The ongoing International Film Festival of India hosted a screening of Yami Gautam's latest film Lost.
Indian shoppers accounted for 13 per cent of the total hours spent by mobile users across the globe on their shopping apps in 2023, next only to China in this regard. According to the "State of Mobile -2024" report released a few days ago by data.ai (previously known as App Annie), which looks into various segments of the app economy across the world, in the last calendar year, users in India collectively spent 12.84 billion hours on shopping apps. This represents an increase of over 73 per cent from the time they spent in 2020 and of more than 3.5 per cent over 2022.
As 2022 draws to a close, a lot of movies and Web series are readying for release.
If reliable sources are to be believed, S S Rajamouli's big-screen spectacle RRR may go to OTT after all, but with conditions.
The film, which tracks how the couple resolve their differences, goes into graphic recall of the Holocaust in several scenes.
How did Bollywood spend the weekend? Lets find out.
'If you are a strong-minded, opinionated woman, scars are inevitable.'
'In India, I'm able to work with the biggest stars on creating a scene, creating that emotion, without being too hung up on their persona.'
'I was supposed to fly out for a film, and just a few days before, they figured out that I was on TV for seven-eight years.' 'So they said it was not going to work out.' 'That was heartbreaking.'
In the industry for over 25 years, it's good to see how Rani Mukerji is continuing to spearhead films as the lead and still bringing in audiences.
'Almost every shoot, you have to re-mould yourself and your personality.'
With so many films shifted to the new year, it's going to be a busy year for Bollywood's actors.
'Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam films are rooted in their culture.' 'Hindi films are not rooted.' 'English-speaking people are making Hindi films.'
'I will never look down upon television. But do I want to do it again? I don't think so.'
The actor herself is living it up in the Northern Lights Village Resort, Saariselka, Finland.
'This is an event where Indian forces are trying to liberate other countries from a genocide and liberate from a power to give them their freedom.'
Buoyed by Sooryavanshi's success, the Hindi film industry is banking on 25-30 big movies lined up with a collective cost tag of Rs 2,000 crore.
Amazon Prime Video has announced 69 assorted Web series and movies, and the slate sure looks interesting.
'In Raktobeej, I had a lot of physical action to do, so that was a new challenge.' 'We didn't want the action scenes to be over-the-top.' 'We wanted to make the action raw and real.'
Whatever the fate of his movie may be at the box office, Akshay Kumar sure knows how to entertain his audiences.
'This man could hypnotise you with his voice, his words have so much depth.'
Joginder Tuteja gives us the half yearly box office report of 2023.
'Karan Johar has made the Telugu star a promise that his Bollywood debut would be spectacular.'
'Whenever I am on that set, I feel excited.' 'But I have to turn that switch off because if I keep feeling like a fan girl, I am not going to do my job properly.' 'It is very tough for someone whose introduction to Hindi movies happened through someone like him.'
'People had a perception that I may be angry as a person.' 'Or I'm older than I really am.' 'Or I can't speak in English because of the characters I've done at the beginning of my career.'
'On the set, Ranveer and I got along really well. Ten days after the release, Ranveer messaged me and said, you have killed the scene! For someone like him to message me just says how supportive person he is of newcomers.'
Aarya Aakhri Vaar should have been slicker and more polished than the first, or at least ended with a louder bang, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'It doesn't matter if you are from abroad or Indian, we are told that there's a prime time for a female actor.' 'It's time that people understand there is no certain age for women to thrive in.'
'I was very keen to make another film and I was dying to say action and cut and get back into creating characters and creating worlds.' 'But I just didn't have a script I was happy with.' 'I was working every day on the writing and I was struggling with that.'
The stars Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar sighted over the weekend.
'When you are new, you don't know how the industry works'. 'But when you know where you are headed, the possibilities of being conned or facing unpleasant instances is reduced.'
'Family is the most important thing in a society.' 'That's why I am always thinking about family and society. I want it to be better.'
'...you start running after the star.' 'If the star says yes to the film, the ecosystem supports it.' 'The biggest cog in the wheel of the ecosystem is the audience and we forget that.'
'Our viewers have grown up over the years.' 'Today, they want to see something which is sensible, a story rooted in logic rather than jingoism.'
Many big Bollywood's big movies have been pushed forward to 2021, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. Among them are quite a few bio-pics.
There's so much entertainment coming up in the first three months of 2023!
'There can be no bigger compliment than people walking away, carrying the film in their hearts, and thanking you for it.'
'I will never do anything for titillating the audience.'
'That will happen and we shall overcome sooner than we expect.'
