Sukanya Verma celebrates 25 years of Bollywood images.
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The Indian author had made a dramatic escape from the Taliban in 1995. She was the subject of a 2003 film called Escape From Taliban, starring Manisha Koirala.
Bollywood is known to make everything look dazzling and dramatic -- suffering, seclusion, hopelessness.
With the festival of colours only a few days away, we thought we'd bask in the glory of its many shades through effervescent Bollywood songs.
Bollywood has given us quite a few suspense tales before, and many of them have done well at the box office.
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Gentle, fiery, magnanimous or disadvantaged, there are many faces of the Bhansali heroine. Sukanya Verma looks at every single one.
'I was told so often by people, "Please leave your brains at home".' 'And I would say, "I only have myself to offer. I can't dance like Madhuri Dixit or Shilpa Shetty. I can only come and act."'
Bollywood expresses grief and shock following the Nepal earthquake.
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Do you think these actors *look* young when they play younger characters?
Quite a few Hindi movies have explored different shades of the landlord-tenant relationship in passing or purposefully.
'There have been more than 1,500 encounters.' 'So it's 1,500 murders.'
Hindi cinema has not just explored various instances of brute force, but often glorified its misogyny.
Sukanya Verma lists the memorable use of trees in Hindi movies.
In the Bollywood scheme of things, age is as irrelevant as logic.
'There are too many things that haven't gone out of you. So even though the years may have gone by, you are still close to the films in terms of the making.'
'Despite the pornographic quality of its name, Lust Stories is something of an event in Indian popular culture,' says Shuma Raha.
Sukanya Verma glances at the changing faces of women bonding in Hindi movies.
Flirting, persistence and longingness comes alive in Mani Ratnam's Kaatru Veliyidai, feels Divya Nair.
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
On his 55th birthday, Sukanya Verma celebrates his inimitable ways in 10 scenes that she keeps returning to time and again.
In his nearly 80-minute long speech on the first day of the three-day conclave, Bhagwat also asserted that RSS is "most democratic" and not dictatorial, insisting that it neither imposes its ideology nor remote-controls its various affiliates, apparently rejecting criticism that the Bharatiya Janata Party is controlled by it.
Sukanya Verma looks at the many, many reasons for marital discord reported in Hindi movies.
Favourite movie homes, comparing Amitabh-Shashi's beds in Kabhi Kabhie and discovering the truth about Salman Khan's 1990s chartbuster... All in Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Richa Chadha to play Shakeela... Vidya Balan turns producer...
Sukanya Verma hails Bollywood's memorable bus moments.
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'You are working with the best of the lot.' 'The best part is that they treat you equally, unlike in India.'
'I believe after Shailendra's Mera Joota Hai Japaani in Raj Kapoor's Shree 420, Chhaiyyan Chhaiyyan is now the Indian film song that is recognised the world over -- millions know it as 'the train song'.'
Sukanya Verma looks at some striking age gaps between the onscreen romantic couples of Hindi movies.
1997: Sukanya Verma offers a recap of its memorable imagery.
If only making it official was as easy as falling in love, says Sukanya Verma.
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