Mahindra British Telecom is planning to recruit an additional 2,000 workers over the next 12 months on expectations of rapid growth in industry.
Pooja takes a water break... Plabita goes BTS... Nia has a new song...
Hindi cinema lost some of its most celebrated faces in 2019, leaving a void in the fraternity as well as in the hearts of the audiences. We take a look at those who passed on.
Every now and then Bollywood finds itself in need of divine intervention.
'Bapi's characters looked and spoke like people we know.'
'Satyajit Ray is most relevant even today.'
Smita has left behind a rich haul of films that showcase her enormous ability to offer us a glimpse into her soul each time she performed a role.
'This Ajay Devgn video game gets more unwatchable with each minute -- and there are 173 of them,' rues Raja Sen.
'I introduced her around.' 'Her first audition was for Heropanti, but she did not get it.' 'Now she is doing movies regularly.' 'After her movie releases, she always calls me to ask if I have seen the movie and if I liked the way she acted.'
'I always felt that Basu Chatterjee was a kind, gentle, man who truly believed that in directing films like Chhoti Si Baat, he was impacting our lives,' remembers Aseem Chhabra. 'He seemed to be on a mission to make us believe that the world could be a better place.'
Alkazi, who was the longest serving director of the National School of Drama and mentored generations of actors, produced plays such as Girish Karnad's Tughlaq and Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug.
An SIT officer probing the murder case said the investigation is in final stage and a chargesheet will be filed in two months.
Mourners in large numbers on Saturday paid their last respects to Jnanpith award winner and Kannada literary giant U R Ananthamurthy who was cremated with full state honours in Bangalore.
Subhash K Jha lists five relatively unknown Asha Bhosle classics on her birthday.
The government has "suffocated" the institutions where argument, debate and dissent were nurtured, the letter stated.
Bollywood says goodbye to Shashi Kapoor.
'While I was performing it, I had a weird feeling that people would love it because it's so bizarre.'
Ten sequels that either complemented the first or surpassed it.
Naseeruddin Shah sets the gold standard as a master memoirist.
'The colloquial language forced a turn to the recent past and I thought about the hangings of men like Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon.' 'Whatever their deeds, proven or still in doubt, did their deaths not deserve to be mourned by a sister, wife, or child?' A fascinating excerpt from Amitava Kumar's Writing Badly Is Easy.
Four teams have been formed by police as part of its probe into the murder of noted Kannada progressive thinker and scholar M M Kalburgi, who was shot dead at his residence at Dharwad in north Karnataka on Sunday.
The official said the organisation, composed of people drawn from Hindu right groups, had around 60 members spread across at least five states but had no name.
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
As cinemas remain shut and watching movies on big screen still a distant dream, OTT platforms are keeping us distracted from the pandemic with its steady supply of content.
'...and showcased in their original beauty.'
In this May 2014 interview with Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com, the politically conscious Karnad spoke of why he is concerned about Modi coming to power.
Yesteryear's heart-throb Shashi Kapoor will get the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for his contribution to Indian cinema. On this occasion, we reproduce Dinesh Raheja's nostalgia piece on the actor here:
'I belonged to the working class, not the middle class.' 'I was a rag-picker. I used to pick up coal from the railway tracks.' 'I was rejected from the FTII, as I was very unkempt and skinny.' 'I did not look like a hero, villain or comedian.' 'But Girish Karnad and Jairaj said I should be taken based on merit, not looks.'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
After going on a flash strike, students of the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India on Saturday decided to continue their protests against the appointment of Bharatiya Janata Party member and TV actor Gajendra Chauhan as the new chairman of its governing council.
On Shashi Kapoor's 83rd birth anniversary, Subhash K Jha looks at his top five productions.
Simultaneous protests were held in several other cities, and are also slated to be held elsewhere in the world, the organisers said.
'Basuda hardly spoke, but he had a sense of humour and that showed in his films.'
The court verdict has put many Salman starrers in jeopardy.
The eighth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off on Wednesday to a grand start with a bevy of authors, poets, Nobel Laureates along with some Bollywood celebrities, trooping in to the pink city to participate in one of Asia's biggest literary jamboree.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
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