'I didn't want to do a highlight reel with greatest hits of Yash Raj Films.' 'I wanted to do an actual story.'
'Slower-than-anticipated recovery can be a bigger risk this time than a liquidity-driven event -- at least for India.'
Prime ministers turning up with such frequency to launch trains is an indication of the political mileage resident in public transport. Will our railways step out of the government's shadow? After all, they are the ones manufacturing trains and running them, notes Shyam G Menon.
Identifying terror emanating from Pakistan as the "greatest threat" to regional peace and stability, India and Afghanistan have said that setting up an effective counter-terror framework to deal with the challenge will be a major focus at the two-day Heart of Asia conference beginning Saturday.
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'Rakesh's life is hard, but he knows how to find joy.' 'He doesn't think his life's value comes from money. He sees no shame in his poverty.'
There are lessons for the Congress to learn from the Karnataka elections of how burying the hatchet among top leaders and not washing dirty linen in public can help, says Ramesh Menon.
'I don't think you have seen any Indian actor play a character like this.'
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Almost everyone in Gorakhpur has a story about an Adityanath intervention that helped push through a piece of work that would've been otherwise impossible.
More than anything else, Pathaan is a silent and subtle statement of Shah Rukh Khan about his place, his commitment to cinema and, if one can say, his politics, observes Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
'The country has moved beyond the likes of Yogi Adityanath and his medieval thinking. The results of the by-elections are early warning signals by impatient Indians. It's up to the BJP to learn its lesson or face the consequences,' says Ashutosh.
AAP would like to send an icon from the state to the Upper House of Parliament and one of the foremost names to have emerged is that of 41-year-old off-spinner.
'Rani was apprehensive because she was doing a film outside the YRF banner after a long time.' 'She said she hoped she would be as comfortable with me as she was working in her home productions.' 'I promised her that she would feel at home.'
'Once I left my photographs at Ram Gopal Varma's office.' 'I told a friend I was concerned no one had contacted me. My friend said, "Itni jaldi nahin hota idhar. Time lagega".'
'Ups and downs keep happening, you have to fight through them.'
The victim was identified as Sanjay Sharma, a resident of the Achan area in the south Kashmir district, they said, adding that the incident took place at around 11 am.
'While assisting on Made In Heaven, Ritesh Sidhwani asked me if I had anything I wanted to make.' 'Luckily, I had this script. I was working on the script of Eternally Confused And Eager For Love for four years.' 'Excel pitched the show to Netflix, and that was it!
'Writers are always nervous.' 'If you go to a party, you will notice that the writers are always in a corner of the party, looking anxious, sweating and tense about something or the other.' 'I am that kind of person.'
The reason why Jamsetji Tata built the Taj Mahal Hotel was his love for Mumbai and India. For him, the 'why' was so powerful that it urged him to stake his reputation, withstand all scepticism, and invest a very large sum of resources to create the iconic hotel.
'These accusations of my film being a copy only makes our chances at the Academy harder.'
Trade pundits and quick think piece experts can speculate all they like, but what works at the box-office is a mystery as always.
As the curtain come down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events.
Modi also rolled out the first of the 500 metro coaches manufactured by Bharat Earth Movers in flat 75 days at it Bengaluru facility.
'One has to move with the times to stay relevant.'
'Shah Rukh and I have a very good relationship.' 'When he is with you, he is completely yours, once he leaves the room, he doesn't know you.' Pamela Chopra discusses her life with her late husband Yash Chopra, and sons Aditya and Uday Chopra in an exclusive interview.
Lisa Haydon shares her Housefull journey.
It was Gadgil's idea to print a wedding invitation on fabric with temporary ink so it can be used later as a napkin.
Martand Singh, the master of weaves, took India to the world.
'I have never played a character like that before -- very non-glamourous and hard-hitting.'
'It has been a roller coaster ride for me. When I look back, there is only one word with which I can express my journey: Gratitude.'
'Lots of Indians are not eating healthy.' 'They eat lot of carbs, eat late, and use sugar unnecessarily.'
'It reminded me of the Ramayana, a story that runs in every Indian's blood.'
'Most of these dating sites are nothing but hook-up culture and I don't relate to that.'
'Single life is pretty good. I like the attention. If I feel lonely, I just call my mom and she sleeps in my bed,' Kalki Koechlin tells Rediff.com contributor Paloma Sharma.
'Before going to Kashmir, we were apprehensive because of what we had heard.' 'But what we saw when we reached Kashmir was altogether different.'
'There are people who loved the show and people who have been shocked by it.'
Kovind, who is on his first visit to Ayodhya after the landmark 2019 Supreme Court verdict paved the way for the construction of the temple, also offered prayers at the Hanumangarhi shrine, about 2 km away.
