Bollywood says goodbye to Shashi Kapoor.
Veteran actor and politician Raj Babbar, who shares a very close personal and professional relationship with the Chopra family, remembers the late Ravi Chopra.
'Basuda hardly spoke, but he had a sense of humour and that showed in his films.'
He also made it clear that he was not apologising to her on the orders issued by the TMC high command.
The funny man of Hindi cinema has passed into the ages, but the laughter he generated will echo for years to come.
In a tweet, Ganguly said the law should take its own course.
Did you know Nargis was to have played the Madhubala role, but opted out because she has reservations about working with Dilip Kumar? Do you know how Naushad and Shakeel Badayuni came up with the words for the immortal Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya?
Kumkum, who featured in some of the most memorable songs in Hindi cinema, passed away on Tuesday. She was 86.
Puneet Issar tells the story of Mahabharata from the eyes of its greatest villain.
'If you look at its melody, it's nothing.'
Pati Patni Aur Woh cannot decide whether it wants to be the climax of a Priyadarshan comedy or give the cad a dose of his own medicine brand of cheeky payback, writes Sukanya Verma.
Sukanya Verma remembers the star in some of her significant movies.
'Relationships have changed so dynamically that the 'woh' doesn't have to be a person.'
'When he came to Bombay, he lived on the streets with his mother.' 'He had to sell whatever little they had in their bags -- their clothes, his toys.' 'When they did not have money, a bakery would sell the bread crumbs fallen on the floor for one paisa in a newspaper.' 'But before eating, they had to take out the rat and cockroach shit from the crumbs.'
Despite a few flaws in the film, Yash Chopra distinguishes himself.
Perfect occasion for Sukanya Verma to look into all the Woh woes in Hindi cinema.
'I was attracted to her both as a fine co-star and as a person who had some of the attributes I hoped to find in a woman at that age and time,' says Dilip Kumar in his autobiography, Dilip Kumar: The Substance And The Shadow.
Remembering an incomparable actor by re-visiting his finest films.
Like every year speculation is rife on who the contestants of Bigg Boss Season 8 will be? While the Colors channel is tight lipped about the final list, we have managed to source the list of most likely contestants who will be locked inside the house.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
'Rishi Kapoor was a complete original.' 'He dazzled the screen and stayed a livewire off it as well,' remembers Sukanya Verma.
Nimmi, the legendary actress, passed away at her Mumbai home on Wednesday, March 25.
'You may be an MP or an MLA; when we go to Bengal, we go as cadre.'
The way Dilip came to the porch to receive Lata, you would never have guessed something was amiss between the two. Raju Bharatan's many wonderful insights into Dilip Kumar's life.
Besides their terrific acting talent, of course!
That's what Karan Johar will have you believe, as he showcases their new thriller, Ittefaq. Only, Shah Rukh doesn't star in it.
Bhanu Athaiya on the films she has designed for, how Gandhi happened, and what it means to be a woman in a man's world.
'I have done so much work after the Mahabharat, but people still remember me as Duryodhan.'
'I never imagined that there would come a day when the NBA game would be seen and heard by Indian fans in their own language.'
This is Gajendra Chauhan's resume: ...an actor who is best known for his portrayal of the eldest Pandava 'Yudhishthira' in the Mahabharat (TV series). He has worked in around 150 movies and over 600 TV serials
'Even Mamtadi would react to the rising statistics of crimes against women and rape with the same horror as I did if she stops being a politician protecting her position and looks at the problem as a woman.'
'If this is how the audience likes me, I will continue doing it.'
'What was previously buried in the sands of time now gets buried by the weight of banality,' notes Sreehari Nair.
From Awaara to Deewar to Junoon to In Custody, Shashi Kapoor leaves us many movies to love and remember him by.
Love, fear, sadness, and many more, seen through the filmi lens.
'Gajendra Chauhan may be a good administrator, or even a good leader, but he lacks the basic quality of inspiring others.'
'When Nawazuddin Siddiqui -- one of India's finest actors -- was told not to perform in a Ramleela, I realised how much Hinduism has been hijacked by Hindutva forces in the last 30 years,' says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Director Anil Sharma gives us an insight into the Deol men, and other Bollywood Greats.
Jaspal Bhatti's feel for the grime, the confusions, and the madness in our system was so complete that he could take on every kind of woman or man God ever gave to the institutions of India, feels Sreehari Nair.
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