'There is a lot of money coming into the business, people are consuming a lot of content, there is no dearth of new films and shows coming out of India and being available worldwide.'
'If you are able to speak a few lines in English, you consider yourself classy.' 'If I speak in Hindi, I am worthless in your eyes.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at some of the fresh faces who may have to wait another year to make their debut.
From convincing film-makers to do shows for online, to having a slate with some of the best films and shows, Amazon Prime Video has come a long way since it came to India four years ago.
People are easily convinced to take lives as though it's a game of passing-the-parcel... Crime is not merely romanticised and rationalised, but also rewarded, points out Sukanya Verma. Breathe: Into the Shadows 2 Review
The Centre has told all states and union territories that the power to administer the new rules on digital media publications has not been delegated to them, a day after the Union government overturned a Manipur district magistrate's order issued under the recently implemented guidelines.
There are as many as nine Hindi movies arriving in theatres in July.
'Everyone struggles with it (body image issues) as a human condition.' 'There are days when it really gets to you, but we move on.'
'I don't think 'oh, I have done 534 films' or 'I have 40 years of experience behind me.'
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'This is a blip in the 100-year history of cinema.'
'We were not trying to outshine each other, we were just trying to be sincere and honest to what was given.' 'We spent quality time with each other, so there was no room for any negativity or insecurity.'
Justice in medieval times, whodunit in the woods, mafia boss in the making, Sukanya Verma takes a look at the sheer variety on OTT this week.
'I regret not showing my grandparents the man I am today.' 'I was battling with drug and alcohol addiction when they were alive.' 'They were struggling to see me deteriorating my life and destroying it.'
'My mother (Yogita Bali) tells me you were camera ready as soon as you came out of my womb.'
Abhishek nurses an injury... Vijay celebrates...
Joginder Tuteja looks at the new shows on our plate.
Rakul is in throwback mood... Rahman celebrates birthday with music... Arjun does weights...
'Huma is one of those actors who makes acting seem effortless.' 'But that happens because she has put in a certain amount of preparation.' 'She has a certain confidence that allows her to let go.'
Blind categorisation of OTTs with TSPs is damaging as the two are fundamentally different. It is naive to claim 'same service, same rules' when the services are so utterly different, says T V Ramachandran.
'We have to scale down our theatre's seating capacity by tweaking the arrangement of seats.' 'We have to stop screening back-to-back shows to ensure that people do not bump into one another.'
Blind categorisation of OTTs with TSPs is damaging as the two are fundamentally different. It is naive to claim 'same service, same rules' when the services are so utterly different, says T V Ramachandran.
'We don't want to lose out on its cult value by rushing into something just for the sake of making Part 3.'
'The audience should be asking for an answer.'
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'I want to explore more than just be a pretty face.'
Cinema screens bring in over 60% of the Rs 19,100 crore that Indian films earned in 2019. The reception a film gets in theatres impacts the price of every other revenue stream -- TV, OTT, overseas. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar explains why the theatre business is not doomed and why OTT won't become the first window of release.
'I asked him once, 'You are such a big superstar, why are you always on time? I don't see the other stars being on time.' 'He said, 'If you learn how to respect time, time will respect you. Time will never wait for you and you will regret it'.'
Intelligent tools are being deployed to detect content pirated from OTT platforms.
'I love to make people laugh, and a lot of times people just laugh at the way that I am, more than the jokes I crack.'
'Once you become a mother you can win the big wars at work and you can win the big wars in your life. 'But, sometimes, you lose the small battles at home and lose the small battles with your children.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at the 10 releases that will keep the entertainment going till the end of 2020.
'He is the guy you wouldn't want to invite to your parties, and he constantly embarrasses his wife.'
'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.'
'We didn't realise what a tsunami The Kashmir Files was going to be.'
In a new series, Bollywood's towering talents, who themselves made brilliant works this year, pick their favourite show of 2021, and tell us just why they loved it.
Cuttputlli's absolutely absurd climax will have you rolling on the floor in unintended laughter, notes Sukanya Verma.
Zee5 is now the fifth largest streaming app after YouTube, Hotstar, MX Player and Voot, and there is talk of hiving off Zee5 to drive valuation, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
With any luck, Bollywood will get back on its feet again and give us much to awe and amaze about.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the releases which did a minimum lifetime business of Rs 20 crore. Unfortunately, the list is not very long.
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