'It reminded me of the Ramayana, a story that runs in every Indian's blood.'
A copious amount of blood, beating, crying, saving, sacrificing, nationalism fills up its staggering three hours running time. Emotions run sky high, but you feel nothing, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma celebrates chandeliers on celluloid and their most memorable moments in Hindi films.
The year is ending, but the OTT shows no signs of slowing down. Sukanya Verma brings you everything you can catch this week.
... you won't feel anything either.
Amit Mistry was a wicked actor, someone who could chance a broken arm, who could take deep dives, who could ram his head into walls, all without bothering about the outcome. And, as with that closing bit, the knowledge of where he might have arrived at eludes us now, observes Sreehari Nair.
'... and committed.' 'Priyanka had so much happening in her personal life...' 'Once we started, Priyanka rose to it.'
'He was capable, concise, calm, sublime, and profound, and perhaps that's also why Irrfan's passing felt 'personal' to many.'
If you'd like to know more about Rajini the actor, Saisuresh Sivaswamy offers a wide selection.
'As a director, I am happy to take the blame because that's mine but I get blamed for everything.' Anurag Kashyap gets candid.
What you need to know about M S Sathyu's classic Garm Hawa.
'Aditya Chopra thought the climax was too cliche but he still wanted to end the film on that note. He was adamant about it.' Cinematographer Manmohan Singh takes us behind the scenes of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge.
On his 90th birth anniversary, Sukanya Verma lists 20 of her favourite scenes that reiterate his extraordinary grasp on the language of cinema and connect with the viewer.
'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...
'I was attracted to Javed because he was exactly like my father.'
'I have been hearing this for the last four generations, that this is the last generation of superstars.' 'We will not leave it for the younger generation to take it easily.' 'We will not hand it over to them.'
A special word for Ayushmann: Hey Mogambo, your acting rocks!
'Kissing is not written in the script. They just find their way on the sets!' Emraan Hashmi tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com.
'How can the romance of Indian Cinema ever leave us? Never.'
As the legendary actor turns 60 today, we look at his finest performances in the last six decades.
The latest updates from the Telugu film industry.
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.
He had no airs about his talent, he did not intellectualise it, he just lived and breathed acting.
As cinemas remain shut and watching movies on big screen still a distant dream, OTT platforms are keeping us distracted from the pandemic with its steady supply of content.
As much as we enjoy and write reams and reams about our amazement at the Kantara climax, 30 years on from now, will we remember these portions more fondly or the ones where Shiva is simply hanging out with his friends, mulls Rohit Sathish Nair.
Sukanya Verma celebrates its grandeur and grandiloquence in 25 glorious frames on its diamond anniversary.
Over the last decade the Indian film industry has reinvented itself. Do film critics need to do that too?
'It is ironic that the guy who set the standard of stardom was forgotten. It was his death that made us remember him again.'
Sridevi had updated her art to become more contemporary than current actors. She was new-age and yet vintage. By making the predictable so precious, she makes it a scene that could hold its head high anywhere in world cinema.
'Every scene we have written in the film encapsulates the spirit of his life.'
'In the 1990s, wherever I would go for work, I would see Tabu dancing in a studio.'
Variety is the spice of life and the greatest USP of OTT platforms. Sukanya Verma points out all the wonderful stuff to choose from this week's mix.
It reminds us why we like to watch films, writes Aseem Chhabra.
Theeran Adhikaram Ondru is a riveting film, says A Ganesh Nadar.
'No one's comparing and everyone's taking the song as mine... that's a battle won.'
'He would tell me that even though it is a Salman Khan film, you need to make sure that in your mind, you are a hero.'
If Indian storytelling can deliver, it can make the entertainment industry an engine of economic growth and a substantial contributor to GDP, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
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