'I did get a couple of offers (in Hindi cinema) but the roles required a doll-like heroine, a glamorous role. I was getting challenging roles in the South and so I stayed here.'
We pay homage to Bhanu Athaiya by celebrating her best creations.
In a year when telling a story as cinematically as possible has found a conspicuous voice in OTT, Sukanya Verma's pick of 10 favourite female performances cannot be limited to film alone.
Blind is a film you are better off not watching, warns Mayur Sanap.
Pankaj Kapoor is one of India's finest actors. Subhash K Jha picks 5 memorable performances.
Freaky moms are unacceptable to Indian audiences. Subhash K Jha lists 5 unsuccessful mom films to prove it.
'I am working harder than I worked in the last 29 years because now I experience extreme happiness when people love my film.'
With an endless number of star kid debuts in the offing, we thought of looking at how this decade's brigade compares to their mums, dads, uncles or siblings.
'We have to do everything in our power to get as many Academy members to watch the film as possible.' 'After that, I am confident, my film will speak for itself.'
'Life is too short to be doing something that you do not love.'
In a special series, we will put YOU to the test everyday!
The New Year brings with it a new slate of movie announcements. The stars update us:
On his 60th birthday, we recall the 10 times Hindi cinema's beloved Bhidu was the epitome of cool.
'If OTT platforms had not come in, we would not get this second lease of life.'
'The moments of laughter you've gifted us will always remain.'
Did you know that the original choice for the title role in Piku was not Deepika Padukone? It was Parineeti Chopra.
There's a whole bunch of films and Web series coming up for release in April.
'I am not a future guy.' 'I just owe it to my audience here.' 'I never want them to wonder why this guy did this role.' 'Even for my bad films, I want them to think that he was trying at least.'
'The amount of warmth I received from Aamir Sir during the shooting of Laal Singh Chaddha is very difficult to describe in words.'
Sooryavanshi and Annaatthe have already collected 6 percent of the film industry's 2020 revenue.
Arjun Menon lists some of the popular songs from the South Indian movies in 2023.
Hindi cinema has not just explored various instances of brute force, but often glorified its misogyny.
'Today, 25 years later, Raja Hindustani is as much a Dharmesh Darshan film as it is Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor's 'different' love story.'
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.
'Yeh Saali Aashiqui held my attention purely for audacity,' says Sukanya Verma.
Gitanjali Gurbaxani remembers her teacher Lalita Lajmi, the artist and painter who passed into the ages on Monday.
'Eddie Murphy was approached for Sanjay Dutt's role, Omar Sharif for Jackie's Shroff's. The title of Khalnayak was Be Negative then. I had started working on the screenplay with Hollywood writers. And then after three-four months...
200: Halla Ho's filmi treatment of events diminishes the impact of a fiery reality, says Sukanya Verma.
At the Leo fete, Vijay had this also to tell his fans: 'I know you all are in my heart. But today, I also know that I am also in the hearts of all of you...' A typical politician's line, did you say, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
As the second season of The Night Manager hits the OTT screen, Deepa Gahlot looks back at the top spy thrillers on streaming platforms.
Masaan recently screened at the ongoing French film festival and was given a rare five-minute standing ovation.
'When I came to Bombay to be an actor, producers and directors looked at me as though I was from another planet.'
I cannot think of another Hindi movie that has, without so much as a hint of cynicism or speechifying, brought out that fundamental fact of Muslims being an integral part of the Indian culture while being at the same time a subculture with its own polite niceties, observes Sreehari Nair.
From world cinema to old-fashioned whodunits, it's all there on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma makes her recommendations.
Take part in our daily Bollywood quiz, and see how well you know Hindi cinema!
'Of all artists who openly support the current political dispensation, she is far and away the finest,' argues Sreehari Nair. 'With the exception of perhaps Tabu, no Indian actress has done more to extend the range of the feminine mystique in Hindi cinema.'
'It was one of the greatest learnings in my life to see someone like the great Amitabh Bachchan go through such a tough phase.' 'He had been there, done it all and really didn't need to prove himself.' 'Yet, he channelised it all and came out with one of his best performances,' Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra tells Savera R Someshwar/Rediff.com in a fascinating conversation about the films he has made and the actors he has worked with.
'Rajkumar Hirani could have gone for the jugular but has chosen instead to play to the gallery,' says J Jagannath.
The former president of Marvel Comics invented Chakra: The Invincible in 2011 which was his first Indian comic book creation.
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