'In my time, I didn't have that kind of guidance. 'I asked to speak to the international pageant winners before I went and nobody spoke with me. 'It doesn't take away from your title when you help others. It just brings more accolades back to our country.'
Bollywood is as much about friends as it is about feuding. Which is why several starry battles so frequently turn back to friendship. In the end, everybody ends up working together anyway.
'You have to fight your own battles and I fought mine.'
'Madhuri is the best dancer in the world.' 'Shahid is too good!' 'Hrithik is the best in the industry.'
Indian Idol judge Anu Malik discusses the reality show.
'If it is Coldplay, I don't think Bollywood needed to be there.' 'If you put Bollywood everywhere, I don't think other bands will come to India.'
'I don't trust these days. Like now, everyone likes Mimi and my phone is constantly ringing. But tomorrow if I make a flop, the opposite will happen.'
Not all cricketer-actress romances culminate in heartbreak. Some have stayed reassuringly rock-solid.
'I have seen the tears in their eyes.' 'I want to thank God for giving me an opportunity to help these guys.'
Cricket climate change to medical practice, dropped candidates have their non-political life sorted.
'I went to a school in Baroda, where if the boys harassed us, the teachers pulled the girls aside and said, "Oh, your skirts are too short".' 'They made us feel ashamed of having any sexual feelings or having bodies that were growing up to be a young women.'
If Anjali Anand's attitude is spunky, her sense of style is spunkier.
'Bollywood's 'no prisoners taken' honesty comes as a big surprise.' 'I cannot think of a single judge, politician, sportsperson or bureaucrat being so forthright in their opinion of their contemporaries,' says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Here's looking at the most stylish appearance by Bollywod brigade this year!
To name your movie after Bollywood's most dhinchak hero and craft something so dull borderlines on sacrilege, feels Sukanya Verma.
'I don't know if I became an actor, I was just trying to book jobs and survive.'
Sukanya Verma lists the lessons Bollywood taught us this year.
These stunners routinely bring sexy back and how!
The ninth episode of Koffee with Karan Season 8 sees Bollywood's Singham Ajay Devgn grace the couch along with Director Rohit Shetty.
One can only pray he finds his peace while we take comfort in the knowledge of having a true friend and the therapeutic power of humour. Sukanya Verma mourns the passing of Matthew Perry.
Kareena Kapoor dons a quirky pair of shades in her item number Fevicol se in Dabangg 2.
When was the last time you saw Ramu Kaka in the movies?
Alia Bhatt and Kareena Kapoor Khan looked stunning on Karan Johar's Koffee With Karan 8, and spoke candidly about motherhood, striking the perfect balance between work and family, and more.
It's not always canoodling lovers that take our breath away on screen!
And you thought Bollywood was just about making movies!
'Laapataa Ladies opened a lot of doors for me.' 'I have gotten so much love from audiences and seniors in the industry that it's overwhelming.' 'I get calls from superstars. I'm holding my heart and it's like, "Oh my God, they are calling me? I am their fan and they love my work!"'
Anurag Kashyap, whose new film Gangs Of Wasseypur is set in the political badlands of Jharkhand, is set to release in June.
'Rather than cutting and pasting from advanced economies, we should use basic economic principles to think about what is right for India at the stage of development at which we are,' says Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian.
'I would put my hand in the ground and have a little listen to what the mountain was doing.' 'Actually, it was still collapsing.' 'And there was a very real possibility that at some stage, without warning, the collapse could continue -- and continue across us, the people who were doing the rescue and also across to the men on the other side, who were being rescued.'
Rohit Shetty's strengths have been action and humour; the former he delivers in spades, but the latter is totally lacking in Indian Police Force, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Actor, dancer, choreographer Shantanu Maheshwari reveals his equation with fashion.
Everything about the big fat Indian weddings and their more pompous onscreen versions desis know all too well!
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles featured films centering on all things Indian.
Tanushree Dutta has struck the first blow by declaring that no one supports the victims in the film industry.
Rustom, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, PadMan... ...Vishal Bhardwaj's next with Deepika Padukone and Irrfan, John Abraham's Parmanu, Anushka Sharma's Pari, Abhishek Kapoor's Kedarnath, Anil Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Fanney Khan, Shahid Kapoor's Batti Gul Meter Chalu... Meet Prernaa Arora, the young lady above the title...
'Most A-listers (women) do films for free along with offering other favours...'
Here's a look at some young talents poised to make a mark as producers:
