Did you know Dev Anand worked as a clerk at a salary of Rs 85 before he became an actor?
Aamir Khan turned 59 on March 14, and celebrated his birthday by cutting a cake with the media.
With Vinesh Phogat's heartbreaking disqualification over discrepancies in weight at the Paris Olympics just when India was keeping its fingers crossed for a sure shot victory at the finals, spirits have hit an all-time low. Art mirrors life and it won't be a surprise if our sports biopic obsessed film-makers turn this dramatic change of events into a movie one day.
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'Top actors like Ben Kingsley, who played Gandhiji, had already raised the bar.' 'I hoped that Rajkumar Santoshi would be satisfied with my acting.'
The Ambanis sure know how to throw a party.
'I never asked the lyricist Majrooh Sultanpurisaab nor the composer Raju (Rajesh Roshan). I just sang it the way it was given to me. How was I or anyone to know that Mungda would become such an iconic song?'
'The challenge for me was to make it believable that I was a girl from that era.'
From Kishore Kumar posing as a Half Ticket running riot to Raj and Simran's super filmi reunion in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, train journeys in Hindi movies have formed the backdrop for both romance and comedy. But it's the action scenes where the railgaadi's daredevil attributes lie.
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao played host at a screening of Laapataa Ladies.
When Aamir Khan parties, he makes sure the entire film industry parties with him!
A movie like Bad Boy being made in 2023 would have been just as unwatchable no matter who made it. That Rajkumar Santoshi has, is almost heart-breaking, sighs Deepa Gahlot.
Every now and then Bollywood finds itself in need of divine intervention.
Sonu Nigam turned 50 on July 30, and hosted a grand birthday bash in Mumbai on Saturday night.
'Was Salman Khan the only reason for the success of a film?'
'My mother (Yogita Bali) tells me you were camera ready as soon as you came out of my womb.'
Bollywood stars arrived in large numbers to congratulate the Deols, as Sunny Deol's eldest son Karan wed Drisha Acharya, Bimal Roy's great granddaughter and Basu Bhattacharya's granddaughter on June 18.
From melodrama to mockery (remember Amar and Prem's phony separated-at-Kumbh Mela reunion in a gag of Andaz Apna Apna?), there are numerous instances of its presence.
Just like Sunny Deol can become the boss of the box office with his latest film Gadar 2, he can also throw the baap of all parties!
Bollywood's starry hopefuls were present at Aaliyah Kashyap's engagement party.
'The primary set took over three months to build with 14,000-15,000 workers employed at a time.'
'We ensured that Mallikajaan's Shahi Mahal lived up to its name.' 'One zardosi panel cost around Rs 4 lakh; the one with the kalpavriksh was around Rs 5 lakh.'
While Bollywood could not attend Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra's destination wedding in Rajasthan, they did line-up for another union in aamchi Mumbai.
The first half of 2023 has been good to Bollywood, as we saw big blockbusters like Pathaan and The Kerala Story. But there have been flops as well.
Death of a princess, deadly Godzilla and detectives galore on OTT this week.
If there was a penny for every single time Bollywood's shiest movie star and angriest action hero pointed fingers at his adversary and warned him of violent consequences...
The film saw a good release, with premium screens like IMAX and 4DX reserved for it as well, and that gave it a platform to fetch quite a few eyeballs on expensive ticket rates.
'What more can I ask for?' 'Salman and Ranbir Kapoor know how to respect their seniors.'
Nita and Mukesh Ambani's youngest son Anant got engaged to Radhika Merchant on January 19, and the occasion called for a celebration on a grand scale.
On her 50th birthday on November 1, Sukanya Verma raises a toast to Bollywood's Golden Girl and 15 of her noteworthy performances.
Joginder Tuteja lists the movies and Web series coming up.
'Holding on to superstardom is far more difficult than the struggle to get there.'
The story of Sahara India Pariwar founder Subrata Roy, who died in Mumbai on November 14 aged 75, is the stuff of movies - of a spectacular rise and an equally spectacular fall. Born in Araria, Bihar, Roy was 30 when he set up Sahara in 1978. He started with a capital of about Rs 2,000, a peon, a clerk and his father's Lambretta scooter in Gorakhpur, eastern Uttar Pradesh, writes Tamal Bandyopadhyay in his 2014 book, Sahara: The Untold Story. Sahara was not his first venture.
'While narrating a scene to Amitji, Akshay and Tusshar, they learnt that Aishwarya was not the heroine opposite Akshay as they had presumed.' 'She had a negative role.' 'They were shocked, more so when they learnt that she didn't know this.' '"Shooting will stop midway, she won't do the film", I was warned.'
'It's not necessary that only superstars can give you blockbusters.'
There's so much entertainment coming up in the first three months of 2023!
Joginder Tuteja looks at filmmakers who have been away from the marquee for a long time, and are returning with a brand new film.
Four-year-old Santoshi has been missing since July 26, 2015. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets a family, desperately searching for their daughter.
Sunita and Anil Kapoor hosted a reception for their daughter Rhea Kapoor and son-in-law Karan Boolani at their home on August 16, two days after the wedding.
