The advance bookings of Brahmastra are looking very good.
'Today, the risks have risen.' 'So stars need good content and good content needs stars.' 'It is now X+Y (star + content) not that X is greater than Y or Y is greater than X.'
Is Christmas a good time to release big films?
All the films that went past the 200 crores mark and how many days they took to achieve this milestone.
'When you're attempting a genre such as action with two big action heroes, your film needs to look and feel a certain way, which was very difficult to achieve.'
Joginder Tuteja lists how much money Salman's Eid releases have made over the years.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the big September hits in the past decade.
'To begin a film, to complete a film, to feel that you give everything you had, and to feel satisfied is a priceless feeling.' 'That's the feeling I am searching for now.'
Amazon Prime leads the race to buy digital rights for Bollywood blockbusters with Hotstar and Netflix trailing far behind.
This is Amitabh Bachchan's first entry in the list of highest openers in Bollywood and Aamir Khan's second.
Sanju is among the top opening weekend collections of all time.
'For us outsiders, the first break comes with a lot of difficulty.' 'In case of people from the industry, the first couple of breaks are taken care of.' 'They are guided and taught while we have nowhere to look for guidance.'
'Maybe we failed but at least we tried something new,' Sidharth Malhotra reasons.
'He's the biggest crowd-puller we have.' 'He still has the power, talent and most importantly, a mind-boggling fan base.' 'He is a darling of the masses, but he has to match the content.'
Ten times when Yash Raj Films let us down.
'Who is a superstar? What is a superstar?' 'It's all bullsh*t, there's nothing to it.' 'If you start taking all the sh*t seriously, it's going to go to your head and you will go cuckoo there.'
Joginder Tuteja sees just how many Rs 100 crore movies Bollywood's top actors have in their kitty.
Social media teams ensure there is something new around the movie every few days and as the release date nears, every few hours.
The Padmavati controversy has come at an awakard time for Bollywood.
'It would give people renewed confidence in me as the industry goes by general opinion and consensus.' 'Even if Jagga gets critically acclaimed, it will do a lot for me.'
'If somebody says a certain superstar's film is not good, I would not go to watch it.' 'But if the word-of-mouth is good, I don't miss a film.' 'When Badhaai Ho released, we immediately ran to theatres to watch it.'
Amazing stories about some of our best loved movies from Bhavani Iyer who wrote them.
One couldn't help feeling a certain melancholy viewing these now vagrant documents and photographs that would never be rightfully cherished. The pictures spoke to you. They offered slices of extinguished lives. They breathed sadness too, for what could have been and will never be. The sweet promises that Life made and insolently, arrogantly never kept.
Lieutenant Colonel Desmond Hayde was awarded the Mahavir Chakra, the second highest honour in battle, for winning an epic battle in Pakistan. In a brilliant and gruesome assault, what he and his men achieved that September 50 years ago had never been seen before.
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