An eventful year -- book-ended by Shah Rukh Khan, no less -- comes to an end with a bang, as big Bollywood releases get ready to release in December.
'This is where I grew up. The only business I know is cinema.'
Much better films about the explosive -- if often misdirected -- energy of the young have been made before than Dange, points out Deepa Gahlot.
2023 is the year of records. So many have been broken and so many more milestones achieved.
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Shah Rukh Khan conducted an #AskSRK session on X recently to discuss his coming film Dunki and the release of his daughter Suhana Khan's debut film The Archies.
'When Bad Newz was given to me to direct, the first thing I did was go back to my childhood.' 'It's an ode to Hindi cinema.'
'The primary set took over three months to build with 14,000-15,000 workers employed at a time.'
'We ensured that Mallikajaan's Shahi Mahal lived up to its name.' 'One zardosi panel cost around Rs 4 lakh; the one with the kalpavriksh was around Rs 5 lakh.'
Sources say the shooting of Raj Kumar Hirani's next may be pushed to 2022.
Kajol and Kriti Sanon are teaming up for Do Patti, a film backed by Writer Kanika Dhillon.
'Everybody has their bit of struggles and learnings. It will only end when you stop breathing.'
The stars Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar sighted on Wednesday.
'Any flight I take, the crew write personal notes to me, saying how good I was as Soudamini or Seema or Bulbul.'
The 'Pran Pratishtha' of the idol of Ram Lalla -- the childhood form of Lord Ram -- will be attended by people from all walks of life, including representatives of major spiritual and religious sects of the country and of various tribal communities and prominent personalities.
Steadily marching ahead for almost a decade now on the strength of his unassuming versatility, the 35 year old is ready to showcase his mettle in one of the most challenging roles of his career as India's first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw in Meghna Gulzar's biopic, Sam Bahadur.
'Ours is the only country which is very loyal to cinema, so making big bucks is a realistic possibility.'
Watching Aavesham is like sprinting through the whole history of our mass-masala movies and seeing it in a new light, notes Sreehari Nair. And this, incidentally, is the story of Fahadh Faasil's career too.
From the pinnacle of Veer Zara's teary romance, the transition to Pathaan and Jawan must have entailed a lot of resetting, rewiring, and recalibration in the mind. But SRK has done it. And done it well, notes Sandeep Goyal.
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Tamil Nadu's Shahrukh, known for his big-hitting abilities, quoted Dutt dialogues from Raju Hirani's blockbuster Munnabhai MBBS as he imitated Sanjubaba's trademark languid walking style on the treadmill.
Tendulkar usually spends a couple of months in London during the English summer every year.
More than six years after Dangal, there is finally a worthy follow-up Hindi film, which has not just gone past the lifetime score of the Aamir Khan starrer but also emerged as the biggest Hindi film of all time (including dubbed blockbusters too).
Ranbir Kapoor's natural born talent and chartbuster karma are open secrets. What distinguishes RK from his contemporaries is his willingness to take chances in his career.
'Comfortable in almost every genre going, there's pretty much nothing he can't do.'
Nita and Mukesh Ambani's youngest son Anant got engaged to Radhika Merchant on January 19, and the occasion called for a celebration on a grand scale.
It appears that Rajkumar Hirani got Sushant Singh Rajput to agree to play a cameo in PK on condition that he would play the lead in Hirani's next movie.
Jawan is slated to release on June 2, 2023.
A day before the event, I learnt from an old Mumbai crime branch informant that a group of gangsters were planning to serve breakfast to the prisoners at Balgandharva Rangmandir prior to the show.
Season two once again goes for dramatic overkill despite the spine-chilling gravity of the true events it is based on, observes Mayur Sanap.
'Holding on to superstardom is far more difficult than the struggle to get there.'
'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.'
'In Sanju, Rajkumar Hirani has essentially found a Rajkumar Hirani story buried inside Sanjay Dutt's life.' 'Now if you think that's scary, sample the alternative: Perhaps Sanjay Dutt had been living his life to suit the narrative of a Rajkumar Hirani film,' says Sreehari Nair.
Rajkumar Hirani's blockbuster Sanju completes three years on June 29.
'It's not like he's ghost-directing the film.'
'I didn't know TV artistes have so much of struggle. I had no clue.' 'I thought an actor is an actor because that's what I've seen in the West.' 'But because of the TV tag, I had to struggle, and that was like an eye opener for me.'
After inviting childhood friend Malavika Mohanan to the screening of his new film, Sardar Udham, Vicky Kaushal asks rumoured girlfriend Katrina Kaif out on a movie date.
So much has been written about Sushant Singh Rajput and yet, there is so much more that we still don't know about him.
Shah Rukh Khan's sabbatical has turned out to be longer than expected.
Ten sequels that either complemented the first or surpassed it.
If he wasn't an actor, Aamir Khan could have made an excellent life coach.
