'I wasn't getting the roles I wanted to play and the respect I thought I deserved as a senior actor, so I cut myself off from the industry for a while and moved to the US.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at the actors, who waited patiently, and will now release their films in theatres this year.
All you have to do is answer a simple question!
'... I didn't have an Instagram account!' 'I was told that the actor who's being considered in my place has a lot of followers, and that will help the producers.'
Airlift may turn out to be Akshay Kumar's best-performing film, surpassing Rowdy Rathore
The robot can hold long conversations, track the child's mood and is controlled from an app on the parents' smartphone
But why is everyone getting so het up over what, after all, is a mere film? If you don't like it, don't watch it. Why create a public spectacle over it? asks Virendra Kapoor.
'If you are mature and haven't done terrible things to each other, love doesn't have to go away.'
Thrillers, horrors and real-life inspired stories dominate the OTT scene this week.
There are 11 actors, who are among Bollywood's busiest, working on multiple films simultaneously. Just who are they?
In Mumbai to promote his Netflix original film War Machine, the Hollywood star caught up with King Khan.
Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world.
Bangistan is not the political satire it claims to be, says Nishi Tiwari.
'All the guys in this country were stuck in the 'alpha' for the longest time.' 'They were told not to cry, be the man in the house.' 'I wanted to touch upon that vulnerability and innocence that is still alive in men.'
Vicky reunites with his Raazi director Meghna Gulzar.
Sukanya Verma offers tons of horror and some happy stuff too on OTT this week.
The IPL, which was perhaps the biggest gamble of his life, turned out to be the biggest success story ever, making Lalit Modi a cult in the echelons of global sport.
With theatres shutting down, night clubs and restaurants closed and self-isolation being the latest key word, all eyes may just have turned to television.
'For an introduction to his career-spanning genius, watch just five of his movies: Anand, Saudagar, Abhiman, Black and Pink,' notes Kalyan Singhal, McCurdy Professor of Business at the University of Baltimore.
This is the most fun Sukanya Verma has had since Wonder Woman.
1997: Sukanya Verma offers a recap of its memorable imagery.
Bollywood celebrates the 20th anniversary of India's victory in the Kargil War.
Joginder Tuteja takes a look at Bollywood's patriotic films, coming up.
As we celebrate the actor's much deserved award, Divya Nair presents 10 landmark films in Suriya's career, ranked in order of performance.
Fifty years ago, India and Pakistan fought a short but bloody war. The author finds out how Sainik Samachar, the defence ministry's journal, reported it.
'I'm a very positive and optimistic human being.' 'You put a pile of garbage in front of me and I will find a flower in it.'
All you have to do is answer a simple question!
Long before she won royalty rights for playback singers, there was an undisclosed incident in Lataji's life where she not only put a male colleague in place, but also refused to sing with him thereafter.
Blood sucking locusts on the loose, a honeymoon gone awry, a disenchanted school teacher and a singing tropical rainforest mammal, Sukanya Verma lets you take your pick from the OTT spread this week.
T N Ninan lists a few David-Goliath encounters in the Indian markets, all of which make life interesting, though difficult if you are an investor looking for the next multi-bagger.
'The Marvel Cinematic Universe is 9 franchises that have been combined together.' 'It's like running a relay race, only we are handing over characters instead of batons to each other.'
On Shashi Kapoor's 83rd birth anniversary, Subhash K Jha looks at his top five productions.
Mani Ratnam is experimenting with a real-life historical in Ponniyin Selvan, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Who won at the Globes? We tell you!
'Sanjayji is so spontaneous that you come to know immediately whether the dialogue or the script has touched him or not.'
Hrithik Roshan has stated that his former wife, interior designer Sussanne Khan, has temporarily moved out of her house to stay with the actor, so that the duo can co-parent their children amid the coronavirus lockdown.
The third Salman Khan-Kabir Khan film releases this Eid.
The Western powers appear to regard Delhi as the most logical destination in the region in these extraordinary times -- as a counterpoint to the ascendance of political Islam and a rising red star over Afghanistan, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.