The year is ending, but the OTT shows no signs of slowing down. Sukanya Verma brings you everything you can catch this week.
As the legendary actor turns 60 today, we look at his finest performances in the last six decades.
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.
If you'd like to know more about Rajini the actor, Saisuresh Sivaswamy offers a wide selection.
He had no airs about his talent, he did not intellectualise it, he just lived and breathed acting.
'Kissing is not written in the script. They just find their way on the sets!' Emraan Hashmi tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com.
The latest updates from the Telugu film industry.
A special word for Ayushmann: Hey Mogambo, your acting rocks!
'It is ironic that the guy who set the standard of stardom was forgotten. It was his death that made us remember him again.'
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.
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.
'I was attracted to Javed because he was exactly like my father.'
'How can the romance of Indian Cinema ever leave us? Never.'
Over the last decade the Indian film industry has reinvented itself. Do film critics need to do that too?
It reminds us why we like to watch films, writes Aseem Chhabra.
'In the 1990s, wherever I would go for work, I would see Tabu dancing in a studio.'
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.
'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.'
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.
Slapped by the Bollywood star, Santosh Rai got back by slapping a case against the actor-turned-politician.
Theeran Adhikaram Ondru is a riveting film, says A Ganesh Nadar.
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.
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.
'Every scene we have written in the film encapsulates the spirit of his life.'
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.
'If we keep losing such institutions, we will soon become a city and culture of short-term memory.' 'Nothing to remind us of the years gone by and eventually with nothing to remember.'
'Working in DDLJ has been one of the best moments in my career.' Satish Shah relives the DDLJ moments.
Moothon's script won the Sundance Institute's Global Filmmaking Award. Geethu Mohandas's movie is now coming to a theatre near you.
'Panipat has all the meat for a political drama meets war movie. But in Ashutosh Gowariker's failure to process its complexity, the material never rises beyond a mediocre hurray to the Maratha manoos,' says Sukanya Verma.
I have done seven films in the last five years, and that's a lot for me, Rana Daggubati tells Sonil Dedhia/ Rediff.com
'No one's comparing and everyone's taking the song as mine... that's a battle won.'
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
'I don't know where the viciousness in the reviews is coming from.' 'To me, it feels more of a personal attack.'
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.
'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.'
Looking forward to Jolly LLB 2, 2.0 and much more.
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