Besides their terrific acting talent, of course!
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
Jahnvi, the three-year-old girl who was reunited with her family two days ago after she went missing in the national capital, has turned mascot for a campaign to help trace missing children in the country.
Snippets from the eighth Jaipur Literature Festival.
With Hindi Medium and Angrezi Medium, the "English-medium" actor of independent movies shows she can easily fit into mainstream Hindi movies too.
Sukanya Verma celebrates chandeliers on celluloid and their most memorable moments in Hindi films.
Veteran actress, television personality and anchor, Tabassum, who has completed 67 years in the industry, shares her insights about the stars of the past.
Bhanu Athaiya on the films she has designed for, how Gandhi happened, and what it means to be a woman in a man's world.
Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra made the cut, but London Games bronze winner Gagan Narang failed to qualify in the 10-metre air rifle event for the upcoming Commonwealth Games.
'Sounds familiar? Barring inflation, much else looks, sounds, and feels more than a bit like 1974.' 'A phenomenally popular leader, with a party of unquestioning followers, a broken Opposition, a nationalist high and an economy in free fall, crippling joblessness,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
Sukanya Verma looks at the jhoola, and how it's an unforgettable part of many a Bollywood imagery in celebration, romance, frolic and, sometimes, even menace.
Olympic silver-medallist shooter Vijay Kumar shone bright with a golden double even as half a dozen meet records sank without a trace in the swimming pool on the third day of competitions in the 35th National Games in Thiruvanathapuram on Tuesday.
Sukanya Verma lists the movies she grabbed at MAMI this year.
'Some family members are from north India, some from the southern land and some from West Bengal.'
Aseem Chhabra imagines a time, 20 years from now, when movie-watching in theatres will be long gone, thanks to the coronavirus, and pens a letter to his grandchild, explaining the magic of the cinema hall.
Meena Kumari Pathak tells us how she first met her husband and how they fell in love.
Here's celebrating Dilip Kumar by re-visiting his best movies.
'Tamil Nadu's youth bulge will soon be 70 per cent of the population, many of them smartphone-toting millennials looking for gains more tangible than what screen gods can give,' says Sunil Sethi.
Sometimes, the movies likes to use the rains in its title!
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra's Kar Gayi Chull is the latest song to praise Bollywood's heroines.
How many of these have aged well?
Veteran journalist and author Vinod Mehta passed away on Sundayafter a prolonged illness. He was 73.
'There was no time to do all the normal things that children do as they grow up.' 'One day, I was playing with dolls.' 'The next day, I was on a train looking for opportunities to sing at various recording studios.'
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
With the festival of colours just around the corner, we dig out some lively bhang-soaked ditties just for you.
'...and the government is suppressing the truth.'
'When somebody comes forward in Hollywood, they don't risk losing their livelihood.' 'But here, they will risk losing their livelihood.' Richa Chadha opens up.
At the peak of his popularity and charisma, filmmakers considered him a bigger draw than the leading man and often remunerated him with a higher fee than the hero.
Long before Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, Rajshri made some beautiful movies.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday.
'Her death has left a small hole in me. That little space that her songs and her screen image always filled in me. She had not worked in films for years, but somehow I always sensed she was there, somewhere in Bombay where movie magic is made.'
One of the most prolific filmmakers of his time, VB turns 50 August 4!
And no, the list doesn't start and stop with Boman Irani!
He had even proposed marriage to Madhubala. When she had giggled it off, he was said to have gone home and cried in front of his mother.
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