The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
Joginder Tuteja looks at promising comedies getting ready to tickle your funny bone.
Deepa Gahlot lists 10 popular family shows and films streaming on various platforms.
Anushka Sharma turned 27 on May 1!
'For a very long time I could not bring myself to watch several of their films because I couldn't see them depressed, in trouble or dead on screen.' 'It was hard to separate my parents from their characters, so I stayed away.' 'It was only after I became an actor that it became a job requirement.'
Here, ladies and gentlemen, is Raja Sen's class of 2016.
Sukanya Verma looks at how the 33 year old has fared in her decade-long career.
Check out the star arrivals.
'Vishal told me he envisioned me while writing (the script), but I was not well.' 'He called me and said, 'Navindraji, hum aap ka dhyaan rakhenge set par.' 'That's how I got on board, and they really pampered me.'
Sukanya Verma looks back at Bollywood royalty, and asks *you* to pick your favourite!
Raja Sen analyses the year so far.
Sukanya Verma lists Anees Bazmee's stockpile of silliness.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'I would get bored if I played the same kind of roles and looked the same throughout the years.'
Modern Love: Mumbai has a mostly good selection of stories, and unlike so many other OTT shows that seem to think profanity and sex depict modernity, this one can be watched with the family without any discomfort, observes Deepa Gahlot.
As new OTT release Bawaal tackles the lives of a terribly unhappy couple, and Satyaprem Ki Katha about a young wife with a tragic secret is a box-office success, here's pick of ten (out of a considerable number) of relatively recent films about troubled marriages.
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
'My son is six-and-a-half years old.' 'The way he has adapted to this lockdown is much better than the adults.'
Deepa Gahlot picks the top 10 Karan Johar films -- some that he directed and others that he produced or co-produced -- that you can watch on steaming platforms.
A spectacular Taapsee Pannu brings out the shift of a happy homemaker to a heartbroken woman most strikingly in her deeply affecting performance, applauds Sukanya Verma.
'My hunger for characters, stories, and work is becoming even more insatiable.' 'I'm obsessed with films, characters, and this whole world.'
Stars queue up for Farah Khan's grand birthday bash.
Vivaan Shah gets ready for the fourth film of his career, Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Ladoo Deewana.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'...and still managed to grab the attention of audiences.' 'Your work speaks more than your body.'
'The film stared at me and asked me a question. As a producer you have made financial decision but it's time that as a woman you made a decision from your heart. That's what I did,' says Lipstick Under My Burkha producer Ekta Kapoor.
Sukanya Verma looks at the wide-eyed dolly's presence in our movies.
'Mothers as characters may have the same problems as they had years ago.' 'But what's refreshing is how they are becoming more accepting towards the changes in society.'
They're so bad, they're good!
Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra's Kar Gayi Chull is the latest song to praise Bollywood's heroines.
The actor said the 'poison has already spread' and it will be now difficult to contain it.
'I wasn't initially convinced about Finding Fanny. I didn't know what the hell Homi (Adajania, director) had written.' Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah gets candid.
'I didn't know Shashi Kapoor when I first photographed him.' Mark Bennington has since come a long way, and has taken some amazing pictures of Bollywood's brightest stars.
A year has passed since Shashi Kapoor passed into the ages. His movies live on on television, but Shashiji's greatest legacy must remain Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre, where people came to be entertained, informed and, perhaps, also enlightened.
Looking at the big winners of the year.