Irrfan never stopped being hopeful about the endless possibilities open to actors and film-makers in Indian cinema.
'He's one of the actors I've seen who, compared to so many younger people that we get to work with, doesn't have any tantrums.'
'Then, one fine morning, I returned to my first love.' 'All the top directors of the time were waiting for me.' 'In one day, I signed 12 films.' 'Prosenjit Chatterjee was back!'
Amitabh Bachchan talks about Te3n, Aaradhya and actors he would love to work with!
'As an actor, I'm elated that people thought the painting resembles my character in Gumnami.'
'My role will be to take her message across the country.'
In a career spanning six decades, Chatterjee has acted in more than 300 films.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'He said, "There was nobody to help me. I came from Kolkata to Mumbai to make a career of my own".' "'I have my own journey, and you need to experience that to value what you will have in the future.".'
Five acid attack survivors walked for designer Agnimitra Paul's show in Kolkata.
'I am not ready for the institution of marriage. I respect the institution, but it's not for me.'
Mithun Chakraborthy on Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and working in his Tahader Katha, for which he won his second National Award.
'One has to move with the times to stay relevant.'
'Being a woman chief minister we certainly expect from her some decency that goes well with the culture and tradition of Bengal, and with the values of a Bengali woman'
If you have a faint heart, steer clear of Rhea Chakraborty's FHM cover.
'I joined Hrishida when I was 17.' 'He left me with a lifetime of memories.'
'Modi should arrest Anurag Thakur, Kapil Mishra and Parvesh Sharma.' 'These leaders were instigating mobs and spreading hatred and they must be thrown in jail.' 'I had seen dreams of a new India under Modi, but now I am disillusioned with him.'
Do you know Ashaji crooned a seductive night club song, Zooby Zooby Je L'aime Vous for An Evening In Paris?
'I never allow myself to look anxiously over my shoulder at what my co-star is doing.'
'Buddhada became such a confidante, friend, philosopher and guide in my life.'
Puneeth fan M D Riti lists five films that she consider to be amongst his best.
As late filmmaker Rajesh Pillai's Bollywood film Traffic releases this week, Rediff.com contributor Vijay George reveals what happened behind the cameras.
Amid huge cheers from supporters, Chakraborty, borrowing a dialogue from one of his films, said, "Ami joldhorao noi, bele borao noi... ami ekta cobra, ek chobol-ei chobi (Don't mistake me for a harmless snake, I am a cobra, can kill people in one bite)," he said.
'War is never a solution. It's nothing but real estate business I am against any kind of violence.'
'Mamata is campaigning hard and not giving the BJP a walkover.'
'I don't know what greater calamities this year has in store.'
Detectives, superheroes, biopics, documentaries, it's all there on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma offers some suggestions.
'I met him in September, just days before he was hospitalised for Covid, for a documentary that his daughter was making.' 'He was in the pink of health, conversing with everyone the whole day.'
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com bring you a treasure trove of features from our archives.
'I think he is a very talented actor and he will nail the bowling expressions.'
Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa got married on November 15 at Chandigarh's Oberoi Sukhvilas Spa Resort after 11 years of courtship.
'There will be other innovations coming, but, at the moment, this combination of the mobile phone and the Internet is such a disruptive way to deliver content.'
Actor-turned-politician and sitting MP Locket Chatterjee has been fielded from Chunchura and another MP Nishit Parmanik from Dinhata. Also, a number of film personalities have been nominated as candidates in the high-stakes battle for West Bengal.
If Netflix and the film's producers thought they would bring younger audiences to the master's works, many who might have aversion to decades-old black and white films, they have failed with the experiment, says Aseem Chhabra.
The fear that Mamata might snatch the mantle of Opposition leadership which the Gandhis firmly believe to be theirs by birthright seems to have persuaded Sonia and Rahul to give up their hoity-toity ways, observes Virendra Kapoor.
'I was amazed at how lightly he wore his fame.'
A Bharatiya Janata Party leader, who the Trinamool Congress said is a brother-in-law of the saffron party's national vice-president Mukul Roy, rejoined the ruling party of West Bengal on Wednesday.
A comment in Bengali written against her read "You won't be able to save yourself, your god of earth won't be able to save you.. After your death you will realise your folly. There won't be any excuses for you."
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