Girish Karnad's demise leaves Shabana Azmi shattered.
Long before she won royalty rights for playback singers, there was an undisclosed incident in Lataji's life where she not only put a male colleague in place, but also refused to sing with him thereafter.
Subhash K Jha presents five super-talented actors waiting to break through.
The word 'Fashionista' is used dismissively to ridicule Sonam's other abilities, as though being fashionable (along with being beautiful) discounts her from any chance of being a competent actor, argues Subhash K Jha.
'The heroine's role could have been done by any Telugu actress.'
Here are Sukanya Verma's favourite female performances of 2021.
'While I was shooting fake guns in Minsk, there were real grenades being thrown just a little distance away.'
'Many have tried to imitate her. They've fallen flat on their faces.'
Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the big November hits in the past decade.
There have been several instances of cop films doing quite well at the box office.
200: Halla Ho's filmi treatment of events diminishes the impact of a fiery reality, says Sukanya Verma.
'I was scared and sceptical because I was not brought up to raise my hand on a woman.' 'So I didn't think I would look convincing in a hand-to-hand combat with a woman.'
'In the last seven years or so, many reigning heroes have stopped working with him because no matter how popular a star they are, irrespective of whether they are playing the lead, it eventually becomes an Amitabh Bachchan film!'
'When we finished the narration, we expected Shah Rukhbhai to say the usual, 'I'll think about it and let you know in two days.' But he jumped up and said, 'I'm doing the film.'
'There are so many actors and films that have influenced the lives of millions.'
'I think my performance in Ray's Devi still ranks as my best,' says Sharmila Tagore.
Did you know that the original choice for the title role in Piku was not Deepika Padukone? It was Parineeti Chopra.
Raja Sen analyses the year so far.
The President and the Prime Minister led the tributes for Mangeshkar who spent close to a month in the hospital before her demise.
'Today, 25 years later, Raja Hindustani is as much a Dharmesh Darshan film as it is Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor's 'different' love story.'
After playing the Rani of Jhansi, Ms Ranaut will play kabaddi in her next film.
Bollywood took to the stage quite glamorously at IIFA Rocks, the event that kick-started the 20th edition of IIFA.
'We like to look at a screenplay as a spiral staircase.' 'You never know what awaits at the next turning.'
'Sushant Singh Rajput, a bright young lad who had a life beyond films, was probably too good for Bollywood.' 'To blame his death by suicide on a gang of Bollywood bullies is stretching the point too far,' argues Saibal Chatterjee.
'If she hadn't been the force that she was, we, who came later, would have continued to be footnotes in the credit titles.'
'Whether the Ram or the Raavan within us wins is what makes us who we are.'
'We knew exactly the impact it would have.' 'You see, the line doesn't make its impact in isolation.' 'Its resounding impact depends on Amitabh's lengthy diatribe that precedes Shashi's line.'
'There is a lot that I find extremely annoying in Ramu, like his constant attempts to shock and stir up controversy by needlessly needling sacred cows.' Subhash K Jha salutes the maverick filmmaker on his birthday.
Priyadarshan has made some of the best comedies in Hindi cinema, but the director says it none of it would have been possible without the cult success of Hera Pheri which completed 20 years on March 31.
UTV stars recently installed handprints and signatures of several Bollywood legends on the Bandstand promenade.
'In the early years of this century, barely 10 years after liberalisation, drinking Coke was still cool,' notes Uttaran Das Gupta.
'Then suddenly, I was out, Jaya was doing Guddi instead.'
'Nine out of 10 women I know have been groped, touched or harassed in some way or the another. We never speak about it. We are embarrassed and ashamed that society will judge us.'
