaced morality.' 'The basic pitches for his movies, off late, tackle such pre-resolved issues, that they don't quite allow his pop-culture sensibilities to hit a crescendo and instead reduces them to trinkets in service of broad movie prototypes.' 'Which means that neither history nor cinema triumphs.'
'Live and be joyful for what you have because one day, it will be all gone.'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Sarod brothers Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash are waiting to take their creation, the Erod, to the world.
'I have an absolutely professional relationship, nothing personal, with Amitabh Bachchan.' 'I am the only person in the industry whom he never calls for home parties or festivals. Unless we have work, we don't call each other.'
Raman Raghav 2.0 is unlikely to be remembered as one of Anurag Kashyap's finest movies.
'There is nothing more beautiful than celebrating with people who make you what you are.'
It's time to move on from fights and dances and clich, says Kshmaya Daniel.
'It was fun trying to regulate ourselves and keep it in the family zone and yet, be tongue-in-cheek.'
'If ever there was a film that begged to be celebrated on the big-screen -- heck, that begged viewing with 3D glasses -- it is this one, a sensational ride that throws you, the viewer, into the deep-end and drags you along for a chained and scorched and unbelievable ride,' says Raja Sen.
Take a look at the list.
'It's not easy playing a ghost.'
'I recently visited Farah Khan's house and it smelled really nice. Rajkumar Hirani is very particular about how his house looks and smells.' Boman Irani discusses the fragrances in his life!
'I would like to do a biopic (on) Parveen Babi. She was such a gorgeous woman. She was also my neighbour. It was very sad when she died. It is so tragic when you are young and have fame, fortune, praise and everything and then you are alone.' Shraddha Kapoor discusses her big hits.
'There are times I have been rejected at the first stage of the film.' 'Also, accepted first and rejected later, along with when I was almost there, but the film did not happen.'
Sukanya Verma discovers what she loves about Anushka Sharma's 'spirit' on more than one occasion in her super-filmi week.
At the peak of his popularity and charisma, filmmakers considered him a bigger draw than the leading man and often remunerated him with a higher fee than the hero.
Not just e-commerce players, even spirits majors are banking on artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer newer, quicker, smarter services. Shivani Shinde Nadhe reports.
'I am not competing against anyone. If I break my own records, that's enough for me.' Kannada actor Gangesh tells Srikanth Srinivasa.
'Two years since the film released, but everything is still Sairat, Sairat...'
'I can do slice-of-life kind of films anytime; But playing a cop is different. It's difficult to maintain that intensity on screen. That's where the real acting comes in place.'
'Until I remove that character from my head and empty the space, other characters cannot take that place.'
'With Janhvi, we spent a lot of time together during the prep.' 'So by the time we went on the sets of Dhadak, it felt like being on the sets with your best friend.' 'On the sets, we were having too good a time.' 'We were having so much fun that I was worried if we were getting the work done or not.'
'If banning Pakistani artists suits your peace of mind, do it.' 'I am more concerned about our soldiers who have lost their lives, and their families.' 'So my question is to those people, who are banning artists: What have they done for our soldiers and their families?'
Hindu Mahasabha has planned to celebrate Basant Panchami on Valentine's Day
The actress talks about her first Hollywood film, the Jude Law, Melissa McCarthy and Jason Stathom starrer Spy.
Vanakkam Chennai is a sweet love story with some great music and good performances.