With his killer smile, the sex symbol image, Robert Redford would go beyond just being an actor, remembers Aseem Chhabra.
'The sincerity and commitment to art is something you don't see much these days; it's more about the moolah.'
Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yusufzai stole the show at a star-studded awards night in New York as she was honoured in the presence of flamboyant pop icon Lady Gaga and former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Nimrat does something for the first time... Diljit meets some monks... Rhea goes on a holiday...
Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie oversaw the production.
In an unusual gesture, the democratic candidate has put off campaigning till the former president's funeral on Friday.
'See, nobody asked "Michael Jackson arrey, aap aaj kal toh filmon mein nahi gaate ho".' 'The problem is in India, a lot of undue importance is given to film singing.'
'I used to be embarrassed and think what will my friends say if I wiggle my hips.' 'I used to seek comfort in the fact that Meena Kumari and Nutan couldn't dance.' 'I think that was a mistake.'
'I have been lucky to be at the right place at the right time, so my life and career have taken a trajectory as the flow goes.'
The man is easily one of the most deserving of the Cecil B deMille award this year.
The Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese calendar, began on Sunday, January 22.
The 'power of women' resonated all through the evening in the most emphatic fashion.
Here's profiling movies with a similar premise -- when two women fell for the same man on silver screen not too long ago.
'He was a magnificent looking man -- perhaps the best looking international actor of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, even in the current century. And quite definitely the first actor from Asia to make it big in the West,' says Aseem Chhabra.
'There were no singers like Lata, Kishore, Rafi or Mukesh. And until now, there is nobody. Nobody with that kind of voice, nobody with that kind of brain to learn. Not only to learn, but to improvise. We improvised music, we improvised the songs. Nowadays, they just listen and copy.'
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