The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
This piece is a tribute to that corner of film criticism that they call subtextual film criticism.
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.
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.
'It was only after D-Day that people believed that I had actually directed Kal Ho Naa Ho.'
Talvar is a cleanly-crafted film, says Raja Sen.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
"From a very early age, I imagined myself playing powerful characters," she says, and she proves it with her filmography.
There are 12 actresses, who are among Bollywood's busiest, working on multiple films simultaneously. Just who are they?
'There are times when you give an audition and it doesn't even reach the director.' 'In such a scenario, what can I do? 'More than nepotism, it's about favouritism.'
'The fragility of this case is that taking a side could be a fallacy to do. Because you don't have all the answers. So how do you take one particular side?' Meghna Gulzar asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
'... and committed.' 'Priyanka had so much happening in her personal life...' 'Once we started, Priyanka rose to it.'
'Marriage is a practical solution in terms of bureaucracy, but it's not a real validation of whether your relationship is successful or not.'
'He was capable, concise, calm, sublime, and profound, and perhaps that's also why Irrfan's passing felt 'personal' to many.'
'There are enough LGBTQ people in the industry, so I don't feel like a misfit.'
'You cannot drop to the ground, however many bullets hit you.' 'Because if you are weak, this is not the place for you.'
We look at 52 of them, spread over 52 Fridays, in a two-part special. Here's the first part.
'He never went to the Bombay industry.'
'In 2015 I watched films in so many places. I attended several film festivals around the world -- Berlin, Tribeca (New York), Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, Mumbai, Dharamsala and Goa,' says Aseem Chhabra, author of a forthcoming book on Shashi Kapoor.
'The director has tried to be neutral. But Talvar won't leave the audience confused, for sure.'
Kalki Koechlin talks about her upcoming projects, marriage and much more!
Ananth Mahadevan takes on the audience.
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