India summoned the Pakistani charge d'affaires in New Delhi and lodged a firm protest, expressing grave concerns at this reprehensible incident and the continued attacks on the freedom of religion of the minority communities and their places of religious worship in Pakistan.
On his 90th birthday, Sukanya Verma highlights a fraction of the legend's marvelous versatility in this curated list of his 25 unique moods.
The 21st edition of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) starts from October 17 but the fun started way before that!
Bollywood gives a thumbs up to Raazi!
Subhash K Jha lists five relatively unknown Asha Bhosle classics on her birthday.
Joginder Tuteja takes a look at just how good this month is for Bollywood.
I remember a showbiz wedding during which guests had to sit through several painstakingly rehearsed but awkward dances performed by the bride's and groom's relatives. When Karan rolled his eyes, I smiled and said to him, 'You started it, now you suffer it.' An enchanting excerpt from Anupama Chopra's A Place In My Heart.
The apex court gave a month-long deadline to the government to determine the responsibility for security failure in the horrific attack in which 147 people, 132 of them children, were killed when Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants stormed the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar.
The junior Tendulkar returned with figures of five for 98 against Delhi in an Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy match in New Delhi.
'Sounds familiar? Barring inflation, much else looks, sounds, and feels more than a bit like 1974.' 'A phenomenally popular leader, with a party of unquestioning followers, a broken Opposition, a nationalist high and an economy in free fall, crippling joblessness,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
'He was honest and very sincere. These qualities remained with him till the end.'
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.
Asoka still makes for irresistible viewing, raves Sukanya Verma, and tells us why.
Take a look at the other guests at the screening.
The actor told a news channel that she feels proud that people have come out and raised their voice without fear
We have lost Irrfan, but his legacy lives on.
While we wait for Batra's latest to drop on Amazon Prime Video on February 11, Sukanya Verma looks at how Bollywood has dealt with affairs of the heart over the years.
The Chhapaak trailer could have been a dark and depressing tale of a girl disfigured by a vicious attack but fortunately, it isn't, feels Moumita Bhattacharjee.
'Oddly enough, everything Raazi cannot explain or put a finger on, it glosses over in the name of patriotism or watan-love; glorifying thereby the very sentiment it had set out to mock.' 'This is the unique tragedy of the film: it becomes less of a counterpoint to pseudo-patriotism and more of a companion piece,' says Sreehari Nair.
Writer Sunjoy Shekhar has made things easier for Gulzar fans, and has translated 100 songs of the brilliant talent in a book called 100 Lyrics.
Irrfan plays a pivotal role in a television series entitled The Tokyo Trials
She breathed her last in a hospital in Mumbai on August 15.
Of course, it has something to do with Bollywood!
Despite the Delhi police's tarnished reputation in recent months, viewers find themselves rooting for Inspector Hathiram Chaudhary because he displays both vulnerability and remorse, observes Ranjita Ganesan.
In the Meghna Gulzar directed film, there is no mention of any Nadeem or Naeem Khan. Moreover, Rajesh is the name of Malti's boyfriend.
These achievers upped their fashion game for the Vogue Women of the Year Awards.
Co-stars, colleagues, friends, everyone who knew him... paid homage to Vinod Khanna.
Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood.
Sukanya Verma celebrates the acting legend.
Christopher Nolan's next, Gulzar's gussa, Shyam Benegal's Shivaji and RD's Lawrence of Arabia connection, catch all this and more in Sukanya Verma's super filmi week.
A central leader of radical Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, Rehmat Salam Khattak, is among 30 arrested in raids following the attack on the temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Karak district on Wednesday, Station House Officer Rehmatullah Khan told PTI.
Sukanya Verma lists 10 of her favourite songs of the year, in no particular order.
Vicky reunites with his Raazi director Meghna Gulzar.
'My mother is a lady with a lot of emotional stability and strength. And wisdom.' 'When I was younger, she would tell me that if I ever refused water to anyone, I would have to drink gutter water.' 'When I grew up, she would say, "Be liberal when you know what you are talking about, and be conservative when you don't".'
Athaiya, who won an Oscar for her work in the 1983 film Gandhi, passed away peacefully in her sleep, her daughter Radhika Gupta told PTI.
Such was the terror created by the ATS, that all their relatives stayed away.
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