Joginder Tuteja looks at the releases which did a minimum lifetime business of Rs 20 crore. Unfortunately, the list is not very long.
'This is a blip in the 100-year history of cinema.'
'Just the fact that the biggest language at the box office was Telugu and not Hindi is startling.'
'Audiences today are too smart to make that effort to go to a theatre to see a film just to see somebody's son.'
It means more tickets sold and therefore more revenues and hastens the recovery of the devastated-by-the-pandemic film business.
'The opening up of theatres is well-timed to coincide with the festival season and give a big push. We expect box office collections to reach 2019 levels when they stood at Rs 10,000 crore.' Surajeet Das Gupta reports.
Quite a few light-hearted comedies are up for release, and Joginder Tuteja takes us through them.
'If you have only one hit out of 100 movies in a year, it is death for Bollywood.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at the movie releases in 2022.
'While OTTs are a reality, big film producers will prefer a theatrical release before a digital one.'
Bollywood is ready with its line-up of theatre releases, but it remains to be seen whether we will get to watch these movies in theatres this year.
'Who decides what is jingoistic?' 'What is patriotic?' 'Who decides Lagaan is patriotic and Gadar is jingoistic?'
Sukanya Verma lists 10 occasions when Hindi film heroes engaged in crazy aircraft stunts.
Plans for a Laxmii sequel have been scrapped.
'I always believed films don't have any language.'
With so many films shifted to the new year, it's going to be a busy year for Bollywood's actors.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the big November hits in the past decade.
There have been several instances of cop films doing quite well at the box office.
Plans are on at Yash Raj Films to revive the franchise and also wake up the 'dead' character that Tiger played in the film.
Subhash K Jha celebrates Ajay Devgn as the movie star turns 53.
Joginder Tuteja looks back at how Hindi movies have done during this festive season in the last decade.
'Multiplexes will thrive by Q4 if 100% capacity is restored and a third Covid wave doesn't happen.'
Top directors are getting ready to put together some of their most ambitious films.
Tiger. Akshay. Ajay. Hrithik. Ajay again. Akshay again. Kartik...
Bollywood is taking precautions against the coronavirus as well.
'This is the best time to do a pan-Indian film.'
The film didn't offer the unfettered entertainment which everyone sought -- it was out-and-out a docu-drama, not a masala movie, notes Sandeep Goyal.
The cinema industry is staring at a loss of at least Rs 5,000 crore at the box office over the next six months if Omicron proves to be a spoiler.
Joginder Tuteja lists the biggest box office successes with stars in uniform.
Deepika Padukone is gorgeous, and the world knows it. So she finds herself on the list of the Sexiest Asian Female of 2019 as well as the Decade!
'Diwali will be meaningful only when we eradicate the darkness in our hearts.'
The release slate for the OTT platform just got bigger.
'I have never played a character like that before -- very non-glamourous and hard-hitting.'
Amazon Prime has reportedly bought the film's exclusive premiere rights at a whopping Rs 30 crore.
'I'm usually pretty chilled and cool, but there are random moments when the brain doesn't compute and I don't stop to think.'
'She gives me constructive criticism and makes my work even better.'
Audience turnout is crucial to most exhibitors, since their discussions with film producers hinge on how many people will return to movie halls in the weeks ahead.
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