Yash Raj Films' Dhoom 3 has managed to achieve what was pretty much expected out of it at the box office.
Dr Cabbie never takes itself too seriously, says Joginder Tuteja.
The White Tiger makes a stinging commentary on New India's half-baked vision, but Ramin Bahrani isn't telling a Slumdog fairy tale here, observes Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma celebrates Republic Day by looking at the tiranga's most striking moments on celluloid.
Chennai Express is a full throttle masala entertainment ruled by Shah Rukh Khan's star power
'When you are involved in a relationship and get married, why do you do that? To have a happy life together, right?' 'Not for arguments and divorce.' 'We face challenges at every stage of life.'
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
'Look at what we are doing to the goats, the cows, the women, the children...'
'All mothers are the same. Mine came out of the MAMI screening, crying.' 'Recently, a critic compared me to the best debut since Hrithik sir and she was so overwhelmed with that.' 'Someone said 'You are Bhagyashree's son and the innocence is the same.' 'Even if I can even touch the shadow of that in my entire career, I will be very happy.'
Three interesting films gear up to release on this festive occasion.
Will Kick be the masala but cool entertainer we all wished Dhoom 3 would be?
'You walk out of Mukkabaaz feeling good about yourself, but unlike Kashyap's best pictures, it releases you from the responsibility of seeing yourself in it; the movie is darn clever, most of the way, but it hardly has any wisdom,' says Sreehari Nair.
A decently paced, well scripted film with plenty of humour and great music makes Sivakarthikeyan's Kaaki Sattai worth a watch, writes S Saraswathi.
Bombay Velvet is an obviously shallow film, an all-out retro masala-movie with homage on the rocks and cocktail-shakers brimming with cliche.
There's no head or tails to anything that happens in Saaho, says Sukanya Verma.
'As the film progresses, you tire of the been-there seen-that spectacle.' 'You want a story. You want good dialogue, not the corny words you are hearing.' 'You want an emotional connect. You want a tighter film.' 'Sadly, with Padmaavat, that's not what you get,' says Savera R Someshwar.
A look at the portrayal of air hostesses in Hindi movies.
Like there's no dearth of memorable bus scenes and train imagery in Hindi movies, planes are equally prolific on silver screen.
'We have a huge responsibility of being so-and-so's daughter... you are compared to your parents who are these legends right from your first film, and that can get hard.'
'My needs are simple. I don't need that much money,' John Abraham remains modest.
Surkhaab lacks the strength to go all the way either to become a masala thriller or to blossom into an insightful take on the exploitation of immigrants, notes Paloma Sharma.
Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit get ready to make Total Dhamaal on the big screen again!
Actress karthika Nair talks about her new Telugu film.
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's cool, curious, bag moments.
A riveting combination of tough and tender, Raveena shines all the way.
'For the past year, people have been asking me about my wife, Sonali, who suffered from cancer. It was a tough year but I have seen worse in my life.'
Bombay Velvet was Bollywood's biggest flop this year.
'What was previously buried in the sands of time now gets buried by the weight of banality,' notes Sreehari Nair.
'Kaala's sin is not that it is presented as a mouthpiece for its director Pa Ranjith's political viewpoints, but that it makes a travesty of them.' 'Ranjith turns Marx into merchandise, all the while functioning as a hired hand for Brand Rajinikanth,' points out Sreehari Nair.
'I prefer calling myself a 'film activist' rather than a filmmaker,' Mahesh Kathi tells Radhika Rajamani/ Rediff.com
Salman Khan features in five of these movies!
'The Ek Do Teen star struggled with a problem skin all through her reign as numero uno.' 'And yet acne never got into the way of her incredible success.' All this and more in Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
'I never wanted to be a niche actor; I want to be a commercial star heroine.'
Were these actors offbeat or off the mark?
Star of the upcoming film, Roy, Arjun Rampal fields rapid-fire questions!
