'Being signed on as the leading man of Hero came to me like a bolt out of the blue.'
Reader Shubha Pai sends in a picture of her husband Sudeep with the famous director.
Mukta Art's maiden Kannada venture Nimbehuli will be directed by Hemanth Hegde who will also be seen in the lead.
The showman will participate in a special round table conference and promote his new film 'Kisna' at the 57th Cannes Film Festival.
The director will be honoured at the Dubai International Film Festival.
Rediff readers catch up with director Subhash Ghai.
The veteran filmmaker talks about how he got his first break, and why formal training can give you an edge.
Mukta Arts Ltd is set to foray into the exhibition business.
Take a look at the pictures inside.
Subhash Ghai celebrated wife Rehana's birthday recently, and all his filmi friends made sure to attend.
From Kalicharan to Kaanchi, the director of mega blockbusters and star-studded entertainers may not have rocked the box-office in a very long time but his fondness for certain filmmaking elements, props and plot devices is recurring in nearly all his movies.
The Supreme Court has asked the filmmakera and Whistling Woods to vacate 14.5 acre of land immediately.
The Delhi high court issued notices to Anil Kapoor and Subhash Ghai over on a petition filed by a Delhi University professor seeking a ban on the screening of their recent film, Black And White, alleging that it was anti-Muslim.
Subhash Ghai and the students and faculty of Whistling Woods protest against the Supreme Court's verdict of closing down the filmmaking institute.
In this special series, we re-visit great Hindi film classics. Today, we look back at Subhash Ghai's 1983 blockbuster Hero that launched two relative newcomers into overnight stardom.
Filmmaker Subhash Ghai on Friday said that he felt "cheated" by the Maharashtra government after Supreme Court upheld the Bombay High Court order quashing the 20 acre land allotted to his film school Whistling Woods International.
The filmmaker who has worked with some of the biggest names in Bollywood, has almost no one rooting for him now.
What are the showman's erstwhile leading ladies up to?
In a setback to film producer Subhash Ghai, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Bombay high court order quashing the 20 acre land allotted to his film institute in Mumbai. A bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad also pulled up former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for allotting the land in 2004, saying the CM cannot bend or bypass rules to give away government land.
Producer Ramesh Taurani celebrated his 65th birthday with the film folk he's worked with through the 45 years of his music company, Tips Music and 30 years of Tips Films.
In the next few weeks, the Bombay High Court will hear the institute's petition to review its 2011 directive to vacate the land it occupies in Film City.
A R Rahman feels a power shift may have happened in the past eight years, as 'people who are not creative have the power now to decide things.'
Film folk like Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty, Karan Johar, Vicky Kaushal and Pritam attend RSS' centenary celebrations in Mumbai.
The filmmaker, whose latest film, Black & White hits the marquee on Friday was in a philosophical mood as he recounted the debacle of Kisna, and why Bollywood needs writers more than ever.
Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has publicly criticized Mumbai University after being uninvited from a student event, citing concerns over freedom of expression and the current political climate.
A prayer meet was held for Dharmendra at the Taj Lands End hotel in Bandra, north west Mumbai.
'There was a kind of disagreement with Subhashji after Meri Jung and unfortunately for me, I did not get to work with him again after that.'
Ranbir Kapoor recalled how his grandfather Raj Kapoor sent a telegram to Vyjayanthimala, convincing her to join the 1964 romantic musical drama, Sangam.
'Had I been launched as a leading actor, it would probably have worked better.' 'Prabhu Devaa came eight years after me. Maybe if a filmmaker had thought of a film for me like the ones he got, my career would have been a different trajectory.'
'What do you think... those working in the film industry are illiterate people? Why don't you go and work with Bimal Roy?'
Ghai talks about his pick of the all-time best Indian films.
We look at the longest Hindi movies through the years, and interestingly, most of them have done well.
'I stood in the line for potty. So there was no extraordinary feeling that I had become a hero.'
Rajinikanth may have made his last Hindi film two decades ago but he can still set the screen alight, blazing away with a gun that has dozens of barrels. As Thalaiva turns 75 on December 12, Dinesh Raheja looks back at his 17 year journey in Hindi cinema.
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