'It's all that pain that makes you the artist you are.'
A look at SIIMA 2016 arrivals.
Tamil star Suriya's 7aum Arivu was about a virus from China sent to Chennai to wreak havoc while Kaappan was about a locust attack the hero prevents in time -- both films in a sense foresaw what was to come, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'Sharing screen space with Salman bhai is a superb experience.'
Rekka or Remo? Which film are you looking forward to this weekend?
'With his stature as a playwright and actor, Girish Karnad was one of the voices of modernity for not just Karnataka but the entire country.'
A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Bollywood takes the glamorous route to MAMI!
Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade.
Marathi film Sairat will stay with you for a really long time, raves Divya Nair.
Shabana Azmi speaks out against the fatwa issued to A R Rahman.
Here's the lowdown from the Tamil film industry.
'I fell in love with Amrita Singh from the day I saw Betaab... She is amazing'
Nimmi, the legendary actress, passed away at her Mumbai home on Wednesday, March 25.
'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma.
'I would've been the first butt of Bollywood onscreen.'
A look at Tamil films which earned critical acclaim and also commercial success!
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Part of what make Ee.Ma.Yau so special is its ability to focus our attention on things that conventional movies throw away under the pretext of storytelling, says Sreehari Nair.
'A look at the winners and losers tells us that the topic of the film is but one factor in ensuring success.'
Yesteryear's heart-throb Shashi Kapoor will get the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for his contribution to Indian cinema. On this occasion, we reproduce Dinesh Raheja's nostalgia piece on the actor here:
In Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh wayward Romeos would all be in the lock-up, says Sunil Sethi.
Advertisement revenues will go up in 2016-17 with automobiles and e-commerce being big contributors.
A six-minute video of the PM directed by Central Board of Film Certification chief Pahlaj Nihalani is being played during the interval of Salman's Sooraj Barjatya-directed film, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo in cinemas across the country.
Rajesh Pillai ate burgers and drank aerated American drinks as if his life depended on it, says Kamal Haasan.
If Indian storytelling can deliver, it can make the entertainment industry an engine of economic growth and a substantial contributor to GDP, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
All through Moothon, you can sense Mohandas trying hard to empathise with her characters; I just wish she was interested in them, declares Sreehari Nair.
'A prime minister's responsibility is the entire nation.' 'The nation looks to you for protection, for security...' 'Politics has become larger than the nation's interests.'
'...that it takes fantasy seriously as a part of real life'... A fascinating excerpt from Jonathan Gil Harris's book, Masala Shakespeare: How A Firangi Writer Became Indian.
Or is all of media being re-invented, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'Ishaqzaade released on May 11, 2012. It has been seven years. But if you had spoken to me on May 10, 2012, and said that I would do 13 films with so many good directors and actors, I would have said, 'Chal jhoota.''
Aseem Chhabra salutes the late Italian Master and his cinema.
Director Shonali Basu and her actors on the making of what appears to be a memorable movie.
'The entire journey was beautifully nourished and I was very lucky that Lion came out the way it did. Otherwise, I would have really regretted it.' Priyanka Bose is ready to take her film Lion to the Oscars.
Hailed as one of the finest filmmakers of his time, K Balachander, who passed into the ages on December 23, has left behind a rich legacy of hard-hitting films, some of which have been routinely credited with redefining Tamil cinema.
'The real problem that has affected Tarantino's films is not their amorality. On the contrary, it's their misplaced morality.' 'The basic pitches for his movies, off late, tackle such pre-resolved issues, that they don't quite allow his pop-culture sensibilities to hit a crescendo and instead reduces them to trinkets in service of broad movie prototypes.' 'Which means that neither history nor cinema triumphs.'
'It's not combat, but deliverance that dictates the action in Dunkirk,' notes Sukanya Verma.
Aseem Chhabra's recommendations for the Mumbai film festival.
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