A look at the hits and misses of the week.
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
A look at the hits and misses at the box office this week.
Sharmila Tagore was just 25 years old when she played mom to Rajesh Khanna in Aradhana!
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
The meeting lasted for nearly two and a half hours.
Sukanya Verma salutes the legend and celebrates some of the finest soundtracks of his career.
Jaya is a woman of steel in the truest sense of the word. Despite being the first lady of filmdom, she's as real and rooted to the ground as anyone can get, notes Subhash K Jha on the actor-politician's 74th birthday.
Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood.
'One afternoon, I spotted Karan Johar and film critic Rajeev Masand having tea with Nina Gupta, the head of NFDC, and barged into their meeting.' Aseem Chhabra's IFFI diaries...
Warm or warring, back home too Bollywood has depicted many, MANY faces of sisterly love.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
From odd to heartwarming, the best of Twitter conversations in 2014.
Hindi cinema has not just explored various instances of brute force, but often glorified its misogyny.
Veteran actor Vinod Khanna passed away on Thursday after battling cancer. He was 70.
Sukanya Verma glances at the changing faces of women bonding in Hindi movies.
'While censorship of any sort is anathema to the creative spirit, political correctness has become more and more the norm rather than the exception,' notes Uttaran Das Gupta.
One of the most prolific filmmakers of his time, VB turns 50 August 4!
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Want to add to Sukanya Verma's list? Hit the message board.
'The emotion of love is the same, but we have made it a math calculation, messed up and complicated.'
'The Ek Do Teen song was shot for many days.' 'Listening to it so many times during the shoot, we knew it would be a big hit.' 'When Tezaab was released, Madhuri had gone to the US for a holiday.' 'When she returned to Mumbai, there was a large crowd waiting for her at the airport, calling out 'Mohini, Mohini,' her character from Tezaab.' 'That day Madhuri had arrived in the real sense.'
P K Nair dedicated his life to restoring and archiving films.
'When I was younger, 15 years or 20 years seemed like a really long time. But, as you journey though life, you don't realise where the years disappear...'
'Manto is the only writer to grasp what the project of Pakistan would eventually mean,' says Aakar Patel, who has translated a collection of Saadat Hasan Manto's essays in a just-released book Why I Write.
'I kept telling myself I'd quit after every film. I saw myself in my first Hindi film Kashmir Ki Kali and I didn't like myself. I said, one more film and I'm done. But it continued.' Sharmila Tagore gets candid on her 70th birthday.