Kara Johar goes down memory lane and spilled the beans on his infamous rifts with Kareena Kapoor and Kajol.
Promising new seasons of beloved shows, provocative stories and action packed dramas, Sukanya Verma says it's all there on OTT this week.
'This is the biggest crisis Kejriwal is facing in his life.' 'If he is able to come out of this, then he will have a great future.'
As 2022 readies to bid adieu, Sukanya Verma raises a toast to the 10 high points of the year.
The film is about a day in the life of four perfectly etched characters who give a flawless performance.
Shoojit Sircar can't stop smiling after receiving rave reviews for his new film.
'I am not saying all films should have a message. But I think it is important for cinema to send out the right signals to the audience.'
Deepa Gahlot picks a list of 10 essential RGV movies though there are 84 to wade through.
'The idea is to produce interesting innovative films side-by-side with the films we direct, a sort of extension of what we direct ourselves.'
Its worldwide gross is already a staggering Rs 1,250 crores.
Do you think the current crop of actors will play these classic roles well?
Parthan KandaParalokam starring Jayaram and directed by Anil is sheer waste of time.
'I am not such an actor that hits and flops will decide my career.'
And the reason has everything to do with box office collections, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
A messy masala about an antihero bolstered by tons of whimsy, controversy and high drama, Khalnayak's hype is stuff of history. Sukanya Verma celebrates 30 years of this blockbuster.
The original idea was to make a series of Byomkesh films based on the stories by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. But after the cold reception to the film, Producer Aditya Chopra dropped the idea.
'At school, on August 15, the Indian flag was raised. There was no national anthem at that time and we sang Rise India Thy Millions Lead,' recalls military legend Major General Ian Cardozo (retd).
'I fell in love with Amrita Singh from the day I saw Betaab... She is amazing'
'I thought of a suppressed country and a free world.' 'If we travel from one to another, what will that road look like?' 'What colours, music there will be? What kind of people would you see?'
'The world that we live in today has no space for nuance or conversation or debate.' 'So how does a small film that's not made for the sole reason of earning back your money and which is actually trying to say something that's fragile find its way?'
Plans for a Laxmii sequel have been scrapped.
'Every film cannot do a business of Rs 200 crore.'
'I'm talking about that predator in your house, and how one should protect one's children from him.'
Joginder Tuteja takes a look at Bollywood's patriotic films, coming up.
Sukanya Verma lists SRK's special avatars in the movies.
'...you start running after the star.' 'If the star says yes to the film, the ecosystem supports it.' 'The biggest cog in the wheel of the ecosystem is the audience and we forget that.'
'Cinema or the sentiment of a people, disgusted by contemporary politics and wanting to feel whole by collectively recalling a moment of great difficulty that was also a cause for togetherness?', asks Shyam G Menon.
'It broke my heart when Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein did not work at the box office but little did I know that one day, it would become a cult film.'
It's clearly not the best year at the box office yet.
'Countries like Israel said openly that they will hunt people down. We have no such policy.' 'We have always been following the legal process of getting them (people wanted by India) through extradition.'
Arjun Menon looks at some Tamil films from the last decade that tick all the right boxes, and lists where you can watch them.
'A large part of this episode has come from my own life, the backlash I faced and my journey after having publicly claimed my identity.'
Looking for Treasures From Mizoram to embrace through 2024 and beyond.
'I don't consider acting to be a contest or a game of one-upmanship and I was far from happy with all the talk of Dilip Kumar Versus Me.'
'Keeravaaniji doesn't work in isolation.' 'He responds to stories, situations and the emotional core of a film.' 'That's why his tunes are so different.' 'Unchiseled emotional masterpieces.'
When the subscriber reaches superannuation or the age of 60, 60 per cent of the total corpus accumulated in NPS can be withdrawn as a lump sum.
'General Anil Chauhan ticks all the right boxes as the new chief of defence staff.'
If in the current streaming age, audiences can watch the originals, why would they spend their money on second-hand content? Is it possible that mainstream Hindi filmmakers have lost the pulse of their audience, asks Deepa Gahlot.
'You can't call this a pure Western. This has got love, passion, violence, suspense.' 'This is a film of today.'
'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.'
