As the year draws to a close, Rediff's Senior Contributor Roshmila Bhattacharya takes a look at the hits and misses, the highs and lows, the newsmakers and the dealbreakers in alphabetical order.
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We speak to Bachchan's heroines, who have shared a close rapport with him but have hardly spoken about it.
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As AI deepfakes threaten star personas and commercial interests, celebrities approach the courts with personality rights petitions.
Here's thanking you for being you, writes Raja Sen.
Few people have left the kind of imprint on India's advertising canvas as Piyush Pandey. An observer who seemed to know what made the country tick, a man who could find humour in life's everyday struggles and spin magic from it, one who understood that to reach the masses you needed to communicate with them in their language and context -- he was all of this and more.
The Big B loves his unusual jackets. Here's a look.
'They (stunts) are audacious and they are a risk. But then, I could well slip on a banana peel and head to Thy Kingdom come.'
Reader Gautam Kishore sends us a photograph.
Check out the actor's best-known nemesis.
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Amaal and Armaan Malik doff their hats to the Big B.
Reader Balmeet Singh has sent us a photograph.
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'In these times of vitiated politics, we miss people like Advaniji and Atal Bihari Vajpayee in active politics more than ever.'
Chris Gayle made a special visit to the house of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan. Bachchan's interest in the ongoing World T20 tournament has been enormous. The Bollywood Shehenshah was present during the epic India-Pakistan match at the Eden Gardens and was pumped up when India hit the winning runs to seal the high-pressure game. Bachchan also took a dig at former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, when the latter had tried to make fun of India's champion batsman Virat Kohli
'Don was declared a flop because not many people turned up.' 'Luckily, Khaike Paan Banaraswala became a big hit.' 'Word of mouth publicity led to the film becoming a big hit from the second week on.'
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'I have heard big stars, who are a part of Gen Z, demand not only food of their choice but also insist on taking food home for their family. And I am talking about stars who charge anything from Rs 40 crore to Rs 100 crore.'
The cricketing fraternity on Monday paid glowing tributes to veteran actor Dharmendra, who passed away in Mumbai at the age of 89.
Veteran filmmaker Chandra Barot, best known for directing the 1978 Amitabh Bachchan-starrer 'Don', passed away on Sunday due to cardiac arrest at a hospital in Mumbai. He was 86.
Here's looking at the various avatar's of Amitabh Bachchan over the years.
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Aarakshan isn't the first blunder the Big B has made.
Here's what your favourite celebrities are tweeting.
In this special series, we re-visit great Hindi film classics. Today, we look back at Amitabh Bachchan and Nutan's 1973 film Saudagar.
Salman Khan was reportedly dating Aishwarya Rai during the 1999 filming of the musical, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, but they broke up sometime later.
The best chunks of the show were not the ones with Kapil Sharma or any random singing tomfoolery, but the ones where Amitabh Bachchan sat across a participant in the hot-seat and played the game, writes Raja Sen.
Salman won't host Bigg Boss from the next season.
Amitabh Bachchan hosted a grand Diwali party after a gap of two years, and made sure to invite everybody from the film industry.
As a storm brews online over a child's conduct on Kaun Banega Crorepati, Team India cricketer Varun Chakaravarthy has urged restraint and empathy.
The superhero sequel opens in theatres this Diwali.
'We didn't create the Angry Young Man persona for Amitabh Bachchan.' 'We created the Vijay persona and then Amitabh Bachchan fitted into it.'
