Ratna Pathak Shah shows us a deeper side to Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai.
Joginder Tuteja looks back at his movies, and their success rate.
A look at this week's hits and misses.
'We think we know him because he's written about everyday.' 'But how many of us know him as a person?'
With any luck, Bollywood will get back on its feet again and give us much to awe and amaze about.
Here's what caught our eye at the movies this year.
The hits and misses of the week.
The most thrilling, romantic, terrifying, musical and comical tring tring moments!
Fresh off the OTT oven, Sukanya Verma picks 10 hot new treats for you.
'The Chinese have a set pattern. They demonstrate, warn, threaten, attack and withdraw.' 'We were lulled into complacency, but I am certain things are being corrected now.'
Stars queue up for Farah Khan's grand birthday bash.
'We have seen a lot of Hindi films where the men cheat and ask the women for forgiveness. Then we show that she forgives him and they live happily every after. But till date, there has been no film where a woman cheats and asks for forgiveness and then the male has to decide if he wants to forgive her or not.' Akshay Kumar talks Rustom.
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As dry as the martini Bond enjoyed, Connery's 007 was a tour de force of comicbook heroism replete with set pieces and choreographed stunts which he carried off with a Scottish virility, notes Subhash K Jha.
'The ending Vijay Tendulkar had written was different.' 'According to him, the film ended with Anant Welankar's suicide.' 'I felt such an ending would be too nihilistic.' 'Bahut zyada defeatist ho jaata.'
'Top actors like Ben Kingsley, who played Gandhiji, had already raised the bar.' 'I hoped that Rajkumar Santoshi would be satisfied with my acting.'
The hits and misses of the week.
Desi sightings in Western fare are no longer a rarity.
Before Kuttey's release, co-produced and co-penned by VB, Sukanya Verma takes a look back at the filmmaker's unique body of work.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly verdict.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly verdict.
Mee Raqsam is an ode to fathers who guide their children to the path where dreams come true, notes Sukanya Verma.
'If he was unwell in May, he gave no indication of it at all. Tom was his usual cheerful, helpful, kind and generous self.'
As we celebrate his 92nd birthday today, we asked members of the film fraternity to list their personal favourites.
'I grew up in a place that used to be the best city in India: Allahabad.' 'The city has given some of the best writers, politicians and musicians to the country. 'Today, it has gone to the dogs.'
Waiting is mostly deftly thought out and speaks on many levels, says Sukanya Verma.
The hits and misses of the week.
On its 25th anniversary, Sukanya Verma lists 10 things she still loves about Mohra.
A year has passed since Shashi Kapoor passed into the ages. His movies live on on television, but Shashiji's greatest legacy must remain Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre, where people came to be entertained, informed and, perhaps, also enlightened.
'If we are unable to move out of catering to people's tantrums or their unreasonable demands or people treating other people badly or being okay with differential treatment, it will affect the storytelling and the creativity.'
The hits and misses of the week.
