Joginder Tuteja looks at the actors who have scored the biggest openers in 2022 so far.
Wading through the long list of biopics coming up, Subhash K Jha picks the ones likely to make a mark.
With the film's leading man's death, the release plan for Dil Bechara has been revived in a big way.
The advance bookings of Brahmastra are looking very good.
'A good pipeline of movies is fuelling this trend of revenge consumption.'
Who rocked the sari style best in the British Raj? Sukanya Verma asks you to take a poll.
If fate had willed, Alia Bhatt's first movie co-star would have been Aditya Narayan, singer Udit Narayan's talented son.
'Kangana is such a stylo, she knows what will look good on her.'
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.
Calendar 2022 will go down as a year when the real star was the Next Big Idea.
Namrata Thakker brings you the highlights from the fun episode!
This is the fourth time in three decades that Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar have had movie releases on the same day.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the magic she's created with her leading men in the past.
2020 could well have been a year of biopics with females taking centre-stage. After Chhapaak, it was time for Shakuntala Devi and Gangubai Kathiawadi to release later in the year with many more in the pipeline for 2021.
'Shah Rukh Khan called me and said, I usually don't co-produce, but I will do it with you.' 'It will be one for the memories.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at the major films that released in theatres and how they fared.
Trade pundits and quick think piece experts can speculate all they like, but what works at the box-office is a mystery as always.
What better occasion than International Women's Day to take a look?
The best films are not necessarily the most successful -- that would be another list altogether -- although sometimes quality and commerce do converge.
'I hope this win inspires boys and girls who watch thousands of dreams and want to make them come true.'
'At a time when there's a lot of conversation happening around how AI has made art directors and production designers jobless, we will simply say that if your work speaks for you, you will never be out of work.'
Quite a few superstars are bringing their big releases to the big screen this month.
'I don't let it affect my life because otherwise, we will go mad.'
After years of living with his family in a poky 110 sq. ft. 'house', textile worker Sambhaji Surve dreams of moving into a home four times the size once the Maharashtra government starts its ambitious redevelopment of the 39-acre Kamathipura shanty town in south-central Mumbai. Sharing his dream are about 8,000 other families hoping for a better life when the redevelopment project, part of the government's effort to redevelop old settlements and make life more livable for some residents, gets underway. The Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party aims to redevelop BDD Chawl and Dharavi but for Surve all the matters is Kamathipura where he arrived in the 1970s from Nasik to work in a textile mill. Kamathipura was originally built 150 years ago following construction of a causeway to connect the seven islands of Mumbai. From the British Raj to post-independence, it became infamous for slums and brothels.
A copious amount of blood, beating, crying, saving, sacrificing, nationalism fills up its staggering three hours running time. Emotions run sky high, but you feel nothing, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma looks at the recent spate of book-to-screen adaptations.
'Once you become a mother you can win the big wars at work and you can win the big wars in your life. 'But, sometimes, you lose the small battles at home and lose the small battles with your children.'
Nobody else needs to boycott Bollywood, they are doing a pretty good job of digging up their own foundation, notes Deepa Gahlot.
The next 12 months will see many world cinema heavyweights unveiling exciting new films.
'Everybody is losing money as interest costs keep piling up.' 'Some films will wait for a theatrical release and some won't, keeping their profit and loss situation in mind.'
Shooting is underway for Amitabh Bachchan's Goodbye, Shah Rukh Khan's Pathan, Salman Khan's Tiger 3 and Prabhas and Saif Ali Khan's Adipurush among other films.
'When I contracted COVID and was extremely unwell, I almost thought I was not going to make it.' 'But this man (Karan Johar) was like family for us in Bombay. He would send doctors for me, made sure my medication was done correctly and made sure I came out of COVID.'
'The pressure was very high because I am not a Saroj Khan or a Vaibhavi Merchant.' 'I am someone from a reality show.' 'I was a nobody who was given an opportunity to express myself in the best way I could.'
'Ranveer Singh is very lively on the sets. You don't feel the pressure when he's there.'
From the many large communal riots across decades to the six-hour mass cull of Muslims in Nellie, 1983; Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere, 1984; Kashmiri Pandits, 1990; selective massacres of Hindus in Punjab, 1983-93; and Gujarat, 2002, we have failed to bring perpetrators of our biggest tragedies to account, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
'He listens to you and he will do exactly what you tell him to do.'
'I could not adjust to the way they treat you.' 'They expect certain things from you, which I was not comfortable with.' 'Like, they expect you to wear a certain kind of clothes, even if you don't want to wear that.' 'They'll be like, just wear it, because it's such a male-dominated industry.'
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