'Banning the film is an unfortunate response and does great injustice to Nirbhaya's parents, who have supported the film and to the brave young men and women who forced the government to set up the Justice Verma Commission.' Bollywood gets their voice across.
'Today it is a studio being held to ransom, tomorrow it will be a government, an entire nation. I don't see anyone laughing when that happens,' says Suparn Verma.
On International Women's Day, Bollywood's women give us their take on the status of women in the industry, and in India.
'They will talk about secularism, but communalism -- they just won't say there exists such a beast.' 'It's harmful for society to brush it under the carpet.' 'If we talk about secularism, we must talk about communalism.'
The BJP could win only 16 out of 57 seats where Shah campaigned.
Aseem Chhabra celebrates 40 years of the prestigious Telluride Film Festival.
The Bollywood stalwart turns 70 on January 17.
'You don't need a godfather to protect you from dangers of Bollywood because nobody will.'
'Not a single person I spoke to there believes that the Kundalkulam plant is safe.'
The call to make brand ambassadors accountable has rattled filmstars and sports stars.
'It took a 75-year-old director to teach the reformist set of Facebook users that Evil is not an aberration, but something that resides in the most regular seeming of human beings,' says Sreehari Nair.
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