Batra's The Lunchbox was passed over for The Good Road last year.
'We need to understand and respect wildlife behaviour.'
'These accusations of my film being a copy only makes our chances at the Academy harder.'
Bollywood took a break from the Diwali parties to attend the closing night of the 21st Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
Aseem Chhabra picks Indian and other South Asian gems at the Toronto International Film Festival.
'The largest listenership for Vividh Bharati outside the country is in Spain.' 'The labourers who go there for the tomato-picking season feel cut off from their country and listen to Vividh Bharati to overcome their loneliness.'
'At his wedding with Patralekha, I officiated as the groom's father as Raj has lost both parents, and that's the relationship we share today.'
Sukanya Verma looks at their eclectic career of over two decades as their latest offering Citadel: Honey Bunny, the Indian leg of the Russo Brothers globetrotting spy universe series, drops on Amazon Prime Video on November 7.
Payal Kapadia's understanding of what it means to be a woman is as poignant as her authentic portrait of Mumbai's hoi polloi, observes Sukanya Verma.
Priyanka Chopra is in shaadi-mode, as her younger brother Siddharth gets married to Neelam Upadhyaya in Mumbai.
Raja Sen brings us all the action from the first day of the 16th Mumbai Film Festival.
'I've been a villain, I've been a champ, I've been a superhero, I've been a zero, I've been a rejected fan, and I've been a very, very resilient lover.'
Who do you think wore the tulle skirt better?
Faraaz got a special screening in Mumbai, ahead of its February 3 release.
Writers and creators are telling more authentic stories based in states and cities that we may not have seen much of in mainstream media, such as Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. Or ones that we have some mistaken notions about like Punjab, Delhi, Haryana, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, highlights Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Singh was not really the Kinng when it came to competing with Slumdog Millionaire, the underdog saga shot entirely in Mumbai, which won the People's Choice Award at the end of the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last weekend. Akshay Kumar's film was one of the 250 feature films from more than 60 countries, eligible for the award.
'Did anyone else get the feeling that AWIAL -- despite being ostensibly based in the Mumbai of today -- is actually set in a Neverland of Solemnity?' asks Sreehari Nair.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives box office verdict for the week.
The Teri Meri Kahaani lead actors promote the film ahhead of its June 22 release.
A look at the arrivals for the screening.
'I was blessed to earn a lot of fame and money, more than I ever expected, and the time has come to share what I have earned with others.'
Priyanka Chopra looked wow when she attended the wedding celebrations of her brother, Siddharth Chopra, over the weekend in Mumbai.
'When democracy first came to Bhutan people had no idea and they were like 'What is that?' Oh it's that thing they have in India where the leaders are always fighting and arguing.' When I screened the film to Bhutan's film committee, they thought my film was good but they were concerned about that line. They wanted me to change that line. They said, 'We don't want to offend India.' I tried to tell them that Indians have a great ability to laugh at themselves but they insisted I change it.'
"No producer or director wants to cast me in love stories," says Irrfan Khan
Film folk of all ages celebrated Bhai Dooj on Sunday.
After a sneak peek at the Movie Mela, Bollywood stars took the glamour a notch higher at the grand opening night of the 21st Jio MAMI Mumbai Film festival. The red carpet was rolled out at the Balgandharva Rang Mandir on Octobner 17.
Here's a look at the top 10 tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Indian-origin British filmmaker Asif Kapadia says he lived with the idea of making a documentary on Diego Maradona for 25 years, since the 1990s when he was a film student and read a book on the legendary footballer.
A look at the pictures.
'Every actor has to really look within, because a lot of them are not really in touch with reality.'
'What the film shows is an India, which was headed in a completely different direction than where we are headed.'
'Habitat was viewed as the proxy for him and got unjustly targeted.'
Raashii Khanna and Vikrant Massey celebrated the beginning of Navratri with Falguni Pathak.
The first crowd-funded Kannada film will be released on September 6 by PVR's Director's Rare.
A look at the guests at the special screening.
'...and showcased in their original beauty.'
