On Tuesday, 49 people, including award-winning filmmakers Aparna Sen and Mani Ratnam, and historian Ramachandra Guha, wrote to PM Modi, urging him to intervene in cases of hate crimes and atrocities against minority communities.
Sukanya Verma looks at some striking age gaps between the onscreen romantic couples of Hindi movies.
Some of Bollywood's top directors started very young.
Well done, Team Talvar. Savera R Someshwar applauds the film.
Check out the winners at the News18 Reel Movie Awards 2019.
Sukanya Verma salutes the late actor's spectacular cinematic legacy.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'Aamir has bigger goodwill than even the Tatas and Birlas.' 'The Sanjay Dutt biopic is amazing because of Rajkumar Hirani, because of Abhijat Joshi's writing and because of Ranbir Kapoor's acting.'
With Hindi Medium and Angrezi Medium, the "English-medium" actor of independent movies shows she can easily fit into mainstream Hindi movies too.
What was the need to fictionalise a series on real events that were far more horrific because they were real? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Find out which films make it to Sukanya Verma's Top 10 of the year!
Savouring Spielberg's fierce, fine movie; salivating over MAMI's line-up; gobbling a Shrek cake; visualising a desi Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants with Alia, Bhumi and more in Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
'I wasn't sure if I could carry off a bikini well. So I did a photo shoot and showed it Madhur Bhandarkar. He said it looked great. That gave me the confidence to carry it off.' Meet Calendar girl Avani Modi.
'People ask me how I get into a women's psyche so well. Trust me, even I don't know!' Madhur Bhandarkar discusses his Calendar Girls.
'I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that this could happen to me.'
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
'The idea is to celebrate your imperfections because God has made us all the same, right?'
Former Censor Board chief and Julie 2 producer Pahlaj Nihalani takes on the film industry.
Akshay Kumar is King of the box office!
Did you like Chennai Express, Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram Leela and 3 Idiots?
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
The propaganda aspect of the movie -- despite it stemming purely from the writer's deepest convictions -- is a clincher for it is highly unlikely that you'll walk out of a screening of Talvar saying, 'I loved the movie, but I still think the parents are guilty.' If you are swept away by the power of the movie, it's also sure to swing your perception in a certain direction,' says Sreehari Nair.
'... and committed.' 'Priyanka had so much happening in her personal life...' 'Once we started, Priyanka rose to it.'
Protests were held in many cities across the country. So far, no one has been arrested for the attack on students and teachers at JNU even as clamour for resignation of the V-C grew.
A look at the hits and misses of the week.
A look at the hits and misses at the box office this week.
Here is a look at some of Aseem Chhabra's favourite memories of 2020 in Hindi cinema, performances by well-known and new actors, special moments in films and shows.
'This is a film that trumpets out its sex -- it is content in being a girl's version of the archetypical boy's locker-room picture.' 'And if it was just that, that would have been fun too, but Lipstick Under My Burkha doesn't want to affect your senses, it wants to control your mind!' Sreehari Nair comes away unimpressed.
The Bollywood stalwart turns 70 on January 17.
And no, the list doesn't start and stop with Boman Irani!
'People think it's okay to poke fun at people who are overweight but I never took it lying down. I made sure I stood up for myself.' Sonakshi Sinha, in fighting form.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
Singer Kavita Seth tells us what kind of songs she loves to sing -- and then even sings them!
'Before I started Haider, I read a little bit of Hamlet. I saw a Russian version of Hamlet and, honestly, I got bored halfway through.' But Shahid claims his latest film is the best movie of his career yet.
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