Sreehari Nair could not put up with turgid and self-serious ones like Super Deluxe and Gully Boy. His list of favourite Indian movies of 2019 contains just five names.
'There are times I have been rejected at the first stage of the film.' 'Also, accepted first and rejected later, along with when I was almost there, but the film did not happen.'
'When films resonate with the audience, it gives you the confidence to take more risks.'
'We live in times where love and relationships have a different meaning. People take it very casually. People get sexually bored easily and are always looking for something exciting. I see it happening around me. I know people, who are married or in relationships, get excited with these things.' Tara Alisha Berry on life as she sees it.
Kamal Haasan's unrivalled make up skills, Jack Nicholson's haunting imagery, Asha Parekh's life as a Hit Girl and the surprise package of Beauty and the Beast, it's all there in Sukanya Verma's super filmi week.
Kangna Ranaut, as Queen/Rani, holds your hands and together you discover the magic of honeymoon, holiday, healing and hungama, raves Sukanya Verma.
We look at 52 of them, spread over 52 Fridays, in a two-part special. Here's the first part.
'It was fun trying to regulate ourselves and keep it in the family zone and yet, be tongue-in-cheek.'
Vidya Balan *really* wants her new film Hamari Adhuri Kahani to do well.
'A lot of people in the West think that India has a very conservative culture, so we don't show much intimacy and sex in movies here. But I always say that, without sex, India won't have a population of over 1.2 billion people.'
Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade.
Aseem Chhabra lists the movies that taught him about the Idea of India.
'We are caring and sweet to each other.' 'We do have our tiffs, arguments on everything; neither of us agrees to be wrong.'
Hamari Adhuri Kahani director Mohit Suri talks about finding success.
Sreehari Nair is *not* impressed by this lot of films at all.
'The standing ovation in Cannes was a rare moment where I felt patriotic. I realised that the audience was not clapping for an individual but for the team that came from India with such a beautiful film.' Masaan's leading man Vicky Kaushal takes us through its making.
'There are enough LGBTQ people in the industry, so I don't feel like a misfit.'
Manoj Bajpayee confides in Rediff.com's Ronjita Kulkarni about his 'long journey filled with rejection, betrayal, misery, failures and disillusionment.'
Aseem Chhabra's recommendations for the Mumbai film festival.
How many of the 354 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2017 have you seen?
'To be complimented for a fantastic performance after just viewing the trailer! This never happened to me before.' 'If you have given a party a mandate for five years, stop blaming it for everything under the sun.' 'My kind of films do not make stars. Now we, the actors, after years of struggle, have created a parallel industry where we have made a name for ourselves. But stars we are not nor can we be.' 'For a boy coming from a remote village of Bihar at the Indo-Nepal border where no transport was available to commute to the nearest town, even coming to Delhi and then Mumbai and finally watching himself on the silver screen was a huge thing!'
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