'As is mandatory in Bollywood these days, Blank too insists on painting a ferocious Muslim imagery of bushy beards, severe kohl-eyes and chequered scarfs spewing distorted religious ideology to impressionable young minds,' notes Sukanya Verma.
Like everyone else, Bollywood celebrated Christmas over the weekend and made beautiful, festive pictures.
Weddings, holidays, award functions, throwbacks, festivals, family time or fooling around, 2023 saw a variety of posts beaming in joy. Of which these 25 Instagram moments of Bollywood stars are Sukanya Verma's favourites.
Sonakshi gets up close and personal... Anil parties in Germany...
We give you *your* space to tell us what you think about The Zoya Factor, Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas and Prassthanam.
On Raksha Bandhan, film folk post happy pictures with their siblings.
Here's what your favourite celebrities have been up to.
'Innocent lives lost. Tourists, families, people who were just... living. Seeking beauty. Seeking peace. And now there's only grief.'
'I couldn't understand why people didn't want to take me in a film or why I was offered the roles that I got.'
Gadar's sequel will take Tara and Sakeena's story forward.
The father-son team get together for Anil Sharma's Apne.
Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.
Sukanya Verma lists 15 scenes that reveal facets of Salman outside the formula.
With Vinesh Phogat's heartbreaking disqualification over discrepancies in weight at the Paris Olympics just when India was keeping its fingers crossed for a sure shot victory at the finals, spirits have hit an all-time low. Art mirrors life and it won't be a surprise if our sports biopic obsessed film-makers turn this dramatic change of events into a movie one day.
Shah Rukh will singlehandedly contribute Rs 1,400 crore (Rs 14 billion) at the box office.
Urvashi Rautela turns 26 on February 25, and she decided to celebrate herself!
Stars arrive for the opening ceremony of the 54th edition of International Film Festival of India.
The hits and misses of the week.
'I didn't like doing jhatak-mataks. I would subconsciously start feeling, 'Oh my God, my makeup man and my driver will be watching this.''
These curious onscreen pairings will make you go... whoa!
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao played host at a screening of Laapataa Ladies.
The hits and misses of the week.
Rapper MC Stan has won the popular reality television show Bigg Boss season 16 on Sunday, beating his friend Shiv Thakare.
Dharmendra and Sunny Deol will make an appearance on 10 Ka Dum this Saturday.
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
Be it Dhoom, Singham or the Munnabhai franchise, there are certain stories that have tons more to say or solid cash cow potential and Bollywood is all for it.
'Before my scene with Amitabh Bachchan, my father asked me, "You are acting opposite Amitji. Are you scared?"' 'I foolishly said, "No. He is an actor and so am I. He will say his lines and I will say mine. Why should I be scared?".'
The stars Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar sighted over the weekend.
Special screenings were held for The Zoya Factor and Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas, and the cast members made sure to attend with their families.
Dimple Kapadia's mother Betty succumbed to a respiratory disorder on November 30 at Mumbai's Hinduja Hospital.
With an endless number of star kid debuts in the offing, we thought of looking at how this decade's brigade compares to their mums, dads, uncles or siblings.
Who's Virat's calling a rock?... Mrunal meets a hunk... Why is Dharmendra Sunny-eyed?
Bollywood stars mostly celebrated Holi at home this year, thanks to the COVID pandemic. Others preferred not to do even that, and instead, posted throwback pictures from the time Holi was spent right.
