Sukanya Verma looks at the colourful portrayal of this festival on the Bollywood screen.
The singer-composer dedicates three songs to Mother India on Independence Day.
'I've spoken to Gangubai's soul.' 'I've had long conversations with her in my mind.' 'I understood her suffering, anger, joys and sorrow.' 'I had to connect to the soul of this amazing woman.' 'I think I did.'
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Director Abhishek Dixit fails to do justice to the film and ends up delivering a never-ending saga, feels Ramesh S.
There's news that a team of writers at Salman's production house are working on an Indianised version of the Steven Spielberg's iconic franchise Indiana Jones.
Gentle, fiery, magnanimous or disadvantaged, there are many faces of the Bhansali heroine. Sukanya Verma looks at every single one.
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As Katy Perry began her first concert in Mumbai, all thoughts of the heat and the need for water quite literally evaporated, says 17-year-old Maya Dominic.
Kishore Kumar didn't become a legend overnight. And even when he did, he had many unfulfilled dreams.
'Kishore Kumar lived like a king and knew that he could get away with anything. It's as simple as that.'
Rahul Vaidya gets a surprise visitor on Valentine's Day.
There have been several instances of cop films doing quite well at the box office.
'So I started talking to him in Marathi and everything really changed.' 'There was this spark in his eyes and he smiled.' 'It's unbelievable that a man can be so charming with a single smile at 90.'
Asoka still makes for irresistible viewing, raves Sukanya Verma, and tells us why.
Badhaai Do carries its audience on the wave of those little farces that come with being queer in India, a land where masculinity still has some say, observes Sreehari Nair.
As far as Hindus are concerned, the eclipse of Wokeism cannot come any sooner, says Rajeev Srinivasan.
'I knew that since I would be designing for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film, the aesthetics would have to be correct.' 'He doesn't show poverty in his films.' 'He won't show someone standing on the streets in phate hue kapde.'
Maroon 5 threw just about everything at the Super Bowl halftime show: a gospel choir, a drumline, pyrotechnics, a giant letter "M" and even SpongeBob.
After a lifetime of showing us what it means to 'act at the top of one's bent and never hit a false note', Mammootty had the good sense, in the third act of his career, to pare down his style, become less mannered, draw directly from life. And getting a performer like that to play characters who seem 'completely dead inside', is, in my view, a betrayal of his legacy, his still-burning ambition, and his still-sharp feelers, observes Sreehari Nair.
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Does the "story" of a Mani Ratnam film come first or does its "spirit" asks Sreehari Nair.
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'As soon as the plane touched down and we emerged, barricades came down and his fans rushed towards us.' 'Then, before my astonished eyes, they had lifted him up and he was being passed along over the heads of people.' 'It was an incredible sight!'
Priyanka Chopra's sizzling item song in Sanjay Gupta's Shootout At Wadala.
'So much so we don't feel the need to create anything, but just bask in that glory.' 'It's time to move on.' 'How much burden can you put on a person or the legacy of the person?'
Rashmi Shukla's testimony comes as a revelation because the proceedings of the Elgar Parishad form the basis of the Bhima Koregaon case which has become an international cause celebre.
Farmers flaunting colourful turbans, sunshades, long beards and twirling moustaches danced on tractors, distributed sweets and hugged each other to mark the occasion that seemed like a festival.
Dil Chahta Hai revolutionised the language of Hindi films. Sukanya Verma shows us how.
'She exists alongside Sita, the archetype of the ideal woman,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Darbar is scheduled to release on Pongal (which falls in January) 2020.
'I am confused about which one to choose.' 'All the girls are really beautiful.'
Costume designer Neeta Lulla on her fabulous work on the film, which won her a National Award.
The Natural History Museum's annual competition and exhibition, Wildlife Photographer of the Year has been the longest-running and most prestigious nature and wildlife photography competition that has been recognising the world's best nature photography every year since 1965.
Two men smiling, eyeing each other as they briefly let their guard down, with no care of what the world around them is thinking, that has almost never been shown in a Bollywood film, notes Aseem Chhabra.
Every single one of Parinda's magnificent frames is a masterclass in slick. Sukanya Verma tells us why.
Love, fear, sadness, and many more, seen through the filmi lens.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan feels a shortened five-week Indian Premier League leading up to the ICC World T20 in October and November could be a feasible solution if the current situation, in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, is brought under control by then.
So should airlines play the keening, trance-like Siddi folk music from the Kutch peninsula? The Sufiana Kalam of Kashmir? Carnatic music? Rabindra Sangeet? Bihu melodies? Classical music from the Hindustani gharanas? Ghazals? Bhajans? Bollywood hits?... asks Kanika Datta.
Paragraphs of prose just didn't feel right, so here is Raja Sen's tribute to rock legend Lou Reed, who passed away on October 27.
