18-time Oscar nominee Meryl Streep towers over everybody else in the film - thanks to her unparalleled acting prowess and the sheer intensity of the character she plays.
Sukanya Verma recaps all those events from 25 years ago.
Shoojit Sircar picks two Oscar-winning, slice-of-life films which say a lot with the minimum of fuss.
'Everywhere, people would ask me why I had left films. They wanted to see more of me.' 'Their words were music to my ears.'
'We have a huge responsibility of being so-and-so's daughter... you are compared to your parents who are these legends right from your first film, and that can get hard.'
The reworked version of Bunty Aur Babli will release on November 19.
While we await Shilpa's second innings in the movies, Joginder Tuteja looks at how well the top '90s actresses have done when they returned to acting.
By the time they turned 40, Prithviraj Kapoor had done about 50 films, Raj Kapoor about 46 films and Rishi Kapoor about 80 films. As Ranbir Kapoor turns 40, Deepa Gahlot explores the Kapoors cinematic landscape to find out where the young actor stands in comparison to his great grandfather, grandfather and father.
Naiyaandi is a rural romantic comedy that lacks a good story and seems more like an amateur, half-hearted and a disappointing attempt.
I have heard cynics say that Priyanka Chopra Jonas as we know her today is the creation of a PR machinery, but that is rather a poor reading of a determined woman and the work she has done to get to where she is. Aseem Chhabra salutes the movie star on her 40th birthday on July 18.
A good deal of the 92nd Academy Awards (going hostless second year in a row) was a drag what with a staggeringly dull red carpet, long-winded, lacklustre speeches and uneven live acts following too quickly one after another.
'It isn't an art house film. It is essentially a feel-good story.'
'There are a lot of women out there in abusive marriages.'
Aseem Chhabra lists the films that won his heart at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
Kangana says she 'totally believed' the woman who accused the director of sexual harassment.
Some movies of 2021 excelled in content but yet, they did not do well.
Quite a few Hindi movies have explored different shades of the landlord-tenant relationship in passing or purposefully.
'The stereotype of an actress is that she's dumb, somebody who will sit on your lap, giggle on stupid jokes, come to the van when she's being called, receive a call at 3am and come over to your house. So when a girl comes along and challenges this, people get uncomfortable.'
To say Oprah Winfrey is a life in inspiration would be an understatement.
'How is it okay for a woman to show her private parts to the world just because she wants to go to the toilet?' 'She can't show her face -- you want her to pull her ghoongat till her navel -- but you are okay with her flashing to everybody!'
Besides the five Indian films that are playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year -- a rather large collection at an international film festival, says Aseem Chhabra -- there are more films with an Indian connect.
On the 20th anniversary of her tragic death, the actress remains strikingly relevant.
Aseem Chhabra's recommendations for the Mumbai film festival.
Aseem Chhabra picks his favourite movies from the Telluride Film Festival.
The New York Film Festival served an amazing plate of films. Aseem Chhabra picks the best ones.
Smita Patil would have been 60 on October 17 had fate not cruelly snatched her from us in 1986. She was only 31 when she died. Rediff.com salutes the incomparable actress in a special series.
Sudha Murty worries that India has still not learnt its lessons from history.
From odd to heartwarming, the best of Twitter conversations in 2014.
'To get the most important film of Priyanka's career, which would perhaps take her another 10-15 years, she refused to do it to get married to him. I mean it's amazing!'
Saeed Jaffrey lives on through his versatile body of work.
'If not now, then when will I take risks and enjoy myself?'
'The most difficult part of film-making is dealing with people you are working with and trying to forget the drama that goes behind the scenes.'
Here's what happened at the Sultan trailer launch!
'My grandmother taking me to the jamatkhana was like a different world.' 'Like I had a key to a door which no one else seemed to have.' 'She doesn't take me anymore because she says I'm an embarrassment!'
'I want my fans to remember me as the Sadhana of Love In Simla, Mere Mehboob, Woh Kaun Thi and Arzoo,' the Bollywood legend, who passed into the ages on Christmas Day, told Dinesh Raheja.
Aseem Chhabra lists the elements that he loved and was pleasantly surprised by in the movies.
