Don't look for a volunteering job for money, but as an investment for life, advises management consultant Virender Kapoor.
'I don't like the fact that everyday Taimur's moves are monitored. I don't know how to stop it.'
The gorgeous Karan Kapoor will be back in India soon. Very soon!
'I guess if I was chosen to be his wife, I must be special.'
'Even after Awaara Hoon and Mera Joota Hai Japani, between 1946 to 1963, there were plenty of upheavals in his career. My parents had moved into two rooms of a chawl, with an attached bathroom, by then, but life was hard, and often there was no food at home.'
Some of Bollywood's top directors started very young.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
Test your filmi gyaan here!
For the first time in nearly two years, tourism has been on the rise in Kashmir. But what does that mean for the average Kashmiri, ponders Abhishek Mande Bhot after a recent visit to the Valley.
Hrithik Roshan was just 32 when he played a grandfather in Krrish!
Babita's success ratio is higher than that of any other leading lady in the 1960s, says Subhash K Jha.
Vikram Kothari finds himself stands accused of a bank loan default to the tune of thousands of crores.
Rishi Kapoor passed into the ages on April 30.
R K Studios is not just another piece of real estate; it is part of India's movie history.
'I knew things were not going well, but there was always that hope.'
Sukanya Verma presents a DDLJ special quiz to test your knowledge about one of Hindi cinema's most successful films of all time.
The most thrilling, romantic, terrifying, musical and comical tring tring moments!
If there is a morality tale here, it is that debt and death spare no king.
Harshvardhan Kapoor's vigilante film, Bhavesh Joshi, made Sukanya Verma look back at Bollywood's original vigilante and Harshvardhan's father, Anil Kapoor, in and as Mr India, which released on May 25, 1987.
On May 7 this year, they celebrated their 100-year milestone. Mukhtar Ahmad reports
On Ramesh Sippy's 70th birthday, we celebrate the man and his milestones.
Saturday will be the last time the Mumbai Mirror will hit newsstands as a daily. Two Saturdays ago, its owners, the Times of India group, shocked the city by deciding to convert the Mirror into a weekly newspaper. Jyoti Punwani salutes the Mirror and its editor, Meenal Baghel, for its pathbreaking journalism.
'Nobody is sustaining and the movie goers are responsible for it.' When Rishi Kapoor lets loose, all you can do is listen.
'It's all that pain that makes you the artist you are.'
'Someone will say he was a good guy, others may say it's good that he is no more.'
This piece is a tribute to that corner of film criticism that they call subtextual film criticism.
'People say my father was scared of Kishore Kumar. That is untrue. There are so many songs that my father told the composers to let some other singer sing because they too are good.'
The gifted actress passed into the ages on January 21, 1965.
We look back at the life and times of iconic actor Pran.
'We knew exactly the impact it would have.' 'You see, the line doesn't make its impact in isolation.' 'Its resounding impact depends on Amitabh's lengthy diatribe that precedes Shashi's line.'
The film redefines the level of stupid comedy in films.
'Her elevation in public life signified the end of parochial extremism and hate on a casteist basis.'
'As the burkha-clad beauty Husna in Mere Mehboob, she inspired Shakeel Badayuni to compose Mere Mehboob Tujhe Meri Mohabbat Ki Kasam/Phir Mujhe Un Nargisi Aankhon Ka Sahara De De. Hasrat Jaipuri showered epithets like Nargis-e-Mastaana and Phoolon Ki Rani, Baharon Ki Malika on her in Arzoo.'
As much as we enjoy and write reams and reams about our amazement at the Kantara climax, 30 years on from now, will we remember these portions more fondly or the ones where Shiva is simply hanging out with his friends, mulls Rohit Sathish Nair.
Read about Rishi Kapoor's page-turning debut, SRK's super-charged turn in Raees, Sridevi as potential Dhoom vamp, Sanjay Dutt's contribution to Andaz Apna Apna and more in Sukanya Verma's super-film week.
