The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Kanu Behl's Titli is one of the best films from India in recent years, says Aseem Chhabra from the Zurich film festival.
Earnest words from Leonardo DiCaprio, and the big winners of Oscar night.
Chaitanya Tamhane's National Award-winning film seems more relevant today than when it released, says Sreehari Nair.
A towering figure in the world of letters, Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, who died in Bangalore on Friday, was modern in his sensibilities and intellectual underpinnings in his literary works questioned many deeply-held beliefs.
'Kalabhavan Mani was truly the star of the masses, which was evident from the huge crowds that came to bid him adieu when he died on March 6 at the age of 45.'
Karma Cartel director Vinod Bharathan gives us an insight into his style of filmmaking.
Veteran Telugu film producer Dr Daggubbati Ramanaidu passed away into the ages on February 18. In an interview he had granted Rediff.com in September 2010, he tells us how he started making movies.
'The best way to carry on that good man's legacy is to make films like he did, love cinema like he did, and unearth talent like he did. K Balachanderis frozen forever in Uttama Villain on celluloid,' Uttama Villain director Ramesh Arvind tells Rediff.com contributor Praveen Sundaram.
'Until I remove that character from my head and empty the space, other characters cannot take that place.'
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
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'The nicest thing is that it is not my film.' 'People bring their own stories and life histories to the film.'
Bollywood is in shock after Sridevi's death.
Sukanya Verma looks at what stood out in a mostly humdrum affair.
The best of India and the Middle East, now at the Dharamsala Film Festival.
Oscar-winning British filmmaker Richard Attenborough, renowned for his critically-acclaimed biopic on Mahatma Gandhi, has died. He was 90.
After being together for 11 years, Hollywood's most controversial couple has now called it quits!
Aseem Chhabra spots 10 must-see movies at the Berlin Film Festival.
The stark simplicity of the dialogues, the well-etched characters, the intriguing plot, the captivating music, the cinematography, but most of all the brilliant twist at the end makes Director Balaji K Kumar's Vidiyum Munn a must watch, says S Saraswathi
Rediff.com gives you a look at films in the past that have captured the lives of sporting icons, and their rise to glory, on the silver screen.
'I don't know where the viciousness in the reviews is coming from.' 'To me, it feels more of a personal attack.'
'One week after the release of PINK, audiences in India will witness another strong feminist tale, this one set in rural India,' says Aseem Chhabra.
Bengali film Asha Jaoar Majhe is a must watch, a once in the lifetime kind of work that should be supported by film lovers and experienced on the big screen, writes Aseem Chhabra.
'... their love was jinxed.' 'His celluloid path to his partner's heart was seldom smooth; it had to contend with greedy relatives and indecisive sweethearts, who were more ready to sacrifice than woo and wed.'
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Lovers of good cinema should not miss this opportunity to watch one of the best Indian films of 2016, raves Aseem Chhabra.
Gyan Correa's film has not made it to the nine films that were short-listed for the 86th Annual Academy Awards.
'All mothers are the same. Mine came out of the MAMI screening, crying.' 'Recently, a critic compared me to the best debut since Hrithik sir and she was so overwhelmed with that.' 'Someone said 'You are Bhagyashree's son and the innocence is the same.' 'Even if I can even touch the shadow of that in my entire career, I will be very happy.'
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
'How long do you dumb down, how long do you stay silent,' the actor asks at TEDx.
Aseem Chhabra's recommendations for the Mumbai film festival.
'I looked at the smiles around and realised that each day that I smiled was amazing.' 'So I put into play something that I have been toying with for years.' 'I called it the Rich Universe.' 'You often hear people say "I wish I become a superstar and my life gets made".' 'I wondered how it would be if I said if I hug my father, it would be an amazing day, or if I hugged my mother and said how lucky I am.'
'When a woman gets married, she leaves her village, her friends and family.' 'In her new home, she will make friends, but they can never replace those she left behind.'
'Her death has left a small hole in me. That little space that her songs and her screen image always filled in me. She had not worked in films for years, but somehow I always sensed she was there, somewhere in Bombay where movie magic is made.'
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Inferno is a yawn, warns Raja Sen.
Ananth Mahadevan takes on the audience.
