'In a scene where they were asked to have tears in their eyes, one of them came up to me and said, 'How does one cry?'
'I am going to be back home on Friday or Saturday.'
'She gave choreography in Indian cinema a name, a face and a place.'
...But October has always brought them good luck. "We met in October; we got married in October and now this," says Sumedha Kailash, wife on Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi
Subhash K Jha selects his favourite rain songs. Do list your favourites in the message board below!
'I was well prepared and confident that I would win at least win Rs 50 lakh to 1 crore.'
'Is this the behaviour you endorse by making an abusive man a winner?'
'We all need the blessings of the gods at a time when we are just breathing free again after the pandemic.'
There are so many female-oriented movies, from Mother India to Arth to Pink. But there are some absolute gems that never got their due.
1997: Sukanya Verma offers a recap of its memorable imagery.
'His family keeps telling him to take it easy, but he won't listen.'
Did you know that the original choice for the title role in Piku was not Deepika Padukone? It was Parineeti Chopra.
Initially, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha was about a newly married woman who fights for a toilet in her sasural. But then Akshay came into the picture....
Subhash K Jha looks at actresses who dared play Momma at the risk of getting typecast.
'Basuda hardly spoke, but he had a sense of humour and that showed in his films.'
'The very idea that Kamal Haasan would retire from active acting for active politics is as ridiculous as to suggest that Lataji would give up singing to weave handloom dupattas for destitute girls in Muzaffarpur,' declares Subhash K Jha.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi backed its MLA from Malviya Nagar, claiming that "injustice" has been meted out to him and expressed the hope that he will get justice at the appellate level.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
'I've never thought of myself as beautiful.' 'Not that I think I am not beautiful.'
Subhash K Jha celebrates Dhanush's birthday on July 28 by picking five of his favourite Dhanush movies.
Director Karan Malhotra is stunned by the success of his debut venture, Agneepath.
'If a hero wanted Mr Rafi to sing for him, naturally it had to be him.' 'Then if it was Dilip Kumar, who is a soft-spoken man, he naturally wanted Talat Mehmood.' 'Raj Kapoor wanted only Mukesh. Now you tell me, where did I stand a chance?'
'Mr Narendra Modi and Smriti Irani should have spoken up long back.' 'Now when the matter has escalated out of hand, there is still time for them to speak out.' 'Better late than never.' Shatrughan Sinha tells Subhash K Jha.
When the Indian economy tanked in 1991, it did so because it ran out of foreign exchange. Today, it is tanking because it has run out of rupees even as the foreign exchange granary is overflowing, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
'Dr Kalam should be alive within all of us,' I Am Kalam director Nila Madhab Panda tells Subhash K Jha.
'Sanjeev Kumar was my favourite actor. But no one can compare with Amitabh Bachchan.'
'One has to move with the times to stay relevant.'
'Foreign exchange is being squandered.' 'Every top star is given tickets for his spouse, children, parents, ayahs, bodyguards, friends, friends of friends...' 'I've heard stars are even given shopping money.' 'Who is paying for all this?'
Subhash K Jha remembers the flamboyant star, 12 years after he passed away.
Abhishek Bachchan finally speaks up about his dad's illness.
The filmmaker admits he might not get to be as whimsical as before.
The prayer service for Veeruji, who passed into the ages on May 27, was held at ISKCON, in Juhu, north west Mumbai.
In an interaction with former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on the impact of lockdown on India's economy, Rajiv Bajaj, MD, Bajaj Auto, said India tried to implement a hard lockdown which was still porous and ended up with the worst of both worlds.
'People gravitate towards me with their problems.'
Kamal Haasan talks to Subhash K Jha about his new film Paapnasam, and how it may affect Ajay Devgn starrer Drishyam.
'They should have offered a ticket for his constituency to Advaniji's daughter Pratibha or son Jayant. But, of course, that is too much to expect.'