India's most vibrant festival is the perfect excuse for friends to flirt and foes to become friends again.
Rangoli Chandel is in the news again. This time, for spreading communal hate through her Twitter posts.
Information was was disclosed on Chahal TV during the team's bus ride to Hamilton for the third T20I against New Zealand in the five-game series.
Sukanya Verma salutes the power of Saroj Khan and her brilliant choreography.
In Arvind Kejriwal's home turf, Kaushambi, the honeymoon with India's most famous aam aadmi is near its end.
Trade pundits and quick think piece experts can speculate all they like, but what works at the box-office is a mystery as always.
The actor has posted a video of him doing dangerous action during the making of Sooryavanshi.
There has always been a risk-taking edge to Imran Khan. Like him or hate him, it had to be someone like him to finally threaten to demolish the Pakistani establishment, explains Shekhar Gupta.
In the 1.43 minute-long video, Meerut SP Akhilesh Narayan Singh can be seen talking to three men in a narrow lane. Singh claimed that he had made the statement to a group of people who were raising slogans in support of Pakistan.
'I kept thinking the bedroom door would open any minute and Didi Atya would step out...'
'Flypasts, bands, helicopters dropping flowers over hospitals treating coronavirus patients are cute ideas for an Akshay Kumar film.' 'But when lakhs of workers at the lowest rung of the employment ladder would still be walking back home, this is the true 2020 equivalent of 'let them eat cake,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
Celebrating Mother's Day by remembering a variety of such movie maatajis and her impassioned assertions.
"... For me to understand the individual I need to spend time with him. Unless you know the individual it's very difficult to advise that individual as to what he needs to do. And also the fact that you get to get inside his mind because everybody is different."
Remembering Sridevi's strongest words on her 56th birth anniversary.
'Brahmastra is kind of a meeting place of modern India with a feeling of ancient Indian powers about it.'
Sukanya Verma celebrates The Legend's 25 distinctly different moods.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
'If Yogiji has to run this government without any problems, he has to remain in power, and if he has to keep the BJP bosses in Delhi and the RSS happy, then he has no option but to do it.'
Sheela Bhatt reports from Firozabad, the country's centre for glass bangles, on what life is like for its workers in the wake of the national lockdown.
The defence minister recalled that Musharraf had retracted a similar statement made earlier following international condemnation.
'I don't think my troubles would have happened if she was with me. I kind of lost my way after she was gone,' Sanjay Dutt once told Subhash K Jha about his mother Nargis, the legendary actress who passed away this day 41 years ago.
Every time we look at the Congress, its future, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, we find the situation more hopeless than even a few months earlier, observes Shekhar Gupta.
'Laxmi and I firmly believed that while working, the egoistic word 'Main (I)' never interferes.'
'The situation has improved because oxygen tankers are now coming.' 'Before this it was chaotic.'
'There's no point making grand plans all our lives when life itself is so fragile.'
'Let me assure the nation on behalf of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha that our protests have not weakened at all or lost steam.'
'They (BJP) think that they can do anything in this country. The Constitution is being subverted'
'At this point, neither the army or the IAF has that immediate, punitive deterrent power against Pakistan.' 'Forget a three-week war; on the LoC, where the action is, Pakistan has until now fielded better infantry weapons, body armour, sniper rifles, and matching artillery' points out Shekhar Gupta.
100 commentators, across languages, will bring this season's games to viewers's homes in India and across the world.
'There are people who loved the show and people who have been shocked by it.'
'Where are the funny writers on Indian television and OTT platforms?' 'Where are the sitcoms?' asks Vanita Kohli Khandekar.
'My director (Lakshya Raj Anand) said, 'John, I don't want anybody in the cinema halls to pick up their phones and get distracted.' 'I want the film to be so fast and different that people instantly get hooked'.'
'These accusations of my film being a copy only makes our chances at the Academy harder.'
Just what are Ranbir and Alia doing on the film's sets?
Sukanya Verma goes through the cool and crazy ways moon/chand/chanda/chandrama is depicted in Bollywood movies.
'Google and Facebook need to be tamed, their garb of 'Investing in India's future' need to be pulled off,' observes Vibhu Arya.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
With its new line-up, the firm has managed to touch the right chords, but to regain market share from the established players, Micromax will have to fight a protracted battle.