'We don't want to lose out on its cult value by rushing into something just for the sake of making Part 3.'
'Acting is probably the most wonderful profession anyone can have because you make every film set with 200 people, so you make 200 new friends every four months, and you learn so many things from these new lives.'
There are all sorts of genres on OTT, ready to cater to all of one's moods.
'Multiplexes will thrive by Q4 if 100% capacity is restored and a third Covid wave doesn't happen.'
There are as many as three films and a Web series premiering on October 2.
'For the paraplegic young girl, I needed a fresh face, someone who did not have the baggage of doing such movies before, someone who the audience liked.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at Shah Rukh's 10 biggest recent hits.
Intensity, blood and gore are going to be key here.
The Stardust 50th Anniversary Honours awards saw the who's who of Bollywood on the red carpet.
Before she enters the Bigg Boss house, Namrata Thakker gives us a closer look at her through her Instagram feed and finds out what is she really like!
'I am not a part of any group or politics.' 'I work with everyone.' 'I have worked with Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn.' 'None of the Khans have ever taken me in their films.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at some of the fresh faces who may have to wait another year to make their debut.
'As long as violence has the right arc, it is very meaningful.'
Sukanya Verma gives us her OTT recommendations for the week.
The stars Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar sighted over the weekend.
'Not because she was in the news for Sushant Singh Rajput, but because she has a good role and has acted well.'
Salute explores narratives of police brutality and unethical practices, power-hungry politicians who will stop at nothing and the helplessness of innocent victims of crime, observes Divya Nair.
'He has the voice, the performance, the talent and the presence.' 'He is a bankable star, so he brings all these things to the table.'
Applause Entertainment has joined hands with the OTT platform aha for an adaptation of Vinay Sitapati's book, Half Lion: How P V Narasimha Rao Transformed India.
'It's time to change this system of randomly giving stars and the right to bad critics to run down our products.' 'Two films, even if both get three stars, are very different from each other.' 'I can understand if these stars indicated a level of enjoyment or engagement, but the current rating system is flawed because there are no parameters.'
Joginder Tuteja lists the biggest box office successes with stars in uniform.
Sukanya Verma's OTT recommendations for the week.
'The fun part of playing evil is that one gets to do all the things that one would normally never do.'
'A young film-maker like me doesn't have the luxury of first choices.'
'I didn't know TV artistes have so much of struggle. I had no clue.' 'I thought an actor is an actor because that's what I've seen in the West.' 'But because of the TV tag, I had to struggle, and that was like an eye opener for me.'
Gulabo Sitabo was made with a budget of Rs 40 crore to Rs 45 crore. Amazon Prime bought the streaming rights for Rs 60 crore to Rs 65 crore, helping the producers make over Rs 20 crore.
By the time they turned 40, Prithviraj Kapoor had done about 50 films, Raj Kapoor about 46 films and Rishi Kapoor about 80 films. As Ranbir Kapoor turns 40, Deepa Gahlot explores the Kapoors cinematic landscape to find out where the young actor stands in comparison to his great grandfather, grandfather and father.
A gangster's recollections, a tennis champ's triumph and a two-timing teenager -- Sukanya Verma gives you OTT recommendations for the week.
'Shah Rukh Khan often tells me that people are not old, their thinking turns old.' 'You can stay relevant as a person if you keep your thoughts new and updated.'
'I channelise my despair and anger into telling relevant stories and through them, taking on those who have made it a business to be intolerant.'
'I probably will have to give up on taboo subjects for a while. but I can't give up on quirks.'
Monsters from hell, time loops and time travel, magical realms and bomb threats, things are pretty action-packed on OTT this week, observes Sukanya Verma.
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'Previously, when people used to meet each other, without any hesitation, they used to hug each other or shake hands.' 'But no longer.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at the Bollywood debutantes on streaming platforms.
There are serious entrepreneurs with some innovative ideas, like the young women from Bangalore who run a business selling packaged flowers for poojas, or the enthusiastic duo who want to popularise Darjeeling tea, the couple who hope to revive traditional sari weaves, or the earnest young man who has created a smart watch for children that allows parents to track their kids and communicate with them, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'In my life, whatever I've planned has not really panned out within that time frame.'