'Nayanthara's Koko is so different from Janhvi's Jerry. Janhvi is a newcomer, just four films old.'
The Telugu remake of A Wednesday sees the coming together of two superstars -- Kamal Haasan and Venkatesh. Shruti Haasan's background score and a different story line rocks.
The latest updates from the Telugu film industry.
'Other designers take empty suitcases and go shopping for the actors's clothes in New York.' 'To me, this is bankruptcy of imagination.'
There are rumours of the film being remade in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi.
Sukanya Verma celebrates chandeliers on celluloid and their most memorable moments in Hindi films.
... you won't feel anything either.
'It reminded me of the Ramayana, a story that runs in every Indian's blood.'
'... and committed.' 'Priyanka had so much happening in her personal life...' 'Once we started, Priyanka rose to it.'
'As a director, I am happy to take the blame because that's mine but I get blamed for everything.' Anurag Kashyap gets candid.
The year is ending, but the OTT shows no signs of slowing down. Sukanya Verma brings you everything you can catch this week.
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.
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.
'He was capable, concise, calm, sublime, and profound, and perhaps that's also why Irrfan's passing felt 'personal' to many.'
'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...
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.
If you'd like to know more about Rajini the actor, Saisuresh Sivaswamy offers a wide selection.
As the legendary actor turns 60 today, we look at his finest performances in the last six decades.
'I was attracted to Javed because he was exactly like my father.'
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.
He had no airs about his talent, he did not intellectualise it, he just lived and breathed acting.
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.
'How can the romance of Indian Cinema ever leave us? Never.'
'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.'
'It is ironic that the guy who set the standard of stardom was forgotten. It was his death that made us remember him again.'
Over the last decade the Indian film industry has reinvented itself. Do film critics need to do that too?
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.
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.
Sukanya Verma celebrates its grandeur and grandiloquence in 25 glorious frames on its diamond anniversary.
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.
'In the 1990s, wherever I would go for work, I would see Tabu dancing in a studio.'
It reminds us why we like to watch films, writes Aseem Chhabra.
'Every scene we have written in the film encapsulates the spirit of his life.'
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