'I wasn't getting the roles I wanted to play and the respect I thought I deserved as a senior actor, so I cut myself off from the industry for a while and moved to the US.'
A look at this week's hits and misses.
Sukanya Verma picks her favourite Deepika Padukone scenes.
'Cocktail allowed me to make Finding Fanny.' Homi Adajania gets candid.
From cool to cocky, fun to furious, stern to sanskari, here are all the crazy lessons you can learn from Bollywood dads this Father's Day.
'The reaction to Cutting Chai has been, "I never thought you could do something like this!" and I like that.'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Entertainment may be its raison d'etre but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant.
'Putting your life at stake defending your motherland is the best feeling you can get.'
The OTT menu is sparkling with brand new goodies. Here are Sukanya Verma's 10 recommendations for the week.
Here looking at 10 of Bollywood's best-known crime movies.
'Some of us are overweight, some underweight, some too tall, some too short, some too fair, some too dark, but that's no reason to get bogged down by society's rules about what fits.'
Modern Love: Mumbai has a mostly good selection of stories, and unlike so many other OTT shows that seem to think profanity and sex depict modernity, this one can be watched with the family without any discomfort, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'If one is saying the Modi government makes me feel insecure or will put me in jail if I say anything against him, do not worry, as he won't do any such thing.'
The hits and misses of the week.
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
Naseerrudin Shah speaks about his first wife Purveen and her pregnancy and how he neglected her and his first child Heeba excerpted from the autobiography And Then One Day: A Memoir.
Even after three decades, Mandi proves its lasting relevance and powerful impact on cinephile memory by inviting comparisons to Vidya Balan's Begum Jaan.
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
As cinemas remain shut and watching movies on big screen still a distant dream, OTT platforms are keeping us distracted from the pandemic with its steady supply of content.
Finding Fanny is a fine blend of soulful musings and nuanced filmmaking, feels Sukanya Verma.
The hits and misses of the week.
After all the drama that preceded the book launch of former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri's book launch, the discussion that ensued on the book the same evening turned out to be a fiasco. Here's why
The writers have smartly targeted several politicians without mentioning them, says Ramesh S.
The many characters have so much to tell about their back stories and true emotions that a longer format would have allowed first time Director Seema Pahwa to dig deeper in Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi, observes Joginder Tuteja.
Sukanya Verma takes us inside 10 of her all-time favourite movie homes.
As Sonam, Ranveer gear up for cricket movies we take a look at other hit cricket movies.
Subhash K Jha remembers conversations with the legendary actor who the world lost on Friday.
'After pack-up, Sridevi took a shower in the studio itself, changed, and returned to the set with a wad of notes.' 'She distributed it amongst every technician who had worked on the song Na Jaane Kahan Se Aaye Hai.'
