She was selected by Abrams for the role as she looked very much like her mom.
'2016 may have been unkind, more than other years, but we are here and we owe it to the ones who are gone -- to live and love fully this wonderful gift of life,' says filmmaker Suparn Verma.
The actor's all-gold bridal lehenga on the cover of Brides Today is winning the Internet.
The actress, best known for playing Princess Leia Organa in the massively popular space saga, died four days after suffering a cardiac event on a flight from London.
Carrie Fisher, who made Star Wars character Princess Leia so popular, passed into the ages on December 28
Prabhas may be the face of Kalki 2898 AD's heroics but the real bang for your buck is delivered in Amitabh Bachchan's indefatigable energy providing Kalki's biggest wolf-whistle moments, applauds Sukanya Verma.
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You don't have to be a Star Wars nerd to enjoy its poignant pursuit of virtue, feels Sukanya Verma.
White is pure. White is powerful. And our movies just love to channelise its immaculate energy and enhance a visual's impact.
#RIP #Brexit #Trump #Aleppo made Twitter a pretty distressing place in 2016. Dhruv Munjal wonders what 2017 will bring.
Industry analysts were broadly excited at the prospect, but sceptical that it could produce a working model at a mass-market price that soon.
'Thugs is smarter than a lot of 'nationalistic' movies,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.
'Once, when I was standing around on the set one day, whining about something -- you know we were gonna work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, 'Isn't it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor? Yeah, it is, and we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honours here tonight.'