The one role Dharmendra wanted to play in life was that of the septuagenarian lover from...
'Here is a man who's always pushing the envelope regardless of the repercussions.' 'That's the frenzy of a genius at work.'
'A struggling actor once came to me and told me there's no work.' 'I said when there's no work, that's when you have a lot of work.' 'He said he didn't understand.' 'I explained that you have to keep reading, watching, writing, traveling.' 'It is like riyaaz for an actor.'
Prabhas and Deepika have re-allocated their Project K dates, but apparently assured the makers that they will rush back to resume shooting whenever Mr Bachchan is ready.
'I want to die with my finger on the click button of the camera,' veteran photographer Pradeep Bandekar, who passed into ages early on Sunday morning, told Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Har ladki ke life mein majnugiri zaroorat hoti hai!'
'One cannot take risks at his age.'
'Those who go to see Chehre in the hope of getting a good look at Rhea are in for a disappointment.'
When he left his job in Calcutta to go to Bombay to become a film actor, Amitabh Bachchan took his driver's license along.
Om Puri talks about his new film West Is West, and his regrets in his long film career.
'They don't make stars like Bachchansaab anymore. Or film-makers like Prakash Mehra.'
'Whenever I'd call her, she would say, "Amit, humein kaam chahiye".' 'She wanted to keep working.'
Amitabh plays a football coach in his next, and who better than Abhi to give Pa tips!
'It was my first day on the sets of Jab Tak Hai Jaan and we were shooting the very first scene that you see in the film.'
'She has no airs, no celebrity trappings,' says choreographer Ahmed Khan.
'Rhea was always meant to become a part of the promotions a little later. How can she be left out?'
'I asked him once, 'You are such a big superstar, why are you always on time? I don't see the other stars being on time.' 'He said, 'If you learn how to respect time, time will respect you. Time will never wait for you and you will regret it'.'
'It's not easy to perform in front of 5,000 people, who are standing right behind the camera. You have to remember the dialogue even when the crowd is shouting and saying things to you.'
'ABCL was almost bankrupt, Amit's house was mortgaged...'
There's news that a team of writers at Salman's production house are working on an Indianised version of the Steven Spielberg's iconic franchise Indiana Jones.
'Today, when I look back, our journey together ajooba lagta hai.'
Bachchan versus Bachchan... Dev Patel turns director...
It was the persuasive powers of the two filmmakers R Balki and Shoojit Sircar that did the trick.
'She is a strong, resilient, girl. She will not turn the other cheek.'
With the film's leading man's death, the release plan for Dil Bechara has been revived in a big way.
Shoojit's daughter Anannya is nine years old. She's keenly interested in music, and is a fan of her father's cinema.
Umesh Shukla's All Is Well will bring together Rishi Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan as father and son, and the team -- along with choreographer Ahmed Khan -- have conceived an epic song and dance featuring the duo.
This is the first time she has been hospitalised in 20 years, says Subhash K Jha.
And why is Nawaz getting serious?
'It is an intense love story, the kind I haven't done so far,' he tells us.
'My chowkidar and the paanwala near my house have seen Mirzapur.' 'They may have missed Delhi Crime but they have seen Mirzapur.' ''Delhi Crime won Emmy, people know me from Mirzapur'Sometimes I feel I have done so much work, why do people know me only by this role?'
Veteran actor and politician Raj Babbar, who shares a very close personal and professional relationship with the Chopra family, remembers the late Ravi Chopra.
Amazon Prime has reportedly bought the film's exclusive premiere rights at a whopping Rs 30 crore.
'Foreign exchange is being squandered.' 'Every top star is given tickets for his spouse, children, parents, ayahs, bodyguards, friends, friends of friends...' 'I've heard stars are even given shopping money.' 'Who is paying for all this?'
The veteran singer is expected to grace the show in May.
Will it be the battle of the year between two bigwigs? Only time will tell.
"From a very early age, I imagined myself playing powerful characters," she says, and she proves it with her filmography.
The shock of losing her husband to cancer is yet to sink in.
'We don't make films which have scope for great music anymore.'
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