'Film shooting is a long process, and it is important to have a good bonding with the person you are going to spend six to eight months of your life.' 'Baaki, film toh bann jaati hain.'
Seeking anonymity, a top Dubai-based industrialist told rediff.com, 'We are not at all happy with the proceedings leading up to the bidding. We were not taken into confidence by the IPL administrators. The picture has not changed even after the IPL governing council changed the disputed terms and conditions. It looks like they have already decided on the two teams.'
Subtlety has never been a strong suit of Bollywood remakes. They cannot resist adding that extra something or going overboard, sighs Sukanya Verma.
'I am still searching for that one script that will bring us together.'
Kanal turns out to be an average effort even though Mohanlal does his best to salvage it, says Paresh C Palicha.
'He was truly an athulya abhinaya pratibha (exceptionally talented actor),' director Fazil tells Divya Nair/Rediff.com, as he mourns his friend's loss.
Movie stars from all over India got together to enjoy the Celebrity Cricket League finals over the weekend.
'His passing affects us so much as we feel we lost not just an actor but a part of us!'
Mohanlal's Koothara, Anoop Menon's Angry Babies and Indrajith's Naku Penta Naku Taka will release this week.
Here's a look at what your favourite celebrities are tweeting.
If everything goes as expected, Arya, now a second year graduation student of a Thiruvananthapuram college, would not only become the new mayor of Kerala's capital, a position held by several significant personalities in the past, but also the youngest ever mayor in the country.
Once you are done paying your respect to God and Grasshoppers, you circle back to the human beings in Gold, and that's when things become progressively more and more muddled, observes Sreehari Nair.
Zombies, high society, avenging monkeys, reincarnation, twins, meteor strikes, you'll be spoiled for choice on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma makes her recommendations:
'Whatever scrapings are left is dished out to people like me.'
Reader Bhargav Govind sends us a picture from New Jersey.
Grandmaster, Mallu Singh and Diamond Necklace will hit the screens this week.
Two films Spirit and Bachelor Party will release this weekend.
A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem by Kavalam Narayana Panicker where a hymn about nature descends into a musing about cheating, depression and death, feels Sreehari Nair.
The comedy is stale, but there are bits that make you laugh, notes Divya Nair.
Mohanlal's Loham is not original at all, warns Paresh C Palicha.
I thought Saudi Vellakka a glancing, loving depiction of the judicial system as a pageantry filled with performers trying to do right by everyone, do everything by the book, and failing despite their best attempts, observes Sreehari Nair.
Three Malayalam movies will release on the occasion of Christmas.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
Union minister Alphons Kannanthanam has come out in support of a 21-year-old Hanan.
make Shikkar is a mass-entertainer plus an artistic merit film, but fails to impress.
A lowdown on what's happening in the Malayalam film industry.
Thakur, in a tweet, said he had quarantined himself at his residence last week after coming in contact with someone who had coronavirus.
A lowdown on what's going on in the Malayalam film industry.
Santhosh Unnithan, 20, became a fan of Mohanlal when he was in school.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
The OTT treasure is brimming again with tons of treats in various genres and languages. Sukanya Verma suggests what you can catch this week.
'Portraying the life of commoners, I V Sasi was a man who created wonders for the silver screen.'
A lowdown on all the goings-on in the Malayalam film industry.
'Some people believe that guys with muscles don't have a sense of humour.' 'We wanted to prove them wrong.'
Prakash Rohra, 54 shares his story.
Four major films fight it out at the box office this Christmas season.
Sreehari Nair reviews Ayyappanum Koshiyum.
