While the users of the three social media platforms remained clueless as they repeatedly received error messages for most part of the day, the stocks of Silicon Valley firm Facebook dropped by nearly five per cent as a result.
'Bollywood actresses like Parveen Babi and Zeenat Aman were huge inspirations, and they have stuck with us.'
'Social media became a place to lash out in the pandemic.'
I remember a showbiz wedding during which guests had to sit through several painstakingly rehearsed but awkward dances performed by the bride's and groom's relatives. When Karan rolled his eyes, I smiled and said to him, 'You started it, now you suffer it.' An enchanting excerpt from Anupama Chopra's A Place In My Heart.
'I am as happy with Soha as I was before we got married because we were friends for a very long time.'
'We want to push boundaries; we want to push the envelope as far as content is concerned...'
Today, turning bad seems to have trendy, as A-listers are taking the villain route.
Lamine Diack, the former head of athletics' governing body, arrived in court in Paris on Monday to stand trial on charges of corruption, money laundering and breach of trust linked to a Russian doping scandal. Prosecutors allege he solicited 3.45 million euros ($3.9 million) from athletes suspected of doping to cover up the allegations and allow them to continue competing, including in the 2012 London Olympics.
LSD: Love Scandal and Doctors keeps you engrossed right through, applauds Joginder Tuteja.
'I will not take anything for granted now.'
''The OTT platform has been taken over by dark dramas and thrillers.' 'So Baarish 2 is a enjoyable breeze.'
Sony Pictures India will be splashing The Amazing Spider-Man across 1,000-plus screens, making it the widest release for any Hollywood movie.
Sacred Games transports you back in time when Mumbai was struggling to return to normal after the horrific communal riots of December 1992 and January 1993, says Urvi Parikh.
Unpaused, with some fine performances and meaningful stories, will definitely warm your heart, notes Namrata Thakker.
Ready to plan your week's binging schedule on the OTT? Sukanya Verma offers a menu full of curious offerings.
Dia Mirza will appear in Kaafir, which will be streamed on ZEE5.
As Abhay turns 45 on March 15, Joginder Tuteja looks back at his best work.
'If your loan application gets turned down by one bank, do not apply immediately to several others.' 'This makes you appear credit hungry and possibly in some form of financial distress.' 'Multiple enquiries affect your credit score adversely,' advises Mohan Jayaraman.
In a short span of time, with the help of Amazon, Cloudtail was able to devise a model that could protect it from the vagaries of online retail business.
Even if it wants to censor what you read, watch, or consume, the amount of content online is so huge that it is physically impossible for any government to do it, notes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
'When it has to be a simple girl's role, somehow people feel I cannot do it.'
'Succession is a great show that inspires me to push the boundaries of creativity.'
Another week and a spate of OTT shows and movies to watch. Here's what Sukanya Verma recommends.
'If I had become father at a younger age, I would probably have been casual about it.'
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
Unified communications providers (video and audio conferencing, IP-based telephony and web-based communications systems) see a silver lining in the dark clouds of the economic slowdown. With companies reducing travel expenditure, thanks to the slump, telecom companies offering such modes of communication are bullish over their business prospects.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the state of ecom in a nation of shopkeepers.
Bejoy Nambiar's gripping slice-of-mess about things spiraling out of control find an expression in a striking ensemble and volatile scenery, notes Sukanya Verma.
'The 2019 election and the run-up to it will certainly see bots being deployed in large numbers on all sides.'
As cinemas remain shut and watching movies on big screen still a distant dream, OTT platforms are keeping us distracted from the pandemic with its steady supply of content.
The second season of City Of Dreams has more pulp, hardly any juice, feels Sreehari Nair.
'I was about 27 at that point in time, and I knew that if I didn't take this leap then, I wouldn't take the leap ever.'
'I'd rather do a great role in any language than do mediocre stuff in Hindi.'
'Oscar has been given to A R Rahman.' Ringa Ringa Ringa, Choli ki peeche kya hai -- What's the difference? Exactly the same. Also, Jai ho.' 'I did Ramba ho in 1985.' 'Rahman combined three of my songs and got Best Original Score.' 'The Ho came from me.' 'Bappi Lahiri brought the Ho to Bollywood.'
'For me personally, there was nothing till Aranyak made me say, 'This is it!''
With theatres shutting down, night clubs and restaurants closed and self-isolation being the latest key word, all eyes may just have turned to television.
'People have only seen me crying and being this martyr mother and sacrificing wife.' 'But I want to do something which is dark, something mysterious.'
The football teams will be competing amid a tense political backdrop with international negotiations stalled over North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
'My director has put the ugliest face of a crime on screen.'
