Looking at the Hindi film heroine at her thrilling best.
What do we need to do to ensure that a woman's celebratory "cheers" do not become someone else's tears -- a few hours later.
'Both Main Aur Charles and Titli are essentially stories of two plot-devices that became protagonists. You cannot relate to Titli or Charles, without submitting to the knowledge that neither of them are well-rounded characters; they are more like artifacts -- Charles, a schlock artifact and Titli, an artifact of spirit toughened by years of live brutality.'
...But ends up being oddly moving, says Sreehari Nair.
One way to begin would be to access the material of our own culture, meaning the literature of India, recommends Aakar Patel.
Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities:
Here's looking at the films that failed at the box office in the first half of this year.
Looking at actresses who transformed themselves in the movies.
'Mistaking carnality for sensuality, X: Past Is Present rings as too literal-minded and too talky, with a technique that just about drains any real density or genuine playfulness that may exist beneath all the talk,' says Sreehari Nair.
Dinesh Raheja salutes the legend's versatility in her heyday.
On Ramesh Sippy's 70th birthday, we celebrate the man and his milestones.
Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana is insipid, terribly made, and yet a Warm Enterprise, feels Sreehari Nair.
The movies that impressed, puzzled and stunned Sukanya Verma at MAMI this year.
Balaji T Vijayan and Ute Weimer talk about LoveTreats, their sexual wellness marketplace.
A childhood favourite turned silver. A childhood icon passed away. And a childhood heartthrob from Hollywood showed up to surprise a movie screening. Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week.
Sukanya Verma recaps all the action at this year's MAMI.
They have inherited their parents' good genes.
Love them? Then vote for them!
These girls are so H-O-T you just can't take your eyes off them!
This episode doesn't reach the heights of the one with all the Kapoor siblings; Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman's blast from the past or Ranveer-Arjun's raita rendezvous but amply underscores SRK's reputation as the superstar we love to hear talk, writes Sukanya Verma.
As much as its protagonists look for perfect words to articulate their findings on love, friendship, a space in between and beyond, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil simply reiterates the nature of its unpredictability through a twist Sukanya Verma did not foresee or like.
Aseem Chhabra lists the movies that taught him about the Idea of India.
Romance died, came alive and lives on forever, off screen or on it, in Sukanya Verma's fabulously filmi week.
'Cynics don't make it big in advertising.' 'Often, the medium calls for a rock-like commitment to puny, easily digestible ideas.' 'Here's a text that understands this facet of advertising and one that keeps its tone breezy and reporter-like; that's set across a wide canvas but one that never overstates its own importance,' says Sreehari Nair.
These hotties have been the toast of the fashion world this year. Vote for your favourite.
Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week marks a star-studded start to the year
Keep up with your cool, chic fashion statement. Here are some tips!
A stale plot with flatly executed scenes of retribution and a lacklustre leading lady; Hate Story 2 is too trivial to be erotic or thrilling
Bengali film Asha Jaoar Majhe is a must watch, a once in the lifetime kind of work that should be supported by film lovers and experienced on the big screen, writes Aseem Chhabra.
'Mahesh Bhavana is a young man who is beaten up in the town's marketplace and who consequently pledges that he won't wear his slippers again, till he avenges the beating.' 'But Mahesh can't get his revenge that easily -- his punisher is off to a distant land. So what does Mahesh do? He waits. And the town waits with him. And we wait with him.' 'Maheshinte Prathikaram is one of those movies where I didn't know what hit me. I don't remember another movie -- at least in recent times -- that I surrendered to with such happiness,' says Sreehari Nair.
These women surely know how to get your heart racing in their intimate apparels!
Take a bow, Manish Malhotra!
'Omerta is a work of true moral force; it is, at the risk of sounding fancy, a motion picture for our times,' says Sreehari Nair.
'You think of Sulu as someone who is sexy, sultry and intimate. You don't imagine her as someone clad in a sari.' And yet, Vidya Balan gets ready to seduce you again.
On the 20th anniversary of her tragic death, the actress remains strikingly relevant.
'There was a kissing scene in Hello with Gul Panag, but nobody saw that film. In Style, it was only a little peck on the cheek. There was a little in Life... In A Metro too. But I haven't done an erotic film.' Sharman Joshi gets candid about his first erotic film, Hate Story 3.
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