'The affection and love and blessings of the audience is all that matters.' 'That is most important for me, nothing else.'
'Within just a day, they had binge-watched the entire season 2 and now they are asking for season 3!'
'The idea is to sideline you, box you up in a smaller box, so you don't go out of that.' 'The bigger boxes are for their own people.'
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
Sukanya Verma shows us how to do easy, breezy summer dressing like Bollywood's bold and beautiful.
Director Neeraj Ghaywan explains why his cinema challenges the traditional notion of good and evil.
Sukanya Verma lists her five BEST and WORST Bollywood movies of 2019.
As we eagerly wait to see what 'farq' it makes when it hits the screens on June 28, Sukanya Verma looks at the few occasions caste came up in Hindi movies.
The hits and misses of the week.
Sukanya Verma looks at 2019's winners and washouts so far.
'I once thought Shah Rukh Khan to be the most knowledgeable actor in our industry,' Paresh Rawal once told me. 'But Sushant was just as well-informed on any topic under the sun.' Subhash K Jha recalls his many conversations with the actor.
The hits and misses of the week.
The 26th edition of Lions Gold Awards was held on January 25.
A comparison with the first quarter of 2019 indicates that even without the coronavirus situation, the box office moolah would have lagged in comparison.
Isn't It Romantic is about a New York woman hit on the head during a mugging. The impact leaves her feeling that she is in a rom-com.
Sukanya Verma lists 10 of her favourite songs of the year, in no particular order.
'We wanted to explore the divisions in India -- be it class, caste, language, religion or gender.'
On planes, on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, Zee5, Hulu, MUBI, Kanopy, film festivals... Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 309 films in 365 days.
With Deepika Padukone and Anushka Sharma not having a release in 2019 and Priyanka Chopra featuring in a solitary non-mainstream film, the ground was wide open for many actresses to make their mark.
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
'In the new Bollywood, where success can translate, like a chain reaction, into gains in related fields, mere appearance on the screen is no longer a guarantor of fame,' says Vikram Johri.
There are 12 actresses, who are among Bollywood's busiest, working on multiple films simultaneously. Just who are they?
'The idea is to celebrate your imperfections because God has made us all the same, right?'
Sukanya Verma looks back at the decade gone by, in the movies.
'Just as success is not real, I believe failures are also not real.' 'It's just like opinions of people who don't really know you.'
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