'I am not playing this good mother or good grandmother or good aunt. I am playing this raging mistress...'
You know the celebrated Raksha Bandhan songs. Subhash K Jha lists the ones you don't.
There's no love like the love for a sibling, and Bollywood sure does agree, says Sukanya Verma.
There's no love like the love for a sibling, and Bollywood sure does agree, says Sukanya Verma.
In these pandemic stricken, music bereft times, what can be more joyous than a playlist of 25 golden melodies?
Sukanya Verma looks at the wide-eyed dolly's presence in our movies.
Sukanya Verma remembers the Boss in 30 of his underrated, overlooked gems in Hindi film music.
Joginder Tuteja looks at recent films exploring the drug culture.
Joginder Tuteja looks at how well recent films highlighting sibling love have done at the box office.
Just how much do *you* know about Lataji?
Ram Gopal Varma is 60 today, April 7. Subhash K Jha plots the once brilliant film-maker's declining movies graph.
Gems you can enjoy from the time he was at his handsome and magnetic best.
'As soon as the plane touched down and we emerged, barricades came down and his fans rushed towards us.' 'Then, before my astonished eyes, they had lifted him up and he was being passed along over the heads of people.' 'It was an incredible sight!'
Bhupinder's magical legacy lives on in the musical masterpieces he left behind.
'Madhuri is the best dancer in the world.' 'Shahid is too good!' 'Hrithik is the best in the industry.'
Much, much, much before Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani fussed over What Jhumka, Asha Bhosle trilled in her alluring voice and teased us with tantalising details about the events leading to her precious Jhumka's loss. Sukanya Verma celebrates the singing legend who turns 90 on September 8.
Poor governance and mediocre short-sighted politics are destroying the paradise that Goa was as its environment, water table, culture and way of life is drastically threatened by tourism and migration, points out Ramesh Menon.
Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand.
Sukanya Verma presents a DDLJ special quiz to test your knowledge about one of Hindi cinema's most successful films of all time.
Subhash K Jha remembers the flamboyant star, 12 years after he passed away.
Guru Pourina examines human relationships with greater honesty and with a better hold on reality than its big budget Bollywood counterparts, feels Paloma Sharma.
'What can I do for my India except make films that showcase it's greatness to the world, which touch on national issues and arouse the feeling of patriotism?'
The city has lost its favourite son, A P J Abdul Kalam. But his his legacy will live on forever.
Love In Bombay is a piece of history, a fragment of a time that was. Letting us gaze at it is a great idea. Expecting it to compete with films shot six months ago, on the other hand, is dead wrong, writes Raja Sen.
She sung a song for every mood, every situation. Sukanya Verma dives into Asha Bhosle's magnificent repertoire and pulls out gems on her 85th birthday.
'Almost 60 per cent of 2,000 songs had references to drugs and violence.'
Son Suneil Anand talks about his famous father, and their life together.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
If Kishore Kumar were alive today, he would have turned 90 on August 4.
The Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle explains their side of the story which saw the IIT-Madras student body being de-recognized for violation of code of conduct and misuse of privileges.
'Asked which Dilip Kumar films were among her favourites, she said she had seen not a single movie of his until that time. This became a sensational issue. She did not mean to offend Dilip Kumar. There was not a bone of diplomacy in her and she never acquired that calculating attitude even at the cost of some of the roles that she would eventually lose.'
'His son had become a composer after all, and one now chased by producers. But while finding peace in one quarter, he had lost it in another. Jet was not a home any more. The room across his was empty, there were no sounds floating through the door.' The world, in the eyes of the Burmans.
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