Bhar Do Jholi Meri is Salman's favourite song. Here's looking at other smashing qawwalis through time.
'The laughter stopped when Shammi was about 80.' 'The last eight-nine years of Shammi Aunty's life were miserable.'
When the filmmaker took Rediff.com on a tour of his lavish New York estate.
These pictures will surely make you feel nostalgic.
And you thought Bollywood was just about making movies!
'The way the winners react and the speeches they deliver.' 'That is where the fun happens, when the actors and other winners let down their guard, challenge the system, talk about issues that should matter to us,' says Aseem Chhabra.
We pay homage to Bhanu Athaiya by celebrating her best creations.
'No one really knows whether it is somehow better to go raging and fighting into the dark night, or close one's eyes quietly and give in to fate.' 'But a funeral with music, tinsel and acceptance -- not unlike most New Year festivities -- seems like a better send-off than any other,' says Geetanjali Krishna.
Bollywood pays their last respects to the Legend.
From Pakeezah to Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, from Shatranj ki Khilari to Umrao Jaan, the great city of Lucknow has made its way to the wornderful world of Hindi films.
'He wrote a letter to his parents every night, and read the Gita every morning before going about his work.'
'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.'
'I sometimes fight with God and tell him, "Bahut ho gaya yaar, I should go now, call me".'
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit hosted a wedding reception for his daughter Shaarika and son-in-law Tapas in Mumbai over the weekend.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Twitter on Friday said it 'stands prepared' to work with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT on safeguarding citizens' rights online, even as the panel categorically told the microblogging platform that rule of the land is supreme and not the company's policies.
It's movie night in Bollywood!
Rajkummar Rao is solid in what we've come to recognise as strictly Ayushmann Khurrana territory, observes Sukanya Verma.
Here's looking at Bollywood's coolest turbanators!
Celebrating the glamorous Rekha.
On Amitabh Bachchan's 75th birthday, we bring you the unseen pictures of the legendary actor from his life.
Malaika Arora is the newest fan of acroyoga, which combines the best of yoga and acrobatics.
Deven Verma passed away into the ages on December 2. We re-publish an interview done with the veteran actor.
'It's a tough job to be an actor today,' Akshay Kumar tells Sonil Dedhia/ Rediff.com
A look at Bollywood's batch of handsome dads in their late 40s and 50s.
'Someone will say he was a good guy, others may say it's good that he is no more.'
The suave actor of the world, sometimes called the last of the Mohicans and familiar to students of cinema anywhere in the globe, acted in 14 Ray films and over 300 others, gracefully transitioning into commercial cinema in a variety of roles.
In a career spanning six decades, Chatterjee has acted in more than 300 films.
'Sushant Singh Rajput, a bright young lad who had a life beyond films, was probably too good for Bollywood.' 'To blame his death by suicide on a gang of Bollywood bullies is stretching the point too far,' argues Saibal Chatterjee.
Saeed Jaffrey lives on through his versatile body of work.
Soumitra Chatterjee -- one of the finest Indian actors of our time -- meant so much to Aseem Chhabra.
'Fashion brands that have leading stars as brand ambassadors spend a fortune on showcasing them.'
'One afternoon, I spotted Karan Johar and film critic Rajeev Masand having tea with Nina Gupta, the head of NFDC, and barged into their meeting.' Aseem Chhabra's IFFI diaries...
What did Sukanya Verma's Super filmi week look like? Read on...
Favourite movie homes, comparing Amitabh-Shashi's beds in Kabhi Kabhie and discovering the truth about Salman Khan's 1990s chartbuster... All in Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
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