Somehow no producer found the right project that would justify casting these two selective stars with each other.
When he left his job in Calcutta to go to Bombay to become a film actor, Amitabh Bachchan took his driver's license along.
'She's the best actor in the family,' her dad, arguably the finest actor in all of Bollywood, said later.
'You know Amitji. If he had his way, he would never disappoint his fans.'
Rajinikanth, who had been admitted to Chennai's Apollo Hospital on September 20 after complaining of ill health, was discharged on Thursday night.
One of Hindi cinema's most high-profile couples celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 3.
Good, bad, evil, we saw a gamut of emotions on display in their most stirring form as actors reiterated their worth.
It's not everyday that one gets a bouquet of flowers and a handwritten note from India's biggest superstar, Amitabh Bachchan, and Saiyami Kher is suitably thrilled.
Wearing a Lucknowi kurta, the senior Bachchan was quite the star of the evening!
Shobhaa De pays tribute to another legend who passed into the ages on August 23, publisher, producer and entrepreneur Nari Hira.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
'He listens to you and he will do exactly what you tell him to do.'
How far will Amitabh Bachchan go for an Instagram 'like'?
'I need to work to find some joy in this life.'
'He has always let us do our own thing but if we ever need anything, he is there with the best advice.'
'But some like Rakesh leave an imprint that is hard to remove or forget...'
Prabhas has seven films lined up for release in 2022, the pandemic permitting.
Yes, that's the question everyone wanted the answer to at the launch of Ajay Devgn's latest directorial Bholaa.
With the images of Rajendra Babu, Radhakrishnan, K R Narayanan, V V Giri and Kalam in my mind, the image of my beloved hero dancing ungainly to 'Merey angney main tumharra kya kaam hai', doesn't make a smooth transition, says Sudhir Bisht.
Salim-Javed became the first Hindi film writers who could be considered brands, and they are still boldface names, celebrities in their own right, chronicles Dinesh Raheja.
Zakir Hussain was the maestro of tabla, percussionist, composer and even actor -- a legend who was India's very own and yet belonged to the world. Hussain died from 'idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis', a lung disease, in a San Francisco hospital early Monday. He was 73.
'I asked him once, 'You are such a big superstar, why are you always on time? I don't see the other stars being on time.' 'He said, 'If you learn how to respect time, time will respect you. Time will never wait for you and you will regret it'.'
None of Amjad Khan's subsequent roles could outshine Sholay. He had begun his career at the top and had no higher peaks left to conquer. Dinesh Raheja salutes the iconic actor on his 80th birth anniversary.
Krishnaraj Rai is survived by wife Vrinda, son Aditya and daughter Aishwarya.
Kareena's cop, Rajni's supercop and Samantha's spy, it's a star-studded week on OTT this time. Sukanya Verma lists your options on OTT this week.
Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar glimpsed these stars on Thursday.
"Just three months more," says mom-to-be Deepika Padukone in a witty reply when asked if she is still in her character of a pregnant woman from her coming film Kalki 2898 AD.
'I could tell there was an extraordinary intensity about Amitabh Bachchan even in bad films.' 'Kuch baat thi.' 'Salim saab and I insisted on casting him in Zanjeer.'
He has seen both glorious success and abject failure. Who better to take career lessons from than Amitabh Bachchan who turns 75 today?
After covering the biggest wedding of the year, Rediff.com's Hitesh Harisinghani was invited to the reception specially held for the media.
'The stories I want to tell are very important.'
'I worked as a cleaner at a store.' 'I worked as a security guard...' 'I have slept on footpaths.' '[I came to Mumbai with great difficulty.' 'I have not seen better people than I have in the film industry.' 'Nobody has helped me the way people have done for me here.'
'It was a very disorganised industry back then and people were very disrespectful towards actors.'
'Brahmastra is kind of a meeting place of modern India with a feeling of ancient Indian powers about it.'
'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.
Gulabo Sitabo is currently being shot in Lucknow.
Mr Bachchan is in a studio... Rajkummar Rao shows off some muscle... and...
'His family keeps telling him to take it easy, but he won't listen.'
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