Looking at actresses who transformed themselves in the movies.
Pankhuri Awasthy discusses her new show Kya Kasoor Hai Amla Ka.
'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.
Among many things that Amitabh Bachchan's onscreen credentials remains unrivalled for, dying is right at the top!
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is one of the best and most uncompromised films of Indian cinema, says Sukanya Verma.
The Bollywood stalwart turns 70 on January 17.
'I'm ruled by emotions. I think women are generally more emotional than men. I believe love is like what we see in movies or what we read about.' Love talk from Katrina Kaif.
Whether the Udta Punjab makers cave in remains to be seen but here's a list of the ones who did.
'My chacha's music is sweet and intoxicating'
'Maneesh Sharma's Fan should be good. It will have Shah Rukh doing something entirely different from what he has been doing recently.'
'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.
Sukanya Verma looks back at the decade gone by, in the movies.
Love pours in from all around the globe!
Aamir Khan on Dangal and more.
On the actor's 54th birthday on November 2, we write another tome about the boy with big dreams and a regrettable haircut, who defied incredible odds to become one of the most loved actors on the planet.
Dinesh Raheja salutes the legend's versatility in her heyday.
'Our country has enough talent, writers and composers to create music.' 'The previous generation did their job and went.' 'I think we need to leave behind some things.'
Celebrating Aamir Khan and his 55 popular songs on his 55th birthday
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Kaun Banega Crorepati 7 can only get better after a promising first episode, says Sukanya Verma.
'The mobilisation is nothing but a political ploy -- a sort of a fixed match between Hindu and Muslim communal forces, towards polarisation, in a run-up to the next election,' argues Mohammad Sajjad.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
'It is very easy for me to choose different genres, but a lot of actors are still stuck in the same rut.'
Things are off to a good start when a lead movie character appears for the first time against strategic music or swaggering drama and the audience bursts into wholehearted whistles and applause.
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.
Kalki Koechlin talks about her upcoming projects, marriage and much more!
'I've watched Farhan Akhtar's films, and admired him. Then when I saw him in person, I was overwhelmed.' Candid confessions from Aditi Rao Hydari.
How many of the 319 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2018 have you seen?
Bollywood's Badshah turns 50 on November 2, and it's time to celebrate his life and movies.
Moushumi Chatterjee on her co-stars and how they guided her throughout her career.
Shanoo Sharma -- the woman responsible for launching the careers of Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, Vaani Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar and Alia Bhatt among others -- tells Ronjita Kulkarni/Rediff.com what casting is all about.
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.
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.
'The best Indian movies today are ones that portray life as "something that doesn't end when the movies do".' 'There's no real arc to traverse or easy lessons to learn. And Irrfan and Nawazuddin -- who can both swerve a movie purely on the strengths of their instincts -- are just the perfect actors for this kind of movie sensibility,' says Sreehari Nair.
Meet the cleanliness warrior from Nagaland who is cleaning up the holy ghats of Varanasi...
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.
