'Nikkhil Advani's POW shows a director's deft touch and is a promising start of a great story, top notch acting talent and great behind the scenes production team,' says film director Suparn Verma.
On his 55th birthday, Sukanya Verma celebrates his inimitable ways in 10 scenes that she keeps returning to time and again.
The Bollywood stalwart turns 70 on January 17.
20 Nadeem-Shravan film albums which emerged as chartbusters.
'The sweetest, warmest and loving man ever, always smiling, very innocent and child-like.'
'Lataji, Ghalib, Beethoven and Shakespeare are far removed from the normal chain of human civilisation.' 'If they were just role models, how come no one was able to achieve an iota of their perfection?' 'They are a kind of intruders who come as reminders of the rule of mediocrity that prevails.'
In our special series re-visiting Hindi film classics, we look back at the Jeetendra and Neetu Singh starrer Priyatama (1977).
Celebrating Mother's Day by remembering a variety of such movie maatajis and her impassioned assertions.
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.
Kishore Kumar didn't become a legend overnight. And even when he did, he had many unfulfilled dreams.
On his 90th birthday, Sukanya Verma highlights a fraction of the legend's marvelous versatility in this curated list of his 25 unique moods.
There's a reason he was called Baba Ranchoddas in 3 Idiots.
Bollywood is known to make everything look dazzling and dramatic -- suffering, seclusion, hopelessness.
'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.'
Celebrating Aamir Khan and his 55 popular songs on his 55th birthday
Sukanya Verma looks at the debutants of that year and how they've fared since.
'My chacha's music is sweet and intoxicating'
Dinesh Raheja salutes the legend's versatility in her heyday.
Just 20 years old, Inderlal Kamalsingh Dhurve is a migrant labourer, a part-time farmer, a sole breadwinner and one of four survivors from the group that was mowed down by a goods train near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, 10 days ago, claiming 16 lives.
Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week marks a star-studded start to the year
'It was one of the greatest learnings in my life to see someone like the great Amitabh Bachchan go through such a tough phase.' 'He had been there, done it all and really didn't need to prove himself.' 'Yet, he channelised it all and came out with one of his best performances,' Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra tells Savera R Someshwar/Rediff.com in a fascinating conversation about the films he has made and the actors he has worked with.
Throughout, Mekhail spoke calmly, with hardly an inflection making even the barest attempt to hijack his tone. His tone was so empty it made his narrative all the more touching. And ugly and grey, as the monsoon sky beyond the window.
Salman Khan, star of this year's Eid release Bajrangi Bhaijaan, talks about his journey from supporting actor to superstar.
Pavan Malhotra, one of our finest actors, shows us another side of Bollywood.