'We wanted to explore the divisions in India -- be it class, caste, language, religion or gender.'
Did you know that women can avail for a loan of upto Rs 20 crores to set up a manufacturing business?
On planes, on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, Zee5, Hulu, MUBI, Kanopy, film festivals... Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 309 films in 365 days.
'The idea is to sideline you, box you up in a smaller box, so you don't go out of that.' 'The bigger boxes are for their own people.'
Abhik Sen explores Apple's Monument Valley 2 and Gameloft's Asphalt Street Storm Racing.
'The very fact that a girl from Haryana is now living life on her own terms... that's the biggest achievement in my life.'
It also pledged to give interest free crop loan of up to Rs 3 lakh to farmers.
'But it is also an industry that is very accepting when they see talent and hard work.'
You'll come out laughing till your sides hurt, promises Sukanya Verma.
'If I had become father at a younger age, I would probably have been casual about it.'
'Nimble humour, shuddh desi zingers, refreshing flippancy and a lively blend of small-town quirk and orthodoxy.' Sukanya Verma applauds Bala.
'I am not someone special.' 'I don't want to be shortlisted for a role just because I belong to the family I do.'
The customs duty from gold imports could be approximately Rs 8,000 crore, about less than half of what was collected a year ago.
'The idea is to celebrate your imperfections because God has made us all the same, right?'
In this film the Ka -- as in the Ka-poors, who act in the film -- are okay, it is the Ki -- as in Bal-Ki, who directs it -- who stumbles rather badly, feels Raja Sen.
We saw a *lot* of glamour and style this year.
'If somebody says a certain superstar's film is not good, I would not go to watch it.' 'But if the word-of-mouth is good, I don't miss a film.' 'When Badhaai Ho released, we immediately ran to theatres to watch it.'
Trailers are key to the way an audience perceives a movie and hence a big part of the lifecycle of a movie.
'The most difficult thing in the world is to convince someone to put Rs 20 crore on your movie script.'
'The writer remains the most creative force in the process.' 'Producers need to be inventive in how they reward good writing.'
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.
BJP said if voted to power, it would bring out a 'white paper' on the financial health of the state under the Congress rule.
'I feel bad for our audience that they see films like Race 3.' 'But audiences are getting mature.' 'In spite of a big film release a week before, people have showed interest in Pihu.' 'That is a huge achievement.'
Sreehari Nair is *not* impressed by this lot of films at all.
'When we make such stories, that's when we see how tough it is.' 'Our grandmother may narrate a story of a rakshas, but to create that is like chewing peanuts made up of iron!'
'When you love someone, you have to love him, without looking at his past. Everyone has a past.'
'They are out there, singing about their socio-economic status, their family structures, their politics, the way the system treated them, what they would like to change... and the beauty is that they are positive.' 'They are not bitter or cynical.'
Gajraj Rao's performance in Badhaai Ho is the finest by an actor in a Hindi film this year, applauds Sreehari Nair.
...But a comedy about Class Wars. Sreehari Nair tells us why.
'I hate people who do such things.' 'The person who bullied me should be ashamed because he tortured other people too.'
Celebrity nutritionists Niti Desai will be available to provide diet tips for a healthy heart Wednesday October 8, 2014, between 3 pm and 4 pm.
Dum Laga Ke Haisha is a series of riveting moments that make you moist in the eye and chuckle with joy, says Sukanya Verma.
'No other actor in India was as lucky as me,' Soumitra Chatterjee tells Indrani Roy/ Rediff.com
I am not a quitter. I was with the United Nations for 29 years. I don't know whether I will have 29 years in politics, but I don't intend to end with just 5 years, Dr Shashi Tharoor tells rediff.com's Shobha Warrier
