'Every day, after 'pack-up', Khansaab and Deepika would come for dance practice and rehearse till around 1-1.30 am.' 'The weather was a challenge because while on screen, it looks warm and sunny, it was actually bitterly cold, with a sharp, stinging wind which had the actors and dancers shivering in their summer clothing.'
A fun excerpt from Diptakirti Chaudhuri's Bollygeek: The Crazy Trivia Guide to Bollywood.
Bhangra Paa Le has a fairly ambitious if unoriginal premise let down by staid vision, spiritless writing, middling choreography and music, feels Sukanya Verma.
Bollywood's love affair with the moon is reflected in the songs which shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
'My father may not be there for me the way he is for Taimur but that doesn't make me feel any less special.'
'Kartik is an outsider, so he takes nothing for granted. That's why he will do well.'
Joginder Tuteja lists never-seen-before jodis coming up in the movies.
Sukanya Verma lets her imagination run wild!
Watching Raabta possibly can't be anyone's idea of entertainment in this birth or last, feels Sukanya Verma.
'If I tried remaking my father's films, he might just come out of his grave and give me a tight slap.' 'Kareena doesn't want to have babies,' Randhir Kapoor tells Sonil Dedhia/Rediff.com
Meena Kumari's classic film released 50 years ago, on February 4, 1972.
Liked Katrina's look in Bharat? Now, you can wear it!
'I want to die with my finger on the click button of the camera,' veteran photographer Pradeep Bandekar, who passed into ages early on Sunday morning, told Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Here are 25 stories special to me for one reason too many,' says Sukanya Verma who scored 25 years writing about the movies last week.
A comparison with the first quarter of 2019 indicates that even without the coronavirus situation, the box office moolah would have lagged in comparison.
'Kriti Sanon is an educated, well-read, articulate actress.'
As we mark the 34th death anniversary of Shankar -- of the legendary Shankar-Jaikishan duo -- Subhash K Jha selects five evergreen songs from their greatest hits.
'Rani has changed Adi for the better. If he is happy, why should I not be happy?'
Sukanya Verma offers an onscreen recap of this onscreen wild child.
Abhishek packs a punch and Nimrat is deliciously wicked but Dasvi falls short of being the razor-sharp satire it deeply aspires to be, feels Sukanya Verma.
'Some asked why Budapest?' 'I had two relatively new actors and a limited budget; Budapest gives you a rebate.' 'We have spent around Rs 32, 33 crores, which is very good.'
The actress remembers the everyday fare at her childhood home in Bengaluru.
Jab Harry Met Sejal has the stars, the songs, the scenery and everything you'd imagine in a love story. But in the absence of soul, none of it really matters, feels Sukanya Verma.
Long before she won royalty rights for playback singers, there was an undisclosed incident in Lataji's life where she not only put a male colleague in place, but also refused to sing with him thereafter.
Sukanya Verma celebrates The Legend's 25 distinctly different moods.
'I find Katrina and Deepika very graceful. Sonakshi dances well too. I was surprised to see Alia dancing so well on one of the live shows. Shraddha did a good job in ABCD 2.' Dancing diva Madhuri Dixit submits her report card.
Bollywood stars make good photographers too, Sukanya Verma finds out.
From moments that felt long time in the coming to swashbuckling statements that could be interpreted in more ways than one, there are some that fanned our nostalgia, some made our jaws drop (or stomachs churn), some hit too close home, still others left us with a lingering sense of guilt. Sukanya Verma picks cinematic imagery that stood out in 2023.
100 years of Dev Anand and 10 scenes etched in our memory!
'To this day, not a year passes when Bollywood does not head to Kolkata to train its cameras on the magnificence of the bridge and the flow of life that pulses along the river across which it spans,' says Saibal Chatterjee.
Saif Ali Khan takes stock of his recent hits and misses with a fresh perspective.
'Rafi Saab was such a skilled singer he could create any mood through his voice.'
'Till a cheque comes into my account, I don't feel like a professional actor.'
Sukanya Verma celebrates 25 years of Bollywood images.
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