'I don't think I can fall in love with someone in four months and in such a setup.'
'I was living in a fools' paradise, thinking I could win over anyone with my good intentions.'
To mark World Whiskey Day, a toast to its memorable imagery in Hindi films.
The well-known satirist, who has issued a statement saying his comments weren't intended to insult the country, found backing from Trinamool Congress member Mahua Moitra as well as Congress leaders Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor.
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'The movie seeks to strike a long-awaited conversation. A story that the screen should have told long ago.' 'It is an attempt to cure that epidemic of social media opinion and provoke us to leave our rhetorical positions for once and see the issue purely as a great tragedy which happened for more reasons than we give to ourselves,' says Utkarsh Mishra.
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The fracas began after the film's screening ended late in the evening, and students from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad fought with activists of Left-backed student unions in which a few of them received minor injuries, officials said.
'After 10 days, Balki, Sunny Deol and Pooja Bhatt liked what I did, and the tension eased.' 'I started calming down a little bit. but nobody knew that in my head a tandav was going on.'
Freaky moms are unacceptable to Indian audiences. Subhash K Jha lists 5 unsuccessful mom films to prove it.
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Das faced allegations of opposing enforcement of hate-speech rules against Bharatiya Janata Party and other right-wing leaders. She was also accused of posting messages in support of the BJP for several years on a Facebook group of the company's employees.
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Because it costs a shit-ton of money. Full disclosure: I won't accept a wedding ring that costs Rs 1L or less. But Rs 1L and more seems like a LOT of money. Enough for me to think about better ways to spend it. Stocks? Mutual Funds? SIPs? *GASP* NFTs and Crypto?
'While we conversed in Marathi, she would always make it a point to ask me in English, "Are you okay? Have you eaten?"' 'I sorely miss that care and concern.'
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'My producer earns, I earn. It's a win-win situation.'
LSD: Love Scandal and Doctors keeps you engrossed right through, applauds Joginder Tuteja.
Indira Gandhi valued Rahul Gandhi's 'grit and determination' and often considered him mature enough to be taken into confidence on subjects she avoided discussing even with his parents when he was barely 14, according to a new book.
'What a lovely person he is!'
'When people would tell me that any actor would give his left arm to be seen in a single frame of a Marvel project without even a single line of dialogue, I would laugh them off.'
'India is a founding and permanent member of this 'club of shame': Journalists are murdered on account of what they write or intend to write, but nobody is finally brought to justice in such cases.'
Kuruthi is let down by poor execution -- there are too many loose ends and most of the arguments seemed too forced, like there was an urgent responsibility to balance the blame without taking sides, points out Divya Nair.
Almost everything about Zid can be best described as botched, says Nishi Tiwari.
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On his 90th birth anniversary, Sukanya Verma lists 20 of her favourite scenes that reiterate his extraordinary grasp on the language of cinema and connect with the viewer.
Even though the plot is predictable, Allu Arjun's swag makes this film an edge-of-the seat action-drama, observes Divya Nair.
Sunflower creates intrigue right from the start, and lives up to its potential, observes Prateek Sur.
If you see a lesbian kiss or a lovemaking scene in an American show, you wouldn't call it sleaze. Game of Thrones had so much nudity and so much lovemaking but people said oh my God, what a show! I will not call it sleaze. I call it boldness, I call it story telling.'
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Manobi Bandyopadhyay, India's first transgender principal of a college, speaks of her struggles in a moving interview.
'The way the society functions, I don't know, they are more concerned about animals than humans.'
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2010 was a year that made quite a few careers. It was also the year when films started earning Rs 100 crores.
Our demonisation and dehumanisation of minorities and especially Muslims is so complete that calls for the abduction of and sexual violence against Muslim girls are acceptable in our society today and can be made in public spaces. The damage we have done to India internally and externally will be lasting, warns Aakar Patel.
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.' 'There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the overall environment of sentimentality.' 'And the more effort you put into including these other voices, into assimilating these spoilsports, the more balanced your depiction of the tragedy in question will be,' observes Sreehari Nair.
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