The likes of iconic actor-director Guru Dutt, South star Silk Smitha, actor Jiah Khan and now, Sushant Singh Rajput gave up on life in the Indian film industry.
While the sympathy vote for Sushant Singh Rajput's tragic demise must have played an important part in tilting the scales in Chhichhore's favour, the qualitative difference between the two films is so high that it could not have been a close shave, argues Subhash K Jha.
Anil Kapoor and Anupam Kher won too!
Sukanya Verma brings us everything we learned in this notorious year.
Mumbai police commissioner Hemant Nagrale has ordered an inquiry into the complaint lodged by Narcotics Control Bureau's zonal director Sameer Wankhede that he was being stalked by two policemen and some other unidentified persons, an official said on Thursday.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) also told Justice Navin Chawla that on October 9 it issued an advisory to all private satellite TV channels to adhere to the programme code provided under the Cable Television Networks Rules.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the big September hits in the past decade.
'You are not going to find success all the time and you will feel insecure when your film fails at the box office, but that's a part of the game.' 'You just deal with it and move on.; 'Maybe the problem was something else and not so much about his career.'
Deepika may look fragile and delicate and that she needs her man by her side during a crisis but she's a very strong woman.'
'We should focus on creating cinema which is entertaining, gives us solace, some message, reduces our tension and makes us think positively.'
The hits and misses of the week.
'I don't think he would have ended his life if he knew that people loved him so much.'
A look at pictures from the Lux Golden Rose Awards.
Fadnavis dismissed his appointment as the party's election in-charge for the state was to do anything with Sushant case.
The JD(U)-BJP alliance also lambasted the actress for lodging a 'baseless' first information report against the sisters of the deceased actor and questioned the 'support' extended to her by the Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra, for 'reasons the Shiv Sena knows better'.
The winners and attendees at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2021.
'I haven't seen such a vicious campaign to tarnish our industry's reputation.' 'Ever since Sushant Singh Rajput's tragic death, any and everyone thinks it is their right to speak of the industry as a filthy place.'
Irrfan Khan hosted a special screening of his new film Hindi Medium for his friends in the film industry.
The Sena also said this issue has now become a "matter of prestige" for the party-led government, a day after Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party ruled out resignation of Deshmukh.
"I have nothing to do with drugs. I have prescription for the medicine which was found at my residence and the prescription has been handed over to NCB officials," Rampal told reporters.
The hits and misses of the week.
Salman Khan's big Eid release Tubelight is also a major loser.
Salman Khan's much awaited Eid release Tubelight turned out to be a damp squib at the box office. Distributors stand to lose on their investments.
Reacting to reports that Pakistani actor Fawad Khan played the crucial character of Virat Kohli in the biopic made on Mahendra Singh Dhoni's life, the makers of 'M S Dhoni: The Untold Story' dismissed reports that his role was chopped off from the biopic. There were reports that Fawad's cameo on India's batting superstar Kohli was removed just before the release of the movie due to the ruckus over Pakistani actors in the wake of Uri terror attack.
'Rhea was always meant to become a part of the promotions a little later. How can she be left out?'
Several Bollywood personalities including Taapsee Pannu, Swara Bhasker and Anubhav Sinha criticised the media's mobbing of Rhea Chakraborty.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The states like West Bengal and Rajasthan have already taken such a step.
Sonchiriya is that rare Bollywood film, one that soars wildly above others in its genre, notes Ritwik Sharma.
The actor had filed the transfer petition before the chief metropolitan magistrate last month, saying that she had 'lost faith' in the magistrate's court hearing the case, as it indirectly 'threatened' her of issuing a warrant if she failed to appear before it in a bailable offence.
Batting icon Sachin Tendulkar hailed Mahendra Singh Dhoni's contribution after he stepped down as India's ODI and T20I captain.
The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the Union government to clarify whether "excessive" reportage by the press on an ongoing investigation amounted to interference in the administration of justice under the Contempt of Courts Act.
"Even Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, during a rally in Kalyan, had said the police were capable of only washing utensils, Fadnavis said.
'The problem of 2015 is not who did it but how we should punish the guy who did it. The judicial system in our country is hugely inadequate.' Dibakar Banerjee talks about his new film Detective Byomkesh Bakshy and much more.
Dominc Xavier wonders if Kangana will take a lesson from the Smriti Irani playbook and turn to politics.
Almost the whole of Bollywood has landed in New York.
Celebs spotted at the screening of Madaari!
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