Pankaj Tripathi speaks to Rediff.com about his amazing journey from a village in Gopalganj in Bihar, which had no electricity, to Bollywood's blinding lights.
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'The BJP has become a reasonably larger force in Tamil Nadu in the last two years.'
'Cell phone towers with 4G technology might certainly impact the lives of birds, and humans.' 'This needs a greater amount of investigation, research and mapping in the country.'
The film's release was shifted from May 9 to May 23.
'Mr Shankar is equivalent to James Cameron given steroids!' 'Trust me, in this Rs 510 crore, Hollywood cannot make what we have produced here.'
Beginning his film career in antagonistic roles, he later emerged on his own to become a hero. Ambareesh also had a successful career in politics having been an MLA, a Lok Sabha member and a former minister at the state and central levels.
K Narasimman has sent us this photograph of the star.
The Superstar turns 64 today, and his fans get a double birthday treat with Lingaa, says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Here's taking a look at pictures from the screening.
Superstar Rajinikanth plays mythological king in this week's release Kochadiiyaan.
With India all geared up to fight the coronavirus pandemic, film folk have come forward to help out and contribute to the PM-CARES relief fund.
Along with making headlines about his upcoming biopic, India's limited-overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is winning millions of hearts on social media with a cutesy picture of him and his adorable daughter, Ziva.
India opener Murali Vijay said he is using the time away from the game to work on fitness with his next assignment being the Test series in Sri Lanka next month.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives the box office verdict for the week.
Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.
"I have suddenly become the talk of the town," Alok Nath laughs.
While Pa Ranjith proved yet again to be the salt of the earth in his land mafia film, Zoya Akhtar took a haphazard route to make something that was hardly rooted in Asia's biggest slum, feels J Jagannath.
Lingaa can get tiresome, especially with the too-long fight scenes, but remains constantly watchable because of the miraculously light way in which Rajinikanth continues to wear his megastardom around him, says Raja Sen.
After Aadukalam and Asuran, this is another film Dhanush is going to be proud of, says Divya Nair.
Looking at Bollywood's much delayed movies, and how they have fared.
Like their Bollywood counterparts, southern stars own some really cool wheels.
Modi, Shah and Nadda have created a strategy to boost the BJP and the government's image.
The starlet had a whale of a time with her former housemates at a party.
Film critic Sukanya Verma will test your knowledge on Dilipsaab and the Superstar in a quiz from 3pm to 4pm on December 12, only on ZaraBol.
Superstar Rajinikanth needs a box-office hit after two successive flops in Kochchadaiyaan and Lingaa, both 2014. Yet, Kabali is being projected as if the fans need the film, and the Tamil film industry needs it even more, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
A lowdown on all the goings-on in the Tamil film industry.
The film was postponed from May 9 to 23.
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The body was kept at the leader's Gopalapuram residence till 1 am.
Overall, the Thalaivi trailer is a convincing experience, says veteran Tamil Nadu politics watcher N Sathiya Moorthy.
Thugs of Hindostan adds to Aamir Khan's list of disappointments.
Rajinikanth is yet to identify a filmi platform to be able to launch his political career from the celluloid platform as only MGR had done, successfully and in the pre-IT era, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
By getting the Tamil Nadu assembly to act on his very imaginative public declaration to keep petro-chemical industries out of the Cauvery delta, which has traditionally been a DMK stronghold, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has not only set the ball rolling for the assembly elections due a year later but also sent out a strong message to the BJP government at the Centre, which took a unilateral decision to exempt petro-complexes from environmental clearance, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The elections were recently postponed.
Kabali will hit nearly 5,000 screens worldwide on July 1.
Deepika Padukone, who has clearly moved on, talks about her new film, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.
