'Robert Duvall's passion for his craft was matched only by his deep love for characters, a great meal, and holding court.'
The English subtitles in Dhurandhar The Revenge don't get it right, and at regular intervals, the sub-titles and the Tamil dialogues are saying different things. Those in the audience, who know both languages, can be heard laughing at each blunder, observes A Ganesh Nadar.
With his killer smile, the sex symbol image, Robert Redford would go beyond just being an actor, remembers Aseem Chhabra.
You are hooked on The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case from the first episode, applauds Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
It's no wonder the poster of his apocryphal biopic Sanju had its leading man, Ranbir Kapoor, demonstrating the actor's various avatars, one strikingly distinct from another.
'Comfortable in almost every genre going, there's pretty much nothing he can't do.'
'...without looking into yourself.' 'What matters most is human relationships and the human mind.'
By the time, Mumbaikar gets to where it wants to be via a twisty third act, we begin to see how much better the film could have been. But it's almost too little, too late, complains Mayur Sanap.
'This project that we began 50 years ago with really the most extraordinary collaborators, many of them legends and so many of them that I can't take the time to list them all, but you know them all well.'
Royal Enfield has brought back the powerful Bullet in a new avatar and everyone loves it!
The Australian actress suffered a head injury while acting in a play.
Some great stars feature in our final Oscars quiz.
Max Clifford is one of the greatest manipulators of tabloid media.
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Sukanya Verma looks at all the significant bald imagery of Bollywood through the years.
'Watching these actors is like a masterclass.' 'All that I've done so far pales in comparison.'
Despite the Oscars, the box office glory, and the universal acclaim, Francis Ford Coppola, I am sure, remembers The Godfather with as much frustration as pride. Like Michael Corleone, he got into it with the best of intentions, and got out of it on top but lost in the heights. Sreehari Nair revisits the film as it turns 50 this month.
Here's looking at Aishwarya, Janhvi, Katrina...
The curse of the second half prevents The Power from being the entertainer it could have been, notes Joginder Tuteja.
'No matter how old or ill you may be, your thirst to excel as an actor remains intact.'
As the 'Deadly Dutt' turns senior citizen, Sukanya Verma looks back at 10 of his most underrated performances.
But read this before you decide to splurge on one.
In March 1972, The Godfather was first screened in a New York theatre. The movies were never the same again. Forty six years later, longtime Rediff film critic Raja Sen talks about why that film means that much, and how it led him to a unique tribute.
'How can so many misfortunes fall on one beautiful family?'
'Irrfan was known in his friend circles as a Sufi-esque man who was never detached from any incident, person or situation,' remembers Rajesh Abhay, a friend of the actor since their days at NSD.
Aseem Chhabra salutes the late Italian Master and his cinema.
Subhash K Jha remembers the flamboyant star, 12 years after he passed away.
'If journalism is the first draft of history, then photojournalism is the first draft of its evidence,' Raghu Rai, arguably India's finest living photojournalist, tells Pavan Lall.
What the UK is getting out of the Serum Institute is what India is losing. And the responsibility of the Indian State ought to have been to dictate where Serum Institute's vaccine doses should go, argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Skip Fifty Shades of Grey. Watch these well-made films recommended by Aseem Chhabra.
'I don't give a f****. I am old enough now.' 'You just have to white-knuckle it and ride through it.' 'But really, who cares?' 'At the end of the day, just get on, feel the pain, embrace the suck.'
If it wasn't for Netflix, we'd never have seen The Meyerowitz Stories in India. J Jagannath is startled by this film about three disconnected siblings and their even more disconnected father.
