Rajiv Kapoor did not do many films in his career but he is still remembered for his solid hit, Ram Teri Ganga Maili.
The glass is always full when it comes to OTT. Sukanya Verma brings you everything you can catch on streaming platforms this week.
Critics of Hindi cinema are a disparate, colourful, bunch that evoke much derision and tut-tut among its own tribe, but Chup's distant understanding of their influence and idiosyncrasies fails to give the loathing any real impact, notes Rediff.com Principal Movie Critic Sukanya Verma.
In 1991, The Guinness Book of Records listed Lata Mangeshkar as the most recorded artist in the world with not less than '30,000 solo, duet and chorus-backed songs' recorded in 20 Indian languages between 1948 and 1987.
Puneeth Rajkumar was never trained in classical music, but he sang songs for his movies from the time he was a toddler!
Idiocy is the source of Heropanti 2's outdated thrills, observes Sukanya Verma.
Entertainment may be its raison d'etre but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant.
Javed Akhtar is among the millions who believe that Lata Mangeshkar's voice is therapeutic.
In a year of overwrought spectacles that slavishly sucked up to the audience, I found refuge in a bunch of 'mainstream' Indian films that espoused such old-fashioned values as dedication to craft, close observation and casual bravery, explains Sreehari Nair.
'Laxmi and I firmly believed that while working, the egoistic word 'Main (I)' never interferes.'
The Republic Day parade, which will begin at around 1030 am, will be a unique mix of the country's military prowess and cultural diversity, depicting the country's growing indigenous capabilities, Nari Shakti and emergence of a 'New India'.
Goodbye makes ordinary places, ordinary people and ordinary events become interesting, observes Mayur Sanap.
'...as much as in India, it's only because she sang for mankind, not the details on the passport.'
The haunting loneliness of Lag Ja Gale... the declaration of both love and war in the rebellious Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya... the song of freedom and aspiration in Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai... the naughtiness in love with Baahon Me Chale Aao...
In these pandemic stricken, music bereft times, what can be more joyous than a playlist of 25 golden melodies? Sukanya Verma curates one for you.
In these pandemic stricken, music bereft times, what can be more joyous than a playlist of 25 golden melodies?
'The sweetest, warmest and loving man ever, always smiling, very innocent and child-like.'
Saturday marks 20 years of the 9/11 terror attacks in America. The image of two passenger planes flying into the twin towers of the World Trade Center is permanently etched inpublic memory.
'It's very difficult, almost impossible, to select my favourite duets with Kishoreda.'
'When was the last time you heard a music composer or a singer's son being launched?'
The unconventional music of the Nobel Laureate might have nothing connecting Indians to it, but there is a reason he has a following here, notes T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
The president was in the city to inaugurate the underground Bunker Museum at the Raj Bhavan.
'Audiences today are too smart to make that effort to go to a theatre to see a film just to see somebody's son.'
'Every song was a masterpiece.' Bollywood pays tribute to Ravindra Jain.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
On World Photography Day, we present some of the best pictures from Anil Kumble's wildlife photography collection.
"Those words stung me to such an extent that the following morning itself I started, seriously, learning Urdu with the sole idea of proving the great Dilip Kumar wrong."
Was romance invented so that Sanjay Leela Bhansali would one day make Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, which released on June 18, 1999, asks Subhash K Jha.
'The real India lives in the villages where everyone is trying to improve the other.'
'Gulzarsaab's words are lucid and singing them is like painting a picture.'
One could be anywhere -- huddled around a transistor radio at home in the evenings, walking past a neighbour's house, or waiting at a bus stop and Lata Mangeshkar's voice would reach us. Aseem Chhabra pays rich tribute to The Legend.
Pancham, like his father, was besotted by Lata Mangeshkar's voice and his career's finest songs were reserved only for her.
With any luck, Bollywood will get back on its feet again and give us much to awe and amaze about.
Titled Melody, the film will be produced and directed by Sunil Babbar.
The composer had gems to his credit in his long career.
The winners of the Natural History Museum's prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced at an awards ceremony in London. American photographer Karine Aigner was announced as this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
'People sometimes ridiculed him for the way he looked or dressed.' 'Sometimes they ran down his music.' 'But I have never heard him say one bad word about anyone.'
Kriti makes you smile and cry through her unexpected journey, notes Sukanya Verma.
